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[[Image:Burj Dubai.jpg|left]]
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'''The Burj Dubai''' is a tower 555 metres (1,831.5 feet) tall. It surpasses ''[[Toronto]]'s [[CN Tower]]'' (553 metres - 1,824.9 feet) as the world's tallest structure, and is planned to reach over 800 meters. It also had exceeded ''[[Taiwan]]'s Taipei 101'' which is 508 metres (1,676.4 feet) tall. The building is to include private residences, resturants, shopping and offices.
'''The Burj Khalifa''' (formerly named the Burj Dubai) is a tower 828 m (2,717 ft) tall in the city of [[Dubai]] in the United Arab Emirates. It surpasses ''[[Toronto]]'s [[CN Tower]]'' (553 metres - 1,824.9 feet) as the world's tallest structure, and is planned to reach over 800 meters. It also had exceeded ''[[Taiwan]]'s Taipei 101'' which is 508 metres (1,676.4 feet) tall. The building is to include private residences, resturants, shopping and offices.
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The cost: $900 millions. It is own by Emaar Properties.
==The Building==
Groundbreaking began on September 21, 2004 and construction was officially finished on October 21, 2009; a time span of just over five years. In a surprise move, the tower was renamed the Burj Khalifa to honor Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; the president of the United Arab Emirates at it's opening ceremony.<ref>http://business.maktoob.com/20090000414838/Burj_Dubai_renamed_Burj_Khalifa_/Article.htm</ref>
==Use==
The building houses apartments, hotel rooms, high end hotel suites, mechanical operations, "corporate suites", and rooms for communication and broadcast operations, however there is no conventional AM or FM radio broadcasting at the tower.
==The housing bubble==
Due to the infamous housing bubble burst in Dubai in 2010, declining demand caused rents in the apartments to decline by 40%. There are 900 apartments in the tower, and approximately 825 were still empty at the time. By October of 2012, Emaar Properties reported that approximately 80% of the apartments were occupied and Dubai is managing a steady recovery.
==Cost==
The total cost of constructing the building is estimated to be a grand total of the equivalent of $1.5 billion [[Dollar (U.S.)|American dollars]].
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Frank Lloyd Wright]]
*[[Frank Lloyd Wright]]
*[[Architecture]]
*[[Architecture]]
==External Links==
[http://www.burjdubai.com/the-tower/structure.aspx]
== References ==
== References ==