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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Interesting facts about burj khalifa ( burj tower)




BURJ  KHALIFA DUBAI WORLDS TALLEST BUILDING



This burj khalifa is the higest man made building structure build by emaar

groups...

And now it has been holding the below guiness records of the world

highest i.e tallest building in the world

highest i.e free-standing structure in the world

leads in the number of stories in the world

leads in # of floors

logestest distance traveling lift(elevator)

tallest service elevator

highest observation deck


other important features of burj khalifa are:


there are nine hundered home(residence) inside

there are thirty seven floor for corporates

armani hotel occupies one hundered sixty rooms for guest

armani provides 144 private homes inside


Some of burj buildings design features


This design was the insipiration of the flower "HYMENOCALLIS" which is shown
below

Hymenocallis burj khalifa dubai








The following five research was made for the building


Architecture test

- for the doing Y shaped structure which is perfect for best
aero dynamic for tall building.

wind tunnel testing

- more than fourty wind tunnel ttesting was made for burj

floor plan

- lots of reasearch and studies were made to allocate floors for

armani hotel, stories, corporates, residence, deck, parking and more...


interior

- was made by a chicago company called Skidmore and the team leader

was award winning man for design Nada Andric.

artwork

- more than thousands of art works were made inside burj dubai

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