SOM Chicago opens new tower, Beijing's tallestChicago Tribune (blog)With the Burj Khalifa and Chicago's Trump Tower, the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has had quite a supertall skyscraper run lately. ...and more »
ArabianBusiness.comDepa Reports First-Half Loss After Burj Khalifa ClaimBusinessWeek... out the world's tallest tower in Dubai, posted a first-half loss after it set aside money to cover an interim claim related to the Burj Khalifa project. ...Dubai's Depa posts H1 net loss on outstanding claimArab Newsall 12 news articles »
World's Largest Clock to Begin Ticking in Saudi ArabiaVoice of America... world's second tallest building behind Dubai's Burj Khalifa. Saudi Arabia's state news agency says the tower, designed by German and Swiss engineers, ...Mecca makes time for the faithfulThe AgeSaudi to test giant clock in Mecca during RamadanThe Associated PressTwo Million Lights Illuminate Mecca's New Clock, Puts Big Ben to ShameOne News PageAFP -Watch Shop -DVICEall 399 news articles »
Eureka! Science NewsHun Sen unveils plan for world's second-tallest towerPhnom Penh PostThe world's tallest building is Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower, standing 828 metres. Dennis Poon, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, ...Cambodia plans Asia's tallest buildingBoston GlobeCambodia aims high with skyscraperNews24all 52 news articles »
Washington PostSee Lego models of famous buildings at National Building MuseumWashington PostIt's a copy of the Burj Khalifa, a brand-new skyscraper in Dubai that, at 2717 feet, holds the record as the tallest building in the world. ...and more »
New York Times (blog)Irrational Exuberance Comes HomeNew York Times (blog)Take the daring Burj Khalifa, a mixed-use skyscraper in Dubai designed by Adrian Smith (at the time an architect at Skidmore Owings & Merrill) and completed ...and more »
Riyadh's Icon-Clad PerspectivesHuffington Post (blog)And one that the architects of Riyadh's Kingdom Tower likely had in mind when they started sketching, probably the same year as Burj al Arab opened. ...
Emaar Sold One Commercial Building for 331.7 Million DirhamsBusinessWeekThe property sold is building Number 5 in the Emaar Square project near Burj Khalifa and houses the offices of HSBC Holdings Plc, The National reported ...Emaar Made $10 Million Loss From Hamptons Unit SaleBusinessWeekDubai Shares Rise Most in Two Weeks, Led by Emaar; Oil GainsBusinessWeekall 21 news articles »
GulfNewsShaikh Zayed Road: Oasis of architectureGulfNewsAt the other end today, stands the world's tallest tower the Burj Khalifa, completed and inaugurated just this year. During that time, the skyscrapers of ...and more »
'Tallest tower' deal set for EidNational... the 1.1km-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Six Construct, a Belgian company that helped to build the Burj Khalifa, and its Saudi partner, ...
The Burj Dubai: The Biggest God Damn Building In The World. I like tall buildings. I've been to the World Trade Center in New York before 9/11. I've been to the Sears Tower and John Hancock Building in Chicago and the CN Tower in ...
With the Burj Khalifa and Chicago's Trump Tower, the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has had quite a supertall skyscraper run lately. And guess what? The run ain't done. SOM just opened another supertall, this one called ...
“Turning off the golden glow that cascades down the 828-meter tower and the starry illuminations that punctuate it, the Burj Khalifa will make its presence felt for the first time in the planet's most emphatic campaign against climate ...
The 110 story Sears Tower is the tallest building in North America. Tannen Maury / Bloomberg News. Six Construct, a Belgian company that helped to build the Burj Khalifa, and its Saudi partner, El Seif Engineering Contracting, ...
This hotel is located on the first eight floors plus the 38th and 39th floor of the Burj Khalifa, which holds the distinction of being Dubai's tallest tower. It will have a total of 160 rooms and suites that will be furnished, ...
The Burj Dubai Tower is part of a 2 sq. km, $20 billion project in the center of Dubai which includes an entertainment complex, a man-made lake, and numerous parks and fountains. The tower will only be ready for occupancy sometime in ...
Discounting towers now under construction, it would be the second-tallest in the world, overtaking Taiwan's Taipei 101 tower at 509 metres. The world's tallest building is Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower, standing 828 metres. ...
At the opening ceremony, Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that the tower, previously known as the Burj Dubai would be named in honour of the President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, ...
The sheer height of the Burj tower (818 meters) and its needle-like shape, also brings another colossal tower to mind, the biblical Tower of Babel, said to have been built about the time of the “generations of Noah,” when the people ...
