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Review of the Burj Khalifa Tower

This paper reviews the Burj Khalifa Mall which is the world’s tallest building located in Dubai. It further explores the various features as well as the reasons that make the mall the most visited place as opposed to other towers across the globe. Comparison and contrast of the Burj Towers with other remarkable tall towers all the over the world has also been highlighted in this piece of work.

The Burj Khalifa Tower is three times taller compared to Eiffel Tower and almost twice the empire state building as it stands at approximately 828 meters. Apart from being the tallest building in records, Burj Khalifa enjoys other world’s records and features like being the tower that hosts many stories, has the most occupied floor and has the tallest elevator that spans the longest distance of 140 levels in the shortest time possible. The top of the tower provides such a beautiful view of nearly a quarter of the Dubai something which is regarded as fundamental attraction factor for both national and international tourists.

The tower plays an important in both industrial and agricultural industry as it taps at least 15 million gallons of water annually. The harvested water is used in irrigation and cooling of systems in manufacturing industries. Also, the water collected is used to supply Dubai fountain system which is located next to Burj Khalifa Tower.

Those are some of the reasons that have made the mall popular compared to the other notable tall towers all over the world such as La Azteca building in Mexico and the high-rise tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The tower boasts having the highest number of floors in the world a record which was previously held by Willis tower with hundred and eight stories. Notably, the record Burj Khalifa Tower being the tallest will be soon be broken as a much taller building known as Jeddah Tower is currently undergoing construction in Saudi Arabia.