Wednesday, June 18, 2008

World's tallest freestanding structure on land!


The Burj Dubai in Dubai,United Arab Emirates represents the "state-of-art" in tall building design. This huge building is currently under construction and has already been declared as the world's tallest ever man-made structure. After getting completed it will have the Armani hotel, residential houses, offices and much more. The aim of the construction of Burj Dubai is not just to be the world's tallest building, but also to comprise of the world's highest aspirations as said by its esteemed chairman Mohamed Alabbar. One of the organizing concepts of the large tower was obtained from the structure of flower of the Hymenocallis plant.


Some astonishing facts about the tower are that the tower's water system will supply water at an average rate of about 946,000 litres (250,000 gallons) per day and the tower's peak electricity demand is estimated to be around 36 mVA. The elevators will be the world's fastest at 18 m/sec (40 mph). When completed it is planned to rise over 800m. Seeing this huge structure once it is completed will just be awesome and will be the tallest of all the sky scrapes in the world.

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