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A very interesting counter-part design is the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai that while taller, does not have any dampener at all[0].

It does need to be mentioned that the Burj Khalifa only needs to deal with winds and does not need to worry about earthquakes where as Taipei 101 does both.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Burj-Khalifa-damper-system



I recall that the design of the Burj Khalifa is quite unique and very scalable. A really cool feet of engineering from this company: https://www.som.com/projects/burj-khalifa/


Counterpoint: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/dubais-burj-khal...

Although this isn't the fault of the companies that designed/built the Burj Khalifa.


Dubai has earthquakes, and quite frequent ones.




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