The Rise Tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, would be the tallest building in the world if completed, dwarfing Dubai's Burj ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai is reaching for the sky once again, with the developer of the world’s tallest building vowing Sunday to build an even taller tower bedecked with rotating balconies ...

Prepare to be astonished by the magnificence of Burj Khalifa in Dubai! As the tallest building in the world, this architectural wonder enchants with its awe-inspiring design and panoramic views.

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 ...

Dubai has emerged as a major tourist spot because of its lavish lifestyle and king-size experience. But Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is a major reason why tourists flock to the Middle ...

Only a month after its highly anticipated opening, the world’s tallest building – the 2,717-foot-high, $1.5-billion Burj Khalifa in Dubai – has closed to the public. Electrical problems are partly to ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper Monday in a blaze of fireworks, then added a final flourish: It renamed the half-mile-high tower for the head of neighboring ...

We've come a long way since the world's first skyscraper, the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, was built between 1884 and 1885. Since then, we've seen iconic buildings rise from ...

The Burj Dubai, or as it was renamed during its opening Monday, the Burj Khalifa, has been likened to the Tower of Babel, or in the words of Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, “a ...

Trapped 124 floors above the ground, a group of visitors stuck in an elevator of the massive Dubai skyscraper may have sparked the sudden closure of the world’s tallest building just a month after it ...

Dubai is reaching for the sky once again, with the developer of the world's tallest building vowing Sunday to build an even taller tower bedecked with rotating balconies and elevated landscaping ...