Located in downtown Dubai, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. It has over 160 floors and is 2717 feet high. This building is truly a work of art, the unique design incorporates both cultural and historical elements particular to the region. The design of this building was actually influenced by a flower called Hymenocallis., like the flower, the building has a triple lobe footprint. The three lobe footprint makes up the elements arranged around a central core of the building. The cross section of the tower gets smaller and smaller as the height increases. This tallest building in the world will also housed more than 1000 pieces of art, including the work of Jaume Plensa. So not only is this building itself a wonderful piece of art, it will also have an artistic interior for tourists to admire.
That building is monstrous!! I think it's really cool too how they made it similar to a flower. Seems complicated and I couldn't ever do it. haha
ReplyDeleteThere is also a really cool building/hotel or something like that in Dubai that has a tennis court on the top. Isn't very fenced in or anything and it's very famous in the tennis world (I'm a big tennis player). I know all of the big-time pros have played on it, but I absolutely never would, scary!
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