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Close ✕Burj Khalifa
A mixed-use tower in Dubai, 828 m tall to the tip of its spire with about 163 habitable floors, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and opened on 4 January 2010.
25.2, 55.3 · approximate · construction from 2004; opened 4 January 2010
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- constrained by Load path — Above a few hundred metres the governing load is lateral, not vertical: the wing setbacks were tuned in the wind tunnel to break up organised vortex shedding rather than for appearance.
- depends on The safety elevator — A tower of over 160 occupied floors is inhabitable only through vertical transport, and lift shafts and their machinery are among the largest constraints on a supertall plan.
- uses Reinforced concrete — The buttressed core and wings are high-strength reinforced concrete to roughly level 156, above which a structural steel spire continues.
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