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Official opening of the World's tallest building
Some shots of the fireworks display and the inauguration of Burj Dubai/Khalifa taken by a friend of mine
1) Before the inauguration started... http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...D/IMG_4465.jpg 2) Initial fireworks http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...D/IMG_4470.jpg 3) Light show... http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...D/IMG_4480.jpg 4) This was soo cool... http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...D/IMG_4502.jpg |
Awesome. Do they have an observation area near the top for visitors? Get us some photos from there.
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Wow that probably looked amazing, how tall is it anyway?
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^ just read a quick line from yahoo that its about a half a mile high
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man i can only imagine what a sight that building is in person. you can probably see it from tens of miles away. i hear swimming pool on the 76th floor? lol
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It's been renamed from Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) to Burj Khalifa to honor the President of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed.
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Wow that's nice! I will have to go visit Dubai one of those days.
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Originally Posted by Black Betty
(Post 2835379)
Awesome. Do they have an observation area near the top for visitors? Get us some photos from there.
They're charging around 25 bux to go to the 124th floor and snap as many pix as you want and look through the goggles. I'll be going there very soon. Insane fact is, the tower can be seen from a 60 mile radius!! |
Originally Posted by ShyTown91
(Post 2835386)
man i can only imagine what a sight that building is in person. you can probably see it from tens of miles away. i hear swimming pool on the 76th floor? lol
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Originally Posted by G37Sam
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Talk about Restaurants, convenient stores, gyms you name it... It is technically possible to live in that building forever without ever having to leave it
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I didn't read the Wikipedia article, but I always did hear that they kept adding to the plans and saying "build taller!" while it was being built. Well, all it needs is a level of condos and/or apartments and it might qualify as an actual Arcology, an actual "city" (or at least building with all the services of a city including housing) that one would never have to leave if one didn't want to.
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^^rofl :D
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Originally Posted by Black Betty
(Post 2835379)
Awesome. Do they have an observation area near the top for visitors? Get us some photos from there.
The straight-down view is amazing. /I had to back away from the monitor when the camera view swung vertical. *shudder* //Not generally afraid of heights...but still |
Any of you guys seen this before?
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