Supertalls are expensive and exceptional buildings, but they are also now well established as 21st-century type. In New York, where after 9/11 many believed there would be no new skyscrapers, there are now six towers taller than the Empire State, the most of any city on the planet.Ī contest for superior height is not the driving force in all these projects, although status and commanding views clearly are important. Southeast Asia is emerging as a sphere of ambition, and Russia completed Europe’s first supertall. China dominates all countries with 30 supertalls in sixteen different cities. In Dubai, the Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010, stretched to 2,717 feet/ 828 meters. Where are the world’s tallest buildings today? The early 2000s saw a surge in international construction, especially in the emerging economies of the Middle East and China. But towers of 380 meters remain exceptional: our survey counts only 58. Today, 300 meters is fairly common, with more than 200 buildings of that height worldwide. Skyscrapers began to exceed 300 meters only in the late 1920s in New York City, where the Chrysler Building and Empire State were the only structures of that height until the World Trade Center in the 1960s. The popular benchmark of 300 meters – about 1,000 feet – favors round numbers, but represents a 19th-century standard, the Eiffel Tower. How tall is Supertall? The Skyscraper Museum sets its bar high: 1,250 feet/ 380 meters, the height of the Empire State Building.
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