Magic Wand of UAE |

Proudly towering up to the sky, topped with golden clouds, here i am Burj Khalifa
the world’s tallest, most beautiful and powerful icon of United Arab Emirates.
I call it the Magic wand of UAE

Tallest man-made structure / building ever made in the whole world 828 metres tall (2,717 feet) with most floors (160)
Has the highest & fastest elevators at speed of 64km/h (It would take just a minute to reach from ground level to top floor) There’s 57 lifts in the tower.
It has 49 office floors. & 1044 residential apartments with a total floor area of 334,000 square metres.
The tower’s peak electricity demand is estimated at 50MVA, equivalent to roughly 500,000 100-watt light bulbs.
It’s expected to use an average of 946,000 litres of water each day.
During peak cooling conditions, the tower will require around 12,500 tons of cooling,
equivalent to the cooling capacity of about 10,000 tons of melting ice.
The tower’s architect and engineer is Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (Chicago).
The main constructor is Emaar Properties, a joint venture by Korea’s Samsung C&T, Belgium’s Besix and UAE’s Arabtec.
Total cost estimated at US$1.5 billion.
The price for the offices spaces reached as high as US$4,000 per sq ft and residential spaces as high as US$3,500 per sq ft.

11 thoughts on “Magic Wand of UAE”

Joan Manel Zamora on May 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM said:

muy buena foto , me gusta.

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Firasz on April 29, 2013 at 4:43 PM said:

A real skyscraper that feels like fighting with clouds. The clouds in contact become ‘light’ clouds and it is really piercing into the sky!
Rare shot man

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- Henry G L on April 29, 2013 at 4:45 PM said:
  
  lucky enough to be on a right place at right time, a long waiting for one of my friend beautifully paid off….
mostlymonochrome on March 23, 2013 at 9:21 PM said:

Nice shot.

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Ed on March 14, 2013 at 5:03 PM said:

Stunning shot!! 🙂

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mostraum on March 11, 2013 at 1:43 PM said:

Very impressive building, and I like the way it pierce the clouds. Very nice light in the shot.

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joshi daniel on March 10, 2013 at 7:57 PM said:

looks so dramatic 🙂

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dibear on March 10, 2013 at 7:27 PM said:

Breathtaking shot Henry. 🙂

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Lori Skoog on March 10, 2013 at 7:03 PM said:

Another spectacular photograph. The building looks like a jewel.

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pleisbilongtumi on March 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM said:

Hi Henry, I have heard about this building before but I just see the picture through this post. Fantastic and breathtaking. Thank you very much for sharing the photo as well as the brief information on that.

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magreenlee on March 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM said:

Wow! I decided about ten years ago that I.Do.Not.Like.Cities but you’ve made country girl want to visit Dubai, now.

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