Adirai Guys watching in The tallest building in the world Burj Dubai 2010, celebration opening

Dubai on Monday officially inaugurated the centerpiece of its decade-long construction boom, with the surprise revelation that the world-beating 168-story skyscraper -- seen by some as a symbol of the city's economic excess -- was even bigger than previously thought.

In a glitzy firework-lit ceremony, the city-state's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum unveiled a plaque commemorating the event and also announced that the $1.5 billion structure has a new name: the Burj Khalifa.

Named after Khalifa Bin Zayed, the president of the United Arab Emirates -- and ruler of Abu Dhabi, which recently bailed out debt-ridden Dubai to the tune of $10 billion -- the tower was officially recorded as 828 meters tall, adding 10 meters on to previous height claims.

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[MrAlix12]

SUBHAN_ALLAH

[d789b]

Wow Dubai is like a split image of year 3000

[adelle0001]

nice building!

[Bariudol]

@MrKetamagold Arab Emirates its an ally of the U.S.A. its the occidental hand in the middle east. Im not from U.S.A. But, lets be reallistic, if people in middle east keep killing each others giving the occidental world an excuse to keep invading, trust me, they will.

[Bariudol]

@MrKetamagold LOL

[kobiljaglavaramic]

@engineer2007uae man i agree with u this is amazing...nowhere city like dubai exist it is magnificent display of wealth..this is good ruler of country ..he is giving to his people something good...

[guapo100100]

si creo q es una ciudad de banidad como la torre de babel mira la pelicula muda de los años 20s METROPOLIS ayi narra una ciudad del pecado antes del fin del mundo

[guapo100100]

ver trailer de lapelicula de los años 20s METROPOLIS miren como es parecida esta ecena

[soufianDEMOS]

Nice construction.

[becsditmars9]

future



[MrKetamagold]

middel-east comeback thy will dominate the world aigen

[yunaas101]

@gidget1983 was sodom and gommorah inhabited by semetic like arabs and jews maybe history is repeating itself