Before I go any further about this monumental landmark, I should let you know that the building was just renamed to the Burj Khalifa shortly after it was unveiled.
Dubai decided to change its name as a means of showing it’s appreciation for the financial aid it received from Abu Dhabi, a country next door that helped out immensely while the world economy sunk to a state of crisis last year.
Continuing on, there is no other landmark in the whole world that can compare to this spectacular building. You might have seen mention of it on the news, but here we are going to talk about some of the features that are part of the reason why this building is the most beautiful one that the world has ever seen.
First of all, there are over 160 inhabitable floors. Not only are there this many of them, but there’s apartment space in the building that was selling for nearly $2,000 per square foot at its height.
No, you did not read that wrong, the price that a 2,000 square foot apartment would have been sold for was almost 4 million dollars! Prices have come down to earth to some extent, but the utter thought of levels like these is absurd.
There are also a handful of offices and other commercial businesses occupying the rest of the building.
Inside the Burj Khalifa will also be a world class hotel that was designed by Giorgio Armani. There will also be a swimming pool on the 76th floor that makes it the world’s highest swimming pool, as well as a mosque on the 158th floor that makes it the world’s highest mosque.
Another monumental feature is the security of the structure itself, which is virtually unlike anything we’ve ever seen in a building before. Every 25 to 30 levels, there are special floors with their own air supplies and special compositions that make them very resistant to fire.
This is truly a next generation building and should easily set the precedent for the buildings of the future as the bar has now been raised. This new era in architecture does make our world a better place.
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