This is the Burj Khalifa - It doesn’t crush itself. But the enemy isn’t weight; it’s wind. You can predict gravity. Men pour concrete and attach heavy steel to take weight straight down - But you can’t predict wind. It’ll bend your steel - To combat wind and hold the sky, they made a buttressed core.
Three thick wings form a chunky Y - a buttress. It’ll hold the center.
If the wind blows hard from the sea, two wings hold fast, and one wing leans into the wind - It’ll take the heft down solid concrete walls and into a thick mat. But under that, long piles hold onto desert sand.
They don’t rest onto rock. They use friction from deep earth - this holds the 500,000 tons. The structure stands. It sheds the weight. The earth takes it all.