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the tallest building on earth the urge
Khalifa
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa maintains the world
record as it has since it opened in 2010
so what does it take to build and
maintain a vertical city a lot of
materials money and technology eight
hundred and twenty nine point seven
meters the Burj Khalifa’s total height
from the ground floor to the top of its
spire that’s two thousand seven hundred
and twenty-two feet making it the
tallest building on planet earth one
hundred and sixty-three floors it holds
the world record for the number of
floors it also has the world’s highest
observation deck on the 148th floor
nightclub on the 144th floor and
restaurant in the 120 second floor
35,000 people the number of people that
can be accommodated in the building
dubbed the vertical city at any given
time 95 kilometers the maximum distance
from which the Burj Khalifa is iconic
spire can be seen that’s about 60 miles
the distance between New York City and
Trenton New Jersey
57 elevators each of the Burj Khalifa’s
high-tech elevators can travel nearly 10
meters 32.8 feet per second allowing
them to reach the top in about 60
seconds 28,000 261 panels the number of
architectural glass panels on the Burj
Khalifa the pioneering glass provides
anti-glare solar and thermal protection
against Dubai’s intense Desert Sun 137
thousand litres the volume of water the
Burj Khalifa’s condensate collection
system accumulates each day that equates
to 20 Olympic swim pools
every year
eleven thousand eight hundred metric
tons the amount of ice needed to cool
the Burj Khalifa in devised blistering
heat that’s roughly 13,000 u.s. tons
all contained within an innovative
thermal storage system sixteen point
three million dollars the cost of the
Burj Khalifa’s most expensive apartment
until 2017 when a thirty two million
dollar apartment in the palm jumeirah is
completed 1.5 billion dollars the
estimated cost of the Burj Khalifa which
includes nearly twenty two million
man-hours and nearly 100 thousand metric
tons of concrete forty three thousand
dollars the cost of office space per
square meter within the Burj Khalifa
that’s about four thousand dollars per
square foot three times higher than New
York City’s average one hundred and
thirty five thousand dollars the cost of
an at the top sky ticket which will
grant you access to the Burj Khalifa’s
148 floor during prime hours Japan made
headlines recently when an ambitious
proposal was revealed for the world’s
first mile-high skyscraper called sky
Mile Tower the 1.2 billion dollar
building would dominate the tokyo
skyline at a height of 1600 meters five
thousand two hundred and forty nine feet