DUBAI - Dubai's economic slowdown could hit will inaugurate the opening of the tallest skyscraper in the world, Monday (4/1/2010). High-rise construction was designed with a sophisticated, structured like a needle, and constructed of concrete, steel, and glass. The building is expected to improve the image of Dubai that had tarnished because of debt problems.
Emaar, a large property company partially held by the government ownership, as well as those who build these skyscrapers, is still reluctant to say exactly the height of the Burj Dubai building.
The company would only stated that the skyscraper was higher than 800 m, much higher than the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan as high as 508 m.
Burj Dubai skyscraper of 160 floors, with 330,000 cubic meters of area, containing 31,400 tons of steel, and can be seen from a distance of 95 km. This building has 57 elevators for the purposes of the residents, apartment 1044, and has 49 floors of offices, hotels, and also bearing the Giorgio Armani logo.
Skyscrapers have Y-shaped design, the design architect Adrian Smith, to support the core structure of the tower, which decreases with height. At the top, this building has a steel structure with a large tower child. In the last stage, the concrete must be raised at an altitude of 605 meters. This is a world record.
Construction of this building began in 2004 and has cost around 1 billion U.S. dollars.
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