Tools & manufacturing · 2010

Burj Khalifa

An 828 m buttressed core, the tallest structure ever built.

Opened in Dubai in 2010, its Y-shaped reinforced concrete core pumped concrete over 600 m high. It is the current height record for any human-made structure.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

Steel-frame skyscraper 1885
Reinforced concrete 1867

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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