25 tallest buildings of the world in the same skyline.

[Carl.]

Link

They forgot a few ones, like the CN tower, but that's still pretty cool.

 

[dbartucci]

I don't think they forgot the CN Tower, they chose not to include, since it is a list of the tallest buildings, not the tallest free-standing structures.

 

[Anderton Prime]

Exactly. Though you can go into the CN Tower, it's not really a building. There's a restaurant, an observation deck, and that's about it; higher up, on the second level, there may be some workers doing who knows what, but civilians are not permitted on that level...

 

[Carl.]

Doh! Wasn't aware of the english semantic change that happened in 1995 for the Guiness world record. (It was considered the tallest building before that...)

The word in french is "Gratte-ciel" (scratch-sky)


Edit... or skyscraper, perhaps (silly me).

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Thats pretty cool, I even impressed myself with naming some of them off without looking at the bottom somehow. 👍

 

[Dropout.]

That was mildly entertaining.

 

[ceiling_fan]

Just saw this on Fark. Pretty cool.

 

[Famine]

25 tallest buildings of the world in the same skyline.

Wow, they make those Nissans roomy, don't they?

 

[Casio]

Is it just me. Or does the 21FC tower look like a giant tampon?

 

[Anderton Prime]

Wow, they make those Nissans roomy, don't they?

Groan. That was pretty weak...!

 

[F1GTR]

I just choked on my chewit when I read that Famine...

 

[Carl.]

Just saw this on Fark. Pretty cool.

That's where I saw it, obviously. There's always a few gems there, buried within mountains of crap...

 

[Omnis]

Damn, I didn't know the Taipei tower was 508m tall.

 

[a6m5]

I had never heard of this giant "Ryugyong Hotel", located in North Korea, so I checked it out in Wikipedia:

The Ryugyong's 3,000 rooms and 7 revolving restaurants were to open in June 1989 for the World Festival of Youth and Students, but problems with building methods and materials delayed it. Japanese newspapers estimated the cost of construction was $750 million — 2% of North Korea's GDP—and it is generally assumed construction came to a halt in 1992 due to lack of funding, acute electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine. It still has a crane on the top.
The basic structure is complete, but it has never been certified as safe for occupancy. As a result, no windows, fixtures or fittings have been installed. According to Emporis, the concrete used in building the Ryugyong Hotel is of unsuitable quality and therefore unsafe. The building is sagging so badly that it will never open as presently constructed.The North Korean government is trying to invite a foreign investment of $300 million to build a new structure for the hotel. In the meantime, it has removed the Ryugyong from maps and stamps and built a newer five-star hotel of more conventional design on the Taedong River.

They started building in 1987! I love that bit about how it still has the crane on the top.

 

[ND4SPD]

Its a shame what happened to that hotel.

 

[dougiemeats]

That's where I saw it, obviously. There's always a few gems there, buried within mountains of crap...

That site should pretty much be my home page.

Cool link. I've always wanted to see what they would look like together. But i think they're better off spread apart in different parts of the world.

 

[JFM92_GTRacer]

That's awesome. I'd like to see each of them one day

 

[DeLoreanBrown]

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It makes Pyongyang look eerie, a big derelict termite mound sucking up the sun like that;

 

[turboash78]

Its crazy that the Empire State Building is still one of the tallest, but was built a h*ll of a long time ago.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

What's crazier is there's plans for a skyscraper that's 1 km tall. Don't know how it would be pulled off, and it may just be that: plans. But if it's ever built...