Ten tallest buildings in the World

// added October 06, 2008 // 21 comments //
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The world is a beautiful place in more ways than one. Amongst the urban landscape and thousands of ordinary brick-and-mortar buildings, skyscrapers are architectural and engineering marvels that rise hundreds of meters and even a thousand feet into the air. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), is the official body that determines which buildings fall under the ‘The World’s Tallest Building’ category. It ranks the height of buildings, based on the height to the architectural top of the building, highest occupied floor, top of the roof or the tip of the building.
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21 comments // Ten tallest buildings in the World

  • honusurf
  • crispyfritters
  • narz
  • unclepete
  • rosyjane
  • lenhart
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      lenhart  

    • Having lived in a major US city, I am not fond of skyscrapers. In almost every instance the skyscraper is financed by a major corporate tenant; thus --'downtown areas' of major cities become corporate office parks. There is no interesting mix of people at street level ...just concrete and steel. In Houston, the shops have moved to suburban malls, even the downtown restaurants have gone underground. The street level is like rows of huge tomb stones. Modern skyscrapers coulpled with the flight to suburbia have literally KILLED off the American city.

    • 1 year ago
  • dagos
  • Virtual_Will_Rogers
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      Virtual_Will_Rogers  

    • ....someday the Washington Monument Will look like a pyramid....and Will probably be the only part of Washington D.C. showing....do you think anyone in their futuristic mindsets would ever believe the crap that went on there....Golden Ruler....Will......

    • 1 year ago
  • Virtual_Will_Rogers
  • classna
  • phillyphil
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      phillyphil  

    • ^ totally agree with vierotchka.
      we as a species are so tuned to our expansive male explosive energy that we miss the subtle beauty so often and are bound to certain ways of thinking.

      it is still pretty amazing what inginuity we have and what powers of creation. just think what we could do if we tuned to other ideas....?

    • 1 year ago
  • Stradius
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      Stradius  

    • These are the kinds of ambitious project we SHOULD have to worry about... not global warming, human overpopulation, starvation, and basic needs.

    • 1 year ago
  • TerryA
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  

    • I find them arrogant, a projection of man's wishful thinking with regard to his male attributes. I find them unnatural, I've always disliked very tall buildings and sky-scrapers, and 9/11 confirmed my uneasy feelings about them. Sure, they are marvels of engineering and architecture, but in my opinion, it is engineering and architecture serving only man's ego.

    • 1 year ago
  • F7
  • kodada
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      kodada  
    • Vierotchka:

      Actually, Vierotchka, you are correct to a certain degree. There is a whole philosophy and psychology behind the male ego as sexual persona which replicates itself in the form of skyscrapers and other massive phallic monuments and symbols.

      I agree, they are on some level arrogant. But on a whole other level, they are a physical representation on the male limitation, especial with regard to his sexuality. The skyscraper will never be tall enough, reach high, be strong enough and is always in danger of destruction, whether through acts of man or acts of 'god'. They are fundamentally inadequate unlike the female sexual persona, which holds the mysteries of life and are shapeless, boundless.

      When you think about it in those terms, it's rather pathetic really. However, I am a huge fan of construction and engineering and so find them quite interesting albeit a bit exaggerated.

    • 1 year ago
  • lenhart
  • superfinet
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      superfinet  
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    • Vierotchka:

      I would have to AGREE, Viero! Look at the capitol complex of the State of Florida, United States; this is a view from a main road as one approaches town... This is quite phallic, but fitting as resembles Florida in shape and placement...(a crude joke)

      I like to think that taller complexes could be the solution to urban sprawl uprooting destroying and interfering with the natural order caused by building cookie-cutter communities with crappy [non-hemp] materials, but you are absolutely correct that they stand monument to inadequately equipped men world-wide.

      Maybe, with science and appreciation for such, these taller buildings can help to reshape our planet by allowing for natural growth both around the complexes and within - making up part of the internal structures with verdant oxygen-creating foliage. This technique is in use for vertical farming, but that is a dedicated structure; I speak of integration. So yes, these ever tall structures may appear monstrous fascist and disturbingly graphic, but they can serve an actual purpose for protecting the Earth Mother, if used appropriately....healing

    • 1 year ago
  • dotzen
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      dotzen  

    • The amazing combination of beauty and architecture. Will be great to see the rest of the world down from the top of any of them!

    • 1 year ago
  • Rubab
  • hsaleem

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