The tower also beats the 31-year-old record of CN Tower, which at 553.33 metres (1,815.5 ft) had been the worlds tallest free-standing structure on land since 1976. Burj Khalifa employs a ...

Shanghai Tower reaches 632 meters, making it the tallest building in China. This twisting skyscraper has 128 floors, housing offices, hotels, and retail spaces The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower in ...

Not unlike the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Toronto’s CN Tower is a globally renowned landmark. The towering skyscraper held the title of tallest free-standing structure ...

Currently laying claim to the world's tallest building (the Burj Khalifa, at 2,717 feet), the city in 2020 will reputedly have a new tower that surpasses the height of even the Burj.

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 ...

Company Chairman Mohamed Alabbar said the new observation tower would be "a notch" taller than the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa. Just how much taller he wouldn't say.

The Burj Khalifa has a record-breaking 163 floors, according to Guinness World Records. It takes 2,909 stairs to get to level 160, and ladders are used for the last three floors, as described in a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai is reaching for the sky once again, with the developer of the world’s tallest building vowing Sunday to build an even taller tower bedecked with rotating ...

Emaar Properties, the developer behind Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, plans to build a $1 billion tower that will be “a notch taller” than the iconic structure, breaking its own world record.

Company Chairman Mohamed Alabbar said the new observation tower would be “a notch” taller than the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa. Just how much taller he wouldn’t say.