One of the most famous buildings in the world and also one of the most popular arhitectural buildings in the world. Burj Khalifa is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest structure in the world. This giant structure is over 800 metres tall and features more than 160 floors.There are 163 floors in the tall skyscraper.
Burj Khalifa (or how it was called until 2010, Burj Dubai) opened on January 14th, 2010. Even before the building construction was finished, starting from 2007, it had become the highest skyscraper in the world. Its exact height is 2,722 feet, or 829,8 meters, and it obviously can be seen from any point in Dubai. The number of floors, however, is a bit fewer than some might expects: Burj Khalifa totals in 163 floors, which is 16’2” (about 5 meters) for each floor.
Burj Khalifa looks like a stalagmite, which means it resembles vertical minerals growing from cave floors. Stalagmites usually have a shape of a cone, and so does Burj Khalifa; if you look at it from a distance, it will remind you of a gigantic sharp cone made of glass and steel.
The most impressive aspect about Burj Khalifa is that it had been planned to be a “city within the city”; this means inside the tower, you can find parks, alleys, districts, fountains, and so on. The glass of the tower’s surface always shines, because it is washed every single day, and the make of concrete of which the tower was built from was invented specifically for Burj Khalifa. There are three entrances to the tower, because it is so huge that one or two would not be enough. At the foot of the skyscraper, there is a big artificial lake that measures up to 12 hectares.
Writing about Burj Khalifa is a thankless job. The existence of this building is a miracle itself, considering how it stands against the wind, gravity, and other natural forces. With a truly oriental luxurious scope, Burj Khalifa was designed and built to embody the impossible. And one can bravely state that nothing like this skyscraper has ever been built on Earth before.