Burj Dubai, which will be completed shortly highest skyscrapers in the world, but the amount of height no one knows except few. William Baker, the architect of the tower in the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (LLP) in an interview before the opening of the tower on the fourth of January, “the rise is still a secret.” “The age of a company that allows us to just by saying it would be more than 800 meters. This is part of the mystery surrounding the project.” Baker said that the architects have wondered if it was possible that one tries to measure the height of the tower slim by determining the length of its shadow.
Height of the tower will be more than 800 meters
Skidmore has pioneered in Chicago, structural system, which resembles a character (any) England to support ultra-high tower that reaches to almost twice as high tower and Willis in Chicago, built by the company, up 442 meters.
The drop tower arrangement Willis (formerly the Sears Tower), which was built 35 years ago and was the highest building in the world to V according to the Council high-rise buildings and Urban Habitat, which tracks these issues. He is currently ranked first Taipei 101 will be reduced to the second rank. There are seven of the highest towers in the world in Asia, all built within three years preceding ten.
Jean-Clerks of the Council of the tall buildings that he had asked to know the exact height of the Burj Dubai. He said in an e-mail, “We asked several times, but if there are reasons for non-disclosure of this increase Fsnktefi penis without official figures. We do not know why not announce the number. The only thing we are certain about it’s already the tallest building in the world and height not less for 800 meters. ”
Baker said it appeared that the problems of the current financial of the emirate did not affect the sale of one thousand and one hundred apartment approximately one-bedroom or two or three in the tower, which “sold out”, including the apartment companies located at the top of the tower which floor number 164 approx.
The luxury Armani hotel will occupy the lower floors of the building. The estimated cost of the building at around 1.5 billion dollars in published reports. The gazebo in the floor of No. 124, viewers can look forward to a distance of up to 80 miles on a clear day.
Covers the tower of glass panels
The balconies are located in positions of spiral tower, backing you on the basis of “an architecture of the desert flower and regulations module derived from Islamic architecture,” according to the brochures of the tower.
Baker said that the air is cool and refreshing in these balconies compared to the suffocating heat and humidity at the ground floor in the summer season in Dubai. He said that access to the top of the tower takes about two minutes using the fastest elevators in the world with speeds of 40 km per hour.
It covers the tower from the outside panes of glass hard enough to cover 17 football fields and needs to be cleaned between six and eight weeks.
The concrete used extensively in the heart of the building and its size is enough to build a corridor stretching for a distance of 2065 kilometers, and the steel bars used in it could take a quarter of the globe. The system produces cooling tower condensing moisture can fill 20 swimming pool Olympian annually and will be used to irrigate gardens of the Tower