Naughty !

Gerald im going there this weekend ... tomorrpw perhaps , and if there is one thing i hate , its an over crowded area ... so ill PM you if i manage to remember and tell you how suitable it is for a couple to go up and actually enjoy it

LOLOL !

Yes like this...

05/January/2010

Boulevard Central

It will be ever finished?

Another side even worst , just holes there:



I believe all those u/c buildings will be completed some time in the future. The holes in the ground may be filled with sand and made into a green area.
just an idle speculation.

There are so many unintended? sexual innuendos there i had to laugh at this one :lol::lol::lol:
http://i48.tinypic.com/wwjj2w.jpg

In 7 DAYS or EXPRESS one guy took his girl up the khalifa then he proposed to her and she said yes!

the view must have done it for her...

Maybe she though he was as big as the khalifa

come on lets stop this !

reason why they change the name.

taxi drivers often mistaken burj dubai for bur dubai. haha.


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Dubai World will publish a message on its Web site today explaining to creditors how it would like to restructure $26 billion of debt, Abu Dhabi-based Alrroya Aleqtissadiya reported, citing an unidentified banker.

^^ And ...? What has that to do with the Burj, or Emaar (the developer)?

From an Australian news website; it makes an interesting point.

Omens of Doom: Dubai’s Burj Khalifa Tower

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/07/omens-of-doom-dubai’s-burj-khalifa-tower/

It is a colossus, towering over the Dubai skyline. The company behind it claims to have made a successful return of 10 percent. The local paper, the Khaleej Times, did not shy away from hyperbole, seeing the building as “an example of human courage and man’s ability to dream and deliver”, giving the world “an achievement difficult to surpass”.

The Burj Khalifa Tower, renamed in tribute to Dubai’s bailout donor, Abu Dhabi’s Sheik Khalifa, dwarfs all that have come before it. It is a monstrous compilation of gimmicks in some ways, another addition to the mix of Vegas-styled faux islands, shopping centres and ski runs. Dubai portends to be a place of trickery, entertainment and massive expense accounts. The building itself boasts 200 floors, and rises to 828 meters. It promises to be the home of the first Armani Hotel. Patrons are whisked between floors in elevators at the speed of 18 metres a second. But what does this building suggest about Dubai and the architectural madness that characterizes such efforts?

For one thing, the creation strikes deeply at the apocalyptic language of the recently concluded Copenhagen Climate Change conference. The Sheiks seem less interested in carbon footprints than oil-financed structures of glass and steel. They keep company with architects such as Adrian Smith, the designer of the Burj Khalifa and Cesar Pelli, who gave England the One Canada Square and Malaysia the Petronas Twin Towers.

Dubai suffers, like tyrants, from an overwhelming edifice complex. Its spending complex resembles the efforts of the Pharaohs and their pyramid projects, or those of the medieval Catholic Church: bigger is better, huge monuments to progress, humanity and God. Sometimes, the smaller the state, the more obsessed the efforts in building the Tower of Babel. Megalomania is the classic byproduct of inferiority complexes, often induced by money without sense.

All of these point to a thesis formulated in 1999 by Andrew Lawrence he dubbed the Skyscraper Index. These figures of modernity seem to precede periods of crisis. At low points of the business cycle, these architectural Cyclops seem to rise. The Empire State building was conceived in 1929, the same year of Black Tuesday (October 29) and the onset of the Great Depression. The Sears Tower of the 1970s towered over a society in the grip of stagflation and oil shocks. The monumental Petronas Twin Towers opened in 1997, the year when Asian currencies took a pummeling, humbling Asia’s ‘Tiger’ economies.

In the civilisational sense, this may also be true: the big building, or building project, is a symptom of decay. The American novelist Henry James certainly thought so, though he was thinking of it more in the aesthetic sense. In an economic sense, the great building project tends to forecast ruin. Athens passed quietly into the shade after the building of the Acropolis. Henry VIII of England and Christian IV of Denmark were builders who drained their treasuries, left magnificent buildings, yet failed consistently on the battlefield. The building efforts of the Pharaohs, as Paul Johnson pointed out in 2005, suggest a hubristic tendency that eventually will meet nemesis. The Wall Street Journal (Jan 5) was confident that such a building mania would not last, sniping at Dubai’s paltry credentials on ‘economic freedom, rule of law, hard work and sound management’ relative to such cities as Houston and Hong Kong. ‘Without these, nations and cities alike build nothing but foundations of sand.’

Given the precedents set by previous failed civilizations, the omens are not good. Dubai’s economy is in a mess. Sheik Khalifa has been generous to the tune of $10 billion. In an age of environmental sensitivities and proliferating green fan clubs, we might well be witnessing a dying breed. When the excitement does die down, the business of preventing Dubai from sliding into oblivion will begin.

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lecturers at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Emaar shares will rise

It makes a girl swoon being taken up the Burj:lol:

or

Her eyes water.

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برج دبي هو بناء. بر دبي هي مكان السوق في دبي

From an Australian news website; it makes an interesting point.

Oh yeah ... it mention carbon footprints and climate change ... very interesting points.

...

it mention carbon footprints and climate change because now in Dubai is The Dubai Forum on Architecture for Sustainable Societies

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From an Australian news website; it makes an interesting point.

Great Article - Thanks

The story of a still born Skyscraper

Article (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/the-burj-dubai-and-architectures-vacant-stare.html)

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The Burj Dubai and architecture's vacant stare
January 1, 2010 | 10:00 am



One of the odder, more complicated moments in the history of architectural symbolism will arrive Monday with the formal opening of the Burj Dubai skyscraper. At about 2,600 feet high -- the official figure is still being kept secret by developer Emaar Properties -- and 160 stories, the tower, set back half a mile or so from Dubai's busy Sheikh Zayed Road, will officially take its place as the tallest building in the world.


Designed by Adrian Smith, a former partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Burj Dubai is an impossible-to-miss sign of the degree to which architectural ambition -- at least the kind that can be measured in feet or number of stories -- has migrated in recent years from North America and Europe to Asia and the Middle East. It is roughly as tall as the World Trade Center towers piled one atop the other. Its closest competition is Toronto's CN Tower, which is not really a building at all, holding only satellites and observation decks, and is in any case nearly 900 feet shorter.


Monday's ribbon-cutting, though, could hardly come at a more awkward time. Dubai, the most populous member of the United Arab Emirates, continues to deal with a massive real estate collapse that has sent shock waves through financial markets around the world and forced the ambitious city-state, in a significant blow to its pride, to seek repeated billion-dollar bailouts from neighboring Abu Dhabi. Conceived at the height of local optimism about Dubai's place in the region and the world, this seemingly endless bean-stock tower, which holds an Armani Hotel on its lower floors with apartments and offices above, has flooded Dubai with a good deal more residential and commercial space than the market can possibly bear.


And so here is the Burj Dubai's real symbolic importance: It is mostly empty, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Though most of its 900 apartments have been sold, virtually all were bought three years ago -- near the top of the market -- and primarily as investments, not as places to live. ("A lot of those purchases were speculative," Smith, in something of an understatement, told me in a phone interview.) And there's virtually no demand in Dubai at the moment for office space. The Burj Dubai has 37 floors of office space.



Though Emaar is understandably reluctant to disclose how much of the tower is or will be occupied -- it did not reply to e-mails sent this week on that score -- it's fair to assume that like many of Dubai's new skyscrapers it is a long, long way from being full. In that sense the building is a powerful iconic presence in ways that have little directly to do with its record-breaking height. To a remarkable degree, the metaphors and symbols of the built environment have been dominated in recent months by images of unneeded, sealed-off, ruined, forlorn or forsaken buildings and cityscapes. The Burj Dubai is just the latest -- and biggest -- in this string of monuments to architectural vacancy.


The combination of overbuilding during the boom years, thanks to easy credit, and the sudden paralysis of the financial markets in the fall of 2008 has created an unprecedented supply of unwanted or under-occupied real estate around the world. At the same time, rising cultural worry about environmental disaster or some other end-of-days scenario has produced a recent stream of books, movies and photography imagining cities and pieces of architecture emptied of nearly all signs of human presence.


And so in the same week that you could read the news that the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has entirely sealed off two of its three towers (and its buffet!) for the holiday season, citing slow demand, you could head to the multiplex to watch the movie version of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road," in which a father and son wander through a post-apocalyptic landscape where buildings for the most part have been reduced to burned-out shells.


And it's not just "The Road": The Roland Emmerich destruction-fest "2012" and the upcoming Denzel Washington vehicle "The Book of Eli" are full of similar images; Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" moves its characters through a series of downsized companies where abandoned desk chairs swim in empty space.



Or you might discover online a group of photographs called "Empty L.A.," part of a series completed recently by Matt Logue, showing a number of recognizable intersections and stretches of freeway in and around the city where people, cars and other signs of life have been scrubbed away, presumably through digital manipulation -- and in the same trip around the Internet find a Q&A in Entrepreneur magazine with a man named Mike Enos, who runs a firm that encloses foreclosed houses, half-built hotels and other objects in plastic wrap and reports a surge in business since the economic collapse last year.


This movement in the direction of emptiness is profoundly difficult for contemporary culture -- and particularly American culture -- to grapple with. Occasional recessions and other setbacks aside, we assume that our national trajectory always moves toward fullness, that our cultural progress can be measured by how much new square footage we've created and occupied.


But that process has completely reversed itself in many of cities hardest hit by economic crisis. Detroit, as Rebecca Solnit put it in Harper's Magazine, "is now so depopulated that some stretches resemble the outlying farmland and others are altogether wild." And as P.J. Huffstutter reported recently in The Times, Hantz Farms is planning to buy and plant as many as 5,000 acres of land within the Detroit city limits.


In Los Angeles, there are parking lots where great towers, planned during the exuberant middle of the last decade, were supposed to be. At Rick Caruso's Americana at Brand complex in Glendale, every one of the development's 100 condominiums sat empty during 2009, even as shoppers browsed in the stores below. Occupancy wasn't allowed until more than half of the units had been sold, a mark that was finally reached in December.



As super-tall buildings go, the Burj Dubai is elegant. Smith is an unusually talented shaper of skyscraper form, as he proved at Shanghai's 88-story Jin Mao Tower, which he designed before leaving SOM in 2006. The Burj Dubai's profile, which Smith says is inspired by a range of local influences including sand dunes and minarets, grows more slender as it rises, like a plant whose upper stalks have been peeled away.


But the extent to which the building had to battle worries about the wisdom of its construction even before it was finished -- the way it seemed doomed, at least in financial terms, while it was still going up -- may be unique in the history of skyscraper design. In that sense it seems impossible to write about the Burj Dubai without at least mentioning the Tower of Babel, which also, if the biblical story and various historical sketches are to be believed, combined a tapering, corkscrew design with heaps of overconfidence.


Dubai's economy will recover, at least in some chastened form. But the hyper-confident Dubai that Smith's tower was designed to mark and call global attention to is already dead, as is the broader notion, which the emirate came to symbolize over the last decade, that growth can operate as its own economic engine, feeding endlessly and ravenously on itself.


If the Burj Dubai is too shiny, confidently designed and expertly engineered to be a ruin itself, it is surely the marker -- the tombstone -- for some ruined ideas.


-- Christopher Hawthorne

Agentvlin , to show what crap sources you take your information from , and what a troll you are , read the freakin articles you post

"And so here is the Burj Dubai's real symbolic importance: It is mostly empty, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future."

Its because the burj dubai interior work is not done yet , nothing is except for the gift shop , OB deck and elevators that take you from and to the shop ..

GOD damn these idiotic stupid lazy ass trashy news agencies of the west .... bored as hell with their unprofessonalisim , and especially lame and equally stupid trolls that post their work ...

Well with all the poitical charnagin being tossed about in regards to this tower, can it be safe to butcher the famous line from the movie " field of dreams " and suggest now that it's built they won't come?

Agentvlin , to show what crap sources you take your information from , and what a troll you are , read the freakin articles you post

"And so here is the Burj Dubai's real symbolic importance: It is mostly empty, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future."

Its because the burj dubai interior work is not done yet , nothing is except for the gift shop , OB deck and elevators that take you from and to the shop ..

GOD damn these idiotic stupid lazy ass trashy news agencies of the west .... bored as hell with their unprofessonalisim , and especially lame and equally stupid trolls that post their work ...

QFT

The story of a still born Skyscraper

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GTFO :ohno:

What i wonder is why i haven't seen any quality timelapses with the whole construction progress. I expected to see dozens, but i haven't seen a single one. By timelapse i mean a high quality video from the same angle/position with a constant photographing interval of at least 10-15 shots a day(so you can pick out cloudy, foggy pics and get constant lighting, and still get a smooth construction progress).
If i was the company that build the Burj Dubai i would have arranged for several angles, and with this many fans i thought some would do some of their own.
Something like this:
fAbj5JE2X08
Please correct me if i'm wrong

^^ there is one, which is very good showing in Dubai Mall by the ice rink, i saw it yesterday showed right from foundation stage very interesting..

dont know the source...

From an Australian news website; it makes an interesting point.

Take every derogatory adjective and targeted passage in that article, and use those very words to describe the author's writing style. This is just another prime example of slanted, misinformed, pseudo-intellectual journalism.

This is why I openly, and humbly, plead for better art and design programs in our schools, in order to better inform the public on the argument of design for purpose and visa-versa. If this guy had any sense of design or familiarity with architectural engineering, he would know that this building is a perfect statement of tasteful design defined by brilliant technical savvy. Criticism of Dubai's excess is well founded, but that whole argument is secondary to the matter-of-fact engineering breakthroughs this building accomplishes -- and those breakthroughs are realized out of need, not the pursuit of excess.

The tower does not say ego judging by it's aesthetic appearance. Its design is a result of inspiration by local flora, local historical architecture, and much needed aerodynamics. The record-breaking height is only relevant to that very context -- a record was set before it and it is reasonable that it will be broken after time allows for technological advances. No doubt the previous record holder was also met with scorn for one arbitrary reason or the other.

I guess my point is, this tower should be excluded from all the criticism directed at Dubai regarding ego and hubris and excessive lifestyle and so on. The palm islands are a bit silly and hardly seem sustainable, and that whole Dubai Land project reeked of a stale "vegas" stench. But the Burj... it's a genuinely classy project.

:cheers:

^^ there is one, which is very good showing in Dubai Mall by the ice rink, i saw it yesterday showed right from foundation stage very interesting..

dont know the source...

Good, there is at least one. Since most of us won't stroll by the Dubai Mall in the near future lets hope it hits the internet some time soon.:cheers:

What i wonder is why i haven't seen any quality timelapses with the whole construction progress. I expected to see dozens, but i haven't seen a single one. By timelapse i mean a high quality video from the same angle/position with a constant photographing interval of at least 10-15 shots a day(so you can pick out cloudy, foggy pics and get constant lighting, and still get a smooth construction progress).
If i was the company that build the Burj Dubai i would have arranged for several angles, and with this many fans i thought some would do some of their own.
Something like this:
fAbj5JE2X08
Please correct me if i'm wrong

What are the chances? I post one reply on this thread after being silent for months (though checking this thread daily, I'm an addict like most of you), and within minutes of my post, someone randomly posts a time-lapse of a building that is a few blocks from my apartment in my uneventful, boring city! And I was offered a special on purchasing one of the units in the Spire! :nuts:

On a side note, the Spire does not have a spire. Everyone in Denver is a bit confused by that, but I guess that's what happens when you let a couple of nightclub owners under 30 build and name a skyscraper...

....................and here live today on skyscrapercity banner....MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!! : )

But today is Christmas in Ethiopia (and the year is 2003 I Think). They use a different calendar!

I got by email:

http://i46.tinypic.com/1zy7fcl.jpg

:lol:

^^ Priceless! :D

^^

I hope Abu Dhabi builds a building and names it after Sheikh Mohammed! I think it was useless renaming a landmark in Dubai after the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa. Why? Because Sheikh Khalifa has to be mental to let Dubai go down. If Dubai goes down the tourism for the country goes down with it, not to mention they are one country and if roles were reversed I am sure Dubai would bail out Abu Dhabi.

California was bailed out by Washington DC even though they still have debt that is many times the size and scope of Dubai's... I havent seen California rename Beverly Hills into Washington Hills. So this move was a total disaster. Sheikh Khalifa probably doesnt even care what the building is called as long as it produces revenue from tourists.

I have watched this buidling grow since day one and it will always be Burj Dubai. It is one country and whatever happens to one Emirate happens to the others.

Some people are saying that Khalifa now has a chance to take more control of the country.... to those who say that I say you have no idea about UAE politics. The president/sheikh Khalifa has the power to do whatever he wants with or without Dubai;s concent. Yes Dubai has veto power but renaming a building doesnt mean Khalifa would have more control. And on top of all of this they are cousins.

Dubai has a landmark that to all of us who watched it rise and/or shed blood, sweat and tears to cover its contruction will be known as Burj Dubai and Khalifa can stop acting like he doesn't care, because without Dubai, UAE would be another uknown country with a lot of oil. Yes Abu Dhabi is rich and in a country the oil revenue is shared. At least I hope it's this way now after the passing of a great leader Sheikh Zayed, may he rest in peace.

Burj Dubai is complete!

^^

I hope Abu Dhabi builds a building and names it after Sheikh Mohammed! I think it was useless renaming a landmark in Dubai after the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa. Why? Because Sheikh Khalifa has to be mental to let Dubai go down. If Dubai goes down the tourism for the country goes down with it, not to mention they are one country and if roles were reversed I am sure Dubai would bail out Abu Dhabi.

California was bailed out by Washington DC even though they still have debt that is many times the size and scope of Dubai's... I havent seen California rename Beverly Hills into Washington Hills. So this move was a total disaster. Sheikh Khalifa probably doesnt even care what the building is called as long as it produces revenue from tourists.

I have watched this buidling grow since day one and it will always be Burj Dubai. It is one country and whatever happens to one Emirate happens to the others.

Some people are saying that Khalifa now has a chance to take more control of the country.... to those who say that I say you have no idea about UAE politics. The president/sheikh Khalifa has the power to do whatever he wants with or without Dubai;s concent. Yes Dubai has veto power but renaming a building doesnt mean Khalifa would have more control. And on top of all of this they are cousins.

Dubai has a landmark that to all of us who watched it rise and/or shed blood, sweat and tears to cover its contruction will be known as Burj Dubai and Khalifa can stop acting like he doesn't care, because without Dubai, UAE would be another uknown country with a lot of oil. Yes Abu Dhabi is rich and in a country the oil revenue is shared. At least I hope it's this way now after the passing of a great leader Sheikh Zayed, may he rest in peace.

Burj Dubai is complete!

In short, there is still a culture in UAE or Arab World that needs to be fix. Or, I guess Monarchy is still a big influence. Whatever the case, they should not change the name at all.

^^ It's not much the name change per se ... rather the significance of that action in it's entirely. If they would have changed to Burj Zayed we wouldn't be complaining much.

^^

It would have been much better to be called Burj Zayed than burj Khalifa. At least Sheikh Zayed shared the natural resources and wasn't playing political games with other emirates.

In addition it would have been awesome because the Burj Zayed would have been on Sheikh Zayed Road. lol :)

Nevertheless if it's not Burj Zayed, it is Burj Dubai. Burj Khalifa is just a name tag like Willis Tower is on the Sears Tower. Everybody knows its Sears not Willis!

My last Burj Dubai and first Burj Khalifa photos :)

Burj Dubai ( 04/January/2010 , 20:40 UAE time in my Canon camera )

http://i47.tinypic.com/1zme1cg.jpg

Burj Khalifa (04/January/2010 , 20:41 UAE time in my Canon camera )

http://i45.tinypic.com/30iul9c.jpg

nice!"!!!! :)

Beautiful:)

cooool

Awesome building and awesome fireworks.

But somehow I kinda feel a little bored with it already. It feels like it has been open for half a year almost. I'm more excited to see how it lookes like when there's some lights and people in there.

I got by email:

http://i46.tinypic.com/1zy7fcl.jpg
Burj Dubai/Khalifa is really Priceless :)

One more (with fireworks at grand opening):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4251824196_b4435c138d_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markmccarthy/4251824196/

I'm astounded by the fact that this building only cost $1.5 billion. If something like this were to ever rise in New York City it would easily be 10 times that cost. But that will never happen. I don't think we'll ever see another structure in our lifetime that will rival Burj Khalifa.

I'm astounded by the fact that this building only cost $1.5 billion. If something like this were to ever rise in New York City it would easily be 10 times that cost. But that will never happen. I don't think we'll ever see another structure in our lifetime that will rival Burj Khalifa.

Well metros donnou how old you are but i'm 24 think i will get to see a higher one.
Labor is cheaper in Dubai + i'm pretty sure the taxes are low/inexistent

Why the name is changed?
Sorry for ignorance.

i haven´t seen any pictures of the intererior yet....:(

Well metros donnou how old you are but i'm 24 think i will get to see a higher one.
Labor is cheaper in Dubai + i'm pretty sure the taxes are low/inexistent

Lrk,

I realize the reasons for the cost. As far as seeing another building this tall... I don't know, maybe if Saudi Arabia builds one. Still, in the next 50 years I don't think it will happen.

Why the name is changed?
Sorry for ignorance.

Which version do you want to hear?

Real version.

Lrk,

I realize the reasons for the cost. As far as seeing another building this tall... I don't know, maybe if Saudi Arabia builds one. Still, in the next 50 years I don't think it will happen.

Sorry, i misunderstood your post and thought you were wondering how come it was so cheap compared to the US. My bad.
Wait a few months, year, year and a half and then we'll see if the tower was profitable and if there's room for more. If yes, more will come.

And lets not forget China, who could easily spend a few billion and get 30-40k manpower just to show us their strength.

I got an email from a South American newspaper , they asked pics of these areas:

143rd floor - disco
158th floor - mosque

I have never heard about of this , any info? :)

Hi Imre.

This article in Arabic says that some people from Dubai prayed in the highest
mosque in the world "floor 154" breaking the one in Saudi Arabia at floor 77.

أدى سكان من دبي الصلاة في أعلى مسجد في العالم، الثلاثاء 5-1-2010، في الطابق 154، فيما سجل أول رضيع سعودي اسمه كأول الصاعدين لقمة "برج خليفة".

والمسجد أقيم في الطابق رقم 154 في "برج خليفة" الذي دشنته دبي الاثنين، واصبح أعلى ناطحة سحاب على وجه الأرض، بارتفاع 828 مترا.

وقال توماس ديمبسي مدير "برج خليفة" لـ"العربية.نت" ان المسجد استقبل اليوم موظفين من العاملين في البرج،
وخلال الشهر المقبل سوف يستقبل بعض الزوار وعملاء الشركات والمكاتب الادارية الموجودة في المبنى.

وذكر ان المسجد يقع في طابق يقترب من قمة البرج، وتحديدا قبل نهايته بستة طوابق، لذلك يرتفع الاذان فوق السحب.

وبهذا العلو تفوق مسجد دبي على مسجد برج المملكة الذي يقع في الطابق 77 من البرج على ارتفاع 180 متراً .

Source: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/01/05/96436.html

I don't know why they say 1.billion ... maybe the main package + cladding costs that much, cause the figure we have heard a number of times is 4 Billion and putting together everything, all the awarded contracts for allot of different things, they'd add up to around that figure ($4B)

Perhaps it's a bit late coming, but did anyone also notice the duplicated fountain jets? Haha...it was copied like three times--at least. This photo has really been doctored.

http://i48.tinypic.com/snz129.jpg

Dubai Fountain is my favorate addition to the Tower. What I'm still missing is a picture of the fountain spraying to the maximum, as it's written e.g. on Imre's Dubai Construction Update Page (http://imresolt.blogspot.com/2010/01/dubai-fountain-adds-inshed-aldar-brand.html):
"The Dubai Fountain can reach a height of 275 metres (900 ft)". In Germany this figure is also given as another world record in the media.

But is this true? Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa) sounds more reasonable to me:
"... it is 275 m (900 ft) long and shoots water 150 m (490 ft) into the air,...". Or has anyone seen the fountain extruding up to a third of the entire Burj Khalifa height?

Hey what's up?... I'm really really amazed with this enormous building!!!! It's just a giant, I don't have words to describe the feelings that I felt when I saw this building for the first time (obviously photos :P). The human beings are in constant progress, I think in 10 years or less there will be higher buildings around the world. Greetings for everybody from cartagena de indias, colombia

Isn't it about time to close this thread?

^^no. Just leave. It would be easier

Confusion over Burj Khalifa website owner persists

Website’s estimated valued at around $230,000

* By Arno Maierbrugger, Deputy Business Editor
* Published: 13:57 January 7, 2010

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* The official Burjdubai.com website.
* Image Credit: Supplied

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* Burjkhalifa.com site.
* Image Credit: Supplied

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* The unused Burjkhalifa.ae
* Image Credit: Supplied

Dubai: The internet domain name burjkhalifa.com, which was snapped up by a cyber squatter at the very moment when the tower was renamed from Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa during Monday evening’s opening ceremony, is obviously changing ownership every day.

While web databases first revealed the owner as a person giving his name as Shakil Farooqi, based in Karachi, the ownership later changed to Abdulla Matar from Dubai, owner of the Emirates Auction website, who, however, denied having registered burjkhalifa.com under his name when asked by Gulf News.

On Thursday, according to domain registration databases, the ownership switched back to a person called Saeed Hafiz, giving an address in Karachi again.

Meanwhile, Gulf News received an anonymous email with an @burjdubai.com appendix by somebody saying he was “the rightful owner”.

“I am the rightful owner and I registered this domain on 4/1/10,” the email said. “My reason behind purchasing this domain was not monetary gain. It was available and I acquired it as soon as I could. The domain is a gift to UAE and is awaiting transfer. Burj Khalifa is a name that reflects greatness and this domain belongs to the UAE,” the email continued.

Several websites in the meantime started to valuate the burjkhalifa.com domain. One of them, Valuemysite.com, a web worth calculator, said that the domain currently is worth approximately $230.000 (Dh844,100). The estimation is based on the number of visits the page currently receives (despite there is only a picture of the tower on it) and other ranking tools like Google ranks and “gives an idea” of the value the page might have.

The official website of Burj Khalifa is still burjdubai.com. Mohammad Gheyath, Executive Director of Technoloy Development Affairs at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, confirmed that burjdubai.ae was immediately reserved for the building after the opening. The page, however, is not active at the moment.

Other cyber squatters since jumped on the bandwagon: the domain burjkhalifa.info was registered for a person called Seyed Mohammad Ghahari from Ajman, bujkhalifa.biz and theburjkhalifa.com was registered by Lee Mascall from a web design company called 1081 Limited based in UK.

http://gulfnews.com/business/technology/confusion-over-burj-khalifa-website-owner-persists-1.564875

Isn't it about time to close this thread?

It's NOT finished!

Isn't it about time to close this thread?

Why? So we can put a Nashville project on the top? Oh wait...

I have a few thoughts I would like to share that may or may not be related to the quoted poster (most are general thoughts).

I like it when some of my fellow Americans are so jealous of Dubai (Speaking in General, not you alone). Face it all of our complaining is that Dubai used slave labour and that we wish something bad happened to this building. As far as the slave labour goes, workers here work for more than what they would have earned in India not to mention at least Dubai doesn't beat or hang its people like we did during slavery. Washington DC was built on slave labour!

It is not slavery if they came here voluntarily and if they get paid. As far as something bad happening to this building... I assure you most of our crazy country doesn't know anything but hate. I am ashamed to be even related to a bunch of idiotic rednecks who never left their state borders let alone went to another country. All of us are fed lies by the media about this place. Some guy hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan doesn't picture the whole region. Face it, if we were number one right now we would at least rank 2nd in litteracy levels instead of 37th (maybe even lower). We are not number one anymore and we won't be with idiotic republicans/conservatives who are more extreme than the extremists themselves.

I am sorry for going off topic but I am sick of ignorance and hate from a country that pretends to be showcasing true values around the world. It is all a scam and none of it is real! Burj Dubai is not fully complete yet so it will remain on top since it is the World's Tallest Building, untill our politically and morally bankrupt nation decides to invest in its people and not in guns and rockets that kill people!

Also I would like to point out to our media that the we have more than 12 TRILLION in debt and a deficit that makes Dubai seem like heaven. So why don't you focus on how we pay our debt which would take at least 200 years to pay off (unless we go bankrupt) and leave Dubai alone.

Burj Dubai has a lot of finishing off to do so it will remain on top as a symbol of what can be achieved when the government invests in its people and not its military might!

I am done for now... Just really disappointed by reading some of the comments on YouTube and how a country of 300,000,000 can have 30% of it question whether the Sun is the center of the solar system or if global warming exists.



Anyways thank you to all who have covered and continue to cover the Burj Dubai! Your contributions shaped history and it allowed many of us to stay up to date on the progress of this phenomenal building! :)

All the other tall buildings are office towers.
This is hotel+ apartments+office+shopping+hospital+Mosque+etc.
Very smart idea.
This building will always be occupied and busy.

Perhaps it's a bit late coming, but did anyone also notice the duplicated fountain jets? Haha...it was copied like three times--at least. This photo has really been doctored.

http://i48.tinypic.com/snz129.jpg

the tallest tower, the biggest mall also the biggest dancing fountain....
that area its great object tourist...

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http://gulfnews.com/pictures/news/15-of-the-best-staff-pictures-jan-1-7-1.564893

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Fino International's Talal Saeed: the world's highest interior contractor.

Fino applies finishing touches to Armani Hotel

by David Ingham on Jan 7, 2010

Fino International is nearing the end of its mammoth 33 month project to fit out the Burj Khalifa’s corporate offices, public lobby and Armani Hotel & Residences.

Talal Saeed, the company’s managing partner, describes the AED 400 million contract as the most “enlightening” he has ever worked on.

“The specification in the job is one of the highest I have ever seen and experienced; it was a most enlightening experience due to the fact there are so many consultants supervising and reporting to each other to make sure that everything is coherent and works perfectly together,” said Saeed.

Fino’s work on the project covered three separate areas. The largest was the fitout of the Armani Residences and the Armani Hotel Dubai, which required painstaking attention to detail and close co-ordination with teams from Armani and Emaar Hotels.

The second part of the work was the tower’s public area, which included the main entry lobby, the Armani café, various restaurants, prayer areas, a health club and spa.

The third and “highest” part of the contract was the corporate offices and the private offices of Emaar, on levels 152-154.

During the fitout process, materials such as marble, onyx and gypsum were sourced from all over the world, treated in Italy and shipped to Fino in Dubai for cutting and jetting prior to installation.

A brand new type of paint, developed by Armani with the help of an Italian student living in the UK, had to be used throughout the Armani properties. Four coats of the paint had to be applied, with at least 24 hours of drying required between application of each layer.

Reflecting the level of care that has gone into the building, Saeed said that every single wall in the hotel had to be inspected and approved by SOM, the architect; Turner, the construction project manager; and Armani.

Fino was also the last company to make use of the crane on level 154 of the building, which it employed to help lift large sheets of glass.

Fino International started the job with around 300 people on site, a figure that rose to around 2500 people at peak times. Around 30% of those people were new hires.

Armani Hotel Dubai will open on March 18. Handover of apartments in Armani Residences will begin in February.

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7329-fino-applies-finishing-touches-to-armani-hotel/

I got by email: :)

Your Highness,

As italien i am, by italien news on tv, i was very surprised of this High investiment Arab Emirates Arab "Burj Dubai". Congratulations To Your Highness.

Marino ...... from italy

Perhaps it's a bit late coming, but did anyone also notice the duplicated fountain jets? Haha...it was copied like three times--at least. This photo has really been doctored.

http://i48.tinypic.com/snz129.jpg

Does anyone know the names of the two towers on the right? It seems like there hasn't been any progress in past months.

Good to see it finally finished. Been watching this thread for bout a year now and the last part of construction seemed to drag like hell (although I'm an inexperienced eye so probably don't appreciate the small things as much).

Does anyone know the names of the two towers on the right? It seems like there hasn't been any progress in past months.

Boulevard Plaza , workers there but very slow progress...

08/Januray/2010

Dubai Marina

Sheikh Khalifa,Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Hamdan with the Burj Khalifa ( Burj Dubai )

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lol, why are those faces everywhere? XD

Imre are those pictures for real or are they photoshopped ?

scary !

Imre are those pictures for real or are they photoshopped ?

scary !

real !

:cheers:

Daytime version of the photo that won the Brand Dubai competition:

http://dxbae.com/images/Burj/IMG_2760_1k.jpg

From At The Top:

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http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/dubai/bkHsGwHgbDhGDBeqIHzagohGqFdIeppFlkhdxiqxpiradedxDnFgBghinDIC/media_httpdxbaecomima_seawe.jpg.scaled1000.jpg

lol, why are those faces everywhere? XDSheikh Khalifa is the Ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates (of which Dubai is part);
Sheikh Mohammed is the Ruler of Dubai and Vice-President of the UAE;
Sheikh Hamdan is Mohammed's son and Crown Prince of Dubai.

lol, why are those faces everywhere? XD

That's how it works on country of Monarchy. And that's how people appreciate their rulers. Just like how Britons praise their Queen. However, changing the name of Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa is over appreciate. Now, I know the real ruler of UAE or Abu Dhabi. For a long time, all I know is Al Mahktoum (forgive me if mispelled) but now I know who's the bigger ruler of UAE.

^^ And they are parachutist's too...amazing what these Royals can do these days!!

Btw, Briton's don't praise their queen that much, mainly just Americans ;) Unfortunately, we have to put up with looking at her noggin on all the coins and stamps.

We name ships after them as well ^^ or at least Cunard does (American owned).

lol, why are those faces everywhere? XD

They like to put the royals pics everywhere , if you go to any hotels you will find at least Sheikh Zayed, Sheikh Khalifa and Sheikh Mohammed pictures , also in government and private offices.

Just see my car , I still have the sticker with Sheikh Mohammed photo:)

http://i48.tinypic.com/in8wu9.jpg

That's how it works on country of Monarchy. And that's how people appreciate their rulers. Just like how Britons praise their Queen. However, changing the name of Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa is over appreciate. Now, I know the real ruler of UAE or Abu Dhabi. For a long time, all I know is Al Mahktoum (forgive me if mispelled) but now I know who's the bigger ruler of UAE.

I never see european monarchies using portraits on streets like arabs monarchies do. To take an example, until now I never see Queen Elisabeth II portrait with The Shard in London's streets or the king of Sweden with the Turning Torso in every cities of Sweden like I saw in Dubai, Burj's portraits with both rulers.

They like to put the royals pics everywhere , if you go to any hotels you will find at least Sheikh Zayed, Sheikh Khalifa and Sheikh Mohammed pictures , also in government and private offices.

Just see my car , I still have the sticker with Sheikh Mohammed photo:)

http://i48.tinypic.com/in8wu9.jpg


OMG Imre ; D Is this a government vehicle ? Or you are a government member :D:D:D

^^Imre is the current king of skyscrapercity and the future king of Dubai.

OMG Imre ; D Is this a government vehicle ? Or you are a government member :D:D:D

Not, I just got this sticker at the Safa Park when was the UAE 38th National Day :)

Base Jump from Burj Khalifa / Dubai on Jan 5th 2010.....:nocrook:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGD7xX960PQ

Amazing jump:)

Sheikh Khalifa wasnt there,he sent Shaikh Tahnoun and Sheikh Hazza.

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His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, inaugurates the tower.Image Credit: WAM

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Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum with Shaikh Tahnoun Bin Mohammad Al Nahyan, Representative of Ruler in Eastern Region, Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince, Shaikh Hazza Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Adviser, Shaikh Ammar Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Ajman Crown Prince and Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Sharjah Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler. Image Credit: WAM

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Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum with Shaikh Tahnoun Bin Mohammad Al Nahyan.Image Credit: WAM

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A plaque is unveiled during the Burj Khalifa opening ceremony. Image Credit: WAM

Daytime version of the photo that won the Brand Dubai competition:

http://dxbae.com/images/Burj/IMG_2760_1k.jpg

:nuts::nuts:

This photo is impressive!

:banana::banana:

greetings

Amazing jump:)

Yes Imre.....kicks ass!

Is it included with the 'at the top experience'? :lol:

Base Jump from Burj Khalifa / Dubai on Jan 5th 2010.....:nocrook:

TGD7xX960PQ
:nuts:

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlann/4257411678/

I found those interiors of Burj Khalifa on flickr. A question: is Burj Khalifa or Burj Al Arab?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46142762@N05/

Can't be sure for all pictures but some are definitely from Burj al Arab.

That base jump is just plain sick, and what about the height of that window washers cart.. man, that'll be one swcary ride, just look at the extension that arm makes, must be about 50 to 100 meters expandable. Are there any more pictures of the window washers cart/ carts on the top levels of the Burj? Would be great to see!

^^Imre is the current king of skyscrapercity and the future king of Dubai.

I thought kings could afford more then a Kia Sportage.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/4257411678_6d5f5a6cf1_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlann/4257411678/

I found those interiors of Burj Khalifa on flickr. A question: is Burj Khalifa or Burj Al Arab?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46142762@N05/

Those images are from Burj Al Arab.I haven't been able to find any interior images of Burj Al Khalifa yet.



:banana:

I got an email from a South American newspaper , they asked pics of these areas:

143rd floor - disco
158th floor - mosque

I have never heard about of this , any info? :)

This is probably left over from the 705m version which had a lift transfer level at L142 with a "club" at or above this level. In North/South America, a disco is or was often called a club.

A small mosque probably could be set up almost anywhere - in this case a private place for BK staff - is possible - maybe on or under the mezz on 158.
I don't know - only speculating. It is known there is a prayer facility in the building somewhere. Fury's diagrams would show it somewhere.

Comments ?

Thank you

A recent article referred to a "circular elevator" in the hotel restaurant areas.

They said it covered three levels within the hotel. It does not show up on any lift layouts or charts we have seen. It was called "another highlight" of the BD elevator installation, along with the OB-deck and Service lifts.

What company built it ? Where is it, and what's its purpose ?

Does anyone know?, or will we need to wait until March when the hotel opens, and a photographer can go in and see what this is about ?

Thank you

That picture is definitely stretched

Amazing jump:)
DF was faster. :P

Thanks for posting about that BASE jump video.

Nice to see a more indepth video like I was thinking that had to exist somewhere out there. MSN had a little shortened clip of it here: Burj Jump (http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:b94c7296-5391-47df-90c9-d692ad8e1427&showPlaylist=true&from=IV2_en-us_v11HP&fg=gtlv2)

That was the coolest thing I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first guy had good shots going down but the second guy had the coolest jump;)

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Matthias Seifert / Reuters http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34689581/ns/travel-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

Nice souvenir, shame about the name

Tahira Yaqoob
* Last Updated: January 09. 2010 12:16AM UAE / January 8. 2010 8:16PM GMT

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Souvenirs with the outdated Burj Dubai name are selling at a discount as traders await new stock. Paulo Vecina / The National

DUBAI // When the world’s tallest building was officially opened on Monday, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, had an 828-metre surprise up his sleeve.

As tens of thousands of nationals and expatriates waited for what was to be a spectacular fireworks display, it was announced that the tower, known throughout the six years of its planning and construction as the Burj Dubai, was to have a new name: the Burj Khalifa.

You can get an up-to-date souvenir – but only if you make your own, like the one modelled here by John O'Hara from Dublin. Paulo Vecina / The National

The change caught everyone off guard, from news organisations, including the BBC, which hours later were still using a name that no longer existed; to the Roads and Transport Authority, which suddenly had to rename the tower’s newly opened Metro station and replace dozens of road signs.

But while many were stunned by the name change, one group was also facing an economic shock: the souvenir sellers.

Shelves in stores in Karama, the souks and even official merchandise stands yesterday were still laden with goods bearing the Burj Dubai name. Traders said sales of trinkets featuring the world’s tallest tower had noticeably dropped.

Orders have been rushed through for large containers of souvenirs bearing the new name, Burj Khalifa, but as the merchandise is manufactured and shipped from China and Thailand, traders were expecting a wait of at least a month until they arrive.

Muhammed Salahuden, of Fields Birds Fashion in Karama, has slashed the prices on his remaining stock of T-shirts with a Burj Dubai logo as well as crystal decorative moulds of the tower engraved with the old name.

“This is effectively dead stock,” he said. “I still have several cartons, each with 100 crystal decorations in them.

“People have already been coming in asking for Burj Khalifa T-shirts and asking why ours have Dubai written on them.

“Once I put in a new order, it can take up to two months for it to arrive. I want to get Burj Khalifa souvenirs but I will have to get rid of these first by making them cheaper or giving them as gifts.”

He said he was fortunate that “some people are not aware of the name change and I still managed to sell five crystal towers, but sales were a lot higher last week”.

The smallest Dh20 souvenir had been reduced to Dh15 while a larger Dh60 version had been slashed to Dh40. Mr Salahuden still had about 50 T-shirts, which are made and printed in India, on sale for Dh15 each.

“Even when it was called Burj Dubai, the T-shirts were still not as popular as the ones with camels on them,” he said.

Ameer Ahmed, of the Ibn al Saada gift shop in Karama, said: “We sold a lot more Burj Dubai decorations last week. They are still selling to people who do not understand the difference, but not at the same rate.”

Noushad Valappil has a headache trying to get rid of Burj Dubai trinkets from the 15 shops he oversees in the city. “We cannot send them back,” he said. “There is nothing we can do about it.”

He said he is looking into the possibility of having the “Dubai” part of the name scratched off crystal souvenirs and re-etched with “Khalifa” at an engraving factory in Ajman. “It would save a lot of money if we could do that,” he said.

Benjamin Katana, who runs a stand in Dubai Mall called I Love UAE, said sales of gold-painted and crystal towers marked Burj Dubai had dropped by half from the previous week. “The most expensive is a gold one at Dh900 as it is studded with real crystals,” he said, “and I’m not sure how quickly that will sell now. However, I did sell a smaller version of it for Dh450 yesterday.”

The tower’s official store at the observatory on the 124th floor was still selling goods with the old name yesterday, including T-shirts, bags, caps and pens. Sales staff said business was still brisk with the first visitors to At The Top keen to take home a souvenir of the experience.

Some traders were predicting that Burj Dubai products might eventually become collectors’ items as they were replaced with Burj Khalifa souvenirs.

That could be some time away. The eBay shopping website yesterday was awash with Burj Dubai crystal incarnations selling for Dh143 each.

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You can get an up-to-date souvenir – but only if you make your own, like the one modelled here by John O'Hara from Dublin. Paulo Vecina / The National
tyaqoob@thenational.ae

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100109/NATIONAL/701089764/1139/national


These - Burj Dubai - souvenirs are very collectible imo. :)


Ticket to top of Burj Khalifa now Dh400 http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100109/NATIONAL/701089762/1010/national

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Charles Crowell/Bloomberg http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/business/global/05tower.html?scp=2&sq=burj%20khalifa&st=cse

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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1951575_2020618,00.html

This tower is truly a masterpiece. Can't wait to visit it. :)

Ticket to top of Burj Khalifa now Dh400 http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100109/NATIONAL/701089762/1010/national

A source from Emaar Properties, developer of Burj Khalifa, said the cost of fast-track tickets had been deliberately bumped up to persuade visitors to pre-book the cheaper timed tickets.

The Dh100 tickets may also soon increase in price, given that they had been advertised as an “introductory” offer.

:nuts:

Does anyone know where I can find construction plans so that I can build a model of the Burj Khalifa?

The developer is Emaar so you could try looking on their website for construction related info that might help.

Agentvlin....it is wonderful to read such a positive outline of this magnificent structure.......you do mention it is elegant !

Parisian Girl....thanks for my new desktop background pic!

Night photo of Burj Khalifa:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2725/4255326018_f143e272fe_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46319533@N04/4255326018/

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Night photo of Burj DUBAI:
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46319533@N04/4255326018/

You meant BURJ DUBAI, right? Not Khalifail?! :-D

most of you don't care as long as you get to look at pretty pictures of impressive pretty buildings
Exactly, it's good that you point this out! This forum IS for talks and pictures of 'impressive pretty buildings', nothing more nothing less!

It's good to see you understand the concept of a forum about skyscrapers! ;)
The only thing most of us actually care about on this forum, besides architecture, is people posting about non-architecture related things, like politics! Most of those off-topic posters, who don't seem to get what this forum is about get banned. :applause:

:baaa:

Amazing building! These buildings are the monuments of our era....

Whats the difference of buying property in Dubai from buying property in Las Vegas? In Las Vegas they rely solely on tourism. Without it it would be a slump. Dubai has business and leisure which makes it better to buy property in than Las Vegas.

Hello, im new :)

THe thread oldest found is this: ?
DUBAI: Burj Dubai (part10) 150/189 F: 700/905 m. (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=289338)

here's a link to part 9 but does not work.
I like to see the beginning, foundation, floors, etc. ..

There are pictures of this type:
http://img286.imageshack.us/img286/7600/new18ci.jpg

gracias

I heard rumor that Dubai might build a second Burj Khalifia (twin)... Is that true? I hope not, I really like the way Burj Khalifia is right now. Twin tower would ruin it, IMO.

Does anyone know where I can find construction plans so that I can build a model of the Burj Khalifa?

Have you been around the scale models section on this website? Well one of our users, ReiAyanami, made a paper model of the burj a while back. It is really nice, I've made it 4 times over because I wanted it to look its best in my collection. Actually, I'm making my 5th one right now and I plan on redesigning the top:)

Just go down to the bottom of the home screen to club forums. Select the group "the drawing board" and the section scale models should be there. Along with the burj, there are at least 300 other downloadable buildings

I heard rumor that Dubai might build a second Burj Khalifia (twin)... Is that true? I hope not, I really like the way Burj Khalifia is right now. Twin tower would ruin it, IMO.

Ofcourse not! They are canceling all other big projects, so why would they build the exact same tower again?

Isn't it about time to close this thread?

Isn't it about time to close this thread?

NO it's not, so stop asking for it!

Pretty awesome building. Its a damn piece of construction. My respect to all builders/architects etc!

Ofcourse not! They are canceling all other big projects, so why would they build the exact same tower again?

Good to know! :)

Isn't it about time to close this thread?



This Honky is from the states lol , they hate seeing anyone but the United States succeed in anything.

the thread will be open until every aspect of inside and outside of the building including residences, and hotels are posted with pics here,

Sorry to say it, but for me Burj Dubai is still Burj Dubai, not Burj Khalifa.
I don't like this last minute rename!

This Honky is from the states lol , they hate seeing anyone but the United States succeed in anything.

the thread will be open until every aspect of inside and outside of the building including residences, and hotels are posted with pics here,

No, I like seeing other members of NATO win too ...maybe

Ofcourse not! They are canceling all other big projects, so why would they build the exact same tower again?

Yes, is true:
Pentominium, Princess Tower, Infinity, Elite Residence, 23 Marina, all canceled. :bash:

This tower and the surrounding area is Amazing..wow! Wow! and WOW!

Amazing, a true testament to what human will (and money) can do. It's disappointing that western countries are not even remotely as ambitious about engineering projects.

Amazing, a true testament to what human will (and money) can do. It's disappointing that western countries are not even remotely as ambitious about engineering projects.
I think you mean "architecture", not "engineering". Or does Dubai have Mars rovers, space stations, large hadron colliders, stealth bombers, aircraft carriers...? :tongue2:

Yes, is true:
Pentominium, Princess Tower, Infinity, Elite Residence, 23 Marina, all canceled. :bash:

You, and everyone on this forum knows what I mean, no need to be a smart-ass.
I'll correct it for you "A lot of big projects...", happy?

This Honky is from the states lol , they hate seeing anyone but the United States succeed in anything.

the thread will be open until every aspect of inside and outside of the building including residences, and hotels are posted with pics here,
Not true...there are many of us who do not feel this way in the least. The bad example you speak of is of course an exception.

Geez... that thing's a freekin monster. Only in Dubai.

You, and everyone on this forum knows what I mean, no need to be a smart-ass.
I'll correct it for you "A lot of big projects...", happy?

You BOTH are correct ;)

This Honky is from the states lol , they hate seeing anyone but the United States succeed in anything.

the thread will be open until every aspect of inside and outside of the building including residences, and hotels are posted with pics here,

Well ... ummm ... the chief architect of this building is an American: Adrian Smith; the chief architectural engineer is an American: Bill Baker and the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill is an American Company. The chief contracting firm is Samsung of South Korea.

Give credit where credit is due.

^^ But ultimately there is no building without a client... it's all a bit chicken/egg...

Hi all.

Hello, im new :)

THe thread oldest found is this: ?
DUBAI: Burj Dubai (part10) 150/189 F: 700/905 m. (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=289338)

here's a link to part 9 but does not work.
I like to see the beginning, foundation, floors, etc. ..

gracias

Hi morrit.
There are many pics like the one you posted but very few from before the slab was poured. This is unfortunate as I also like the very early works.

Still no word from the CTBUH that they've received the drawings from Emaar they need to release an official announcement on the height - ARGH ... :bash:

See below for my first and last sig change ... :nuts:

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Did you know that 192 piles were used in the tower's foundations?

Top 10 Burj Khalifa facts: Part 2

by CW Staff on Jan 5, 2010

Following the popularity of last week's 'Top 10 Burj Khalifa facts (http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7265-top-10-burj-khalifa-facts/)', here are ten more things that you may not know about the world’s tallest building.

828 The building’s final official height, in metres

22,000,000 Number of man hours it took to build the tower

5,670,000 Total built up area of the tower, in square feet

330,000 Volume of concrete used to build the tower, in cubic metres

39,000 Amount of reinforced steel used to build the tower, in metric tonnes

103,000 Volume of glass used for exterior façade, in square metres

15,500 Volume of stainless steel used for cladding, in square metres

12,000 Number of people expected to live and work at Burj Khalifa

10 Maximum speed, in metres per second, at which lifts in the Burj travel

192 Number of piles that were used in the building’s foundations

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7312-top-10-burj-khalifa-facts-part-2/

http://i45.tinypic.com/30w7bkj.jpg
Did you know that the Burj Khalifa weighs 500,000 tonnes when empty?

Top 10 Burj Khalifa facts: Part 3

by David Ingham on Jan 8, 2010

Following the popularity of 'Top 10 Burj Khalifa facts' (http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7265-top-10-burj-khalifa-facts/) and 'Top 10 Burj Khalifa facts: Part 2' (http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7312-top-10-burj-khalifa-facts-part-2/), here are another ten things that you may not know about the world’s tallest building.

50 Depth to which piles used in tower’s foundations were sunk, in metres

3.7 Thickness of concrete mat used in building’s foundations, in metres

1000 Number of pieces of exclusive art that adorn the Burj and adjoining Boulevard

1325 Number of calendar days it took for Burj to become ‘tallest manmade structure’

500,000 Weight of empty building, in tonnes

4 Number of coats of paint applied to the walls of Armani Hotel and Armani Residences

24 Specified number of hours between application of each coat of paint

11 Area covered by ‘The Park’, the ‘green oasis’ at the tower’s base, in hectares

4,000 Amount of steel used in the tower’s spire, in tonnes

2909 Number of steps from ground floor to level 160

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7343-top-10-burj-khalifa-facts-part-3/

http://i45.tinypic.com/dop8ww.jpg
The view from the top of the world's tallest hotel.
http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-7333-dubai-opens-worlds-tallest-hotel/


^^ Great view past all that muck alright! :D

Parisian Girl....thanks for my new desktop background pic!

You're welcome! :cheers:

You're referring to post #24596 right?

http://i48.tinypic.com/10ehug8.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/5pipu.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1240280/Burj-Dubai-tallest-building-world-opens-just-months-debt-crisis.html

a guy jumps off BD



http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&vid=8577e4c3-0945-43e1-a26d-3a209fb1e74e&playlist=search:q:base%20jump:mk:en-gb:vs:1:cs:ENGB_MTV&tab=s1190634400496&from=video_module

Awesome tower, and even more so because its American designed. LOL

Hold the flaming arrows just wanted to mock the other hateful posts by compatriots here.

The only thing I don't like about this tower is that the final 30-40 floors are unoccupied. I wish there was a building this tall or taller where ALL the floors were useful. The ceiling of the highest occupyable floor should be the determining factor when measuring height.

As for the Americans out there spewing all this detraction. Remember they have the tallest building now but we have the highest flag. It's so high it's already leaving the Solar System on a vehicle called Pioneer 1. let's see anyone top that! LOL.

but please stop spewing hate!

It's so high it's already leaving the Solar System on a vehicle called Pioneer 1.
Pioneer 1 burned up in Earth's atmosphere. :tongue2:

Pioneer 1 burned up in Earth's atmosphere. :tongue2:


okay then two. Or either Voyagers. one eventually comes back and tries to digitize the Earth in 2379. I saw it on Star Trek so it must be true! LOL

anymore interior pics?

Hi all.


The only thing I don't like about this tower is that the final 30-40 floors are unoccupied. I wish there was a building this tall or taller where ALL the floors were useful. The ceiling of the highest occupyable floor should be the determining factor when measuring height.

Hi Glide.
One of the three official measures for tall buildings is height to highest occupied level. You could always rate skyscrapers by this criteria alone. It measures to the finished floor of said level though I believe. Many buildings have levels at the top that are not for tenants. The BK's steel tiers, spire, and pinnacle finish the structure off to a point - and very well if I do say so myself.

Hi PG.
Great article coverage.

Constructionweek's facts #2 has 2 errors.
1 - The 22 million manhours is way off - the last safety board sign pic from Imre on 09 12 25 shows over 89 million.

http://f.imagehost.org/0276/09_12_25_4_sign_safety.jpg (http://f.imagehost.org/view/0276/09_12_25_4_sign_safety)

2 - The 192 count for the piles is a figure that is widespread but is incorrect - there are 194 piles.

http://f.imagehost.org/0983/Pile_Layout_2.jpg (http://f.imagehost.org/view/0983/Pile_Layout_2)

We can see # 194 in the bottom left wing (wing C) - or just count ...

Also the "official" height isn't officially ratified by the CTBUH yet ...

:cheers:

Also the "official" height isn't officially ratified by the CTBUH yet ...

:cheers:

Hi Fury,

How long do you reckon this will take?

Old Town Resident might like this:


Burj Khalifa and the number 8
Bradley Hope
7 January 2010

http://blogs.thenational.ae/crane_country/01980606_2.jpg
Burj Khalifa on 5 January 2010. EPA / Ali Haider

The Burj Khalifa, as it is now known, rises 828 metres into the sky and is the tallest building in the world. But this begs the question: How did Emaar and its architects arrive at that height? Was it the limit of economic sustainability for a tall building? Was it randomly chosen by darts?

Neither is the answer, as Crane Country has discovered. In fact, the height is derived from Emaar CEO Mohamed Alabbar's deep interest in feng shui and numerology. From the beginning of the design process, Mr Alabbar insisted on the incorporation of the number 8, according to Adrian Smith, the designer of the Burj Khalifa.

"[Mr Alabbar] believes in feng shui to some degree," Mr Smith said in an interview this morning (more on that later). "He brought in a feng shui expert to look at the tower when it was being designed. It's also a lucky number in Chinese culture. It brings good fortune. So at one point we were shooting for 808 metres, then 818, then finally 828."

The number 8 also has some significance in Islam, according to a cursory search on the internet.

A former executive at Emaar said that Mr Alabbar also insisted on using 888 as a price point. So, many apartments would have prices like Dh7,917,888. There is a discussion (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=534013&page=966) of this price phenomenon on the Skyscraper City forum.

Other "coincidences?"


World's highest mosque (located on the 158th floor)
Residential apartments sold out within "8 hours"
Eight escalators in the building
Outdoor observation deck is at 440 metres (4+4=8!)
Inauguration was on Jan 4, 2010 (01042010) --> (1+4+2+1=8!) at 8 p.m. --- Hat tip to @gerald_d (http://www.twitter.com/gerald_d) and @esperanca (http://www.twitter.com/esperanca)
If you add up the letters of "Burj Dubai" - the original name - you get 88. --- Hat tip to Andrew Henderson (http://www.andrewhendersonphotography.com/)

Obviously, you can find whatever number you want if you look hard enough. Still, an interesting tidbit about Dubai's newest global celebrity building.

http://blogs.thenational.ae/crane_country/2010/01/burj-khalifa-and-the-number-8.html

Yes, Very interesting facts.

They should have a bingo hall, two fat ladies 88

Hi all.

Hi Fury,

How long do you reckon this will take?

Hi PG.
Not sure but it's already taken waaaaaaaay too long for my liking .....
I want to know their official position on the height.
And if it be 828 to arch. top / 830 to tip - I want details and lots of 'em for frick sakes ...
And they better hurry the frick up too ...
I'm losin' it ..... :nuts: :lol: :banana:

Hi lover.

I would like to know what they changed to get to 818 from 808 - let alone how the got to 828 ...
I emailed Emaar a long time ago and asked for all the prints, drawings, and info they had - what the Mc frick is takin' them so long .... :ohno: :)
As for the mosque on level 158 - I guess they could have stuck a small prayer bench somewhere - can't see one in this print tho ...

Click for larger.
http://g.imagehost.org/t/0087/42_Level_158_Tier_16.jpg (http://g.imagehost.org/download/0087/42_Level_158_Tier_16)

:cheers:

cant wait to see interior hotel pics

Hi lover.

I would like to know what they changed to get to 818 from 808 - let alone how the got to 828 ...
I emailed Emaar a long time ago and asked for all the prints, drawings, and info they had - what the Mc frick is takin' them so long .... :ohno: :)
As for the mosque on level 158 - I guess they could have stuck a small prayer bench somewhere - can't see one in this print tho ...

Click for larger.
http://g.imagehost.org/download/0087/42_Level_158_Tier_16

:cheers:

Fury, do you remember when you got a copy of that photo of Level 158? I am assuming closer to the beginning of construction. If so, the plans could have changed. But, what do I know?

Also, in Islam prayers are performed on the ground (no benches needed). Twice I saw someone praying in a stairwell landing... So I guess they could turn Level 158 into a small mosque.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/4257411678_6d5f5a6cf1_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlann/4257411678/


Best photo of Burj Khalifa! :okay:

I'm jealous of nothing apart from another mans slack.

cant wait to see interior hotel pics

I also cannot wait. But they are not forthcoming till the opening, 18th of March.

Who are waiting to see the pictures of the homes? And which of the posters here are waiting to go home?

I posted a thread on how to define "completion", but it seems to have vanished. When is the Caliph Tower finished? When all homes and offices have been delivered?

You meant BURJ DUBAI, right? Not Khalifail?! :-D
We loved, liked as Burj Dubai, but the Official name after 4/1/2010 is Burj Khalifa :)

Burj Khalifa/Dubai:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2690/4258009159_052d0c7a5c_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pervspics/4258009159/

14 visitors trapped in Burj Khalifa elevator
The group, which included a child, found themselves stuck at a height of 430m en-route to the observatory deck which is located on the 124th floor.
By Aya Lowe, Staff ReporterPublished: 12:45 January 10, 2010
Burj Khalifa elevators have a capacity to hold up to 14 peopleImage Credit: GN Archive
Fourteen visitors to the At the Top observatory deck in Burj Khalifa were trapped for an hour in the elevator on Saturday.
The group, which included a child, found themselves stuck at a height of 430m en-route to the observatory deck which is located on the 124th floor.
The temporary freeze also led to delays for visitors waiting on the ground level where entry is controlled by 30 minute intervals to ensure there is no overcrowding at the lifts and at the deck.
A spokesperson from Emaar Properties issued a statement saying. "The elevator of At the Top was briefly stalled and operations were resumed soon after. Visitors were safely transported to level 124. The safety of our guests is of paramount importance and all elevators in Burj Khalifa are tested and function to the highest safety standards."
The elevators have capacity to hold up to 14 people and travel at 10 metres per second from the ground level to the 124th floor in less than 60 seconds. Some have been programmed to permit controlled evacuations for fires or security reasons.
The Burj Khalifa’s observatory deck has been operational from the 5th January 3pm. Since then, visitors have flocked to Dubai Mall’s latest attraction leading to a sell out of tickets. Visitors are advised to book in advance.

Hi all.
Hi morrit.
There are many pics like the one you posted but very few from before the slab was poured. This is unfortunate as I also like the very early works.


Thanks, it is a shame not to see / find the pictures of the beginning.
I find these this that speaks on the foundations and 2 photos:

http://www.geomarc.it/Poulos_&_Bunce_2008.pdf
http://ic2.pbase.com/u13/bmcmorrow/upload/42551907.sydaklmar05011.JPG
http://www.nfpa.org/assets/images///journal/MA07/burj_dubai_600.jpg

As he had found that thread part 10, I suppose the above would be the beginning, but can not find


thanks

oh well Khalifa is better then the real name on the sales contracts;

Burj Dubai - Tall Tower

now that's a great name. A lot of thought went into that one.

The music and the videoclips shown before the fireworks were a bit tacky with all the "Carmina Burana"-like music, but hey, you deserve it when you are showing the world's biggest building.

I wonder if the 828 m are endorsed by the CTBUH.


Can't agree more with you on the soundtrack part Leogodoy; that's why I filled in "Carmina Burana" on the video that I took there at the ceremony.. but there's more to it than that; I actually decided to do my own thing and filled in something more interesting on the main fireworks part; and it came out decently synced :)

Well I thought Michael Angelo Batio's version of Deep Purple's "Burn" would do more justice to the fireworks and all the pyrotechnics :)

To watch the video; click the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSKbsMvdH6U

Cheers

Faraz

When it comes to fireworks soundtrack music, you can't beat Mussorgsky.

I'd decided on the music even before I saw the pyrotechnics :)

H2fC7DuRFyI

Sorry Dubai, but when I get a car, it'll be electric! haha!

When it comes to fireworks soundtrack music, you can't beat Mussorgsky.

I'd decided on the music even before I saw the pyrotechnics :)

Wonderful choice! :cheers:

The first caricatures and comics who thought to be funny are already everywhere on the internet.

One is here: http://www.thepaincomics.com/Burj%20Dubai.jpg

Not funny though.

Hi all.

Thanks, it is a shame not to see / find the pictures of the beginning.
I find these this that speaks on the foundations and 2 photos:

http://www.geomarc.it/Poulos_&_Bunce_2008.pdf
http://ic2.pbase.com/u13/bmcmorrow/upload/42551907.sydaklmar05011.JPG
http://www.nfpa.org/assets/images///journal/MA07/burj_dubai_600.jpg

As he had found that thread part 10, I suppose the above would be the beginning, but can not find


thanks

Hi morrit.

I already have the pics but that pdf on the foundation design is a fantastic find.
A great read indeed if like me, your into the foundation aspect of this project.

Here is a quote from the article on the initial borehole testing before excavation begun.

The geotechnical investigation was carried out in four phases
as follows:
Phase 1 (main investigation): 23 boreholes, in situ SPT’s, 40
pressuremeter tests in 3 boreholes, installation of 4 standpipe
piezometers, laboratory testing, specialist laboratory testing
Paper No. 1.47 2
and contamination testing – 1st June to 23rd July 2003;
Phase 2 (main investigation): 3 geophysical boreholes with
cross-hole and tomography geophysical surveys carried out
between 3 new boreholes and 1 existing borehole – 7th to 25th
August, 2003;
Phase 3: 6 boreholes, in situ SPT’s, 20 pressuremeter tests in
2 boreholes, installation of 2 standpipe piezometers and
laboratory testing – 16th September to 10th October 2003;
Phase 4: 1 borehole, in situ SPT’s, cross-hole geophysical
testing in 3 boreholes and down-hole geophysical testing in 1
borehole and laboratory testing.

Excavation began in Dec 2003 from what I gather from the few shots I have from this early time in the project (or Jan 2004 reported by some sources).

They then tested 7 trial piles and later 8 works piles (referring to the tower piles only) between Jan and Sept 2004 as the raft was poured in Sept.

They do mention 196 tower piles but the 2 layouts I have and the layout in the article shows 194.

The article is recommended reading to anyone interested.
Thanks morrit.

:cheers:

simply amazing...would have been awesome to see it live.

this is just amazing man.. i remember seeing the video on utube in 2006 and i was like dam it got a long way to go but now here it is...The burj khalifa...:cheers::cheers:

why the new name is burj khalifa ? is ugly ...

Sorry Dubai, but when I get a car, it'll be electric! haha!

Oh, so you aren't even 16 yet ... that explains alot.

Oh, so you aren't even 16 yet ... that explains alot.

I'm 13, but I took a test last year at the end of school that says i'm as smart as a college student!

college students are usually air heads :( sorry to be a party pooper !

That means I could take college courses and still pass

That means I could take college courses and still pass

NO IT DOESNT LOL :D

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Look this video is sexy and original with eiffel tower :lol:

One of the first threads from 2003 :)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=72943&page=32

An architectural landmark. :cheers:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2rh1w0m.jpg
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2010/01/in-dubai-you-cant-get-there-from-here-architectural-feats-undercut-by-shoddy-urban-planning.html

Stop trashing this thread with 'it's completed, it should be closed' or 'why do all americans want this thread to be closed' etc etc. It's BULLSHIT that no one cares about. This is seriously the last warning. All rtards that have nothing to add get lost, I deleted all the useless replies as you all can see.

Hi all.

Hi PG.
Not sure but it's already taken waaaaaaaay too long for my liking .....
I want to know their official position on the height.
And if it be 828 to arch. top / 830 to tip - I want details and lots of 'em for frick sakes ...
And they better hurry the frick up too ...
I'm losin' it ..... :nuts: :lol: :banana:

Hi Fury,

Easy now guy, I'm sure that info is on its way as we speak! :D But I really wanna know too! It will be a relief to finally put this to rest.

I'll say one thing though, it will have to be 828m because I can't imagine how embarrassing it's going to be if they (CTBUH) have different ideas to Emaar..

stunning, another victory for the skyscraper community!

Get ready for a whole slew of lightning pics. I was fast asleep and nowhere near it last night, but it got hit dozens of times.

http://felixs.im/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_7143_800.jpg

http://felixs.im/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_7143_800.jpg

http://felixs.im/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_7165_800.jpg

http://felixs.im/heaven-inaugurates-the-burj/

Wow! That's awesome shot!!!

One of the first threads from 2003 :)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=72943&page=32


It's funny to read it again and see how many people were assuming it won't get built or that it's crazy and will never happen. Well there it is! :)

http://i50.tinypic.com/puomg.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2zh2lp3.jpg

Frames from video I took

do you have the elevator details for the burj khalifa? i want to have this data for reference? any website you have? thanks!

do you have the elevator details for the burj khalifa? i want to have this data for reference? any website you have? thanks!

I put some info and 2 pics here , maybe you can use it:

‘Vertical travel’ within Burj Dubai in the world’s highest elevators

http://burjdubaiphotos.blogspot.com/2009/12/vertical-travel-within-burj-dubai-in.html

14 visitors trapped in Burj Khalifa elevator

The group, which included a child, found themselves stuck at a height of 430m en-route to the observatory deck which is located on the 124th floor.

http://www.estatesdubai.com/uploaded_images/burj-place-dubai-715605.jpg

Fourteen visitors to the At the Top observatory deck in Burj Khalifa were trapped for an hour in the elevator on Saturday.

The group, which included a child, found themselves stuck at a height of 430m en-route to the observatory deck which is located on the 124th floor.

The temporary freeze also led to delays for visitors waiting on the ground level where entry is controlled by 30 minute intervals to ensure there is no overcrowding at the lifts and at the deck.

A spokesperson from Emaar Properties issued a statement saying. "The elevator of At the Top was briefly stalled and operations were resumed soon after. Visitors were safely transported to level 124. The safety of our guests is of paramount importance and all elevators in Burj Khalifa are tested and function to the highest safety standards."

The elevators have capacity to hold up to 14 people and travel at 10 metres per second from the ground level to the 124th floor in less than 60 seconds. Some have been programmed to permit controlled evacuations for fires or security reasons.

The Burj Khalifa’s observatory deck has been operational from the 5th January 3pm. Since then, visitors have flocked to Dubai Mall’s latest attraction leading to a sell out of tickets. Visitors are advised to book in advance.

http://gulfnews.com/

Why did it temp freeze ?

Now I can't wait to see some cool interior pictures....especially those boutique offices at near the top of the building. It would be cool to have a nightclub on one of those higher terraces as well. :cheers:

Interesting that a Samsung building has Otis elevators.

Otis has gone crap of recent, even my firm started boycotting them. Their service and products have really dropped.

Anyone know what the service fee's are?

I was told for the boutique offices its over 150 dhs per sq ft. This is a joke right?

Interesting that a Samsung building has Otis elevators.

Well, they will certanly not have LG ones :D

BTW, what elevators have Petronas Towers and Taipei101 (both build by Samsung)?

I don't like the Burj. It's an inspireless skyscraper with no soul in it.

It will stay empty and mostly unused for a long number of years to come...

I don't like the Burj. It's an inspireless skyscraper with no soul in it.

It will stay empty and mostly unused for a long number of years to come...

it'll stay empty only in your dream :ohno:

why the new name is burj khalifa ? is ugly ...

I dont know why most people dislike the name Burj Khalifa, I like Burj Khalifa compared to Burj Dubai. Although Khalifa is taken from someone's name, Khalifa itself means "leader", CMIIW, So IMO It would mean the leader, the most superior of all supertalls...much more meaningful than burj Dubai

Anyone know what the service fee's are?

I was told for the boutique offices its over 150 dhs per sq ft. This is a joke right?

More than likely the fee will be in that region.

The OT is about 38 per sq/ft and the highest maintenance cost is related to the lifts, so imagine the BK will be hiked up in this departmnent itself

I don't like the Burj. It's an inspireless skyscraper with no soul in it....

As compared to a soulful box of boredom (as the one in your avatar)

any pics from the observation deck yet?

As compared to a soulful box of boredom (as the one in your avatar)

Not that I agree with the persons sentiments but, that is The Seagram Building by Mies Van der Rohe- without there would be no Burj Khalifa. AltinD you being a skyscraper buff should really know these things ;)

any pics from the observation deck yet?

http://gulfnews.com/pictures/business/view-from-burj-khalifa-observation-deck-1.562018

Not that I agree with the persons sentiments but, that is The Seagram Building by Mies Van der Rohe- without there would be no Burj Khalifa. AltinD you being a skyscraper buff should really know these things ;)

Ooogleh is Ooogleh , and that thing is Ooogleh.

2010 resolution number 1 complete ! say Ooogleh three times in one sentence.

Not that I agree with the persons sentiments but, that is The Seagram Building by Mies Van der Rohe- without there would be no Burj Khalifa. AltinD you being a skyscraper buff should really know these things ;)

Does that make the box something else? It's still a box ... boring

The only thing around here that looks like "it will stay empty and mostly unused for a long number of years to come" is your brain.

The Truth hurts huh? Dubai is almost bancrupt. Behind all the glitter and glamour nothing's left, only megalomania, empty unused buildings and tons of debts.

(They even had to change the name after the sjeik of Quatar because he saved Dubai's ass by paying the loans. Says enough?)

^^ IGNORANT!

Am I missing something or has the Burj Khalifa in Dubai NOT have a helipad??
also
See it actually runs of the tongue ... 'the Burj Khalifa in Dubai'
furthermore...
why do people feel that the building is going to be empty???
think about this...
the lobby, the observation deck, the mosque, the restaurant, the nightclub, the armani hotel are definitly going to be buzzing... the apartments are going to be so in demand, people who can afford to live in the burj are not going to care about their apartment value dropping...
sorry to make this post appear a bit simple but it is for the the benefit of the halfwits with zero brain.

I live in the UK, ask anyone here and they will tell you that 50% of office space in virtually every UK city is EMPTY yet more continues to be built.

People also bash the Burj on green issues, of course it is in a hot country and the heat needs to be tamed just as we use an awful lot of energy in the UK to keep warm....

PS. Does the BURJ have a helipad, if yes, where is it?
if NO... WHY???:banana::bash:

The Truth hurts huh? Dubai is almost bancrupt. Behind all the glitter and glamour nothing's left, only megalomania, empty unused buildings and tons of debts.

(They even had to change the name after the sjeik of Quatar because he saved Dubai's ass by paying the loans. Says enough?)

It most certainly proves my point.

^^remember, the empire state building was built during the American depression and the petronas towers were built during the 1990's world crisis but yet it was completed and now are standing even stronger...so I think it's only a temporary setback for Dubai, it may be hard times but it is still manageable...besides UAE will not allow Dubai to fall that easily.

Am I missing something or has the Burj Khalifa in Dubai NOT have a helipad??
also
See it actually runs of the tongue ... 'the Burj Khalifa in Dubai'
furthermore...
why do people feel that the building is going to be empty???
think about this...
the lobby, the observation deck, the mosque, the restaurant, the nightclub, the armani hotel are definitly going to be buzzing... the apartments are going to be so in demand, people who can afford to live in the burj are not going to care about their apartment value dropping...
sorry to make this post appear a bit simple but it is for the the benefit of the halfwits with zero brain.

I live in the UK, ask anyone here and they will tell you that 50% of office space in virtually every UK city is EMPTY yet more continues to be built.

People also bash the Burj on green issues, of course it is in a hot country and the heat needs to be tamed just as we use an awful lot of energy in the UK to keep warm....

PS. Does the BURJ have a helipad, if yes, where is it?
if NO... WHY???:banana::bash:

My avatar is the top of the Burj - that's the helipad you see.

Does the BURJ have a helipad, if yes, where is it?
if NO... WHY???

No there is no helipad cause the shape doesn't allow it ... not to mention at those heights the winds are way to powerfull to allow for a safe landing on a platform.

The Truth hurts huh? Dubai is almost bancrupt. Behind all the glitter and glamour nothing's left, only megalomania, empty unused buildings and tons of debts.

(They even had to change the name after the sjeik of Quatar because he saved Dubai's ass by paying the loans. Says enough?)

:lol: This post showcases your endless ignorance and stupidity. First of all your first sentence describes London (although it's nowhere near as glitter nor glamour as Dubai is) and Los Angeles which are both worse financially than Dubai is.

Second of all Dubai didn't name the building after the Sheikh of Qatar. They named it after the President of UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, which is the next door state (very rich) within a country of 7 states.

So I would request you do your research and get educated on this issue before you come here and embarrass yourself like that again.

Am I missing something or has the Burj Khalifa in Dubai NOT have a helipad??
also
See it actually runs of the tongue ... 'the Burj Khalifa in Dubai'
furthermore...
why do people feel that the building is going to be empty???
think about this...
the lobby, the observation deck, the mosque, the restaurant, the nightclub, the armani hotel are definitly going to be buzzing... the apartments are going to be so in demand, people who can afford to live in the burj are not going to care about their apartment value dropping...
sorry to make this post appear a bit simple but it is for the the benefit of the halfwits with zero brain.

I live in the UK, ask anyone here and they will tell you that 50% of office space in virtually every UK city is EMPTY yet more continues to be built.

People also bash the Burj on green issues, of course it is in a hot country and the heat needs to be tamed just as we use an awful lot of energy in the UK to keep warm....

PS. Does the BURJ have a helipad, if yes, where is it?
if NO... WHY???:banana::bash:

I think Dubai Khalifa doesn't have a helipad so what! do you see the empire state building, taipei 101, petronas, jin mao, shanghai financial tower or even the planned chicago spire and shanghai tower have a helipad, I think they don't...so whats the deal about it.

helipads are usually associated with prestigious buildings... the shape of burj al arab doesnt really allow for a helipad but they clamped one on... as for the height and wind issues maybe they could have installed a helipad part way up.

ps... (Sheikh of Qatar) ignorant is an understatement... this guy obviously has the benefit of schooling, education, internet... check the guys number of posts... he's obviously made a few... i would say that he is to put it mildly ... just THICK!!:bash:^^:bash:

No there is no helipad cause the shape doesn't allow it ... not to mention at those heights the winds are way to powerfull to allow for a safe landing on a platform.

^^exactly...and with that reason it will be dangerous for helicopters to land on such enormous height...:)

Burj Dubai doesn't have a helipad because it would ruin the architecture, it is not needed and most importantly, given the shape and size, it is impossible for a helicopter to land.

Why doesn't the Empire State Building have a helipad? Answer that and you have your answer.

BTW, even the helipad on "top" Burj Al Arab is rarely used due to wind speeds up there. maybe the platform has seen more golf balls then helicopters.

:lol: This post showcases your endless ignorance and stupidity. First of all your first sentence describes London (although it's nowhere near as glitter nor glamour as Dubai is) and Los Angeles which are both worse financially than Dubai is.

Second of all Dubai didn't name the building after the Sheikh of Qatar. They named it after the President of UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, which is the next door state (very rich) within a country of 7 states.

So I would request you do your research and get educated on this issue before you come here and embarrass yourself like that again.

^^yes sheikh Khalifa is the brother of Dubai's sheikh...they take care of each other and the 7 states of Dubai will support their emirate.

... no big deal about the helipad, just a genuine question. I personally would have thought a helipad would have been a great idea. If I was the CEO or a russian billionaire I would have found it quite useful.:tiasd:

^^yes sheikh Khalifa is the brother of Dubai's sheikh...they take care of each other and the 7 states of Dubai will support their emirate.

Sheikh Khalifa is Not the brother of Sheikh Mohammed. They are cousins and to correct you Abu Dhabi always helps the other 6 because it has most wealth. Currently Dubai wants to be financially independent but given the tough times help is needed from Abu Dhabi.

... and with those very useful replies I thank all who have enlightened me on why no helipad.
Thankyou

the apartments are going to be so in demand, people who can afford to live in the burj are not going to care about their apartment value dropping...


The apartments are sold. All 1044 were sold in 8 hours, several years ago.

The people who paid millions for them surely care, but what can they do about it?

If you have wasted 9 million dollars on a 2 room, 202 square m Armani Residence in the Caliph Tower, and find that no one will pay 90 000 dollars to buy it from you, what are you going to do? Leave it empty? Or move in when you get the keys in February, so you at least have somewhere to live and can sell your previous home?

When shall the Caliph Tower be completed to the point that all 1044 homes shall have been offered to their owners? And when shall the first residents get their keys?

Sheikh Khalifa is Not the brother of Sheikh Mohammed. They are cousins and to correct you Abu Dhabi always helps the other 6 because it has most wealth. Currently Dubai wants to be financially independent but given the tough times help is needed from Abu Dhabi.

^^oh my mistake thanks for the correction...but nevertheless they have a strong family ties and I believe that the vision of Dubai will take its place once the financial crisis will over...

The Truth hurts huh? Dubai is almost bancrupt. Behind all the glitter and glamour nothing's left, only megalomania, empty unused buildings and tons of debts.

(They even had to change the name after the sjeik of Quatar because he saved Dubai's ass by paying the loans. Says enough?)

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My video last year got 100,000 hits in 1 year, this video is better ;)

I'll have that on Gizmodo for you within the hour :)

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Very impressive!!!

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Louise is nagging me because they should of been equal... ;)

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I was talking about my misfit remix,, ;9

Ooogleh is Ooogleh , and that thing is Ooogleh.

2010 resolution number 1 complete ! say Ooogleh three times in one sentence.

Are you originally form Yorkshire!? :lol:

Does that make the box something else? It's still a box ... boring

It is a box, yes, whch was pretty radical for its time and the dawn the American modern skyscraper age, which ultimately led to BK. Plus, it pioneered the first fixed unit cladding panel system, which last time I looked BK uses pretty heavily! Goodness! Can't believe I'm going throught the basics on SSC! ;) Or does being in Dubai make you forget history? ;)

Can't believe I'm going throught the basics on SSC! ;) Or does being in Dubai make you forget history?


Dubai makes history ;)

The technology for the next skyscraper taller than Burj Dubai would be taken from Dubai's tower, not NYC's ;)

Smith + Gill press release, not a very shy one either I might add.

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PRESS RELEASE

CHICAGO ARCHITECT ADRIAN SMITH’S BURJ KHALIFA, WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING, OPENS IN DUBAI

DUBAI—The world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa (formerly known as Burj Dubai), officially opened Jan. 4 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Architect Adrian Smith, who designed Burj Khalifa while at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, attended the opening ceremonies. Burj Khalifa’s official height was announced at 828 meters, or 2,716.5 feet.

“It was the culmination of many years of work and one of the most thrilling moments of my career,” said Smith, who left SOM in 2006 to start his own firm, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. “The Burj Dubai, now Burj Khalifa, was designed not for ego gratification or to fulfill a list of superlatives. It was designed to lift the spirits of a nation and a culture, and to bring joy and inspiration to its citizens.”

Adrian Smith is the world’s most experienced designer of supertall buildings. Currently he is the designer of three of the world’s top 10 tallest completed buildings: Burj Khalifa in Dubai (#1), Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago (#7, at 423 meters) and Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai (#8, at 421 meters), according to the official rankings of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). When Nanjing Greenland Financial Center finishes construction this year in Nanjing, China (it will enter the CTBUH list at #6), Smith will have designed four of the world’s top 10 tallest completed buildings. The current sixth-tallest building in the world, Chicago’s Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), is in the early stages of a green retrofit under the direction of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has assembled one of the most experienced design teams in the world, including several key figures on SOM’s design teams for Burj Khalifa and other supertall projects. In addition to AS+GG partners Gordon Gill and Robert Forest, both experts in the supertall field, these include Peter Weismantle, SOM’s Senior Technical Architect on Burj Khalifa and now Director of Supertall Building Technology at AS+GG; Roger Frechette, formerly a Director in charge of sustainable engineering at SOM, and now president of AS+GG’s new environmental energy engineering company; and several other former SOM architects with experience in supertall projects.

Since its inception three years ago years ago, AS+GG has been commissioned to design six new supertall towers over 500 meters in height, including two towers over 800 meters. These are now on hold due to the economic recession.

AS+GG regularly collaborates with the top consulting firms in the business, including Thornton Tomasetti, Halvorson and Partners, Environmental Systems Design and the Syska Hennessy Group, among many others.

Adrian Smith and partner Gordon Gill have collaborated together to design two of the world’s most sustainable buildings. These include Pearl River Tower, the world’s first planned net-zero-energy tower, currently under construction in Guangzhou, China, and Masdar Headquarters, the world’s first large-scale positive-energy building (meaning it will generate more power than it consumes), now under construction in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Pearl River was designed while Smith and Gill were at SOM; Masdar HQ is an AS+GG project. AS+GG has also recently augmented its design services with the addition of Peter Kindel, a former associate partner at SOM who is now AS+GG’s Director of Urban Planning.

PRESS EXCERPTS

Excerpts from recent press coverage of Burj Khalifa focusing on Smith’s design:
“. . . [Burj Khalifa] represents a great leap forward in height and, especially for Dubai, in design quality. It is a luminous, light-catching skyscraper that looks like a skyscraper—ridiculously tall, but exquisitely sculpted, elegantly detailed and unapologetically exultant. In contrast to Dubai's preposterous collection of architectural cartoons—here, a big-bellied tower that suggests an oversize perfume bottle; there, a paper-thin skyscraper that looks like someone sliced a giant hole in its top with a pair of scissors—the Burj Dubai offers God-is-in-the-details articulation along with its dazzling shape.”—Blair Kamin, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune

“[Adrian] Smith is an unusually talented shaper of skyscraper form, as he proved at Shanghai's 88-story Jin Mao Tower, which he designed before leaving SOM in 2006. The Burj Dubai's profile, which Smith says is inspired by a range of local influences including sand dunes and minarets, grows more slender as it rises, like a plant whose upper stalks have been peeled away.”—Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times

“[Burj Khalifa] strikes me as the most graceful skyscraper of the modern(ist) era. Most recent skyscrapers look like refugees from a Fisher-Price toy factory. Yet the skyscraper is the only type of building in which modernism may plausibly be said to challenge the superiority of classicism.”—David Bussat of the Providence Journal

“[Burj Khalifa is] possibly the world’s most elegant, as well as tallest building—spare, using a minimum of mass, structurally tight, and architecturally evocative.”—Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor, Architectural Record

Facts about Burj Dubai:

• The design of Burj Khalifa was commissioned by its developer, Emaar Properties, after SOM won a design competition in early 2003. Smith’s design of the form of the building is geometric in plan, starting with three branches and three pods. Setbacks occur at each program element, decreasing the tower’s mass as it rises toward the sky. At the tower’s top, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire. Views of the Arabian Gulf and city are maximized throughout the building through the use of a Y-shaped floor plan inspired in part by certain early designs of Mies van der Rohe as well as Chicago's Lake Point Tower.

• Emaar was interested in having Burj Dubai be the tallest building in the world, but that standard could have been met with a building much shorter than the one Smith and his team ended up designing. But Smith envisioned Burj as a very elegant, slender building, and to resolve the design in an appropriately proportional way required a great deal of height—quite a bit more than Emaar had originally expected. In the end, the height of the project was changed from 700 meters (2,296 feet) to “something taller” when Smith changed the massing at the tower’s top. (The world’s next-tallest building is Taiwan’s Taipei 101 at 1,670 feet.) Burj Dubai’s official height was announced last week at 828 meters, or 2,716.5 feet.

• Burj Khalifa will continue to be the world’s tallest building for at least five years, since no announced projects of greater height have actually broken ground yet, and it will take at least five years of construction for another tower to exceed the height of the Burj.

• Burj Khalifa includes luxury condominiums, the world’s first Armani hotel with ballroom and support amenities, meeting facilities, 50,000 sm of luxury office space, restaurants, health club, spa, outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, the world’s highest public observatory, three floors for communications equipment, 6 mechanical floors and 3,000 parking spaces. The tower’s gross area is over 300,000 sm above grade, a total of 450,000 sm including below-grade levels.

• Smith’s design focuses on several unique problems posed by supertall buildings. Coordination of the results of wind tunnel testing and concerns with stack effect led to the development of special elements and mitigation strategies within the building and at the many building terraces. Window washing and the need to maintain the building’s exterior wall led to the design of a system that incorporates over a dozen specialized mechanized units at several levels of the tower. Other innovative use of materials and systems include high-efficiency lighting; reduction in urban heat island effect with large water features and extensive landscaping above the garage podium roofs; and use of a site-wide gray-water system for irrigation including recovered condensate.

• Wind tunnel tests were conducted to ensure the tower would perform optimally in response to weather conditions. In response to the tests, Smith and his design team sculpted the tower’s shape, in particular by staggering the setback heights, to shed the negative forces of the wind moving around the building, which he calls “confusing the wind.” He and the team also took several steps to mitigate the stack effect, which in Burj means that, due to the height of the building and difference between the internal and external temperature, indoor air tries to travel downward and flow out of the bottom of the building.

• Skyscrapers such as Burj Khalifa are inherently sustainable because they accommodate a large number of people on a small footprint, which helps save agricultural land from development and reduce carbon emission associated with commuting to and from suburbs. They also offer efficient vertical and horizontal transportation systems, encouraging the use of public transit and creating increasingly walkable cities. Supertall buildings can also be formed to further decrease their environmental effect and become “super-sustainable.” These structures can take advantage of the faster wind speeds at higher altitudes and drive wind toward building-integrated turbines to generate power. Because they are less likely to have shadows cast on them, high-rises also make efficient use of building-integrated photovoltaic systems to absorb solar power and generate energy. And deep foundations make them ideal for geothermal heating and radiant cooling systems.

Dubai makes history ;)

The technology for the next skyscraper taller than Burj Dubai would be taken from Dubai's tower, not NYC's ;)

Yes it will! But, not the point I'm making, you have to start somewhere you know.

3,000 parking spaces..... Is that really enough?

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Let's hope this is the site for the next World's Tallest in Dubai. I know Signiture Towers are supposed to be there. But I wouldn't mind if the next world's tallest building (hopefully exceeding 1Km) would be placed. :)

^^ Seriously, when the crisis is over, Dubai should concentrate on more important things than building the next WTB! Dubai doesn't need to be a press "whore" anymore. It got attention enough. Now is the time to make from a desaster of chaotic or non excisting urban planing a real city. People always forget that not only skyscrapers make a city good. I was in many cities whos tallest structures are 50m tall and are church towers and are still interesting. I wish that Dubai now finishs finally projects that are UC, that they have enough many to finish espacially Palm Jumeirah and meanwhile rethink its ideology.

^^ Rethink its ideology? This not an ideology, it's a vision that captured the world by storm. Why cant there be a city that is so futuristic it takes the breath away from conventional cities? Dubai is surely, as we saw during the past decade, able to become that. You think Sheikh Mohammed would change his vision because of economic crisis? the economy will pick up and another housing bubble begin to inflate.

Why should cities be conservative? Abu Dhabi is a great city but sits on so much oil it can build a city out of Star Wars. I don't understand the mentality of not doing anything and just conserve. New York still builds towers, so does Hong Kong, so does Chicago. Why should Dubai stop and rethink it's vision? Shouldn't New York stop building tall buildings and stick to houses and low rises? Skyscrapers means robust economy and many more possibilities for business.

After this recession is over and Dubai gets its debt under control, they should resume the vision that is not only transforming a region tarnished by war, but the whole world as well. A model that works. At least Dubai doesnt spend Trillions of dollars on wars, but on buildings, infrastructure, education and healthcare that makes America's seem like its crumbling.

I am from the US, and I have never been so excited about a place that is willing to progress and do the things people thought were impossible!

Lets change the name to Burj Imre :lol::lol:

Am I wrong for this statement:

The thing is open, why not a flood of interior shots?

This tower is really awesome:)

How about send 3 or 4 airplanes against this stuff? uh?

How about send 3 or 4 airplanes against this stuff? uh?

Bad idea...

One of the first threads from 2003 :)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=72943&page=32

Great, i find this threads, thanks, :banana:

Yeah, reading the old thread from 2003 is a real fun now, for everyone interested in this building and watching the whole construction process. :cheers:

Get ready for a whole slew of lightning pics. I was fast asleep and nowhere near it last night, but it got hit dozens of times.

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If it gets hits too much, will it be destroyed and not be big and huge-like anymore?

Hi. Great thread and very nice pictures!
Anyone got info, viideos or/and pictures of the elevators yet? I tried to find something on youtube, but i could not find anything.

Thanks