On Monday, Dubai opened the tallest building, with a dramatic fireworks ceremony. The building is 828 meters (2,716 ft). It is 319 meters taller than the last record holding building, Taipei 101. "The upper 30 or 40 floors are so tiny that they're useless, so they can't use them for anything else apart from storage. They've built a small, not so useful storage warehouse half a mile in the sky," Jim Krane, author of "City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism" told CNN in a recent interview.
The building is named Burj Khalif. Burj Khalifa will be home to 1,044 luxury apartments, 49 floors of offices and eventually a 160-room Armani-branded hotel. Around 12,000 people are expected to live and work in the tower, which is part of a 500-acre development. It is said that Burj Khalifa could mark the end of an era for skyscrapers...at least for a while.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8439618.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/04/dubai.burj/index.html
No comments:
Post a Comment