London (CNN)-- Imagine a skyscraper that cleans the air. You won't have to wait long -- two will soon be built in China. The world's tallest towers, futuristic pink spires that "breath life" into the environment, are due to begin construction within two years. This post comes via Know More, Wonkblog's social media site. Architecture tells us a lot about economic history, as these charts by Martin Vargic show. Vargic, a Slovakian artist and designer who runs the blog halcyonmaps.com, created six charts that Building a house is stressful. Building a skyscraper is a nuclear bomb of stress, problems, and carefully-coordinated chaos—chaos that is closely tied to the economy, and that is easily derailed by war, politics, and financial downturns. It's not an If Sky City's construction had gone according to schedule, the world's tallest building would have opened in China in June. Although groundbreaking for the prefabricated skyscraper has been delayed until August, China can enjoy a less coveted superlative When construction is complete in 2013, the structure will be distinguished as the third-tallest building in the world and the tallest in the Western Hemisphere. But until then, the record for tallest completed building on the western half of the globe goes A technological ‘revolutionary breakthrough’ that promises to more than double the height of the world’s tallest skyscrapers has been made by elevator researchers. The development of a super-strong carbon fibre rope is expected to revolutionise lift .
Want to know which are the tallest buildings in the world? If I had to name a universal wish humankind has had over the entire course of history, I would say that flying ranks at the very top. For some reason, we are tempted to defy gravity and soar into NEW YORK (AP) — They set out to build the tallest skyscraper in the world — a giant that would rise a symbolic 1,776 feet from the ashes of ground zero. Those aspirations of global supremacy fell by the wayside long ago, but New York won a consolation A Chinese company broke ground this week on the world’s tallest skyscraper only to stumble at the first hurdle when the government halted the project, saying building permission hadn’t been obtained. The wild ambitions of Broad Group, which wanted to Every year a new supertall skyscraper opens somewhere in the world that dwarfs everything around it. While the Burj Khalifa (829.8m) in Dubai has held the title of the world’s tallest building since it opened in 2010 it won’t be that way forever. .
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