The Oz-like Burj Khalifa in Dubai officially opened today, succeeding Taipei 101 as the world’s tallest building. There is no disputing its preposterous height: At 169 stories, or 2,717 feet, the $1.5 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smith and colleagues, including Bill Baker, a structural engineering partner at SOM, took the meeting and traveled from Chicago to ...

The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is slated to surpass the height of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the ...

Burj Khalifa rises above Dubai as a layered vertical city, combining offices, residences, hotel spaces and public viewing areas within a single tower. Its architectural height reaches 828 m (2,717 ft) ...

The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai boasts several world records. In addition to being the world's tallest building, the massive structure also holds records for tallest elevator in a building, most ...

If you think everything is bigger in Texas, you’ve clearly never paid a visit to Dubai. The ultra-modern city prides itself on going big with everything it does. In addition to being the largest and ...

India, March 1 -- A video circulating online shows an explosion followed by thick black smoke rising near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, as Iran launched retaliatory attacks in ...

In the past twenty years, architecture and structural engineering has progressed so steeply that soaring skyscrapers have now become a staple feature in many of the world’s largest and wealthiest ...

In Dubai, experimental architecture firm ZNera Space has proposed a conceptual design featuring a massive five-story circular structure wrapped around the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa ...