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Spine of a Giant: How SOM’s Supertall Towers Dwarf Dubai

At 828 meters high, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)’s Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building. The company’s structural engineering teams not only innovated the buttressed core system for the tower’s skeleton, but also produced the Cayan and Pearl River Towers in Dubai and Guangzhou, respectively. These marvels of metal […]