Burj Khalifa Intro The future has met the present in the Burj Khalifa, which stands today as the tallest building ever built, standing at around 830 metres (2,700 ft) tall. From the top of the Burj Khalifa’s 160 floors, one can see a circumference distance of about 855 kilometres (550 miles). When compared, the highest observational deck of the Empire State Building in New York City, once the tallest building in the world, developed a circumferential view of about 320 km. The 460,000 square meter
The seven wonders of the world have a defined theories because of which those influential structures came into being. A regulatory forces that governed their architecture. What are the iconic buildings of this century which would serve as a wonders for the next generation. Iconic buildings are a definition of a city; a statement about its history, ambition or how it wants to be seen. A building is an icon when it is a popularly-recognized symbol of something larger than itself, Iconic structures
Telecommunications Telecommunication is the real face of the advances in Information Technology (IT). In fact, the overwhelming advances that humankind has seen in the last decades in IT (internet, telephone, television and radio broadcasting, satellite communication) are effects of the advance of Telecommunications (normally the word is used in plural because it encompasses different types of means of transmission). From the electrical telegraph of Samuel Morse (1837) to the transmission of voice
,(to top of spire): 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m/1,671 ft) (to top of antenna): 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously the Willis Tower – 527 m/1,729 ft), it is the tallest extant structure: 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m/2,063 ft), it is the tallest freestanding structure: 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m/1,815 ft), it is the building with most floors: 160 (previously Willis Tower – 108), it is the building with world's highest occupied