The Burj Dubai by Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Renamed the day of his inauguration as Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building has been open to the public eye and media in a spectacular ceremony. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), it has taken five years in its construction and its budget has exceeded $ 1,500 million. There are 828 meters tall, 160 floors of residential and almost all apartments and hotels are already sold. And despite the economic crisis has also reached the UAE real estate sector, there is challenging the Burj Dubai, Burj now Khalifa.

More than 40,000 photographs of the building are hung on Flickr, and is just one example of the great impact it has had the launch of this new global architectural reference. We have chosen some of them and show them to you below: