the opening of the Burj Dubai
January 4th, 2010
For the top of the building in the world – and he is a symbol of the megalomania that the builders of Dubai has in recent years opened on Monday over 800 meters high Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) . With the skyscrapers of the state of the Arabian desert, the previous record, the building is 508 meters high “Taipei 101″ in the Taiwanese capital Taipei beaten by miles.
Has 160 floor by American architect Adrian Smith-designed building, more than a thousand homes, offices and luxury Armani hotel will come around is a new, U.S. $ 20 million area more expensive plan – the “Downtown Burj Dubai.” It must also be a room of superlatives, at least according to current planning. 30,000 homes and the largest mall in the world, therefore, arise. The property developer Emaar Properties is, however, is in deep crisis. He is the third government of the Emirate.
Even the opening of the Burj Dubai arrives with a delay of more than a year. With the construction of the tower began in 2004, was originally to be inaugurated in 2008. After several delays, is now on 4 January 2010 set as the opening date – today marks the fourth time the day of the takeover by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The thin, shiny tower to 330,000 cubic meters of concrete and 31,400 tons of steel were used, with good weather, almost a hundred miles around. Its exact height, investors have been kept secret.
“We learned a lot”
Originally, the architects should only break the record for the 508 meter high “Taipei 101″, as reported by engineer Bill Baker of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in Chicago. Then, the builders, however, requires time and again to build even higher in the sky. “We have learned much from the” Burj Dubai “, says the engineer. He predicted that soon may be a tower that was built over a thousand feet high.
At the bottom of the tower has the shape of an inverted Ypsilon upwards is shrinking at the top of the tower is topped by a giant steel structure. The three-base provides, as the site director, George Efstathiou for stability – even in windy conditions. “The tower is more stable than other skyscrapers, which are considerably smaller,” he says. Even violent storms were living in the office and not feel tower.
According to experts, the register could be the skyscraper last but gigantic construction project in Dubai – and become a monument to the frenetic construction boom, which ultimately led to the desert state to its knees. In late 2009 had shaken the financial problems in the world of stock exchanges in the emirate. Dubai had a total debt of U.S. $ 80 million, of which 59 billion U.S. dollars, the state-owned Dubai World has to respond. It is with the developer Nakheel, inter alia, for the construction of artificial islands, Palm luxury offshore jurisdiction of the state of the desert.
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