Yesterday’s Good Morning Headlines made mention of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, which officially opened on January 4, 2010.
The Burj Dubai
[photo: boston.com]
But it’s not just the tallest building in the world, it’s also:
Current records
• Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m (1,671 ft))
• Tallest structure ever built: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m (2,121 ft))
• Tallest structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m (2,063 ft))
• Tallest freestanding structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m (1,815 ft))
• Building with most floors: 160 (previously both 1 & 2 World Trade Center – 110)
• World’s highest elevator installation
• Worlds fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)(previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 605 m (1,985 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m (1,474 ft))
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 605 m (1,985 ft)
• The first world’s tallest structure in history to include residential space
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world[26]
• Elevator with the longest travel distance in the world
• Tallest service elevator in the world
• World’s highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 m (1,680 ft)[read more here]
So anyway, as luck the vibe would have it, 2oceansviber, Gareth Armstrong was there not two weeks ago. At the very top, no less – from where he managed to get these pics for us (click to enlarge)..
I’m on the [pause] top of the world looking [pause]
down on creation and the only explanation I can find…[etc.]
That’s pretty radical! Check out the rest by dry humping these thumbnails with your mouse.
Very cool – thanks, Gazza!
It’s fine. Seriously. We’ll just give you all the stuff you want and you can just chill there where you are.
Honestly, we don’t want you to lift a finger.
Except to click.
You’re on holiday, remember?
