Burj designers will sketch Godrej’s Gujarat township

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The hands that designed the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, will now be sketching homes for the Indian customer. None other than Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), one of the world’s largest architectural and engineering firms, has been roped in by Godrej Properties for the Rs 5,000-crore project in Gujarat.

Kone To Provide “World’s Fastest” Elevators For Saudi’s Kingdom Tower

Finnish lift maker Kone Corporation said that it has inked a deal with Jeddah Economic Company to provide elevators for Kingdom Tower, which is touted to become the world’s tallest tower once completed.

Burj Khalifa — Conquering the World’s Tallest Building

Putzmeister reached a world record vertical concrete pumping height of 1,988 feet during the construction of the world's tallest building.

Police question man over Burj Khalifa iPhone 7 drop test

The Dubai Police recently interrogated a man who posted a viral video shot in the emirate, showing an iPhone 7 being hurled from one of the top floors of...

Creative Licence

It started as a design concept. When Montreal-based gsmprjct was hired to conceive and construct the multimedia elements for the viewing platform of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, it seized on the idea of installing state-of-the-art LCD touchscreen telescopes. But there was a hitch: No such device existed.

New details revealed of Dubai’s latest world’s tallest 928-metre ‘The Tower’

The oval-shaped bud atop the 928-metre The Tower, the centrepiece of six-square-kilometre Dubai Creek Harbour development, will house ten observation decks, including The Pinnacle Room that will offer 360-degree views of the city and beyond.

Higher than Burj: Tallest tower in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Co has approved a plan to build the world's tallest building, the Saudi Gazette reported. The 275-floor Kingdom Tower will be 1.6km tall, twice the height of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper.

Watch a drone fly over the Burj Khalifa and Dubai

Team Blacksheep flew a drone all across—or more accurately, all over—Dubai to show you downtown Dubai, the Palm Island, the Burj Al Arab and of course, the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

Somebody dropped an iPhone 7 off the tallest building in the world

Someone has dropped an iPhone 7 off the tallest building in the world. We still don’t really know why the guys at TechRax decided to hold the ‘experiment’ but they seemed...

Thick skin

Dubai-based Alumco, one of the UAE’s largest architectural facade specialists, says the effects of the global economic slowdown finally filtered through to its services this year but, with a number of high profile projects completed in Saudi Arabia and several more under development, Alumco’s activities outside Dubai have kept the company buoyant.