State of the Game: The world's tallest buildings, now and in 2020

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(Credit: Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture) </p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/pictures" class="gallery-link">Image Gallery</a> (25 images) </div> </div> <div class="article-body"> <p>Like so many of humanity's greatest accomplishments, there's very little practicality behind the world's tallest buildings. They tower over their surrounding cities as gigantic monuments to human engineering brilliance, their mind-bending heights seemingly in blatant defiance of physics. Of course, they're also the ultimate status symbol for those that go beyond mega-rich – all of these buildings could be viewed as billion-dollar phallic vanity projects, and in that regard it's interesting to note that by 2020, all the top five tallest buildings in the world will be located in status-hungry China and the ostentatious, oil-rich Middle East. Enjoy our short video presentation after the jump.</p> <ul class="thumbnails"> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/pictures#1"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/worlds-tallest-buildings-1.jpg" title="The Kingdom Tower - at 1,007 metres high, this will be the world's tallest building in 2020." alt="The Kingdom Tower - at 1,007 metres high, this will be the world's tallest building in 2020."/> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/pictures#2"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/worlds-tallest-buildings-3.jpg" title="The Kingdom Tower - originally planned to be 1600 metres tall, almost twice the height of the Burj Khalifa, so it could be called the Mile High Tower. Unfortunately the ground beneath the structure couldn't support that large of a building." alt="The Kingdom Tower - originally planned to be 1600 metres tall, almost twice the height of the Burj Khalifa, so it could be called the Mile High Tower. Unfortunately the ground beneath the structure couldn't support that large of a building."/> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/pictures#3"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/worlds-tallest-buildings-4.jpg" title="The Kingdom Tower - rooms will offer views of Jeddah and the Red Sea." alt="The Kingdom Tower - rooms will offer views of Jeddah and the Red Sea."/> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/pictures#4"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/worlds-tallest-buildings-5.jpg" title="The Burj Khalifa - the tallest building in the world today." alt="The Burj Khalifa - the tallest building in the world today."/> </a> </li> </ul> <p><div class="inline-item js-article-video"> <iframe src="//web.archive.org/web/20150627173241if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/4dcsjtwgbbE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </p> <p>Special thanks to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://ontheroofs.com/" target="_blank">On The Roofs</a> for the use of their stomach-churning video footage, as well as to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://lachywright.com/" target="_blank">Lachy Wright</a> for his illustration and animation work.</p> <p>For a closer look and a few more tidbits about the world's tallest buildings, take a look through our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/pictures" target="_blank">image gallery</a>.</p> </div>  <div class="page-section"> <ul class="list-ui list-ui--horizontal share-bar"> <li> <div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/" data-send="false" data-layout="box_count" data-show-faces="false" data-share="true"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> _ga.trackFacebook(); </script> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-via="gizmag" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/">Tweet</a> </li> <li> <div class="g-plusone" data-size="tall" data-href="http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/"></div> </li> <li> <iframe style="overflow: hidden; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241if_/http://badge.stumbleupon.com/badge/embed/5/?url=http%3A//www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/" width="50" height="60" id="iframe-stmblpn-widget-1" name="iframe-stmblpn-widget-1"></iframe> </li> <li> <div class="pin-it-button" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241oe_/http://www.gizmag.com/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/" data-image="http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/worlds-tallest-buildings.jpg" data-description="In the first in our new "State of the Game" series of videos celebrating the current peaks of human achievement we take a look at the world's tallest buildings, both now and in five years' time. 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It strikes me that the motivation for raising these structures ever higher is the same crudely anatomical measuring game that men have been playing for roughly the last 100,000 years (or longer): "Mine is bigger than yours." No doubt there are far better investments for the huge amounts of cash being spent, which is just another way of stating an old proverb: "Some guys have more money than sense..."</p> <span class="strong">Mark Salamon</span> </li> <li> <p>R.H. Sailors on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo. was going to be the world's tallest building but they first took 30 floors off, then aborted the project. Before that, the KCMO TV tower was the world's tallest self supporting tower. I watched it go up section by section from the George B. Longin school playground in 1956.</p> <span class="strong">Douglas Rogers</span> </li> <li> <p>Thanks for the awesome video guys!</p> <span class="strong">Milton</span> </li> <li> <p>Taking bets on which mega structure is the first to crumble in an epic disaster. </p> <span class="strong">FrankenPC</span> </li> <li> <p>That Kingdom tower looks awesome. It's like a giant knife stabbing the crap outta the sky!</p> <span class="strong">Derek Howe</span> </li> <li> <p>Pre-fabricated sections or not, I'm not sure I want to stay in a building in earthquake country that was built in 90 days.</p> <span class="strong">Jayna Sheats</span> </li> </ul> </div>  <div class="page-section"> <a name="comment-form"></a> <p class="h2 title-standout">Post a Comment</p> <div data-article="38145"> <form class="login-form js-login-form" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/login/" method="post"> <p class="strong">Login with your Gizmag account:</p> <p class="js-login-error"></p> <input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="8PcbhhxlzmJJHTnnH6WOK99I4R7ZMvvV"/> <input type="hidden" name="next" value="/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/"> <tr><th><label for="id_email">Email:</label></th><td><input id="id_email" maxlength="254" name="email" type="email"/></td></tr> <tr><th><label for="id_password">Password:</label></th><td><input id="id_password" name="password" type="password"/></td></tr> <button class="btn-lg btn-lg pull-right">Log In</button> <div class="pull-left"> <a class="small" href="/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/register/">Register here</a><br/> <a class="small" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/password-reset/recover/">Forgotten your password?</a> </div> </form> <p class="strong">Login with Facebook:</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/login/facebook?next=/state-of-the-game-the-worlds-tallest-buildings/38145/" class="facebook-login-button" rel="nofollow"></a> </div> </div> <div class="page-section"> <p class="h2 title-standout">Related Articles</p> <ul class="list-ui list-ui--vertical related-articles"> <li class="media"> <a class="media__left" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173241/http://www.gizmag.com/one-world-observatory/36916/" title="Is the One World Observatory about to offer the best view in the Western Hemisphere? 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