You know what its like, you finally decide to buy a car, and you choose say a Yellow one, up to that point you havent seen many Yellow ones, but as soon as you place your order every other car you see is a Yellow one!
Well ever since you moved to Abu Dhabi we never really saw much in the newspapers about the UAE, a bit now and then but nothing very much.
Now however you cant pick up a paper or magazine without reading about whats happening out there. In todays Paper there's a full double page spread about the 160 floor building, the Burj Dubai, and featured an ariel view of the building and surrounding countryside stretching far out towards the Persian Gulf.
It gave a few facts as well, apart from its height 2,200 meters, it went on to say that it has a system of pipes to collect condensation from the windows and is estimated to collect around 15 million gallons of water a year equivalent to 20 Olympic size swimming pools, the water will be pumped into the towers irrigation system to water the landscape areas;
It has cost around £2 billion so far, and used 22 million man hours to build; it has double decker lifts that travel at 40 miles per hour carring 48 people, the first 37 floors will house the worlds first Armani Hotel, there will be 700 apartments with a swimming pool for residents situated on the roof of the 78th floor tower (no doubt filled with the collected condensation) But unlike Yellow cars there will only be one Burj Dubai.
Well ever since you moved to Abu Dhabi we never really saw much in the newspapers about the UAE, a bit now and then but nothing very much.
Now however you cant pick up a paper or magazine without reading about whats happening out there. In todays Paper there's a full double page spread about the 160 floor building, the Burj Dubai, and featured an ariel view of the building and surrounding countryside stretching far out towards the Persian Gulf.
It gave a few facts as well, apart from its height 2,200 meters, it went on to say that it has a system of pipes to collect condensation from the windows and is estimated to collect around 15 million gallons of water a year equivalent to 20 Olympic size swimming pools, the water will be pumped into the towers irrigation system to water the landscape areas;
It has cost around £2 billion so far, and used 22 million man hours to build; it has double decker lifts that travel at 40 miles per hour carring 48 people, the first 37 floors will house the worlds first Armani Hotel, there will be 700 apartments with a swimming pool for residents situated on the roof of the 78th floor tower (no doubt filled with the collected condensation) But unlike Yellow cars there will only be one Burj Dubai.
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