DUBAI, United Arab EmiratesDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai has renamed its new skyscraper, the tallest in the world, the Burj Khalifa, state news agency WAM reported, in a surprise move apparently ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – It will soon be possible to watch the sun rise over Dubai from the world's tallest building. The Burj Khalifa announced Thursday it is selling tickets on the United Arab ...

Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Burj Dubai is over 2,625-feet tall and has more than 160 stores, the most of any building in the world. Besides an observation ...

We've come a long way since the world's first skyscraper, the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, was built between 1884 and 1885. Since then, we've seen iconic buildings rise from ...

No development in engineering better embodies the modern world than the skyscraper. Born out of a messy conflux of aesthetic, economic, and structural needs, skyscrapers are a dominant fixture of ...

Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper Monday, and in a surprise move renamed the gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of neighboring Abu Dhabi – the oil-rich ...

The Burj Dubai, or as it was renamed during its opening Monday, the Burj Khalifa, has been likened to the Tower of Babel, or in the words of Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, “a ...

Explore the construction and history of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the world. This video delves ...

Building is renamed Burj Khalifa after Abu Dhabi's ruler. DUBAI Jan. 4, 2010 — -- The Burj Dubai, the tower that redefined the scope of the term "skyscraper," opened today, five years after ...

Trapped 124 floors above the ground, a group of visitors stuck in an elevator of the massive Dubai skyscraper may have sparked the sudden closure of the world’s tallest building just a month after it ...

Sky-high expectations are set for the forthcoming “Rise Tower” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which builders plan to have surpass ...

Architect Adrian Smith, who designed the building while at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, attended the opening. Smith left SOM in 2006 to start his own firm, Adrian Smith+Gordon ...