Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Trip to Dubai: Burj Khalifa

The architecture in Dubai is amazing and the fact it has the tallest building in the world just puts the icing on the cake.
The Burj Khalifa stands 828m/2,717ft tall and has the fastest elevators with a speed of 64km/h, or 18m/s. The elevator ride its self was an amazement, like something straight out of charlie and the chocolate factory. Then stepping out to the view of Dubai was truly mind blowing.

It was also interesting to learn the background behind the design of the Burj Khalifa. The whole building was designed with organic influences and actual shape of the building is based on a six leaf orchid flower. Like the arabesque patterns, the design of the Burj Khalifa has been drawn up using shape and pattern.

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