Skyscrapers are symbols of modern engineering, creativity, and human ambition. Around the world, cities are racing to touch ...

Around the globe, many human-made structures have enjoyed, for a time, the distinction of the tallest building in the world. From over 4,500 years ago to the present, here is a timeline detailing ...

It would also be the fifth-tallest building in the world outright, ranking behind the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates, but above Seoul's Lotte World Tower, which is 1,821 feet tall.

is currently the world’s eighth tallest completed building. Goldin Finance 117 has meanwhile been surpassed in height by both the twisting Shanghai Tower and the Ping An Finance Centre in ...