DUBAI: Dubai will open the world's tallest skyscraper today
(Monday), boasting new limits in design and construction,
hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes
afflicting the Gulf emirate.
The 160-floor tower, containing 330,000 cubic meters (11.55 million cubic feet) of concrete and 31,400 tonnes of steel, can be seen from as far as 95 kilometers (59 miles) away.
Burj Dubai contains 57 lifts, which will whisk people to 1,044 apartments and 49 floors of office space, as well as a hotel bearing the Giorgio Armani logo.
Construction, which began in 2004, is estimated to have cost USD 1 billion (EUR 694.7 million).
The skyscraper is the centerpiece of a USD 20-billion new shopping district, Downtown Burj Dubai, which includes 30,000 apartments and the Dubai Mall, which says its space for 1,200 shops makes it the world's largest indoor shopping centre.
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