Some shots of the fireworks display and the inauguration of Burj Dubai/Khalifa taken by a friend of mine

1) Before the inauguration started...


2) Initial fireworks


3) Light show...


4) This was soo cool...

 

Awesome. Do they have an observation area near the top for visitors? Get us some photos from there.

 

Wow that probably looked amazing, how tall is it anyway?

 

Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

^ just read a quick line from yahoo that its about a half a mile high

 

man i can only imagine what a sight that building is in person. you can probably see it from tens of miles away. i hear swimming pool on the 76th floor? lol

 

It's been renamed from Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) to Burj Khalifa to honor the President of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed.

 

Wow that's nice! I will have to go visit Dubai one of those days.

 

I will wait till they crowd settles down, the amount of people that was there today was beyond what our brains could imagine. I didn't even bother getting close, just watched it on TV.

They're charging around 25 bux to go to the 124th floor and snap as many pix as you want and look through the goggles. I'll be going there very soon.

Insane fact is, the tower can be seen from a 60 mile radius!!

 

Talk about Restaurants, convenient stores, gyms you name it... It is technically possible to live in that building forever without ever having to leave it

 

Infiniti dealership somewhere in there??

 

I didn't read the Wikipedia article, but I always did hear that they kept adding to the plans and saying "build taller!" while it was being built. Well, all it needs is a level of condos and/or apartments and it might qualify as an actual Arcology, an actual "city" (or at least building with all the services of a city including housing) that one would never have to leave if one didn't want to.

 

^^rofl

 

YouTube - 828 m On the top of the Burj Khalifa's spire (aka Burj Dubai) video by Imre Solt , 31 December 2009


The straight-down view is amazing.
/I had to back away from the monitor when the camera view swung vertical. *shudder*
//Not generally afraid of heights...but still

 

Any of you guys seen this before?

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