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Member Offices: Dubai
Emaar Properties PJSC, a Dubai-based Public Joint Stock Company listed on the Dubai Financial Market, is a global property developer and provider of premier lifestyles. Emaar has been shaping the landscapes and lives in the Emirate since the company’s inception in 1997.
The company specializes in creating value-added, master-planned communities that meet the full spectrum of lifestyle needs. A highlight of Emaar’s approach to developing integrated lifestyle destinations is Downtown Dubai, home of Burj Khalifa.
While continuing to actively pursue expansion in its core business of innovative, high quality real estate development, Emaar has diversified into related business lines to further build value for its shareholders. Emaar’s focused expansion and diversification strategy sees it firmly positioned to take global center-stage as a multinational and diversified business group.
Developer; Financial Industry; Owner (Buildings, Land)
Membership Level
Gold
Member Since
2009
Member Offices
Dubai
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Name |
Status
Completed Architecturally Topped Out Structurally Topped Out Under Construction On Hold Never Completed Proposed Vision Demolished Competition Entry Canceled Proposed Renovation Under Renovation Renovated Under Demolition |
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828 m / 2,717 ft |
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2 |
828 m / 2,717 ft |
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3 |
425 m / 1,394 ft |
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4 |
392.4 m / 1,287 ft |
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5 |
370 m / 1,214 ft |
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6 |
356 m / 1,168 ft |
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7 |
331.8 m / 1,089 ft |
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8 |
302.2 m / 991 ft |
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9 |
301 m / 988 ft |
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10 |
288 m / 945 ft |
Award of Excellence: Address Beach Resort
Best Tall Building 300-399 meters 2021
Award of Excellence: Façade Access Equipment
Innovation Award 2015
Global Icon Award 2010
Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa 2010
CTBUH Awards Jury, 2011
CTBUH Awards Structural Engineering Jury, 2020
CTBUH Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker, 2018
Since their earliest form, tall buildings have stood as technological marvels, reflecting the latest advancements in materials, methodologies, and tools. These two technologies continue to...
Beginning in the late 19th century, construction of skyscrapers spread throughout Chicago, New York City, and then the world as demand of space in buildings...
Emaar Properties’ Creek Horizon residential project at Dubai Creek Harbour has reached ground level. The two-tower project is part of the Dubai Creek Harbour master-planned development,...
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2010 |
828 m / 2,717 ft |
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828 m / 2,717 ft |
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445 m / 1,460 ft |
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2017 |
425 m / 1,394 ft |
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2012 |
392 m / 1,287 ft |
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6 |
2017 |
370 m / 1,214 ft |
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7 |
2021 |
356 m / 1,168 ft |
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8 |
2019 |
332 m / 1,089 ft |
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9 |
2008 |
302 m / 991 ft |
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10 |
- |
302 m / 989 ft |
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11 |
2020 |
301 m / 988 ft |
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12 |
2021 |
288 m / 945 ft |
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12 |
2021 |
288 m / 945 ft |
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14 |
2011 |
280 m / 919 ft |
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15 |
2018 |
280 m / 918 ft |
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15 |
2018 |
280 m / 918 ft |
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17 |
2020 |
280 m / 918 ft |
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18 |
- |
276 m / 905 ft |
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19 |
2019 |
264 m / 867 ft |
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20 |
2021 |
260 m / 853 ft |
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21 |
- |
259 m / 849 ft |
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22 |
2018 |
255 m / 835 ft |
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23 |
- |
246 m / 805 ft |
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24 |
2019 |
238 m / 782 ft |
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25 |
2019 |
236 m / 773 ft |
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26 |
2021 |
230 m / 755 ft |
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27 |
2021 |
230 m / 754 ft |
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28 |
2020 |
229 m / 753 ft |
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29 |
- |
214 m / 703 ft |
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30 |
2011 |
210 m / 690 ft |
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30 |
2005 |
210 m / 690 ft |
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32 |
2006 |
210 m / 689 ft |
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33 |
2006 |
207 m / 679 ft |
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34 |
2020 |
207 m / 679 ft |
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34 |
2020 |
207 m / 679 ft |
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36 |
2020 |
200 m / 656 ft |
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37 |
2020 |
198 m / 650 ft |
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37 |
2020 |
198 m / 650 ft |
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39 |
2008 |
192 m / 629 ft |
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40 |
2006 |
190 m / 623 ft |
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41 |
2006 |
187 m / 614 ft |
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42 |
2013 |
185 m / 607 ft |
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43 |
2013 |
185 m / 607 ft |
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44 |
2003 |
185 m / 607 ft |
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44 |
2003 |
185 m / 607 ft |
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46 |
2020 |
183 m / 600 ft |
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47 |
2006 |
183 m / 600 ft |
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48 |
2012 |
179 m / 588 ft |
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49 |
2007 |
177 m / 581 ft |
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49 |
2007 |
177 m / 581 ft |
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49 |
2007 |
177 m / 581 ft |
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52 |
2008 |
174 m / 571 ft |
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53 |
2007 |
171 m / 561 ft |
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54 |
2010 |
169 m / 553 ft |
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55 |
2007 |
161 m / 528 ft |
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55 |
2007 |
161 m / 528 ft |
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57 |
2007 |
158 m / 518 ft |
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58 |
2008 |
158 m / 518 ft |
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59 |
2017 |
157 m / 515 ft |
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60 |
2007 |
151 m / 495 ft |
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60 |
2007 |
151 m / 495 ft |
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60 |
2007 |
151 m / 495 ft |
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60 |
2007 |
151 m / 495 ft |
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64 |
2020 |
150 m / 492 ft |
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65 |
2007 |
149 m / 488 ft |
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66 |
- |
146 m / 480 ft |
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67 |
2006 |
145 m / 476 ft |
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68 |
2008 |
145 m / 475 ft |
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68 |
2008 |
145 m / 475 ft |
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70 |
2017 |
142 m / 466 ft |
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71 |
2010 |
141 m / 463 ft |
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72 |
2007 |
140 m / 459 ft |
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73 |
2007 |
139 m / 456 ft |
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74 |
2003 |
138 m / 453 ft |
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75 |
2007 |
136 m / 446 ft |
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76 |
2007 |
136 m / 446 ft |
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77 |
2009 |
134 m / 440 ft |
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77 |
2009 |
134 m / 440 ft |
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79 |
2007 |
134 m / 440 ft |
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80 |
2009 |
133 m / 438 ft |
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80 |
2009 |
133 m / 438 ft |
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80 |
2009 |
133 m / 438 ft |
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83 |
2007 |
133 m / 436 ft |
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83 |
2007 |
133 m / 436 ft |
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83 |
2007 |
133 m / 436 ft |
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83 |
2007 |
133 m / 436 ft |
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83 |
2007 |
133 m / 436 ft |
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88 |
2007 |
130 m / 425 ft |
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89 |
2007 |
127 m / 415 ft |
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89 |
2007 |
127 m / 415 ft |
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91 |
2003 |
124 m / 407 ft |
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92 |
2007 |
123 m / 404 ft |
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93 |
2007 |
122 m / 400 ft |
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94 |
2007 |
120 m / 394 ft |
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94 |
2007 |
120 m / 394 ft |
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96 |
2007 |
115 m / 377 ft |
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97 |
2010 |
115 m / 376 ft |
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97 |
2010 |
115 m / 376 ft |
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99 |
2007 |
114 m / 373 ft |
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100 |
2007 |
111 m / 363 ft |
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100 |
2007 |
111 m / 363 ft |
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102 |
2007 |
104 m / 342 ft |
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103 |
2007 |
103 m / 337 ft |
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104 |
2017 |
98 m / 322 ft |
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105 |
2004 |
98 m / 322 ft |
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106 |
2006 |
85 m / 279 ft |
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107 |
2004 |
85 m / 279 ft |
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108 |
2005 |
76 m / 249 ft |
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109 |
2017 |
70 m / 230 ft |
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110 |
2017 |
70 m / 228 ft |
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111 |
2017 |
62 m / 204 ft |
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150 m+ Buildings
300 m+ Buildings
Average Building Age*
11 Years
Most Common Function*
Residential, 118 Buildings
Most Common Material*
Concrete, 138 Buildings
* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database.
*Based on 155 Completed & Under Construction Buildings
NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.
NOTE: Gross-to-Net Height is defined as architectural height minus height of highest occupied floor. Therefore, the Gross-to-Net Height is only calculated for buildings that have both the architectural height and the highest occupied floor height recorded.
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16 October 2016 | Shenzhen
Abrar Sheriff of Turner International is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Abrar discusses the planning and construction process for supertall...
12 November 2015 | Chicago
Nicholas Billotti, Chairman, Turner International LLC, discusses the contruction industry with Chris Bentley, during the 2015 CTBUH Awards Symposium at the Illinois Institute of Technology....
26 October 2015 | New York City
Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2015 CTBUH New York Conference at the Grand Hyatt...
06 November 2014 | Chicago
Peter Irwin, one of the founding partners of Rowan Williams Davies and Irwin Inc. (RWDI), has led wind engineering on many of the world’s tallest...
16 September 2014 | Shanghai
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16 September 2014 | Shanghai
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16 September 2014 | Shanghai
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07 November 2013 | Chicago
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07 November 2013 | Chicago
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11 June 2013 | London
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19 September 2012 | Shanghai
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19 September 2012 | Shanghai
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19 September 2012 | Shanghai
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03 November 2011 | Chicago
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10 October 2011 | Seoul
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21 October 2010 | Chicago
K. J. Kim of Samsung is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2010 CTBUH Awards Symposium at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. K. J....
21 October 2010 | Chicago
The 9th Annual Awards Ceremony & Dinner was held in Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Crown Hall, on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, Chicago....
21 October 2010 | Chicago
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05 February 2010 | Mumbai
With the completion of the Burj Dubai, one is left to question: how much higher can we go? Undoubtedly, the lessons learned during the design...
05 February 2010 | Mumbai
This presentation identifies the past code requirements of the International Building Code and the Building Construction and Safety Code for the protection of elevators. These...
03 February 2010 | Mumbai
High rise buildings present opportunities for passive and active sustainable strategies that are not so readily available to their less tall counterparts. This presentation demonstrates...
23 October 2009 | Chicago
H.E. Mohamed Ali Alabbar of Emaar Properties is interviewed by Jeff Herzer during the 2009 CTBUH Chicago Conference at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Alabbar...
23 October 2009 | Chicago
The Session S5 speaker panel consisting of: His Excellency Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties PJSC; Eric Kuhne, Founding Principal, Eric Kuhne Associates; and Mark...
22 October 2009 | Chicago
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04 March 2008 | Dubai
HE Mohamad Ali Alabbar of Emaar discussed the many planning phases which took place in order to see the Burj Dubai realized at the CTBUH...
04 March 2008 | Dubai
Adrian Smith, founding partner of Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill, discussed the design process of Burj Dubai with the audience of the CTBUH 8th World...
04 March 2008 | Dubai
William Baker, SOM, talked about the structural engineering of Burj Dubai at the CTUH 8th Wrold Congress in Dubai. He mentioned that the goal of...
04 March 2008 | Dubai
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung, discussed the construction planning of the Burj Dubai Project at the CTBUH 8th World Congress in Dubai. The presentation also briefly presented...
04 March 2008 | Dubai
Jon Evenson & Aaron Vanney, Rolf Jensen & Associates, presented the Crisis Response Plan and Life Safety enhancements developed for Burj Dubai at the CTBUH...
04 March 2008 | Dubai
Lee Herzog from Lerch Bates, discussed the design of façade access equipment with the advent of supertall towers at the CTBUH 8th World Congress in...
04 March 2008 | Dubai
Clyde Baker and Tony Keifer, AECOM, highlighted the advantages of having a peer reviewer involved in the foundation design from the start of the project...
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25 June 2020
Sae Hwang Oh, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Beginning in the late 19th century, construction of skyscrapers spread throughout Chicago, New York City, and then the world as demand of space in buildings...
20 March 2020
CTBUH Research
This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the...
20 March 2020
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In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...
30 January 2020
CTBUH Research
In 2019, 126 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This was a 13.7 percent decrease from 146 in 2018. The total number...
12 December 2019
CTBUH Research
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...
28 October 2019
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As international design teams participated in the development of high-rise structures around the world, many of the concepts of fire-safe design first introduced in the...
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29 July 2019
Since humans first began constructing tall buildings, history has been cluttered with claims of all manner of “highest” records. In this study, we examine those...
31 January 2019
CTBUH Research
In 2018, 143 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is a slight decrease from 2017’s record-breaking total of 147, and it...
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12 December 2018
CTBUH Research
The astronomical growth in tall building construction observed over the past decade continued in 2018, though the total number of completed buildings of 200 meters’...
20 October 2018
CTBUH Research
The Middle East region is hosting its first CTBUH International Conference since 2008. In that year, there were 119 completed buildings of 150 meters or...
20 October 2018
Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Emaar Properties
In 2008, CTBUH held its Eighth World Congress in Dubai, at which time the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, was still under construction. His...
20 October 2018
Elena M. Generalova & Viktor P. Generalov, Samara State Technical University
This study discusses the current typologies of high-rise housing prevalent in Dubai. The uniqueness, trends and prospects of Dubai tall, residential development are analyzed. The...
20 October 2018
CTBUH 2018 Conference Speakers
As we approach the new normality of cities housing 10 million or more inhabitants, those best positioned for the future are evolving along polycentric, multi-nodal...
01 September 2018
Kyoung Sun Moon, Yale University School of Architecture
Tall buildings which began from about 40 m tall office towers in the late 19th century have evolved into mixed-use megatall towers over 800 m....
30 July 2018
CTBUH Research
As tall buildings continue to be built in seismically-active and cyclone-prone areas, the need to augment the structures of these buildings with dynamic modification devices...
30 April 2018
Grzegorz Sypek, SMAY Group
Recent, tragic high-rise fires have underscored a fundamental issue: the lack of protected escape routes in tall buildings. As we build a greater volume of...
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05 February 2018
This 2017 Tall Building Year in Review / Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis report shows that more buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater...
01 February 2018
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In 2017, 144 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is the fourth record-breaking year in a row, and it brings the...
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This paper is intended to introduce the upcoming CTBUH technical guide titled “The Space Between,” which investigates the importance of publicly accessible spaces surrounding tall...
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28 April 2016
Phil Barry, CWB Fire Safety Consultants Ltd; Simon Lay, Olsson Fire & Risk UK
A series of high-profile fires in tall buildings in the Middle East has raised concerns about standards for fire protection in exterior cladding on these...
26 October 2015
Keith Brooks, Julio Maggi, Derek Roy & Bryony Day, ARCADIS
Tall building construction can benefit from a programmatic approach. By looking at the overall development as a whole program of works, identifying the deliverables required...
26 October 2015
Pierre Marcout, Prisme Entertainment Inc & Prisme International
Dubai is a city that emerged in only a decade. Though facing successive challenges it has built an attractive reputation around the world. Criticized and...
24 August 2015
CTBUH Research
Perhaps no element of a tall building is more closely related to the pure pleasure of standing high in the sky and taking in the...
31 December 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
06 November 2014
Christopher Michaelson, University of St. Thomas
An iconic skyscraper has aesthetic significance that may have meaning for other aspects of human experience – serving, for example, as an expression of cultural...
14 November 2013
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Twenty years ago, the Middle East contained only one skyscraper over 150 meters in height. It is now estimated that by the end of 2015...
31 December 2012
Kevin Brass, Antony Wood & Marty Carver, CTBUH
For the first time in six years the number of tall buildings completed annually around the world declined as the effects of the global financial...
19 September 2012
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
The paper traces the evolution of Mr. Smith’s career as a designer of supertall buildings, the Jin Mao Tower (1999) to Kingdom Tower, to be...
19 September 2012
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This paper will discuss the evolution of fire safety concepts in the recent generation of high rise buildings starting with “early” 1990’s designs in China...
19 September 2012
Fred Durie, Emaar Properties
Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is more than simply an icon for fast-growing Dubai. Emaar Properties created the world’s most dramatic example of an...
01 March 2012
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung C&T
New generation of tall and complex buildings systems are now introduced that are reflective of the latest development in materials, design, sustainability, construction, and IT...
27 January 2012
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Paul Beitler, Beitler Real Estate Services LLC
In 1990, only 11 buildings in the world could be counted as a “supertall” (defined as a building over 300 meters tall), and all but...
18 January 2012
Nathaniel Hollister & Antony Wood, CTBUH
Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world’s first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over...
13 January 2012
As the world’s tallestbuilding, the Burj Khalifasets the standard for whatarchitecture and designshould be. At 828 meters,the building houses the highest swimming pool, mosque and...
31 December 2011
Nathaniel Hollister & Antony Wood, CTBUH
The annual story is becoming a familiar one: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now 2011 have each sequentially broke the record for the most 200...
01 May 2011
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung C&T
Historically, tall building design and construction relied solely on minimum building code requirements. While many research and monitoring programs have been implemented, these programs are...
13 April 2011
CTBUH Research
Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and...
31 December 2010
CTBUH Research
In a year dominated by news coverage of the new “World’s Tallest Building” – Burj Khalifa, Dubai – one may be surprised to learn that,...
13 November 2010
CTBUH Research
Includes records of the tallest buildings/structures according to function and structural material, the highest spaces according to function, and some lesser-known titles such as the...
01 November 2010
Stefan Krummeck, Terry Farrell & Partners
The prevailing skyline of the world's developed and developing cities demonstrates an ever-increasing prevalence of tall buildings forming a new urban model. This paper examines...
01 February 2010
Ali Sherif S. Rizk, Dar Al-Handasah Consultants
During the last 12 years the Structural Engineering Department at Dar Al-Handasah has designed 45 mixed-use tall buildings in different Arab countries. The designed towers...
31 December 2008
CTBUH Research
Against the backdrop of global economic crisis, 2008 witnessed the most successful year of skyscraper construction to date, with more skyscrapers constructed globally within a...
12 June 2008
CTBUH Research
Over time, the average height of the 100 tallest buildings in the world has been steadily increasing. However, by 2010, this average height will have...
03 March 2008
Clyde N. Baker, Jr., Tony A. Kiefer, Steven W. Nicoson & Khaldoun Fahoum, STS Consultants, Ltd.
This paper presents the authors’ views based on experiences on the role of peer review in the cost effective foundation design of very tall buildings....
03 March 2008
Lee Herzog, Lerch Bates Inc.
With the advent of supertall towers, and in some cases, articulating architectural features, the designing of façade access equipment has necessarily become increasingly complex. However,...
03 March 2008
Jon M. Evenson & Aaron F. Vanney, RJA
This paper will review the Crisis Response Plan and Life Safety enhancements that are currently being developed to assist the Burj Dubai Management Team in...
03 March 2008
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Kyung Jun Kim & Jae Ho Kim, Samsung C&T
The focus of this paper will be on the construction planning of the Burj Dubai tower, this paper will briefly present an overview of the...
03 March 2008
William F. Baker, D. Stanton Korista & Lawrence C. Novak, SOM
The goal of the Burj Dubai Tower is not simply to be the world’s highest building; it’s to embody the world’s highest aspirations.
03 March 2008
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
This paper discusses the process of the Burj Dubai's design, offering insights into the refinement and development of the design in response to programmatic requirements,...
03 March 2008
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
This paper discusses the process of the Burj Dubai's design, offering insights into the refinement and development of the design in response to programmatic requirements,...
01 November 2007
Peter A. Weismantle & Luke Leung, SOM
The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges related to stack effect faced by the Burj Dubai design team and to describe the...
23 October 2007
Peter A. Weismantle, Gregory L. Smith & Mohamed Sheriff, SOM
Beyond the aesthetics of the architectural design, the realization of Burj Dubai is very much a technical design effort. Every system in the Tower must...
16 October 2005
Peter Irwin, RWDI
The Burj Dubai tower will be the world’s tallest building by a wide margin when completed. Wind is the dominant lateral load and thus governed...
10 October 2004
William F. Baker, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
In this paper, the process of shaping the 2000 ft tower, Burj Dubai, in order to mitigate wind effects and assist in resisting loads is...
25 June 2020
Sae Hwang Oh, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Beginning in the late 19th century, construction of skyscrapers spread throughout Chicago, New York City, and then the world as demand of space in buildings...
20 March 2020
CTBUH Research
This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the...
20 March 2020
CTBUH Research
In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...
30 January 2020
CTBUH Research
In 2019, 126 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This was a 13.7 percent decrease from 146 in 2018. The total number...
12 December 2019
CTBUH Research
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...
28 October 2019
Peter Weismantle, AS+GG; James Antell, Telgian Engineering & Consulting
As international design teams participated in the development of high-rise structures around the world, many of the concepts of fire-safe design first introduced in the...
29 July 2019
Since humans first began constructing tall buildings, history has been cluttered with claims of all manner of “highest” records. In this study, we examine those...
31 January 2019
CTBUH Research
In 2018, 143 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is a slight decrease from 2017’s record-breaking total of 147, and it...
12 December 2018
CTBUH Research
The astronomical growth in tall building construction observed over the past decade continued in 2018, though the total number of completed buildings of 200 meters’...
20 October 2018
CTBUH Research
The Middle East region is hosting its first CTBUH International Conference since 2008. In that year, there were 119 completed buildings of 150 meters or...
20 October 2018
Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Emaar Properties
In 2008, CTBUH held its Eighth World Congress in Dubai, at which time the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, was still under construction. His...
20 October 2018
Elena M. Generalova & Viktor P. Generalov, Samara State Technical University
This study discusses the current typologies of high-rise housing prevalent in Dubai. The uniqueness, trends and prospects of Dubai tall, residential development are analyzed. The...
20 October 2018
CTBUH 2018 Conference Speakers
As we approach the new normality of cities housing 10 million or more inhabitants, those best positioned for the future are evolving along polycentric, multi-nodal...
01 September 2018
Kyoung Sun Moon, Yale University School of Architecture
Tall buildings which began from about 40 m tall office towers in the late 19th century have evolved into mixed-use megatall towers over 800 m....
30 July 2018
CTBUH Research
As tall buildings continue to be built in seismically-active and cyclone-prone areas, the need to augment the structures of these buildings with dynamic modification devices...
30 April 2018
Grzegorz Sypek, SMAY Group
Recent, tragic high-rise fires have underscored a fundamental issue: the lack of protected escape routes in tall buildings. As we build a greater volume of...
05 February 2018
This 2017 Tall Building Year in Review / Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis report shows that more buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater...
01 February 2018
CTBUH Staff, CTBUH
In 2017, 144 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is the fourth record-breaking year in a row, and it brings the...
17 October 2016
James Parakh, City of Toronto Planning Division
This paper is intended to introduce the upcoming CTBUH technical guide titled “The Space Between,” which investigates the importance of publicly accessible spaces surrounding tall...
28 April 2016
Phil Barry, CWB Fire Safety Consultants Ltd; Simon Lay, Olsson Fire & Risk UK
A series of high-profile fires in tall buildings in the Middle East has raised concerns about standards for fire protection in exterior cladding on these...
26 October 2015
Keith Brooks, Julio Maggi, Derek Roy & Bryony Day, ARCADIS
Tall building construction can benefit from a programmatic approach. By looking at the overall development as a whole program of works, identifying the deliverables required...
26 October 2015
Pierre Marcout, Prisme Entertainment Inc & Prisme International
Dubai is a city that emerged in only a decade. Though facing successive challenges it has built an attractive reputation around the world. Criticized and...
24 August 2015
CTBUH Research
Perhaps no element of a tall building is more closely related to the pure pleasure of standing high in the sky and taking in the...
31 December 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
06 November 2014
Christopher Michaelson, University of St. Thomas
An iconic skyscraper has aesthetic significance that may have meaning for other aspects of human experience – serving, for example, as an expression of cultural...
14 November 2013
CTBUH Research
Twenty years ago, the Middle East contained only one skyscraper over 150 meters in height. It is now estimated that by the end of 2015...
31 December 2012
Kevin Brass, Antony Wood & Marty Carver, CTBUH
For the first time in six years the number of tall buildings completed annually around the world declined as the effects of the global financial...
19 September 2012
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
The paper traces the evolution of Mr. Smith’s career as a designer of supertall buildings, the Jin Mao Tower (1999) to Kingdom Tower, to be...
19 September 2012
James H. Antell, RJA; Peter A. Weismantle, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
This paper will discuss the evolution of fire safety concepts in the recent generation of high rise buildings starting with “early” 1990’s designs in China...
19 September 2012
Fred Durie, Emaar Properties
Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is more than simply an icon for fast-growing Dubai. Emaar Properties created the world’s most dramatic example of an...
01 March 2012
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung C&T
New generation of tall and complex buildings systems are now introduced that are reflective of the latest development in materials, design, sustainability, construction, and IT...
27 January 2012
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Paul Beitler, Beitler Real Estate Services LLC
In 1990, only 11 buildings in the world could be counted as a “supertall” (defined as a building over 300 meters tall), and all but...
18 January 2012
Nathaniel Hollister & Antony Wood, CTBUH
Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world’s first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over...
13 January 2012
As the world’s tallestbuilding, the Burj Khalifasets the standard for whatarchitecture and designshould be. At 828 meters,the building houses the highest swimming pool, mosque and...
31 December 2011
Nathaniel Hollister & Antony Wood, CTBUH
The annual story is becoming a familiar one: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now 2011 have each sequentially broke the record for the most 200...
01 May 2011
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung C&T
Historically, tall building design and construction relied solely on minimum building code requirements. While many research and monitoring programs have been implemented, these programs are...
13 April 2011
CTBUH Research
Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and...
31 December 2010
CTBUH Research
In a year dominated by news coverage of the new “World’s Tallest Building” – Burj Khalifa, Dubai – one may be surprised to learn that,...
13 November 2010
CTBUH Research
Includes records of the tallest buildings/structures according to function and structural material, the highest spaces according to function, and some lesser-known titles such as the...
01 November 2010
Stefan Krummeck, Terry Farrell & Partners
The prevailing skyline of the world's developed and developing cities demonstrates an ever-increasing prevalence of tall buildings forming a new urban model. This paper examines...
01 February 2010
Ali Sherif S. Rizk, Dar Al-Handasah Consultants
During the last 12 years the Structural Engineering Department at Dar Al-Handasah has designed 45 mixed-use tall buildings in different Arab countries. The designed towers...
31 December 2008
CTBUH Research
Against the backdrop of global economic crisis, 2008 witnessed the most successful year of skyscraper construction to date, with more skyscrapers constructed globally within a...
12 June 2008
CTBUH Research
Over time, the average height of the 100 tallest buildings in the world has been steadily increasing. However, by 2010, this average height will have...
03 March 2008
Clyde N. Baker, Jr., Tony A. Kiefer, Steven W. Nicoson & Khaldoun Fahoum, STS Consultants, Ltd.
This paper presents the authors’ views based on experiences on the role of peer review in the cost effective foundation design of very tall buildings....
03 March 2008
Lee Herzog, Lerch Bates Inc.
With the advent of supertall towers, and in some cases, articulating architectural features, the designing of façade access equipment has necessarily become increasingly complex. However,...
03 March 2008
Jon M. Evenson & Aaron F. Vanney, RJA
This paper will review the Crisis Response Plan and Life Safety enhancements that are currently being developed to assist the Burj Dubai Management Team in...
03 March 2008
Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Kyung Jun Kim & Jae Ho Kim, Samsung C&T
The focus of this paper will be on the construction planning of the Burj Dubai tower, this paper will briefly present an overview of the...
03 March 2008
William F. Baker, D. Stanton Korista & Lawrence C. Novak, SOM
The goal of the Burj Dubai Tower is not simply to be the world’s highest building; it’s to embody the world’s highest aspirations.
03 March 2008
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
This paper discusses the process of the Burj Dubai's design, offering insights into the refinement and development of the design in response to programmatic requirements,...
03 March 2008
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
This paper discusses the process of the Burj Dubai's design, offering insights into the refinement and development of the design in response to programmatic requirements,...
01 November 2007
Peter A. Weismantle & Luke Leung, SOM
The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges related to stack effect faced by the Burj Dubai design team and to describe the...
23 October 2007
Peter A. Weismantle, Gregory L. Smith & Mohamed Sheriff, SOM
Beyond the aesthetics of the architectural design, the realization of Burj Dubai is very much a technical design effort. Every system in the Tower must...
16 October 2005
Peter Irwin, RWDI
The Burj Dubai tower will be the world’s tallest building by a wide margin when completed. Wind is the dominant lateral load and thus governed...
10 October 2004
William F. Baker, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
In this paper, the process of shaping the 2000 ft tower, Burj Dubai, in order to mitigate wind effects and assist in resisting loads is...
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03 April 2018 | Dubai
Emaar Properties’ Creek Horizon residential project at Dubai Creek Harbour has reached ground level. The two-tower project is part of the Dubai Creek Harbour master-planned development,...
27 November 2019 | London
London’s future second-tallest building, 1 Undershaft, has been given the go-ahead after a three-year battle. The 951-foot (290-meter) skyscraper, nicknamed “The Trellis,” will be topped...
02 April 2020 | Dubai
Developer Emaar Properties has suspended construction of a residential tower in a prime Dubai location near the world’s tallest building, showing how the coronavirus is...
10 July 2020 | Shanghai
Videos surfaced on Monday 6 July, 2020 after tenants from the 9th to the 60th floors of Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in China, found...
03 January 2018 | Dubai
Dubai Frame opened to tourists and residents after five years in the making. Dubai’s newest landmark is now open to the public and allows...
03 April 2018 | Dubai
Emaar Properties’ Creek Horizon residential project at Dubai Creek Harbour has reached ground level. The two-tower project is part of the Dubai Creek Harbour master-planned development,...
27 November 2019 | London
London’s future second-tallest building, 1 Undershaft, has been given the go-ahead after a three-year battle. The 951-foot (290-meter) skyscraper, nicknamed “The Trellis,” will be topped...
02 April 2020 | Dubai
Developer Emaar Properties has suspended construction of a residential tower in a prime Dubai location near the world’s tallest building, showing how the coronavirus is...
10 July 2020 | Shanghai
Videos surfaced on Monday 6 July, 2020 after tenants from the 9th to the 60th floors of Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in China, found...
03 January 2018 | Dubai
Dubai Frame opened to tourists and residents after five years in the making. Dubai’s newest landmark is now open to the public and allows...
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04 April 2018
CTBUH is pleased to announce that Emaar Properties is supporting the 2018 Conference as Diamond sponsor, and will host the Opening VIP Reception at Burj Khalifa.
31 January 2018
CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood and Events Manager Jessica Rinkel-Miller traveled to Dubai in preparation for the 2018 Middle East Conference.
04 October 2017
CTBUH Dubai and AIA Middle East partnered to host an event that focused on this year's top Middle Eastern architects and interior designers.
13 October 2016
The Council is pleased to announce the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the list of projects appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings.
20–21 September 2014
The tour began with the Broad Sustainable Building (BSB) campus including the New-Ark Hotel. The group also visited Broad’s construction site of a 59-story tower.
23–27 March 2014
Georges Binder, Belgium Country Leader, recently joined with Executive Master Immobilier to conduct a study trip on tall buildings to the United Arab Emirates.
31 December 2012
For the first time in six years the number of tall buildings completed annually around the world declined as the effects of the global financial crisis became evident.
21 September 2012
See the highlights from the third day of the CTBUH 2012 Shanghai Congress including the plenary on the past, present, and future World's Tallest Buildings.
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31 December 2011
The annual story is becoming a familiar one: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now 2011 have each sequentially broke the record for the most 200 meter or higher buildings completed in a given year. Once again, more 200 m+ buildings were completed in 2011 than in any year previous.
13 April 2011
Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and presents information on the average height and age of each country’s tallest buildings.
31 December 2010
In a year dominated by news coverage of the new “World’s Tallest Building” – Burj Khalifa, Dubai – one may be surprised to learn that, besides being the year in which a building first surpassed the 600, 700, and 800-meter thresholds, 2010 has seen the completion of more skyscrapers than any previous year in history.
31 December 2008
Against the backdrop of global economic crisis, 2008 witnessed the most successful year of skyscraper construction to date, with more skyscrapers constructed globally within a single year than ever before and the average height of the tallest ten constructed in 2008 rising to 319 meters.
04 March 2008
Tours to experience five seminal projects in Dubai including the Burj Dubai, the Emirates Towers, the Index Tower, the Burj Al Arab and Palm Jumeirah.
03–05 March 2008
The Congress hosted presentations, seminars and workshops covering virtually every aspect of tall building development, with a particular emphasis on sustainability.
02–05 March 2008
There were many social networking opportunities at the Congress including a golf outing, networking lunches, and a grand dinner.
18 October 2005
The CTBUH 4th Annual awards ceremony and dinner was held in the Astor Ballroom of the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel.
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