People have long since learned to build tall buildings, many now live just above the clouds.How it all began?
highest house in the world."Home Inshurens»
In 1885, Chicago was built the world's first skyscraper "Home Inshurens."Now this may sound funny, but it was only ten floors.Building height is forty two meters.Designed house architect William LeBaron Jenny.His brainchild was not only the first high-rise, but also the first frame buildings.It is due to the frame of steel beams and curtain wall, managed to erect a building of such height.It is possible to later attach to the "Home Inshurens" two more floors.Twelve-skyscraper was demolished in 1931.In America, and in the rest of the world, began to build more tall buildings, and eventually there was a common category of "skyscraper" - the building in which more than 150 floors.
highest house in the world."Burj Khalifa »
passed a half-century (and in terms of history is not so much), and human ambition allowed to construct the building, whose height exceeded twenty times the height of the first skyscraper.In January 2010, in Dubai, the official opening of the skyscraper "Tower" Khalifa »(« Burj Khalifa »).It was originally planned to call it "Dubai Tower» («Burj Dubai»), but then decided to rename a huge skyscraper in honor of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan - President of the United Arab Emirates.Building height - 828 meters, it consists of 162 floors.Construction was carried out at a record pace, it began in 2004, and this week the workers managed to build one or two floors.Grand tall building construction at a cost of four billion dollars, despite the fact that we had to repeatedly alter the design documentation was completed in just five years.
information for comparison.The tallest building in the late nineteenth century - the famous German Cologne Cathedral - built more than six hundred years.Construction began in 1248 and ended in 1880.The cathedral was 157 meters.
Usually in such high skyscrapers are located hotels, shops and offices, but « Burj Khalifa" has done a thousand high-end residential apartments.The highest building in the world makes it possible to live "in the clouds", but for this it is necessary to spend exorbitant amount of money.The cost of one square meter there is 10 to 20 thousand dollars.
highest house in the world. «Mercury City Tower»
In 2013 in Moscow, completing the construction of a skyscraper, "Mercury City Tower."In total there will be 77 overground and 5 underground floors.Building height of almost 340 meters, so that the skyscraper has received the title of "The highest building in Europe."It will house restaurants, shopping and entertainment venues, offices, apartments and a penthouse with panoramic windows, a large underground parking.
in our capital is the longest home.In Moscow, near Welcome, outside of Rimsky-Korsakov, the house is located, the total length of which exceeds 1,000 meters.He did not immediately been so long in the years to house joined up new sections, so one building was given several email addresses.To work around the house around, you need to make a nearly hour-long walk.
