At 94 floors, expect a mix of uses within the building. The Tower 1 design includes incremental setbacks near the top to help match the shorter second tower without dwarfing its existence.
The taller twin tower of the Changsha IFS complex meant to attract high-end financial institutions offers visitors to China a Wong Tung & Partners design featuring a rectangle form with glass and metal. Honorable mention: The Changsha IFS Tower T1 in Changsha, China is also 1,483 feet tall. Few but the Petronas towers have that feature today. That future will involve connecting tall buildings at height, he argues, so that people in large buildings can cross from one to another without going all the way down to the ground and up again. It not only gives the structure its iconic look, but it also “speaks to the future of tall buildings” and urban development, Safarik says. It was slated to open in 2017 and soar to 3,281 feet-a full kilometer-but the completion is now in limbo, stalled by “ Saudi political intrigue and COVID shutdowns.” About one-third of the building is complete, but there are currently no plans to restart construction.Ī two-story skybridge connects these twin towers at the 41st and 42nd floors. The same designer of the Burj Khalifa, Adrian Smith, has drawn up an even more ambitious project, the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. “One easy way physically to do that, in a relative sense, is with a skyscraper.”
“It’s a recognition that they want to project their image out into the global scene,” says Daniel Safarik of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) located at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The race upward has accelerated in the last couple decades, as governments and citizens have pulled together the means for erecting record-breaking tall buildings, particularly in emerging economies in East Asia and the Middle East. But these are just a few of the smart ways the Burj Khalifa succeeded in rising to its record-setting height the building soars more than 700 feet over its nearest competitor.
An innovative, tri-pedal design, along with projecting edges to cut through the wind like the front of a boat, afford the building greater stability.
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