Aside from holding the world record for being the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa holds six other world records. Since most of us are familiar with the usual facts about this goliath tower, here are some facts that might be unheard of. The central core emerges at the top and culminates in a sculpted spire.
The flower is known for its long petals extending out from its center. Burj Khalifa is the most popular tourist attraction in Dubai! Most of the entire Downtown Dubai district came to life alongside the Burj. So how many floors in Burj Khalifa? There are floors in Burj Khalifa. The building has the longest single-running elevator, which is floors. The Burj Khalifa elevator speed is 10 meters per second, making the elevators among the fastest in the world. The Burj Khalifa elevator time to reach the observation deck on the th floor is only one minute.
A Burj Khalifa fun fact that you can truly applaud is its sustainability and reuse of resources. Every year 15 million gallons of water are collected sustainably. In the process, the project amassed an awe-inspiring number of facts, figures, and statistics.
At over metres 2, Burj Khalifa wins by far in all three categories. Height to architectural top Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building. This includes spires but does not include antennae, signage, flagpoles or other functional-technical equipment. Finally the owner Emaar claimed the standard height of Burj Khalifa to be meters, with a total height of As of , Burj Khalifa has been holding the crown of World's Tallest Building for 10 years, it will keep the crown for another 3 to 5 years, until in or later when either the Dubai Creek Tower or Jeddah Tower surpasses it.
The highest occupied floor is level , which is m high from ground. For public sightseeing, there are 3 observation decks , respectively on levels , and The one on level is now the world's highest observation deck at a height of meters. Uses :. Mixed-use, the tower is used in a variety of purposes, respectively are Office, Residential, Hotels, Restaurant, Observation, Communication.
The 39th floor or level 39 and floors below are used as hotels or residences by Armani, the floors from level 39 to level are mainly used for residences. Above level to level are office spaces, with the exception of level , and level , which are the 3 separated observation decks for public sightseeing.
And there's also a restaurant set at level , named At. The floors above level to are all mechanical floors. The number of floors is so huge as there are a total of stairs from the ground floor to th floor. That is because the floors above level and below the spire are served as the base structure of spire, which is not habitable and also not for mechanical use, but it occupies 46 floors, hence technically the building has floors.
Every year, fireworks show or laser show will take place on Burj Khalifa on New Year's Eve, attracting thousands of people to watch on the scene, and millions watch online in the same time. The last firework show was occurred on January 1, , a laser show was shown on New Year's Eve of , laser shows is also occurred in some other events or festivals.
Design and Development : It was the government of Dubai made the decision to build a world's tallest building, the intentions of building Burj Khalifa are various and listed below: 1.
Dubai wants to make the tourism the emirate's second industry to lighten the reliance on Oil trade. Building a tower that size can greatly improve the identity of city and its reputation in the world, and to capture the attention of the world. Bring the title of World's Tallest Building back to Middle East as Khufu Pyramid had ever been the tallest building of the world for more than years. The ruler of Dubai once said in twitter that the idea of building the Burj Khalifa was inspired by a visit to Empire State Building in New York City many decades ago in s, Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world by that time, the ruler got deeply inspired by it and generated the idea of a tallest building in his homeland.
The tower is built on a shamrock-shaped footprint, making the tower seen like a letter 'Y' from above in the air, this shape derived from Hymenocallis, also known as desert lily, a local plant live in desert, the tower's cross section area reduces gradually as it rises.
This shape in the one hand is for the stability of the building, the Jeddah Tower which currently under construction is also based on this shape and the shape can also be found on other structures such as CN Tower, Wuhan Greenland Center and Russia Tower cancelled. On the other hand, this sort of shape is more suitable for the hotels and residences, in which the scenery from the outdoor should be highly concerned, the Y-shape design can provide the people living in it with views to the greatest extent, that is why the lower portion that below the level where the Y-shape is more apparent is used for hotels and residences and the upper portion where the Y-shape has almost transformed to circular is occupied by offices, where people working there are supposed to concentrate their focus on their work not the scenery.
Burj Khalifa was developed by Emaar Properties, a renowned local real estate firm that has also developed many other skyscrapers in Dubai and now they are working on next tallest structure of the world which temporarily named 'Dubai Creek Tower'. The construction of Burj Khalifa was contracted by Samsung Construction, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, the group is best known for its electronic products and in respect of construction it had also constructed many famous buildings around the world including Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei Tower in Taipei.
The construction began in , the building started rising in March After that Burj Khalifa grew very fast, below is how it looked in February
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