The World's Tallest Buiding is now open for Business

The world’s tallest building opened for business Monday. Next to Dubai’s business district stands the Burj Khalifa, whose 2,717 ft. spire reaches over 1,000 ft. higher than its closest competitor, Taipei 101.

The structure is named for Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates. About $1.5 billion was invested in the Burj Khalifa, with an additional $20 billion invested in the surrounding neighborhood.

At 162 floors, the Burj Khalifa is expected to accommodate 25,000 people at a time: 160 Armani hotel rooms, 1,100 apartments and hundreds of corporate office suites. The building’s 57 elevators rise and fall at 33 feet per second.



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The Burj Dubai, the physical expression of Dubai’s towering ambition, a modern Tower of Babel. It is a beautiful object, a remarkable testament to human ingenuity, engineering and megalomania. As Dubai’s economy totters and sways, it may turn out to be a monumental folly, the latest example of Man’s need to build ever upwards regardless of cost, need or sense.

There is a striking correlation between projects to build the world’s tallest building, and financial crises. The construction of the Empire State Building (381m) was conceived in the run-up to the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression; the Sears Tower in Chicago (442m), built in 1974, came with the oil crisis and stagflation in the US; the Petronas Towers (452m) in Kuala Lumpur in 1997 coincided with the Asian financial crisis.

The correlation between the highest buildings and the lowest economic moments would be eerie were its reasons not so obvious — excessive credit, overconfidence and the culture of ostentation in an overheated economy.


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