Burj Khalifa tower or Burj Dubai is the world’s tallest building

Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft). The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. Leader of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan helped struggling Burj Dubai by giving amount of $10bn – £6.13bn.The thanks came in the form of a naming ceremony, Dubai’s ruler renamed the previously-known Burj Dubai the Burj Khalifa. The needle-shaped skyscraper which stands more than 800 metres tall and can be seen from 95 kilometres away.

The structure, whose final height was revealed yesterday to be 828m, is far taller than the previous record holder, Taipei 101 and brings records galore to the UAE. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum led the official opening. It has eight restaurants, a spa, a luxury chocolate shop and florists as well as an Armani galleria.