At 2,722 feet from base to tip, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. When construction finished in 2010, it claimed the record from Taipei 101, a mixed-use building in Taipei, China, ...

I had a skydiver-boyfriend once who wanted to take up BASE jumping. There’s a reason why we’re not together anymore. Well, several reasons, really, but one was because he was crazy. About as cray-cray ...

Life Burj Khalifa Base Jump 360° Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet taking a giant leap from the pinnacle of the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa – and glide like birds though the air, displaying; bravery, skill ...

There are some structures that are so integral to the fabric of a city that they become representations of it. For Dubai, that landmark structure is the 828-metre tall Burj Khalifa, which can be seen ...

This is a walkthrough of those stages: the financing that made the project possible, the design logic that keeps it standing, and the construction tricks that let it rise higher than anything built ...

At Dubai's Burj Khalifa, sunset does not happen at the same time for everyone. The building's enormous height means people on higher floors can see the sun for a few minutes longer.

No development in engineering better embodies the modern world than the skyscraper. Born out of a messy conflux of aesthetic, economic, and structural needs, skyscrapers are a dominant fixture of ...