Tuesday, June 17, 2025

January 5, 2010

PHOTOS TAKEN 2 WEEKS AGO FROM THE TOP OF THE BURJ DUBAI!

Yesterday’s Good Morning Headlines made mention of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, which officially opened on January 4, 2010.

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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)..

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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.

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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?