Burj Khalifa is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
It’s 828 metres tall (2,717 feet). The exact height was
not revealed until final stages of the construction.
It was officially opened on Jan 4, 2010. It was previously known as Burj Dubai. Burj means Tower in Arabic language. It’s renamed after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi.
Burj Dubai has more than 162 floors It has 49 office floors. It houses 1044 residential apartments. It has a floor area of 334,000 square metres. There’s 57 lifts in the tower. There’s 28,261 of glass-panels on the exterior of the tower.
Its top spire can be seen from 95km afar. The architecture features a triple-lobed footprint, an abstraction of the Hymenocallis flower.
The Y-shaped floor plan aims to maximize views of the Gulf.
Over 1,000 pieces of art from prominent Middle Eastern and international artists will adorn the tower and the surrounding Emaar Boulevard.
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