When was khalifa tower built

The admission tickets can be booked from here. The standard ticket for a visit to all three observation decks costs dirhams, approximately US dollars. For dusk times, it needs dirhams for a same visit. Note: There are more other options available, and the prices may subject to change, check the building's official website for more details and booking in advance on some third party sites will generally cost less.

Popular Culture :. In the film, for tracing the exchange of the code between the lady killer Moreau and two other men, Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise jumps out from a upper floor around m high to scale on the glass cladding using a pair of special gloves, the destination is a computer service room, in the meanwhile, one of gloves got out of order, which makes him dropped about 30 foot before he steady himself to continues climb up using one arm with the left glove, and after climbed to a level at height of m, he breaks the glass and enters the computer room.

Besides the film, in the reality, the French climber Alain Robert who dubbed 'spider-man' as he had scaled numerous skyscrapers before, scaled Burj Khalifa on March 28th , it took him 6 hours to reach the top tip while a large crowd watching from below.

American film Independence Day 2 : Burj Khalifa is used as a spear by alien to destroy London, it is seen in the film that Burj Khalifa soars out of the clouds in Dubai and ploughs to London, finally it crashes into the River Thames.

Information of Other Skyscrapers Around the World. Skip to content. Burj Khalifa looked up This page introduces some facts about the building and the related information. Burj Khalifa seen along with other towers in Downtown Dubai. Burj Khalifa at sunset is commonly known as the number of Burj Khalifa's floors, but a foot building couldn't have only floors even when the spire is removed right?

Burj Khalifa fireworks show. Adrian Smith, the Architect designed Burj Khalifa The tower is built on a shamrock-shaped footprint, making the tower seen like a letter 'Y' from above in the air, this shape derived from Hymenocallis, also known as desert lily, a local plant live in desert, the tower's cross section area reduces gradually as it rises.

Hymenocallis, a plant in Dubai which inspired the shape of footprint of Burj Khalifa Burj Khalifa seen from satellite, showing the Y-shape base and how it tapers gradually to the tip. Burj Khalifa The construction of Burj Khalifa was contracted by Samsung Construction, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, the group is best known for its electronic products and in respect of construction it had also constructed many famous buildings around the world including Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei Tower in Taipei.

Burj Khalifa under construction seen in April After that Burj Khalifa grew very fast, below is how it looked in February Burj Khalifa under construction in February As the building tapers into the sky, the construction became faster when the building built to higher floors.

Burj Khalifa under construction in October As of January , the tower had become an imposing supertall skyscraper that has more than one hundred floors built. Burj Khalifa under construction in January The tower surpassed Taipei to become world's tallest building in architectural height by July Burj Khalifa under construction by the end of June In less than a month the tower surpassed Sears Tower's antenna at m becoming the world's tallest building in any category, unofficially though.

Burj Khalifa seen in October , when it had become the tallest self standing man-made structure in the world Although the tower had already become the tallest building and tallest structure in the world, the height of Burj Khalifa was still substantially growing.

Burj Khalifa seen under construction Construction picture of Burj Khalifa Burj Khalifa under construction Burj Khalifa seen close to completion in The tower topped out in January at its full height of Outdoor terrace on Level Popular Culture : American film Mission: Impossible - The Ghost Protocol : In the film, for tracing the exchange of the code between the lady killer Moreau and two other men, Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise jumps out from a upper floor around m high to scale on the glass cladding using a pair of special gloves, the destination is a computer service room, in the meanwhile, one of gloves got out of order, which makes him dropped about 30 foot before he steady himself to continues climb up using one arm with the left glove, and after climbed to a level at height of m, he breaks the glass and enters the computer room.

Burj Khalifa seen falling into River Thames. This includes spires but does not include antennae, signage, flagpoles or other functional-technical equipment. This measurement is the most widely used and is used to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat rankings of the Tallest Buildings in the World. Highest occupied floor Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest continually occupied floor within the building.

Maintenance areas are not included. Height to tip Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building, irrespective of material or function of the highest element.

Thankfully, luggage storage is free. It was a bit awkward, but I had to store my leftover Pizza Hut in the luggage room. You can't really expect me to let that gooey deep dish go to waste. After dropping off the Hut, I got on the real queue.

There's a fair amount of security to go through. I'm sure it's much longer on a weekend or before sunset. There's a wall populated with photos tagged with Burj Khalifa on Instagram.

I thought I was almost through at this point. But no. After guards scan your ticket, it's time to go through a metal detector and an X-ray machine. Everyone was pushing to get to the front of the line. I don't understand this — we're all going to the same place, friends. After you go through security, a photographer takes a photo of you in front of a green screen, on which I can only assume the Burj Khalifa is later superimposed.

I can understand wanting a photo of yourself at the top of the tower, but who wants a green-screen portrait? The walk to get to the top of the tower is almost comically long. It starts here with a model of the Burj Khalifa. The model is surrounded by a touchscreen base. Placing your hand on the screen Then there's a hallway lined with moving images of Dubai at various points over the past or so years.

You ascend an escalator Then there is a I guess you would call it a poem? It's written from the perspective of the Burj Khalifa itself. I've honestly never been in a place that took itself so seriously. Then you are led to another hallway — seriously, it's never-ending — where screens show the Burj Khalifa at various stages of its construction.

I failed to get a picture of it, but once you pass through this hallway you are put into another queue where you watch a series of short documentaries from the Burj Khalifa's in-house "news channel" about the building of the tower, the virtual-reality experience created for it, and the filming of "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" at the tower. The last one was the only one that was entertaining.

Then, and only then, are you mentally prepared for the stupendous experience of riding the elevator to the top of the Burj. You are stuffed like sardines into the elevator, which shoots to the top. As you rise, an animation on the walls shows you soaring past other world monuments. The elevator is wicked fast, rising to the th floor in a minute. That makes it the third-fastest elevator in the world.

When you get out of the elevator, you enter a small circular hallway leading to the observatory outside. While the observatory is open-air, it doesn't wrap around the entire tower, reaching only about halfway.

The glass and bars make it difficult to take a decent photo.