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🏗️ Engineering behind the world's greatest structures
New episode: Burj Khalifa
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Jeddah Tower at night 🌃✨

A glimpse of the tower planned to rise over 1,000 meters in Saudi Arabia, taller than the Burj Khalifa 🇸🇦

This is an AI concept of the finished tower. The real one is still being built.

Would you go up to the observation deck? 👇

#jeddahtower #skyscrapers #saudiarabia🇸🇦 #burjkhalifa #architecture_view #megaprojects #aiartist #jeddah #engineers #tallbuildings #structuralengineering by @megastructures.explained

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828 meters above Dubai 🌆🎆 Would you go to the top? 👇

🏙️ Burj Khalifa facts:
📏 Height: 828 meters (2,717 feet)
🏢 163 floors
📅 Opened in January 2010
✏️ Designed by architect Adrian Smith
🛗 Its elevators travel about 10 meters per second
🔝 Observation decks on levels 124 and 148
🌍 Still the tallest completed building on Earth

💬 Which fact surprised you most?
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🤖 Visuals created with AI
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The world's tallest building shouldn't be standing. 😳

Two hidden engineering feats are the only reason it hasn't collapsed:

🏗️ A Y-shaped buttressed core that braces it against Dubai's brutal winds
⚒️ 192 foundation piles driven ~50m into the desert sand

Remove either one… and it's over.

Not luck. Engineering. 🧠

That's problem one of four — full story linked below.

https://youtu.be/JPgwjQrqQ6I?si=Rp4x8M99O6o1y_Yt
#burjkhalifa #engineering #architecture #dubai #skyscraper #civilengineering #megastructures #structuralengineering #howitsbuilt #reelsengineering #buildingdesign #engineeringmarvel #facts #didyouknow #reels #explore by @megastructures.explained

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Skyscrapers don't fall from gravity. They fall from wind.

At half a kilometer up, wind doesn't just push — it makes a tall building sway, twist, and resonate, like a tuning fork struck at exactly the wrong pitch. Left unsolved, that resonance could shake a structure this tall apart from the inside.

Every super-tall building before this one had to compromise.

Chicago's Willis Tower went wide — its bundled-tube structure is bulky enough to resist wind without any extra technology at all.

Taipei 101 went tall and added a 660-ton steel ball, swinging inside the building to counteract the sway. They didn't hide it — they turned it into a tourist attraction.

New York's Citicorp Center did something similar — a 400-ton concrete weight, sliding back and forth on hydraulics, fighting the wind in real time.

Each one accepted the sway, then fought it after the fact.

The Burj Khalifa's engineers refused to compromise at all. No damper. No counterweight. Instead, they designed a shape the world had never seen — one that outsmarts the wind before it ever builds up.

That's problem one of four — full story linked below.

https://youtu.be/JPgwjQrqQ6I?si=Rp4x8M99O6o1y_Yt

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