I talked briefly in my last post about the burj dubai tower in Dubai. It really is a credit to Adrian Smith (the architect) who designed one of the most stunning and beautiful super tall high rise skyscrapers the world has ever seen. The tower was topped of earlier this year at 818 metres with a total floor area of 334 killometres. If that doesn’t impress you then the fact that the development cost over 4 billion pounds and holds 8 world records for everything from the highest free standing building to the worlds fastest elevators. 110,000 tonnes of concrete were used in the foundations of this behemoth alone.. I can’t wait for it to be finnished and to see it on Google Earth.

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