For almost half a century, New York City held the title for the world’s tallest building. Between 1931 and 1972, the iconic Empire State Building remained the highest — standing at 1,454 feet ...

Construction on the world’s tallest skyscraper began in 2004 by the same architectural firm that designed Chicago’s famed Sears Tower, itself once the world’s tallest building.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For more than a decade, the king of the skyscrapers—the tallest ...

We picked the most surreal, awe-inspiring, vertigo-inducing structures and compiled them into this list of the 31 tallest buildings in the world, starting with the the biggest of them all.

In the first 31 years of the 20th century, seven buildings became the world's tallest. We entered a new era of such one-upsmanship in 1998, with completion of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

And nothing proves that more than the tallest buildings in the world. Their striking design plays a part, no doubt, but their seemingly physics-defying existence is what really draws a viewer’s ...

The tallest building in the United States is currently One World Trade Center in New York City. It opened in 2014 and stands at 1,776 feet, a nod to the year the Declaration of Independence was ...

The downtown Phoenix tower, which has been the tallest building in Arizona for over 50 years, ... At the time of the tower's opening, the firm was the largest architectural group in the world.