How I wish other Arabians and Muslims all over the world especially in Nigeria can think like those in dubai just for a day the world would have have been a better place.

And some people will come here to tell me that some set of people were planning to build a tower that was about to touch the heaven and then god got upset to fall it down and scatter their language





Crap





Awesome burj khalifa

Burj arab is on going

Op you failed to add . Highest mosque in the world. The topmost part of the building is a mosque.

james1:
The uae is set to displace many dso called eveloped countries in term of architectural and luxurious cities.

Wake up from ur dream...hw many skyscraper can u count from the pics above? every city in the US, China, canada and other more devveloped countries are littered with skyscrapers.

No be from ds building Vin Diesel and Paul walker(R.I.P) take fly their car from Furious 7?

This kinda develoment are not new to Architects on dis forum.
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And actually Dubai is already building anoda one and it is expected to be taller BURJ KHALIFA.

I no lives will be lost during that construction. Thanks building is just too high

Interior photos of the Burj khalifa

Nigeria will soon get there

Dubai....here I come!

Looking like a space craft. Waooooooo

[size=15pt]Why are you people so amazed bout this Burj Khalifa's height? Height wey me dey use run climb upandan every Sunday. [/size]

So Dubai it's known for tourism and having the highest skyscraper while Nigeria is known for having the tallest talking drum. Ask Aregberaschal.

The Tales by Moonlight Tower of Babel said world languages started changing when men wanted to build a Tower that will reach the skies. But mankind has been to the moon which is far above the skies and even soared higher and our languages are even disappearing by the day into a one world language.

The Burj Khalifa is a testimony that there's nothing beyond the human brain; even death itself. Give it time!

How many people died during the installation?

Modified:

I just did a search and discovered that about 40 construction workers died during the installation.

Typical nigerian tomorrow politicians of pdp extraction are corrupt and taking 'our' money to dubai and i know that's what u will if u get chance i know u are the sai buhari type

Adenle041:
Wow, abeg make una sponsor me to Dubai to take a view, but truly awesome, as in beautiful.

Dry lands at Ibeju-lekki in gated and serene estates starting from 675k...call Victor on 08158961762

Many visit the islamic land of Dubai to have a good time but will hypocritically be calling Islam names.

olive282:
Wetin de for dat up up

Angels and demons.

The Building is quite massive. paid 20k to get to the top of the building last November and it was a nice view. you see other skyscrapers look small from the top...you can see other countries from the top using a telescope too...


altho 20k was overpriced for the experience...

Why is completed house still call building?

mu2sa2:
Many would visit the islamic land of Dubai and when they come back hypocritically call Islam names.

and why are Islams Muslims still trooping into US nd UK more?

Niyinficient:


Wake up from ur dream...hw many skyscraper can u count from the pics above? every city in the US, China, canada and other more devveloped countries are littered with skyscrapers.

Your reading comprehension is zero. The person you quoted clearly stated "architectural and luxurious". Besides some of the magnificent skyscrapers in Dubai, like the burj khalifa and burj al-Arab, google for 'The world wonder island' and 'The palms island' in Dubai. These are the world's most advanced engineering architectural structures that have never been done nor replicated anywhere in the world.

Viktoreze:
Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎‎, Arabic for "Khalifa Tower"; pronounced English /ˈbɜːrdʒ kəˈliːfə/), known as Burj Dubai before its inauguration, is a megatall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the tallest structure in the world, standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).[4][9]

Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed in 2009. The primary structure is reinforced concrete. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. It is designed to be the centerpiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to build the building is reportedly based on the government's decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition. The building was named in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Abu Dhabi and the UAE government lent Dubai money to pay its debts. The building broke numerous height records, like being the tallest tower in the world.

Burj Khalifa was designed by Adrian Smith, then of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), whose firm designed the Willis Tower and One World Trade Center. Hyder Consulting was chosen to be the supervising engineer with NORR Group Consultants International Limited chosen to supervise the architecture of the project. The design of Burj Khalifa is derived from patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture, incorporating cultural and historical elements particular to the region, such as in the Great Mosque of Samarra. The Y-shaped plan is designed for residential and hotel usage. A buttressed core structural system is used to support the height of the building, and the cladding system is designed to withstand Dubai's summer temperatures. A total of 57 elevators and 8 escalators .

Development Edit

Construction began on 6 January 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010,[2][10] and is part of the new 2 km2 (490-acre) development called Downtown Dubai at the 'First Interchange' along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer.[11][12] The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea.[13] The tower's construction was done by the construction division of Al Ghurair Investment group.[14][15]

Conception Edit

Burj Khalifa was designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that would include 30,000 homes, nine hotels (including The Address Downtown Dubai), 3 hectares (7.4 acres) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare (30-acre) man-made Burj Khalifa Lake. The decision to build Burj Khalifa is reportedly based on the government's decision to diversify from an oil based economy to one that is service and tourism based. According to officials, it is necessary for projects like Burj Khalifa to be built in the city to garner more international recognition, and hence investment. "He (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum) wanted to put Dubai on the map with something really sensational," said Jacqui Josephson, a tourism and VIP delegations executive at Nakheel Properties.[16] The tower was known as Burj Dubai ("Dubai Tower" until its official opening in January 2010.[17] It was renamed in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Abu Dhabi and the federal government of UAE lent Dubai tens of billions of USD so that Dubai could pay its debts – Dubai borrowed at least $80 billion for construction projects.[17] In 2000s, Dubai started diversifying its economy but it suffered from an economic crisis in 2007–2010, leaving large scale projects already in construction abandoned.

Records Edit
Tallest existing structure: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m or 2,063 ft)
Tallest structure ever built: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m or 2,121 ft)
Tallest freestanding structure: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m or 1,815 ft)
Tallest skyscraper (to top of spire): 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m or 1,671 ft)
Tallest skyscraper to top of antenna: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower – 527.3 m or 1,730 ft)
Building with most floors: 163 (previously World Trade Center – 110)[18]
Building with world's highest occupied floor: 584.5 m (1,918 ft)[19][20]
World's highest elevator installation (situated inside a rod at the very top of the building)[21]
World's longest travel distance elevators: 504 m (1,654 ft)[21][22]
Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)[23]
World's tallest structure that includes residential space[24]
World's highest observation deck: 148th floor at 555 m (1,821 ft)[25][26]
World's highest outdoor observation deck: 124th floor at 452 m (1,483 ft)
World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade: 512 m (1,680 ft)[27]
World's highest nightclub: 144th floor
World's highest restaurant (At.mosphere): 122nd floor at 442 m (1,450 ft) (previously 360, at a height of 350 m (1,148 ft) in CN Tower)[28][29]
World's highest New Year display of fireworks.[30]
World's second highest swimming pool: 76th floor[31] (world's highest swimming pool is located on 118th floor of Ritz-Carlton Hotel at International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong).

, ,,,,,,the country baba (obj) once quoted that nothing good can come out of a desert when their rulers came to Nigeria for help.

MrGerald:
Why is completed house still call building?

Basic explanation -- in the sentence "The building of this building was complicated." you are using two different forms. Though they look they same, they are used differently and have different meanings, and in fact, different origins. (Though both forms are created from the same root verb, "build", the suffixes were originally different and did different things.)

Actually, this sort of thing is not very unusual at all, as you may be able to see from the examples I list at the very end of my answer. (And, since other languages do the same sort of thing, it is NOT evidence of English being strange.)

More important, speakers of English are seldom if ever confused by these distinct uses (which is what really matters) anymore than they are by such things as very different uses of "the same word". That's because the specific WAYS they are used in actual speech (not all alone, but combined with other words) make the intended form and meaning clear.
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DETAILS:

"this building" uses a noun referring to a concrete OBJECT, that can be counted

"the building of" uses what is essentially a verb form (specifically, a participle) to refer to an action that is in PROCESS; the fact that you THINK of some ACTION going on shows you that this is a verb.


The origins of these two (originally different) forms:

The NOUN form -- in Old English, the suffix -ung (sometimes -ing) was often used to create nouns. This exact ending is still seen in German nouns that end with -ung. The noun can relate to the original verb ("build" in several ways. Often it refers to something that is the RESULT of the process the verb refers to.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ung
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/c...

There are MANY examples of such words in Modern English. Consider the following nouns which refer to objects which, like "building", are ordinarily NOT "in process" when we speak of them:

painting, dwelling, saying, writing, gathering, bedding, roofing, sacking, clothing, earnings

(There are other, related ways, that Old English formed nouns from verb roots. One of these is the suffix -(at)ion, such as: decision, isolation, explanation. Another is -ment: establishment.)


The VERB form -- in Old English, participles ended with -ende (a form still found in German).

In Middle English these forms fell together. That is, both the participle and noun ends became "-ing". In fact, the use of this form in expressions like "the building of" is a LATE development (whereas "building" as an object is a very old sort of form).
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node...

For the distinction in the suffixes, see Webster's (1913)
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=261832
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Note that it is actually quite common for suffixes that look exactly the same to be used in different parts of a language to carry out different functions. This is not usually a problem and should not confuse speakers because the WAY the forms are used in sentences makes it clear which form is meant. Most of the following cases are things you see/hear every day:

-(e)r -- turns a verb into a agentive noun ("maker", "hitter"
OR for the comparative form of an adjective ("bigger"

-(e)s -- a singular present tense verb ending [originally -eth, as in King James "cometh] ("he hits"
OR to make a plural noun form ("hits"
OR (with an apostrophe) to form a possessive

-(e)st -- old ending for verb forms (2nd singular) such as "thou makest"
OR for superlative of adjectives ("finest"

-y -- to form a diminutive ("Timmy"
OR to form adjectives from nouns ("funny"

The money in the acct of female ministers alone is enough to build a burj in each state including where that diezani came from.

Tower of Babel,d gods must b scare right now!

How I wish is in 9ja.

Dasuki can build 3 of these on 6 month

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