The tallest building in the world?

The tallest building in the world?

“Burj Khalifa” (“Arabic. برج خليفة” - “Khalifa Tower”, until 2010 was called “Burj Dubai” - “Dubai Tower”) - a skyscraper with a height of 828 m in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. The shape of the building resembles a stalagmite.

The opening ceremony was held on January 4, 2010 in the largest city of the United Arab Emirates - Dubai. The building was planned to open on September 9, 2009, simultaneously with the opening of the Dubai Metro, but the opening was postponed to January 2010 due to financing reasons from the developer.

Since July 21, 2007 - the tallest building in the world. Since May 19, 2008 - the tallest building ever existed in the world (before that the record belonged to the Warsaw radio mast that fell in 1991). The exact height of the structure is 828 m (with the number of floors 163).

The ruler of the emirate of Dubai, the current vice president and prime minister of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Ibn Rashid al-Maktoum, opening the 828-meter skyscraper, known worldwide as the “Burj Dubai” (“Dubai Tower”), renamed it, dedicating the building to the president UAE Sheikh Khalifa Ibn Zayed al-Nahyan. “From now and forever, this tower will bear the name of the Khalifa - the Burj Khalifa,” he said.

Burj Khalifa in Dubai in the UAE. Its height is 828 meters. There are apartments and restaurants and an observation deck and much more. I advise you to go there, even buy an apartment!

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Burj Khalifa is the tallest skyscraper in the world, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The height of the skyscraper is 828 meters. The construction of the tower lasted 6 years and required $ 1.5 billion.

In July 2007, the Burj Khalifa exceeded the height of the Taipei 101 skyscraper (509 m.), The previous record holder.

The total height of the tower was kept secret until the opening ceremony and amounted to 828 meters.

The highest residential floor of the skyscraper is located at an altitude of 584 meters. Next comes the 244-meter steel spire which houses communications equipment and an antenna. The observation deck is located on the 124th floor of the tower, at an altitude of 452 meters - and is the second highest after the observation deck of the financial center in Shanghai.

They already wrote about the tallest building - Burj Khalifa in the UAE.

But how much can be - theoretically, nothing prevents to build an artificial mountain with a height of 8-9 km.

In practice, no one has yet proposed building projects with a height of more than 3 km.

Technically, it’s better not to build more than 70 floors.