Key facts
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Residential
- Location
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Construction started
- 19 August 2006
- Completed
- 10 June 2013
- Tip
- 306.4 m (1,005 ft)
- Floor count
- 73 (5 below ground)
- Architect
- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
- Developer
- Cayan Real Estate Investment & Development
- Structural engineer
- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
- Main contractor
- Arabtec
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Located in
- Emirate of Dubai
- Movement
- postmodern architecture
- Official website
- cayan.net/cayantower
- Image
- Infinity Tower during construction, 2010-03-06.jpg
- Height
- 306.4
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- architect
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- Commons category
- Cayan Tower, Dubai
- structural engineer
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- main building contractor
- Arabtec
- architectural style
- high-tech architecture
- number of elevators
- 8
- floors above ground
- 73
- date of official opening
- 2013-06-12
- inception
- 2013-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Cayan Tower, known as Infinity Tower before it was inaugurated, is a 306-metre-tall (1,004 ft), 75-story skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The tower is designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill SOM architectural group for Cayan Real Estate Investment and Development. Upon its opening on 10 June 2013, the tower became the world's tallest high-rise building with a twist of 90 degrees. This record has since been surpassed by the Shanghai Tower, which opened in February 2015.
Design
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cayan Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.