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

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

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

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.

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

According to MotianCity, a research organization in China, currently there are 470 skyscrapers in China, 332 under construction and 516 in planning.

In addition, the tallest building (828 meters) in Dubai will then be replaced by a 838 meter high tower in Changsha.

At the time of their installation in 2014, they were the world's fastest single deck elevators (18 metres second) and double deck elevators (10 metres second).

I was in Shanghai, in an office block built on what was a rice paddy five years ago one of the 2,500 skyscrapers they've built in Shanghai in the last 10 years.

Pink Tentacle brings together ten great time lapse videos shot in Tokyo, including one of 35 years of construction in Shinjuku, one of the construction of Roppongi Hills, one of a trip along the Yamanote Line, and one of lighting striking in Higashiyama.

And then finally, Kelly's play of brilliants attitude, that really some play of the skyline of Hong Kong, or perhaps the chandelier in the opera house, or in the theater here, which is a decoration, the icing on the cake, something playful, something that is just an addition to the architectural environment, I would say.

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.