The world’s tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome ...

As of 2025, the Burj Khalifa remains the world's tallest building at 828 meters, showcasing innovative design and ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Dubai loves breaking records. With its towering skyscrapers, ultra-luxurious hotels and outlandish opulence, this city on the Persian Gulf fueled by tourism and oil money ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire broke out early Monday morning at a 35-story high-rise building in Dubai near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. It wasn't immediately clear if there ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Dubai is planning the construction of a building taller than the world's tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, which also stands in the Gulf city state, Al Jazeera reports. Property development firm Emaar ...

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 ...

The Burj Khalifa, standing tall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is known all over the world as the tallest building ever made by humans. It’s not just tall it is truly massive as the building reaches ...

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 ...

The JEC Tower in Jeddah will be taller than Dubai's Burj Khalifa (R). JEC Tower: Saudi Arabia is building the world’s tallest skyscraper in Jeddah city which will dwarf even the iconic Burj Khalifa in ...