Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building
Burj Khalifa, el edificio más alto del mundo
- Date
- 2004-2010 · confidence high
- Place
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Credited to
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Adrian Smith, Bill Baker); developer Emaar
- Field
- Tools
What it is
An 828 m tower opened in 2010, with a reinforced-concrete buttressed-core structure in a Y plan that resists wind and reduces its effect on the tower. It has been the world's tallest building since then.
It has been the world's tallest building since 2010; it may be surpassed by the Jeddah Tower, whose construction has been halted several times. The tower uses concrete, with a steel spire.
What it led to
- concrete pumped to more than 600 m and new elevator systems
- projected towers of over 1 km (Jeddah Tower)
- a model of urban development in the Gulf