Whats the new tallest building in the world?
In the latest pictures of Dubai’s skyline, one building looms over the rest. The dark structure almost seems as though it’s on a different scale — like an oversized toy that got mixed in with a matching set. At 156 stories and growing, the Burj Khalifa (formerly called Burj Dubai) is, in fact, on a different scale. It’s the new tallest building in the world and the new tallest structure in the world. On July 22, 2007, the Burj hit 1,680 feet, pushing ahead of Taiwan’s Taipei 101 by 13 feet. It then quickly surpassed Toronto’s 1,815 foot CN Tower, which held the title of world’s tallest freestanding structure for 31 years. At its grand opening in January 2010, the finished product had been renamed Burj Khalifa to honor the man who bailed the building out of debt, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi. And it stood 2,717 feet tall with roughly 160 stories. That’s taller than predicted. Speculators had forcasted
In the latest pictures of Dubai’s skyline, one building looms over the rest. The dark structure almost seems as though it’s on a different scale — like an oversized toy that got mixed in with a matching set. At 156 stories and growing, the Burj Khalifa (formerly called Burj Dubai) is, in fact, on a different scale. It’s the new tallest building in the world and the new tallest structure in the world. On July 22, 2007, the Burj hit 1,680 feet, pushing ahead of Taiwan’s Taipei 101 by 13 feet. It then quickly surpassed Toronto’s 1,815 foot CN Tower, which held the title of world’s tallest freestanding structure for 31 years. At its grand opening in January 2010, the finished product had been renamed Burj Khalifa to honor the man who bailed the building out of debt, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi. And it stood 2,717 feet tall with roughly 160 stories. That’s taller than predicted. Speculators had forcas
