World's tallest building opens in Dubai
 

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The world's tallest building has been opened with a dramatic fireworks ceremony in the Gulf emirate of Dubai.

The Burj Khalifa was revealed to be 828m (2,716ft) high, far taller than the previous record holder, Taipei 101.

Known as the Burj Dubai during construction, the tower has been renamed after the leader of Dubai's oil-rich neighbour, Abu Dhabi.

Last month, Abu Dhabi gave Dubai a handout of $10bn (£6.13bn) to help it pay off its debts.

Construction of the Burj Dubai began in 2004, at the height of an economic boom.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8439618.stm More info + grand opening video :thumbsup

Finally... hmmm tallest building in the world, so advanced. But yet they still prohibit any photography of the slums on the outer edge of the city where all the exploited workers who build stuff like this live...

who's going to shoot a video there first

A handout of 10 billion. Nice.

That is a biggin.

The rich get richer that's the law of the land:2 cents:

wow !!!!!!!!!!

that is insane. it's almost TWICE as tall as the empire state building. those buildings in the pic are skyscapers too but they look like toys next this.

it can be seen from 95 kilometers!!! :OOOO

And no tenants at all.

Dubai sure is one expensive mistake

1 million liters of fresh clean water is needed to cool this fucker every single day. What a waste.

Some very rich mother fucker! :thumbsup



Ive just watched the firework display last night on the news. Looked good! :2 cents:

i've bought an apartment there

More than twice as high, the Empire State Building reaches "only" 381m :thumbsup

I hope they dont have earthquakes there

Disaster waiting to happen... :2 cents:

kunniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

:):pimp:upsidedow

someone will try to bomb it or something, guaranteed.

looks like something from a alien scifi movie.

100% brutal :thumbsup

i'm sure they recycle it. prolly would be more expensive to cool off that amount of same space flat on ground level.

They should rent out the penthouse suites for high altitude porn shoots and call the resulting series The Half Mile High Club.

I'm sure that idea would go over really well in Dubai and with its neighboring states. They could even use it for a new tourism-inspiring slogan: "Dubai: Taking Pornography to New Heights Since 2010."

From what I know UAE blocks/filters porn sites.. gluck shooting there lol

great building... but i would not stay there for long time

It's to be approached with discretion, no question.

Although, perhaps there's an experienced local who could "give us a hand" (so to speak) in terms of how to produce porn in this part of the world.

Yep no porn or pork allowed there.And i cant imagine life without those two :D

Only a matter of time before Gozar the Gozarian is brought back up at the top of that by Zuel and Vince Clortho and the Ghostbusters need to be called in. Wonder if it was built by Evo Shandor.

Makes our CN Tower look like a toy in comparison!

Impressive engineering, but what a waste. Anyone know how many exploited workers lost their lives building this thing? Lots. The work conditions in Dubai are horrendous.

What a stunning building.

LMAO, couldn't agree more. I havent been there since early 90's but I don't have very fond memories of it.

Wow that sure is impressive

wow that's a big building! Very impressive.

impressive building...

Was in Dubai recently,fucking amazing :)

Tell us more :) :thumbsup

I'm going next week...can't wait :thumbsup

Yeah, because if they did they wouldn't make it earthquake-proof.

I wonder who will fly a few planes into it?

There is a mosque on the 158th floor

It is WOW tall...

You go Dubai :upsidedow now the world is a better place.

thats a damn big arse building!

:error:error

Impressive size but it looks like a bunch of stacked paper cups. Anyone else thinking of the old saying "the bigger they come the harder they fall"?

Just a bigger target to hit is all that thing is.

No one will make that building a target.

Just say "CHARRRRRRRGGGGGGEEEEEE IIITTTTT!!!!!!"