![]() ![]() Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Middle East, China, and Southeast Asia have experienced booms in skyscraper construction. Since then, two other buildings have gained the title: Taipei 101 in 2004 and Burj Khalifa in 2010. The United States would hold the position of the world’s tallest building throughout the 20th century until 1998 when the Petronas Towers were completed. ![]() The first skyscraper was pioneered in Chicago with the 138 ft (42.1 m) Home Insurance Building in 1885. In France, the Strasbourg Cathedral, completed in 1439, was the world’s tallest building until 1874. Historically, the world’s tallest man-made structure was the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which held the position for over 3,800 years until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1311. At one point, churches left their mark, followed by public institutions, and in the last few decades, it’s commercial skyscrapers that continue to stretch taller and taller. Those in power have always defined our cities’ skylines during every period in history. Humanity has always been obsessed with breaking its limits, creating new records only to break them again and again. Since then, the world has come a long way - in the rankings of today’s tallest artificial structures, the Empire State Building doesn’t even crack the top 40. The Tallest Buildings in the world | © Council on Tall Buildingsįor nearly half a century, from 1931 through 1972, the 1,454-foot Empire State Building held the title of the tallest building in the world. ![]()
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