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Dubai tower – The Tallest building in the world

Dubai tower is the tallest building that has ever been built. The world’s tallest skyscraper, located in the United Arab Emirates, is 828 meters tall. Construction started in 2004 and, even though the interior is unfinished, the building officially opened in January 2009.

Khalifa tower

According to the constructors, a South Korean firm, the skyscraper cost about $1.5 billion. Shortly after the opening ceremonies the tower was renamed Khalifa tower, after the president of the United Arab Emirates, who gave Dubai about $10 billion to pay its debts. Up to the completion of Dubai tower the “Taipeh 101” in Taiwan was the world’s tallest building. It reaches over 500 meters into the sky.برج دبی بلندترین برج جهان

The new tower is Y- shaped

The new tower is Y- shaped and has 160 floors. Built with concrete and embedded steel plates the base gets smaller as the building gets taller. The top of the tower can sway 1.5 meters. Temperatures are about 7°C lower than at the base. The new skyscraper will have over a thousand luxury apartments, 50 floors of offices and a luxurious Armani hotel. About 30,000 people will be working and living in the skyscraper once the interior is finished. The world’s highest observation deck is located in the 124th floor. 54 elevators will get you to the top at speeds of up to 60 km an hour in about two minutes.

Dubai tower

Construction experts say that building the tower has been the greatest engineering achievement ever accomplished. However, there are also negative sides. The skyscraper was built by thousands of workers from Southern Asia who earned very little. Some reports say that they had to work up to 14 hours a day, stayed in miserable houses and weren’t allowed to leave the site. Many were injured and a few even died. Dubai tower is the center of a gigantic new development area with about 30,000 new homes, 9 hotels, 6 acres of parkland, a 12 ha man-made lake and the largest mall in the world.برج دبی بلندترین برج جهان

Symbol of strength

For the skyscraper is a symbol of strength and prosperity, even though the emirate is living beyond its means and spending too much money. Although most of the luxurious space has already been sold Dubai will have problems selling all the apartments in the tower because there are many empty luxury flats and houses in the city already. Even rich people are careful when it comes to buying real estate during an economic recession.