Who is happy about the skyscraper race?

Burj Khalifa is currently the tallest skyscraper in the world.

The building is being promoted as the safest skyscraper in the U.S.

It is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its design.

The tallest skyscraper in Shanghai is the Shanghai World Financial Center, which is tall with 101 floors.

It is the ninth tallest skyscraper in Germany, and the tallest in Germany outside of Frankfurt am Main.

However, whilst some Chinese citizens are in celebratory mood over these construction achievements, many are worried about the 'skyscraper curse'.

Below is a selection of discussions about the Southern Metropolis' report on the skyscraper story from Sina Weibo comment thread

But now the structure is more like the profile of a skyscraper, more or less the same from top to bottom.

The Dubai City Tower, also known as the Dubai Vertical City, is a proposed skyscraper design announced on 25 August 2008.

The Vasco da Gama Tower (, ) is a 145 m lattice tower with skyscraper in Lisbon, Portugal, built over the Tagus river.

It is now the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza.

According to the Skyscraper Index put forward in January 1999 by Andrew Lawrence, the world's tallest buildings often rise on the eve of economic downturns.

Meanwhile, vertical farm experiments which aim to augment urban food supplies by cultivating crops in skyscraper greenhouses are proliferating from the American Midwest to Osaka, Japan.

The nearby Reliance Building was the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows comprise the majority of its surface area, and One North LaSalle was for some time one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

The city of Shanghai, China is one of the fastest growing cities in the world in terms of skyscraper construction, with the City of Shanghai reporting at the end of 2004 that there had been 6,704 buildings of 11 stories or more completed since 1990.

Some photos of today's fire at a skyscraper under construction in Moscow photos by RIA Novosti photographers at LJ user drugoi's blog LJ user aleshru's ITAR TASS photos LJ user sergey_mikheyev's photos two photos of firefighting helicopters refilling in the Moskva River by LJ user nl.