Burj Dubai has been called the tallest in the world before the end of the construction. It surpassed such constructions as the Petronas Towers (452 meters), the Sears Towers (442 meters), and the Taipei 101 (509 meters).
Burj Dubai is the highest ever man made structure (the previous record belonged to the Radio mast in Konstantynów) thus it is in the four main categories recognized by “The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat” (CTBUH), which juxtaposes and categorizes the highes buildings.
The main categories recognized by CTBUH are:
- Height to architectural top of the building, highest occupied floor , to tip of spire and the. top of the roof
Taipei 101 (509 meters)
The entire structure contains 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. At 89 floor there is the internal observation room, the outdoor observation deck is located at 91 floor.
In 2004 its external observation deck was the second highest in the world, it was surpassed only by the Shanghai World Financial Center.
In 2004 the Taipei 101 owned 3 of the 4 titles of tallest buildings in the world:
1.building with the highest structural point,
2.to the of the roof
3.the highest occupied floor.
Petronas Towers (452 meters)With about 88 4-meter above the ground floors and 4 underground floors, the Petronas Towers is the tallest building in category highest to architectural top of the building.
Both towers have 76 elevators, 29 two-level elevators and 10 escalators are to transport people. The two towers at a height of 41 and 42 floors, which is at an altitude of 170 meters are connected by an external bridge 58,5 meters long.
7000 people worked in the construction of towers. 160 000 m³ of concrete, 77 000 m³ stainless steel were use to build the towers.
Sears Tower (443 meters)Sears Tower is a 443 meter high skyscraper and contains 110 floors. It has two television aerials 84 meters high each.
76,000 tons of steel were used to construct the skyscraper, this is sufficient to produce 52 000 vehicles. Installed telephone cables are about 80 000 kilometers long.Building has 104 lifts and 18 escalators. Sears Tower is covered in black colored aluminum and has more than 16 100 windows. 1.5 million tourists visit the Sears Tower every year. At a height of 103 floor there is a observation deck
Jin Mao Tower (421 meters)The building was completed 28.8.1998 year – “lucky date” because eight is a lucky number for Chinese.
It is the tallest building in China and fifth of the largest in the world.
It was constructed to be resistant to strong winds in Shanghai, reaching up to 200 kilometers per hour.
Jin Mao Building has 88 floors. The tower is a parking lot for 993 places, offices occupy floors from 3 to 50. From 51 floor to the top a five-star Grand Hyatt Hotel has 555 rooms.
Shun Hing Square (384 meters)
Shun Hing is a complex containing a 69 floors where only offices are located and 35 floor residential building. The most popular building in Shenzhen has 69 floors and 34 elevators.
Shun Hing is the tallest building made of steel in China, the tallest building in the great metropolis of Hong Kong, the 10th of the tallest buildings in the world.
In 1997 Shun Hing Square was the tallest building in China and Asia.
Questions to discuss:
1.Do you know any more tall buildings around the Word?
2.Find some more buildings where Spiderman climb on.
3.Do you like Big buldings?
4.If you have a choice, you would live in those big buildings or some small one?
source:
http://www.pudelekbiznesu.eu/2010/01/burj-dubai-najwyzszy-budynek-swiata/
http://timberlux.pl/najwyzsze-budynki-swiata-taipei-101/
http://lucrecia.webpark.pl/petronas_towers.html
http://www.pinger.pl/szukaj/po_tagu/p/5/?t=Chicago
http://openbuildings.com/buildings/jin-mao-building-profile-6650
There is also an highest and biggest hotel ever, placed in Dubai - Burj Al Arab "Arab Building". So far the one which received 7 stars. It has 321 m height and it's an iconic structure whose shape is like the sail of a ship.
ReplyDeleteSee: http://www.jumeirah.com/en/Hotels-and-Resorts/Destinations/Dubai/Burj-Al-Arab/
It's just amazing. The story is when developer has already finished to install Air Condition, they've started to think about turning it on. That process took few months to be implemented because of the 180 m height atrium. When they turned on A/C on the top of atrium observed clouds formation (inside the building) and after few moments on the upper floors started to rain.
Luxury means that there're only bedroom suites. 202 suites on 60 floors. The smallest one is 168m^2 and the biggest 780m^2.
Personally I prefer small buildings. But if I were living in a skyscraper, it would be on the last floor.
I really like such buildings and would love to live in one, too bad we have so few of them in Poland.
ReplyDeleteYes, I heard and write about it in my presentation about WTC memorial. One of the new WTC Towers - Freedom Tower will have 541,32 meters;)
ReplyDeleteI like "Big buldings". I like to look at them only, I don;t want to live in such high buldings. Unless on the top floor where I can make barbecue
Really nice presentation, I like such things. I am impressed what a man can build, and how many effort must be put to build so high buildings. It would be good to see such building live - not mentioning to get to the top floor of it and admire beautiful view.
ReplyDeleteOnce I watched a programme on Discovery Channel about huge constructions - there was a reportage about building which was going to be built in Shanghai. Unofrtunalety I can not remember how high it would be, but I do remember that it was estimated to accommodate around 250k people (such idea was because there is lack of ground in Shanghai and a lot of people). It was really interesting programme but it was just a project and I do not know if it is still developed.
Nice presentation but I even saw similar but not the same article in the magazine "21st century". It is a pity that in Poland we don't have tall buildings, which we can be proud of. Finally, the higher the building is, than it was more difficult to build.
ReplyDeleteIf I have a choice, I would live in small one for sure. I hate high buildings, I feel uncomfortable inside.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pity that in Poland we don't have tall buildings, which we can be proud of???
I am not sure if it's really a big deal. Is it a real thing to be proud? I don't think so. We have a different things but maybe we are not able to give credit to it.
It is a really nice presentation.:)