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  1. 2 days ago · A different superlative for skyscrapers is their number of floors. The original World Trade Center set that record at 110 in the early 1970s, and this was not surpassed until the Burj Khalifa opened in 2010.

  2. 2 days ago · This list of tallest buildings by height to roof ranks completed skyscrapers by height to roof which reach a height of 300 metres (984 ft) or more. Only buildings with continuously occupiable floors are included, thus non-building structures including towers, are not included.

  3. 2 days ago · The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at 828 m (2,717 ft). Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower ), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower ), oil platforms, electricity transmission towers, and bridge support towers.

  4. Skyscrapers. BIG completes twisting One High Line skyscrapers in New York. Danish architecture studio BIG has completed two residential skyscrapers with twisted forms alongside New York's High...

  5. 4 days ago · Architectural Digest has rounded up the world's most beautiful skylines - and not just one but TWO Aussie locations made the list. And honestly, it's a surprising choice. Read through to see which cities were crowned on the list.

  6. 3 days ago · The Skyscraper Museum presents 10 of the tallest super-tall, super-slender residential towers built, planned or in construction in NYC including Brooklyn.

  7. 5 days ago · What came first: building height or elevator speed? The history of skyscrapers brings us to a kind of chicken-and-egg conundrum. Does the drive to build tall come first and then fast elevators come next? Or do rapid elevators show what’s possible and then developers exploit them to go taller?