Despite 9/11 the race to build the world's tallest buildings continues. A look at the new ultra-tall skyscrapers from around the world.
"Just as the brick towers of New York and Chicago once symbolized Americas aspirations to overtake the gable-roofed countinghouses of Europe, todays glass and metal obelisks make a similar assertion about China and its East Asian neighborslike Malaysia, which put its capital of Kuala Lumpur on the business map with the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers...The contest to succeed Petronas Towers is especially intense between Shanghai and Hong Kong, both of which have projects underway that will be about 100 stories and more than 1,500 feet tall."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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