BURJ KHALIFA: The Highest Building In The World since 2010

DEVELOPMENT:

Burj Khalifa

Construction began on 6 January 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea. The tower's construction was done by the construction division of Al Ghurair Investment group.

CONCEPT;
Burj Khalifa was designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that would include 30,000 homes, nine hotels , 3 hectares of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare man-made Burj Khalifa Lake.

Burj Khalifa hotel interior

FEATURES;
1. The Dubai Fountain

Burj Khalifa model made of chocolate

Outside, WET Enterprises designed a fountain system at a cost of US$217 million. Illuminated by 6,600 lights and 50 coloured projectors, it is 275 m long and shoots water 150 m into the air, accompanied by a range of classical to contemporary world musics.

2. Observation deck
An outdoor observation deck, named At the Top, opened on 5 January 2010 on the 124th floor. At 452 m  it was the highest observation deck in the world and the highest outdoor observation deck in the world when it opened. Burj Khalifa opened the 148th floor SKY level at 555 m. The 124th floor observation deck also features the Tellscope electronic telescope, which allows visitors to view the surrounding landscape in real-time, and to view previously saved images such as those taken at different times of day or under different weather conditions.

BURJ KHALIFA PARK;
Burj Khalifa is surrounded by an 11 ha park designed by landscape architects SWA Group. The design of the park is also inspired by the core design concepts of Burj Khalifa which is based on the symmetries of the desert flower, Hymenocallis. The park has six water features, gardens, palm lined walkways, and flowering trees. At the centre of the park and the base of Burj Khalifa is the water room, which is a series of pools and water jet fountains. In addition the railing, benches and signs incorporate images of Burj Khalifa and the Hymenocallis flower.
The plants and the shrubbery will be watered by the buildings's condensation collection system that uses water from the cooling system. The system will provide 68,000,000 L annually. WET Enterprises, who also developed the Dubai Fountain, developed the park's six water features.

The popularity of Burj Khalifa is widespred acroos the world, so some movies used it as a shooting location. there is also a replica of the Burj Khalifa, made entirely from 4,200 kg of high quality Belgian chocolate was displayed on 30 November 2014 at the Dubai International Airport. The 13.5-metre (44.2 ft) tall structure is a Guinness record feat by master chocolatier Andrew Farrugia and is a part of the 43rd UAE National Day Celebration. The 3D model was made also.

The history of chocolate

Cocoa beans(main material in chocolate making)

-Chocolates, a sweet food that could be sweet or bitter. One of the sweetest food, 100% appropriate as a desert because it could be also served in a cold, hot or normally way. But, it have a looomg history to become one of the most popular food.

-Chocolates was 1st belongs to the natives that live at Mexico. By the 15th century, the Aztecs gained control of a large part of Mesoamerica and adopted cacao into their culture. The Aztecs were not able to grow cacao themselves, as their home in the Mexican highlands was unsuitable for it, so chocolate was a luxury imported into the empire. Those who lived in areas ruled by the Aztecs were required to offer cacao seeds in payment of the tax they deemed "tribute". Cocoa beans were often used as currency.

Other types of chocolate

When Christopher Columbus came to America (also known as "the new worlds") on 1492,the Europeans follow him in search for rare and useful items such as gold, herbs & food material and many more. The items that was founded at America was imported to Europe, Chocolates were one of the them.

-Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world, and a vast number of foodstuffs involving chocolate have been created. Cocoa is the main raw material in Chocolate making, that's why most chocolate maker company use cocoa to make their sweet or pure chocolate.  Pure, unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining chocolate with sugar.

Simple type of chocolate bar

-The word "chocolate" entered the English language from Spanish. The word "chocolatl" does not occur in central Mexican colonial sources, making this an unlikely derivation.

Chocolate cake

-Same as many other foods, people make many kinds of chocolate dishes. Such as: Chocolate ice cream, Hot chocolate, chocolate pudding, chocolate jam & many more dishes. However, most sweet chocolate dishes were mixed with dark chocolate to make more varieties. Dark chocolates and sweetened chocolate were the most common variety of chocolate.

The creation of sandwich

Common example of sanwich

-Sandwich, one of the most international food. But have you ever wondered how it was created?

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Ham and cheese sandwich

-The ancient sandwich making was 1st started from the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of old-fashioned soft matzah during Passover in the manner of a modern sandwich wrap made with flatbread. Flat breads of only slightly varying kinds have long been used to scoop or wrap small amounts of food en route from platter to mouth throughout Western Asia and northern Africa. From Morocco to Ethiopia to India, bread is baked in flat rounds, contrasting with the European loaf tradition.

-Initially perceived as food that men shared while gaming and drinking at night, the sandwich slowly began appearing in polite society as a late-night meal among the aristocracy. The sandwich's popularity in Spain and England increased dramatically during the 19th century, when the rise of industrial society and the working classes made fast, portable, and inexpensive meals essential.

Salami sanwich

-Sandwich means “bits of cold meat”. the modern day sandwich was made and  named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" so that he didn't need to ate a formal meal to interrupt his card game. Before being known as sandwiches, this food combination seems to simply have been known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese".

-Until today many sandwich kinds make by people to make the sandwiches more and more tastier and rich in taste. Some make sandwich by using chicken meat, olive beans, fried egg, fish meat, beef. However, sandwich are not only mix with meat or vegetable, some made it with jam and jellies and many more to enrich types of sandwich.

Recomended Movie: Night At The Museum Secret Of The Tomb

Larry

  In 1938, in Egypt a team of archaeologists are digging into a tomb to look for a valuable artifact. A young boy falls through a hole that leads his father and the others to what they came for - the tablet of Ahkmenrah. Several local men see the tablet and say that if the archaeologists remove it, then "the end will come".

  In the present day in New York City, Larry Daley is overseeing a nighttime event at the Museum of Natural History with Dr. McPhee in attendance. While Larry gathers the favorite exhibits, Ahkmenrah ask Larry to see the 'tablet' and told him that it started to corrode. Larry told him to just relax, however the effect of the corroding 'tablet' made the exhibits acting weird causing the exhibition to failed. Ahkmenrah told him that only his father know the secret about the 'tablet' so Larry, Nick, Ahkmenrah with the other companions traveled all the way to London to meet Ahkmenrah's father and save the museum exhibits. 

DR. Mcphee

Teddy Roosevelt

Merenkahre & Ahkmenrah

Jedediah & Octavius