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Burj Khalifa Tower Opens in Dubai
With a spectacular fireworks show, the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa tower has its opening ceremony in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The 828 m tall tower is named after the president of the UAE and ruler of emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan.
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January 8th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Its a magnificent tower.Concrats engeneers
January 8th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
The building just looks wrong. Unlike Burj-al-Arab it has no real visual appeal. Unless you are at the right angle it really looks a mess. A monument to folly.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:15 am
We have tourism company I need regular tickets for my guests who come from all over the world.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Just come back again from Dubai.The Burj Khalifa is quite fine, not sure why QaidJohar cannot see any appeal….anyway, we are all entitled to our opinions. For us, the pre-booking of tickets was no big deal, and we reaaly do recommend Dubai visitors to spend the time and money. The observation platform views are out of this world, the Dubai Mall is like many other shopping malls in the area, but find time to watch the dancing waters at dusk.
October 10th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Very beautiful and wonderful working from engineering side
November 20th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
so……………great
October 27th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
indeed dubai has the ability to efford such type of buildings as dubai is very stable ( if not now) second the rulers of UAE are sincere to the govt, because they loved their country. not like us as pakistani i feel shame to see uae stability vs pakistan. uae structure of work is 100 years forward than us.