List of Tallest Buildings and Structures in the world -Burj Khalifa
>Burj Khalifa
Height: 828 meters & 830 meters to the tip
Number of Floors :163
Opened in 2010
Burj Khalifa is a mega tall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed five years later in 2009. The building was opened in 2010 as Downtown Dubai development. The building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest tower in the world. Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), whose firm designed the Willis Tower and One World Trade Center.
Burj Khalifa is a mega tall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed five years later in 2009. The building was opened in 2010 as Downtown Dubai development. The building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest tower in the world. Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), whose firm designed the Willis Tower and One World Trade Center.
Some crazy facts about Burj Khalifa:
- Number of windows: 24,348
- Glasses overall : 1,290,000 sq ft
- Tower's cooling is equivalent to that provided by 13,000 short tons (26,000,000 lb) of melting ice in one day
- The Burj Khalifa's water system supplies an average of 946,000 Liters of water per day through 100 km of pipes. An additional 213 km of piping serves the fire emergency system, and 34 km supplies chilled water for the air conditioning system
- A total of 57 elevators and 8 escalators are installed.
- A 304-room Armani Hotel, the first of four by Armani, occupies 15 of the lower 39 floors.
- The cladding system consists of more than 26,000 reflective glass panels and aluminum and textured stainless steel panels with vertical tubular fins.
- The spire of Burj Khalifa is composed of more than 4,000 tonnes of structural steel
The Burj Khalifa Holds Multiple records:
- Tallest existing structure: 828 m
- Tallest structure ever built: 828 m
- Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m
- Tallest skyscraper (to top of spire)
- Tallest skyscraper to top of antenna: 828 m
- Building with most floors: 211 (including spire)
- Building with world's highest occupied floor: 584.5 m
- World's highest elevator installation (situated inside a rod at the very top of the building)
- World's longest travel distance elevators: 504 m
- Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m
- World's tallest structure that includes residential space
- World's highest observation deck: 148th floor at 555 m
- World's highest outdoor observation deck: 124th floor at 452 m
- World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade: 512 m
- World's highest nightclub: 144th floor
- World's highest restaurant (At.mosphere): 122nd floor at 442 m
- World's highest New Year display of fireworks.
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