BURJ DUBAI

  Burj Dubai is the tallest man-made structure ever built on earth. The foundation for the construction of this sky scrapper was led on September 21, 2004. According to the plans, it was to be opened for public in the year 2009. Due to some reasons it was not opened as planned and not the date of launching is being released and it is on Jan 4, 2010. Now itself, it has raised many eye brows and it is in number one position among the other competitors. It is almost 818.0m in height. It consists of 162 floors totally comprising of 2 basement floors and 160 habitable floors. The top floor is around 636.0m. The floor area is 517,240sqm. The building is used by mixed users which may include Communication, Hotel, Obsevation, Office, Residential, Retail, and many more. This skyscrapper topped out the ranking charts on 17th Jan, 2009. It is being heared that an observation deck is located on 124th floor. If the building is so high, obviously elevators should be highly powerful. This tower is known to have the fastest elevator in the world with a speed of 700m/min (i.e) almost it would travel 42.3 km/hr. The architectural companies of this tower are Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and developer is EMAAR properties. So post New Year, it would be a treat to watch this sky scrapper.