Dubai is starting construction on a new skyscraper that will overtake the 828-meter Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, Emirates 247 reports.
Emaar Properties, which also built the Burj Khalifa, will grace the Dubai skyline at Dubai Creek Harbor with a new development called Dubai Creek Harbour.
The head of the developer, Mohammed Alabbar, said that the skyscraper will be completed by 2020, when the Dubai Expo will be held in Dubai. The skyscraper will occupy the central part of the territory with an area of 6 km² near Ras Al Khor.
The project of a pointed, futuristic tower was born from the pen of the Spanish-Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava Valse. The shape of the tower will repeat the images of a lily and a minaret, borrowed from Islamic culture. The building will have revolving glass balconies and gardens on several levels, which will offer 360-degree views of the entire city.
Inside the new skyscraper will be residential apartments, restaurants and a shopping center.
Many experts consider such a project quite risky, as demand in the real estate market is gradually falling. According to the consulting firm Cluttons, demand in the housing market has been declining throughout the year.
Even when the Burj Khalifa tower was completed in 2010, there was no demand for it in terms of the real estate market - just before the opening, the real estate bubble burst in Dubai.
The emirate's new projects continue the global course to change Dubai's income structure. At present, oil revenues and natural gas account for only 9% of budget revenues and the authorities intend to further reduce this percentage.
We rise to the very high building in the world - the skyscraper Burj Khalifa in Dubai! How much does a tour to the observation deck cost? Where to buy tickets and how to save? Read our review and tips.
It seems that the Arabs, during the construction of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, decided to collect all the titles of "the most": this is the tallest ground structure in the history of mankind, the building with the most large quantity floors, the fastest elevator, the highest viewpoint etc.
The height of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is 828 meters, the number of floors is 163, the elevator speed is 18 m / s (according to other sources - 10 m / s). The elevator raises to the 124th floor in a minute, there is a scoreboard in the cabin with a countdown of floors.
The blue dream of almost all tourists in Dubai is to climb this luxurious and breathtaking building. True, no one will let mere mortals to the very top. The maximum height accessible to tourists is 555 meters, or the 148th floor. But the most visited floors are 124 and 125 (456 meters). It is on these three floors that observation decks are located. At the top and At the Top Sky where tickets are sold.
Burj Khalifa is a city within a city: there are offices, apartments, a hotel, restaurants, shopping centers etc. In front of the building is the famous dancing fountain, which draws crowds with its performances. The equally famous shopping center Dubai Mall adjoins the skyscraper.
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Advantages of buying on the official website: cheap (from 135 dirhams), you can buy tickets to the 148th floor or choose a promotion. For example, buy skyscraper + aquarium combo tickets. Site in English.
Benefits of buying on Sputnik: more expensive (from 180 dirhams), but in Russian. Unable to select combos.
We bought tickets for Burj Khalifa on the official website. We took a combo - a tower (124th and 125th floors) + an aquarium. For two it turned out 390 dirhams.
Here are the ticket prices for Burj Khalifa on the official website:
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Buy tickets for Burj Khalifa in advance, and not at the box office in Dubai Mall - it's much cheaper! After payment, the voucher will be sent to email. It must be printed out and exchanged for a ticket at the box office.
What time to choose? If you want to visit the skyscraper in daytime, we advise you to take tickets for 8:30 or 9:00 - at this time there are still few people. At 10 and 11 in the morning, the sites are already crowded: all the windows are plastered with tourists taking selfies, someone is broadcasting live on Instagram, queues are lining up.
Prime time from 16:00 to 18:00 - busiest time(and the most expensive tickets). You can see the sunset, the dancing fountain and the lights of the city at night. However, can you imagine what kind of pandemonium on the sites? And the fountain is beautiful from below. If you really want to look at the fountain not from the ground, go up to the balcony of the Apple Store in Dubai Mall.
Come early. We arrived half an hour before they let us in. In the daytime and evening, it is better to arrive at least an hour in advance, as there is a queue to the ticket office and separately to the elevator.
The exact address of the skyscraper is 1 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, Dubai. You can take the metro to the station Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall. Then follow the signs to the Dubai Mall - through the covered walkway. At the mall, follow the signs for Burj Khalifa again. Next, you will reach the cashier and go up to the elevator.
There is a small queue at the elevator, about 10 people are allowed to enter. In a minute you will go up to the 124th floor, where outdoor terrace with glazed walls. On the 125th floor there is also an observation deck, but closed. We weren't on the 148th floor.
If you want to splurge, then settle in a 5-star (who would doubt) hotel Armani Hotel Dubai 5 *. It occupies 11 floors of a skyscraper. He has excellent reviews - 9.1 out of 10. A double standard costs only 35 thousand rubles!
Is it worth visiting? Undoubtedly! It's expensive, but you won't regret it. It is so tall that it hurts your neck when you look at it. To take a photo of a skyscraper, you have to contrive.
If you don't like to be in the crowd, come early in the morning - we did just that. After 10 a.m., haze appears and visibility decreases. Beautiful at sunset and at night, but expensive and crowded. Someone in the reviews complained that the night view is inferior to the morning one - the lights are like lights, the view is almost like from the window of an airplane.
Burj Khalifa (UAE) - description, history, location. Exact address, phone number, website. Reviews of tourists, photos and videos.
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Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world! The height of the skyscraper located in Dubai is 828 meters, these are 163 floors. Its shape resembles a stalagmite. The grand opening ceremony took place on January 4, 2010.
Burj Khalifa was originally planned as the tallest building in the world. Its design height was kept secret.
Burj Khalifa was originally planned as the tallest skyscraper, but its design height was kept secret. This was done in case a building of a higher height was designed somewhere - then adjustments could be made to the project. The Dubai Tower was conceived as a "city within a city" - with its own lawns, boulevards and parks. The total cost of the construction is about 1.5 billion dollars.
Inside the Burj Khalifa complex there is a hotel, apartments, offices and shopping centers. The building has three separate entrances: to the hotel, to the apartments and to office rooms. On the 43rd and 76th floors there are gyms, swimming pools, viewing platforms with jacuzzis. On the 122nd floor there is a restaurant "Atmosfera" with 80 seats - it is located on the very high altitude restaurant in the world.
The highest observation deck of the Burj Khalifa is located on the 148th floor at an altitude of 555 meters. Two more sites are located on the 124th (472 meters) and 125th floors.
The air inside the building is not only cooled, but also aromatized thanks to special membranes. This fragrance was created especially for the Burj Khalifa. Glasses do not pass dust and repel Sun rays, allowing you to maintain optimum temperature in the building, besides they are washed daily. Especially for the Burj Khalifa, a special brand of concrete was developed that can withstand temperatures up to +50 ° C. Concrete mix laid only at night, and ice was added to the solution.
The building has 57 elevators. In this case, only the service elevator rises from the first floor to the last. Residents and visitors of the skyscraper move between floors with transfers. Burj Khalifa elevators reach speeds of up to 10 m/s.
At the foot of the skyscraper artificial lake Dubai Musical Fountain is located. It is illuminated by 6600 light sources and 50 colored spotlights. The length of the fountain is 275 m, and the height of the jets reaches 150 meters. The fountain has musical accompaniment.
The construction of the skyscraper began in 2004 and proceeded at a rate of 1-2 floors per week.
Up to 12,000 workers were involved in the construction daily.
It took about 320 thousand to build the tower square meters concrete and more than 60 thousand tons of steel reinforcement.
The tower contains about 900 apartments, a hotel with 304 rooms, 35 floors are given over to offices. Three underground floors house parking for 3,000 cars.
According to ancient legend, long ago, the builders, to make a name for myself decided to build a tower to the skies, but the Tower of Babel was never completed... The more interesting is the modern approach to the construction of skyscrapers.
As you know, the United Arab Emirates are famous all over the world for their oil reserves and high level life. But in 2010 - this state became famous for another attraction - the tallest building in the world, built in the city of Dubai.
But besides the height of 828 meters, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper broke two more records: becoming the most expensive building in the world - the total construction budget exceeded $ 1.5 billion, and also breaking the world record for the number of floors - there are more than 160 of them in the building.
But in order to understand the full scale of the construction, it is necessary to go back a few years and take a look at the beginning of the grandiose construction, begun by order of the Emir of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid.
As you know, the palm in the construction of skyscrapers deservedly belongs to Americans accustomed to building high-rise buildings on rocky grounds, but the engineers and architects of the Chicago firm SOM , whose services were used by customers from the UAE, managed the seemingly impossible - to erect the tallest building in the world in the desert.
No matter how strange it may sound, but such a huge building does not have a foundation in the usual sense.
The secret is simple - the building stands on stilts. According to one of the architects of the project in this case this was the only way out, since in the desert, unlike New York, there is no rocky soil capable of supporting the weight of such a structure.
The builders went their own way, screwing in more than 200 piles with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a length of 45 meters. Thus, managed to solve two problems at once - to compact the soil and provide the skyscraper with a reliable foundation.
Initially, the project involved the construction of a building with a height of " only" 550 meters, but after additional calculations, the architect-designer George Estafio
having coordinated the decision with the customer, he made a bold move - to double the height of the building! And thereby erect the tallest building in the world.
According to rumors leaked to the press, the plans were to build a building 1 kilometer high, but after laying the foundation and erecting the first floors, the customers wisely decided to limit themselves to a height of just over 800 meters.
Interesting fact is that the skyscraper The Burj Khalifa owes its name to the global financial crisis. Customers from Dubai were forced to seek additional financial support from a neighboring emirate - Abu Dhabi. Therefore, in gratitude for the billions received, the tower was renamed from Burj Dubai in Burj Khalifa in honor of the sheikh from Abu Dhabi.
Construction was carried out 24 hours 7 days a week. The number of invited architects and engineers amounted to about 100 people, and the number of workers working at the construction site of the century exceeded 12,000 people.
The new Tower of Babel grew at a rate of one floor in three days. Using reinforced concrete structures and principles monolithic construction, workers and architects managed to accomplish the impossible - to build a seismically stable building that can withstand strong earthquakes. But, as the designers said, one of the main problems during the construction was the strongest winds blowing from the Persian Gulf.
The tower owes its futuristic form to the winds. It seems to consist of several columns-terraces flowing one into another. And to minimize the force of the wind, the terraces were built according to the principle of a spiral.
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In addition, the designers of the building had to solve many unexpected problems - from the exact positioning of the center of the building necessary for pouring concrete - GPS signals were used for this purpose, to the choice of glass panels made of extra-strong glass, which effectively reflects heat and transmits sunlight at the same time.
Also, the skyscraper is a completely non-volatile building. For this, a whole complex of solar panels and a special pride of engineers are used. 61 meters high! And the skyscraper itself is clearly visible even from a distance of 90 kilometers.
As ventilation, a convection system is used, which drives the air flow from the base to the top of the building.
The air is cooling sea water and underground blocks filled with refrigerant. And for lightning protection, the most modern system lightning protection.
A heated discussion of the installation and installation of a lightning rod is underway our forum.
The Burj Khalifa project has become the embodiment of the concept of the future of such buildings, namely "a city within a city." When the building combines shopping and educational centers, residential apartments, turning into a completely autonomous and energy-efficient urban complex.
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Burj Khalifa is the highlight of Dubai and one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. The majestic skyscraper has risen to 828 meters and 163 floors, for the past seven years being the tallest building. It is located on the shores of the Persian Gulf and can be seen from anywhere in the city, introducing tourists into dumb shock.
Dubai has not always been as modern and luxurious as it is now. In the 1980s, it was a modest city with traditional two-story buildings, and in just twenty years, the influx of petrodollars made it a giant of steel, stone and glass. 
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper was built over six years. Construction began in 2004 with amazing speed: two floors were built in one week. The shape was specially made asymmetrical and reminiscent of a stalagmite, so that the building was stable and did not sway from the winds. It was decided to sheathe the entire building with special thermostatic panels, which significantly reduced energy costs. 
The point is that in the United United Arab Emirates the temperature often rises to 50 degrees, so saving money on air conditioning played an important role. The foundation of the building was a foundation with hanging piles, which were 45 meters long. 
It was decided to entrust the construction to the well-known Samsung corporation, which took into account all the climatic and geological features of the area. Designed specifically for the Burj Khalifa special solution concrete, resistant high temperatures. It was kneaded exclusively at night with pieces of ice added to the water. 
The company hired about twelve thousand workers who agreed to work in appallingly unhygienic conditions for a measly sum of four to seven dollars a day, depending on qualifications. The planners knew the golden rule that no building is on budget, so they decided to save on labor costs. 
The total cost of building the tower cost more than one and a half billion dollars. For a long time, the planned height was kept secret. Many were sure that the Burj Khalifa would reach a kilometer, but the developers were afraid of difficulties with the sale of retail space, so they stopped at 828 meters. Perhaps now they regret their decision, because, despite the economic crisis, all the premises were purchased in a very short time. 
Burj Khalifa was created as a vertical city. It contains within itself:
Entering the tower, it's hard not to feel pleasant microclimate, created thanks to the special structure of ventilation and air conditioning. The creators took into account all the features human body so staying inside is nice and comfortable. The building is filled with an unobtrusive and light aroma. 
The hotel with 304 rooms is designed for tourists who are not concerned about their own budget. Internal design is amazing, because for a long time it was developed by Giorgio Armani himself. Made in warm color scheme with unique furniture and unusual decorations, the interior is an example of Italian elegance.
The hotel has 8 restaurants with Mediterranean, Japanese and Arabic cuisine. Also present: night club, swimming pool, SPA center, banquet halls, boutiques and a flower shop. Room rates start at $750 per night.
Burj Khalifa has 900 apartments. It is curious that the Indian billionaire Shetty completely bought out the 100th floor with three huge apartments. Eyewitnesses note that the room is immersed in luxury and chic. 
On the 124th floor of the skyscraper, there is a unique observation deck that opens a picturesque panorama of the UAE capital. It is called "At the Top". As travelers say, "If you haven't been to the site, you haven't been to Dubai." 
Getting there is not so easy - tickets sell out very quickly. You need to keep this in mind and book a seat in advance, a ticket will cost approximately $27. In addition to the beauty of the ultra-modern city, you can enjoy the view of the night sky with the help of telescopes located on the site. Climb to a viewing height of 505 meters and enjoy an incredible view from above, as well as take a memorable photo from the pearl of Dubai. Experience freedom and grandeur human hands who built this masterpiece. 
The popularity of the place led to the fact that four years later a second observation deck was opened. It is located higher - on the 148th floor, and has become the highest in the world. There are screens that allow tourists to take a virtual walk around the city. 
Remember that pre-purchased tickets will significantly save your budget and will cost you three times cheaper. It is best to buy them on the official website of the skyscraper or at the main passage to the Burj Khalifa elevators, as well as with the help of agencies that organize excursions. Last option It may be easier, but somewhat more expensive. 
It is worth purchasing a telescope card: with its help, you will get the opportunity to see any corner of the city up close and get acquainted with historical eras Dubai. If you plan to visit the tower with a group of friends, then it is enough to buy only one card, as you can use it several times. 
After saving money, spend it on an audio tour of the creation of a skyscraper. You can listen to it in one of the available languages, including Russian. The tour to Burj Khalifa lasts an hour and a half, but if this time is not enough for you, you can easily stay there longer. 
At the foot of the Burj Khalifa is the most powerful fountain in the world, the jets of which rise 100 meters up.
