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Burj Dubai -- world's tallest Building

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Nowadays, what are the challenges involved in building the tallest building in the world?

These papers at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat site describe a number of the current innovative, structural and financial challenges met when the supertall buildings are undertaken to be constructed. "Physical limitations" are not the root barrier for extremely tall buildings, but a combination of the aspects you have mentioned in your August 25th post.

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From earlier discussions on this thread about the criteria of claiming "the tallest" I thought this video would add some humor to the subject.

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