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Burj Kahlifa is a skyscraper( very tall building) is locatedin Dubai UAE united arab emites,

alsois the central parto f a developmnet known as Downtow Dubai( Dubai is the most
populus city cirty of UAE) . The building was originally named Burj Dubai but was renamed
in honour of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin
Zayed Al Nahyan;[6] Abu Dhabi and the UAE government lent Dubai money to pay its debts.
The building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest
building in the world.Is the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out
in 2009and true global icoon. An enginiering Marvel. It represent the haert and soul of
the city of Dubai.
Counstruction begin on Jenuary 2004 and complety on October 2009 and opened in 2010
And the building was desing by Adrian Smit, of skidmore, owings and merrill who also
design the Willis towel.
In fact Burj khalifa was desigin to be the center piece of the large-scale and mixed-use
development . The desetion to Built Burj khalifa was reportedly base on the goverment`s
decisión . as a result dubai borrow at leats 80millons for construction proyect .
Burj kalifa central core houses all vertical transportation with the exception of egress
stairs within each of the wings. Th building also features a clading system whichh is
designed to withstand Dubai`s temperature. And it has 57 evelaters and 8 mecanich stairs
and it consider the fasters in the Word because it`s able to climb 145 floors in one minute
and safaley in case of emergency and holds 5 tons.
At first Burj kahlifa was going to be called grollo tower with hight of 570 ms,the enoigh to
be the tallest building in the Word situed in Aunstrualia but after they desided to increase
the hifht of the buikting to 600 msts and located in Dubaid. But his designer desided to
increase more over the 700 mst, And now with total hight of 829.8 msers

The shape of the base of Burj Khalifa is base on the geometric shape of a flower known as
Hymecallis. And the base of the builinf has a core and 3 lateral section the protrude from
it. These wings or side section each rise to a different and make the building structre
narrower

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