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 ...

For example, North America's first tallest building was St Patrick's Cathedral in New York, finished in 1879 - a title that is now held by the new World Trade Center tower. Some of the ...

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.

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.

Though it has been the tallest building in the world for many years ... against much of its promotional material. While an exact timeline has not yet been confirmed by constructors, the cost ...

Burj Khalifa: Watch King Kong climb today's world's tallest building Just one U.S. building cracks the world's top 10 – One World Trade Center. Its height of 1,776 feet, symbolic of the year ...

While we wait for the next record-breaker to come along, these are the 10 tallest completed buildings in the world by height of their architectural tops, which includes spires but not structures ...