history of such buildings as the highest skyscrapers began with the invention of automatic lifts.At the end of the 19th century the American Henry Otis invention is designed to help create a high-rise apartment buildings without restrictions.In today's world, the construction of high-rise buildings is practiced in any metropolis, and the tallest skyscraper located in the city, becomes a kind of business card.In today's world, when the area in the downtown area are deficient, the construction of high-rise buildings was the only possible solution.
The highest skyscraper in the world are well known and defined.First place in this list is the famous tower "Khalifa" in Dubai, which was completed in 2010.The height of the architectural masterpiece is 828 meters and the floors in the building 162.
second place rightfully given skyscraper "Teybey" in Taiwan, with its 508 meters and 101 floors.This building is in the style of postmodernism 6 years it was the tallest high-rise building, has not yet had to give the palm to the tower, "Khalifa," but it is still one of the most beautiful business centers, connecting in its architecture features of Western civilization with traditional Chinese motifs.
highest skyscraper in China - Shanghai international financial center position occupied third place in the world rankings.It is the same as Taiwan "Teybey" has a floor 101, but the overall height is only 492 meters.
fourth position occupied by Malaysian twin towers "Petronas Towers", which at a height of 452 meters has 88 floors.These high-rise buildings constructed using traditional Islamic motifs and have a jumper on the level of 170 meters, which is called "Sky Bridge", it connects the two buildings into a single architectural composition.
Completes the top five highest skyscraper of America - "Willis Tower", located in Chicago.Besides the fact that it occupies fifth place in the list of the tallest buildings, it is also one of the oldest skyscrapers, it was built in 1973.This 110-storey building features original architecture - it is reminiscent of some stacked together and elongated parallelepiped, and its height is 443.2 meters.
Well, what can boast Europe?The highest skyscraper in Europe - London "Shard", having a height in the "modest" 310 meters and 95 floors.This architectural structure in the form of a giant pyramid with a unique narrow laser illumination has caused much controversy in the community.Italian architect knapsack, which is a developer and author of the idea, was accused that he disfigured the historical appearance of London.The case went before the intervention of UNESCO, but the authorities failed to convince the general public that the skyscraper brings more advantages than disadvantages.
But the race between the two countries for the right to have the tallest architectural construction in the world continues.America plans to build in Miami mega-skyscraper whose height will be 975 meters, and in Bahrain are negotiating the construction of a 200-story building.But the Japanese proved to be bolder all other peoples - in their plans for the construction of a skyscraper height of 4 km!
