Princess Tower

The Princess Tower is a skyscraper in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).

The building is 414 meters high and has 101 floors ( six more underground). Was built the Tower of Tameer. The construction began in 2005, the completion was originally scheduled for 2009 and later moved to July 2012. By March 2011, the 101 stories were built in the shell, in January 2012, the crown was built so that the final height was reached. This roof structure is built in the shell of steel, while the remaining structure consists of a reinforced concrete structure. In July 2012, the building was opened on schedule. At present ( 2014) is the tower making it the second tallest building in Dubai, after the meter exactly twice as high Burj Khalifa ( 828 meters). Since topping out in January 2012, the Princess Tower is the tallest residential building in the world.

The tower stands in the first row on Jumeirah Beach on the eastern end of the Dubai Marina, overlooking the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah and the Burj al Arab.

It is home to between one and eleven residential units per floor, 763 units total; at full occupancy can approximately 3,000 people live here. Most apartments have one or more balconies. There is a pool, fitness center, sauna, a nursery, an internal parking garage, retail and boutiques on the ground floor, and a game center in one of the upper floors. The total floor space in the building is slightly more than 171,000 square meters. In the core of the building operate 13 elevators that reach speeds of six meters per second.