Within a three-week period, Adrian Smith sketched out the original designs that would eventually become the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. In the early 2000s, he was approached ...
It is roughly three times the height of Paris's Eiffel Tower. Architect Adrian Smith designed the neo-futurist Burj Khalifa, made of reinforced concrete and clad in vertical glass fins ...
The Burj Khalifa stands at an astonishing height of 828 meters (2,716.5 feet), dominating the Dubai skyline. It is three ...
THE world’s first tower over a kilometre high finally has a completion date after a $1.2billion splurge and a string of ...
The Burj Khalifa project was initially entrusted to the American architectural firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), under the direction of Adrian Smith. Inspired by the elegant shape of the ...
Construction is expected to take around 42 months with a completion date in the first half of 2028 so the Burj Khalifa has a while longer to enjoy being the top dog. The Saudi project has been ...