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

Current records
Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m (1,671 ft))
Tallest structure ever built: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m (2,121 ft))
Tallest extant structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m (2,063 ft))
Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m (1,815 ft))
Building with most floors: 160 (previously both 1 and 2 World Trade Center – 110)[25][4]
World's highest elevator installation[26]
World's fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)[26] (previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)[27] (previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m (1,474 ft))
Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 606 m (1,988 ft)[27] (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant – 532 m (1,745 ft)[28])
The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space[29]
Highest outdoor observation deck in the world[30]
Elevator with the longest travel distance in the world
Tallest service elevator in the world
World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 m (1,680 ft)[14]

Wow!

Now for some shots up top :tup:

That building is totally useless, but awesome at the same time. I hope to visit one day.

awesome pics! I have really enjoyed my visits to Dubai. I'm switching back to a smaller plane now, so I fear I won't be back for a while.

I read somewhere that because of the design of the building, the top 30 or so floors are tiny (and useless).

The pictures make it look so nice. I personally thought it looked very awkward and out of place though. I didn't see it 100% complete, but it was almost done...

Oh you should see it now!

They have those beam projectors keeping that place lit just so nice!

Sam, do you have any distance shots (night or day)?

There you go!

Not sure I can get any better pix, that thing won't fit in a pic without having a wide lens and a stand lol

So being here everyone enjoys seeing pictures of this building and such, but what do people there think of it?

That thing has businesses as one would expect, but don't people have like, apartments in there as well?

Well so far, it's just wow. Wherever your drive in Dubai you can spot it from many miles away. Every single night in the week, the area around it is jammed with people just snapping pix. No ever thought it will come through, especially with the crisis and the deep sh!t Dubai was in.

There are apartments, offices, restaurants and an Armani hotel in that thing! You can read all about that place here: Visit the Burj Khalifa -- The Tallest Building in the World

Just look at the facts & figures lol

Not really, but the sh!t hole got a little shallower :p

I think we can sympathize :D

Haha sounds reasonable :p

Abu Dhabi Govt had to help Dubai out with billions (no numbers were released) but the amount was large enough basically to have Dubai rename that Skyscraper from Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa (Ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the country)

And that's a lot!

lol. politics ftl.

I would love to see this building in person. I have a thing for architecture and this just blows my mind. I probably will never be over in that corner of the world in my life, though. :(

Not with that attitude. :stirthepot:

Why not? It's not like we're on the moon

I'm just a little white boy from Philly... I've been over to that corner of the world quite a bit. Never say never.

lol. shhhhh, keep it low profile.. :bowrofl:to Abu Dhabi