The Vertical City · event 5 of 9

2010

Burj Khalifa. The tallest building in the world opens at 828 metres — and is renamed on the day from Burj Dubai, after the ruler of Abu Dhabi. Nobody mentions why.

The The Vertical City era

  1. 1999
  2. 2002
  3. 2006
  4. 2009
  5. 2010
  6. 2020
  7. January 2022
  8. 2022
  9. 2023

See the full timeline or read the history of Dubai.