Did You know these lesser known facts about the World’s Tallest Building – Burj Khalifa?

We’ve been to places like the world’s largest pumpkin festival, the world’s northernmost city, and the world’s largest wine barrel, to name a few. So it should come as no surprise that visiting the Burj Khalifa’s observation deck was also on our bucket list. The Burj Khalifa is not just the world’s tallest structure, but it also holds several other world records. Here are 28 lesser-known facts about the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest man-made marvel. Just remember to reserve your Burj Khalifa tickets in advance.

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1. The Dubai Tour is incomplete without a Burj Khalifa tour – visiting the world’s tallest building, standing at over 828 metres. It’s three times the height of the Eiffel Tower and twice the height of New York’s Empire State Building!
2. On top of that, it is the world’s tallest freestanding structure. The CN Tower previously held this record.
3. The Burj Khalifa also holds the record for having the most floors in the world, at 160.
4. If you enjoy heights, your Burj Khalifa tour will make you happy to learn that the Burj Khalifa has the highest residential flat in the world, at 385 metres!
5. How about dining with a view? On level 122 of the Burj Kh   alifa, you may dine while looking out over the city skyline from a height of 441 metres at At.mosphere, the world’s tallest restaurant. Naturally, the menu features high-end fare like as wagyu beef, oysters, and caviar.
6. You wouldn’t want to take the stairs all the way up, would you? Fortunately, the Burj Khalifa also includes the world’s tallest elevator, which can climb 504 metres in a single trip at a speed of 60 kilometres per hour.
7. Let’s come to the real reason of booking a Burj Khalifa tour: the world’s highest outdoor observation deck, located on level 148, from where you can see Dubai from a height of 555 metres!
8. As a world-record-breaking structure, it’s no wonder that the Burj Khalifa has been the site of numerous world-record-breaking feats! Let’s start with the biggest building climb, which was completed by Alain Robert aka French Spiderman on the Dubai gigantic tower in just over 6 hours — he did it alone, with no help!
9. What about the highest building base jump? It could only happen on the world’s tallest building! Professional French jumpers named Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen performed it on April 21, 2014. They jumped from the pinnacle at 828 metres, the highest point of the Burj Khalifa.
10. Construction began in 2004 and continued until 2010.
11. The structure required 330,000 cubic metres of concrete, the equivalent of 100,000 elephants.
12. If you calculate the amount of aluminium required to build the Burj Khalifa it will come almost equivalent to the combined weight of 5 Airbus A380 planes together.
13. During construction, a plethora of reinforced steel bars were utilised that if all of it were laid out side by side, it would stretch one fifth of the way around the world.
14. While on Burj Khalifa tour, you might be pleased to see the Burj Khalifa’s façade is made up of 26,000 glass panels that were completely hand-cut.
15. Sustainability was prioritised during construction: the outer cladding was silver coated to improve insulation, and solar panels were installed to heat up to 140,000 gallons of water each day. The air conditioning system’s condensation is used to water the plants.
16. The Burj Khalifa’s design was inspired by traditional Islamic architecture as well as the spider lily, a prominent desert flower in the UAE. If you look at the tower from above, you can notice the similarity!
17. The Burj Khalifa ticket includes the access to world’s second Armani Hotel, following the one in Milan. Giorgio wanted guests to feel as if they were entering his home, hence the hotel has no reception.
18. The building is filled of particularly commissioned paintings, which art aficionados will appreciate. Two examples include the shifting oval forms sculpture by Egyptian-born artist Karim Rashid near the corporate entryway and the ‘World Voices’ piece in the resident’s lobby. The latter was created by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa and comprises suspended cymbals that make noise when they are struck by water drops.
19. In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise scaled the Burj.
20. The building’s original name was Burj Dubai, but it was renamed to Burj Khalifa to honour Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Khalifa.
21. The Dubai Fountain, which is spread in the area covering two football fields, is located near the Burj Khalifa building.
22. Dubai tour packages includes traditional abra boats that are used to sail around the Dubai Fountain.
23. The popular light and sound show was developed by the same designers who built the Bellagio Hotel Lake’s fountains. The Dubai Fountain is acclaimed to have the largest in-built dancing fountain show in the world!
24. The temperature at the top of the Burj Khalifa is around 15°C cooler than that of the ground level.
25. It takes 3 months time for the cleaning guys to clean the windows from top to bottom, after completing the first round it’s time to repeat the process throughout the year!
26. On clear days, the Burj Khalifa’s pinnacle may be seen from up to 95 kilometres distant!
27. The Burj Khalifa launched around 10,000 fireworks to commemorate its opening in 2010.
28. The Burj Khalifa will most likely lose its title of “highest skyscraper in the world” in the near future. The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah is scheduled to open in 2021 and will be over 1000 metres tall!