Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu”, from the album “Calling All Dawns” – used like a featured segment in the Dubai Fountain, the world’s largest drinking water function.
“Baba Yetu” could be heard on Christopher Tin’s debut album “Calling All Dawns”, a 12-song idea album featuring performances through the Soweto Gospel Choir, Sussan Deyhim, Anonymous 4, Dulce Pontes, Frederica von Stade, Lia, and also the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
“Baba Yetu” is also nicely recognized since the theme song to the video game Civilization IV, and has received hundreds of reside performances close to the globe from expert orchestras such as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia, as well as local school and church choirs.
The Dubai Fountain is produced by WET Style, the creators from the Bellagio Fountain in Las Vegas. It is situated at the base of the Burj Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the globe.
Mohamed Alabbar, who is the chairman of Emaar Properties, mentioned: “Sheikh Mohammed inspired us to construct Burj Dubai to be the world’s tallest building. When we initially planned Burj Khalifa, it was only a 90-story structure. On presenting the blueprint to His Highness, he asked us a simple question: ‘Why stop there?’ That question was the inspiration for us to construct the tallest tower in the world”.
The Burj Khalifa is confirmed as 828m high and is now the tallest building in the world. It is expect to remain to be the tallest for very long time in future. Most people also agreed that the surrounding area in this tower are Dubai most beautiful places for Dubai tourists.
The best beautiful building will have a greatest observation deck on 124th floor is open to the public for 30-minute intervals, offering visitors with magnificent panoramic views of the coast and also The World islands. It is reported that on a clear day Abu Dhabi and even Iran is visible. There are also a lot of commercial businesses and offices filling up all the vacant space of this beautiful building in the world.
The timing with the opening couldn’t have been better for Dubai. The world is gradually getting out from recession, and the new Burj Khalifa provides tourists an additional reason to enter into the shiny emirate. Regarding to genuine lifestyle in Dubai, the opening of the Burj Khalifa was spectacular display of fireworks in synchronization with the worlds biggest water fountain which has well introduce this tower to the world.
In March 2010, the first Armani Hotel is expected to open in the tower that going to occupy the lowest eight floors with suites on levels 38 and 39 offering an extra boost to Dubai’s tourism.
- Tallest building in the world at 828 meters, surpassing Taipei 101 in Taiwan (508m).
- Tallest man-made building in the world, surpass the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, USA (628.8m)
- Tallest free-standing building in the world, breaking the 31-year-old of CN Tower, (553.33m)
- Highest number of story in the world – over 160
- Highest occupied floor: level 160
- Highest outdoor observation deck: level 124
- World record for vertical concrete pumping – more than 600m
- Tallest service elevator in the world – 504m, taller than the height of Taipei 101 (448m ) and nearly one-and-a-half times that of the Empire State Creating in New York (381m)
- Record with the highest installation of aluminium and glass façade
- World’s highest swimming pool on level 76 (over 260m)
Professor Basil Al Bustani Chief Economic Advisor, Department of Economic Development said: “The opening of the Burj Khalifa which can said to be the nicest building in the world is a symbol of achievement even the region is still facing tough challenging of economic problems that overall is suffered by the world. This achievement has become a reality in spite of all the issues that affected the world’s economies. Therefore I think the Burj Khalifa is exceptional in both our Arab region and the world.”
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified statue, of much more than heroic size. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Man has always been daunted by exceptionally tall buildings (or structures), that’s the reason that more or less, all Seven Wonders of the World are essentially man-made structures and each of them has to do something with structural significance. Gigantic structures known as skyscraper are looked upon as a symbol of power, prosperity and pride for the city or the emperor. From the first skyscraper (Home Insurance Building, Chicago) to the latest jaw-dropingly tall Burj-Dubai, these building have continued to amaze the spectators and inspire other architects to dream of coming up with an even taller structure. The race continues, and we can’t really predict on how tall will be the ultimate skyscraper.
History:
We don’t know much about the very first construction in the human history or first man-made building for that matter, but we can safely assume (going by the human nature) that from the very first construction, man had this desire to build and posses the biggest or the tallest one. Apart from being a status emblem, skyscrapers also comes handy in the urban cities where land is scarce and the demand of residential and commercial building is high. Even though we find many examples of tall or exceptionally large buildings from the ancient times, it was actually the scarcity of land that prompted the construction of these concrete giants. The construction of skyscrapers kicked in from the Chicago city back in late nineties and the trend was followed by almost all major cities in the world.
Present & Future:
Now days, skyscrapers are looked upon as an average building in well developed cities unless they are exceptionally high or brilliantly designed. Hong Kong is said to have the most skyscrapers in the world, other cities with a considerable number of tall buildings include New York, Tokyo, Chicago, Sao Paulo (Brazil), Manhattan, Shanghai, Toronto, etc. The major break through in skyscraper history came when the old model, which was supported by steel frame, was replaced by frame-tube structure (and many other models) by Fazlur Khan, probably the most influential architect in the history of skyscrapers. Some of the worth mentioning skyscrapers of present and future are Burj Dubai, Sears Tower, Taipei 101, Empire State Building, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jin Mao Tower and Bank of China tower.
Even global economic facing a downturn, but Dubai does not change it pursue for “high” spirit, following the construction of the tallest buildings in the world – The Burj Dubai Tower, Dubai announced that it would build a commercial building which will embedded the world’s largest electronic billboards on it’s wall. The electronic board estimated about 100 meters tall. Upon completion, the advertising billboards are able to see even as far as 1.6 kilometers away.
It is reported that the building of this billboard is construct by a United Arab Emirates company. It comprised of 33-storey, use of broadcast advertising LED display. Designers are studying the design of electronic wall as they need to figure out how to make the billboards not blocking the natural light coming into the office.
Some people worry that if the billboard is selling underwear ads, may distract the car drivers and resulting in traffic accidents. But it is believed this kind of thinking is purely imaginary, as Dubai is an Islamic country, there are strict restrictions on the body expose.
Dubai is currently under construction so far the world’s highest, most spectacular musical fountain. The fountain is expected to be formally completed in 2009, the water jet will be as high as 490 feet (about 149 meters), even higher than a 50-storey high building, which can squirt up to 22,000 gallons at one time.
After completion, the fountain will become another landmark in Dubai landscape. Fountain is located on an artificial lake, from the artificial lake water is injected then squirt to sky high, after that falling into the lake again. The coverage of the fountain is equivalent to the size of two football fields. There are 6600 lights and sound system equipment install on this 180 acres artificial lake. In the melodious music, the lighting keep changing by following the squirt of fountain, and forming the musical fountain.
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Musical fountain is developed by the United Arab Emirates real estate developer giant companies-Aymard Real Estate Corporation. According to Aymard’s president, Mohammed – Ali – Arrabal, after the completion of the fountain, it is estimated that it will attract 10 million visitors at least a year from local and abroad to visit to Dubai. In today’s world the only place which able to compete with Dubai musical fountain is the musical fountain in Bellagio hotel, Las Vegas. Although Bellagio hotel claimed they have the world’s number one musical fountain, but the fact is musical fountain in Dubai is a quarter larger than Bellagio musical fountain. Arrabal claim that, “Dubai is not just a musical fountain tourist attractions, but also added the Dubai urban aesthetic effects. This is a great architectural wonders, and will become another tourist attraction in Dubai, in order to bring considerable Dubai tourism revenues. ”
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At present, Dubai has the world’s tallest building Burj Dubai Tower. In the 124-storey tower in Dubai, there is a specific sightseeing platform. Visitors can experience an unprecedented visual enjoyment at the platform. In addition, in the shopping mall which located in the center city in Dubai, there is a world’s largest aquarium, an Olympic-sized skating rink, an indoor world’s largest gold market, which are foreign tourists must dos.
Dubai is a rapid growing county in the United Arab Emirates area. There are many property and real estate projected get dealed everyday. More and more foreigners are moving to this vibrant area and the jobs demand in Dubai are very high. If you are interest or wonder what is Dubai all about, come visit this site and you will discover a lot about it.
