This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least 350 m. Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list. Historically, the world’s tallest man-made structure was the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
About List of tallest buildings in brief
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least 350 m. Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list. 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. The first skyscraper was pioneered in Chicago with the 138 ft Home Insurance Building in 1885. 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.
Since then, two other buildings have gained the title: Taipei 101 in 2004 and Burj Khalifa in 2010. Now there are as many as thirteen tall buildings ranked between the Petronsas Towers and BurJ Khalifa. Six of the last seven buildings to have held the record as ‘tallest building’ are still found in the list, with the exception being the North Tower of the original World Trade Center at 417 metres after its destruction in 2001.
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