The rupture of the dome-shaped water tank sent a 6-foot-tall current sweeping through the back door of Fire Station 65 and into a neighboring condominium complex, where residents awoke to what they thought was the soothing sound of rain.
Neighboring the Shanghai World Financial Center, the current tallest building in China at 492-meters, and the 421-meter Jin Mao, the second tallest building in the country, the Shanghai Tower will complete Asia's first super high-rise precinct.
Plans for a mile high skyscraper in Tokyo could be twice as tall as the current tallest building in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
A prominent advocate is Bill Baker, the structural engineer of the Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world.
And some are too compelling to resist, he says, like a current competition for the tallest building in Warsaw.
In June , 1925 the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building was completed for $4 million $$ million in current value), becoming the tallest building in San Francisco for the next 40 years, tied by the Russ Building in 1927.
The current tallest, the Burj Khalifa, is self-explanatory in that sense, as its name – formerly the Burj Dubai – immortalises the bailout that the emirate received from Abu Dhabi when its bubble burst.
Current plans call for the tallest building to be 620 feet high.
Some of the big no-shows: Norr, Woods Bagot (designer of the world's next tallest tower), SOM (designer of the world's current tallest tower and the world's next next tallest tower), HOK, RMJM, WATG, Aedas (designers of Dubai's metro stations).
