Thursday, December 29, 2011

Burj Khalifa

Burj Khalifa is one of the locations where filming Mission: Impossible - GHOST PROTOCOL, which starred Tom Cruise. In the film Mission: Impossible - GHOST PROTOCOL, Tom Cruise's role as a spy Ethan Hunt. While we were busy with filming activities are solid, he still managed to write a message of love to his wife and son. Romantic, the message he wrote on the top of the tower Burj Khalifa. Meanwhile, director of the film "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol", Brad Bird, praised the beauty of the city of Dubai. According to Brad, showing consideration of building the Burj Dubai and Khalifa is because the area that looks magnificent and luxurious it is not too much exposed by Hollywood filmmakers.

The name Burj Khalifa formerly known as Burj Dubai, or in Arabic means Dubai Tower, now renamed the Burj Khalifa (Caliph Tower). Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum inaugurated the opening of the 828-meter-high building. He changed the name of the building into the Burj Khalifa in honor of the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifah bin Zayed al-Nahayan. The tower has more than 160 floors. The tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, based in Chicago, United States, which has long been known in the construction of some of the world's tallest building. Burj Khalifa is the tallest tower in the world. Tower Dubai is the most beautiful jewel of the city of Dubai that is equipped business center as a result of Dubai's major works. The height of the tower Burj Khalifa beyond communications tower CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, which only reached 555 meters, or Taipei 101 with a height of 508 meters. construction of the tower Burj Khalifa cost about 1.5 billion dollars in the United States.

Burj Khalifa has a number of luxurious amenities to pamper the occupants. Facilities like luxury hotels, Armani Hotel, in collaboration with leading designers Giorgio Armani, 900 luxury residential apartments spread over floors 19 to 108, meeting room and business, to sports facilities and other fitness facilities upstairs. The exterior of the tower consists of glass and steel that could cover 17 football fields. In fact, the building is equipped with 57 lifts that also provide facilities for tourists to see the sights of Dubai City as far as 80 kilometers, from the floor 124. To reach that height, it only took about two minutes using the fastest elevators in the world who drove 40 kilometers per hour. Burj Dubai also features shopping malls, business, entertainment, and other modern facilities in a number of buildings that surround the tower.

Burj Khalifa is the world's tallest building and this building was included in the category of the highest man-made structure ever made by humans. Burj Caliph solve a number of records ranging from the world's tallest building, the number of floors at most, the furthest and fastest elevators (64 kilometers / h), and the tallest tower view. Burj Khalifa, has a height of 828 meters with 163 floors and is located in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Development began construction on September 21, 2004 with the exterior of the structure completed on October 1, 2009. The tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, who also designed the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago and One World Trade Center in New York and many other famous tall building with the main contractor is Samsung C & T of South Korea. The tower was the launch on January 4, 2010 with a total project cost of 1.5 Billion Dollars and 20 Billion Dollars for the whole shops and facilities in the building Burj Khalifa.

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Burj Caliph is an example of collaboration on a global scale, and the tremendous positive energy which can be generated when people from all over the world come together to work towards a common goal. Thousands of professionals and skilled workers from around the world working on this once in a lifetime project. Burj Khalifa was built using the latest technology in wind engineering, structural engineering, structural systems, materials and construction methods. All design considerations to take into account the 12,000 people who will live and work in the tower. With a total built-up area of ​​about 6 million square feet, Burj Khalifa features nearly 2 million square feet of residential space and more than 300,000 square feet of prime office space, other than the area occupied by the Armani Hotel Dubai and Armani Residences. This tower also features modern lifestyle amenities including clubs, health and fitness facilities, a superb restaurant and observation deck. Burj Khalifa is the picture as the new heart of Dubai.

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