Burj Khalifa

Year

2010

Type

building

The tallest structure ever built, rising 828 meters above the desert floor in a spiralling Y-shaped plan inspired by the desert flower Hymenocallis. Designed by Adrian Smith while at SOM, its bundled-tube structural system, three lobes brac …

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