Video: Record skyscraper opens in UAE
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
The tallest building in the world opens in Dubai. The first floors of the Burj Dubai Tower, which is 818 meters high, will be inhabited today, January 4, 2010. The ceremony will be accompanied by fireworks from 10 thousand units of pyrotechnics and a theatrical performance.
The symbolic opening of the 160-story skyscraper, construction of which began in 2004, is timed to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the current Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum becoming the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai.
The Dubai Tower will become a city within a city - with its own lawns, boulevards and parks. The total cost of the construction is about $ 4.1 billion. The author of the project is the American architect Adrian Smith, who already has experience in designing such structures (in particular, he participated in the design of the Jin Mao skyscraper in China, 420 m high). The construction division of the South Korean company Sumsung was chosen as the general contractor for the development. Burj Dubai will be a key element of the new business center in Dubai. The complex will house hotels, apartments, offices and shopping centers.
The Dubai government hopes with the opening of Burj Dubai, 90% of whose premises have already found a buyer, to strengthen the emirate's image as one of the world's leading financial centers, despite the consequences of the global financial crisis affecting the economy of the emirate, and in particular the Dubai real estate market.
“The opening of Burj Dubai demonstrates the ability of Emirati companies to break stereotypes and their ability to surprise and impress the whole world,” writes Dubai-based Gulf News in the editorial Triumph - Opening Burj Dubai.
Today Burj Dubai is the tallest man-made structure in the world. The height record was broken back in 2007, when the tower under construction surpassed Taipei 101 (508 meters), located in the capital of Taiwan, in height, thereby pushing it to the second place in the list of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. In the same year, the record was broken for the tallest free-standing structure, which had previously been firmly held on the CN Tower (TV tower) in Toronto (553, 33 meters).
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