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  2. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    Good structural design is important in most building designs, but particularly for skyscrapers since even a small chance of catastrophic failure is unacceptable given the high prices of construction and potential risk to human life on a massive scale, as seen in the Surfside condominium collapse of 2021. This presents a paradox to civil ...

  3. List of tallest buildings in Delhi NCR - Wikipedia

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    New Delhi skyline. Gateway Tower in Gurugram. GAIL Jubilee Tower, in Noida. Cyber Green Hub Building in Gurugram. This list enumerates high-rise buildings and skyscrapers in the city of Delhi, the capital and the largest metropolis of India, along with its adjoining NCR areas. Currently there are more than 5,200 high-rise buildings in the Delhi NCR area with thousands more under construction ...

  4. Skyscraper - Wikipedia

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    Burnham and Root's 45 m (148 ft) Rand McNally Building in Chicago, 1889, was the first all-steel framed skyscraper, [32] while Louis Sullivan's 41 m (135 ft) Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, 1891, was the first steel-framed building with soaring vertical bands to emphasize the height of the building and is therefore considered to be ...

  5. List of tallest buildings - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, the Chrysler Building employed a very large 38.1 m (125 ft) spire secretly assembled inside the building to claim the title of world's tallest building with a total height of 318.9 m (1,046 ft), although it had a lower top occupied floor and a shorter height when both buildings' spires were excluded.

  6. List of tallest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    189-unit luxury building will also be the world's the first residential high-rise in the world partially powered by the sun, the developer says, with 500 photovoltaic-integrated windows. Baccarat Residences Miami: 848 ft (258 m) 75 2028 Archaeologists discovered human remains and artifacts at the site in 2021. [250]

  7. List of tallest buildings in Jakarta - Wikipedia

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    Notes 1 Autograph Tower: 382.9 83 2022 Tallest building in Indonesia and Southern Hemisphere [13] 2 Luminary Tower: 304 64 2023 T/O [14] 3 Gama Tower [15] 288.6 64 2016 Tallest building in Indonesia from 2016 to 2022 [16] 4 Azure Tower: 288 77 2024 5 Treasury Tower: 279.5 57 2018 6 The Jakarta Mori Tower: 266 59 [17] 2022 7 Wisma 46: 261.9 51 1996

  8. List of tallest buildings in Bengaluru - Wikipedia

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    This list ranks buildings in Bengaluru that stand at least 100 metres (328 ft) or 30 floors from the ground. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. Only completed buildings and under-construction buildings that have been topped out are included.

  9. List of megatall skyscrapers - Wikipedia

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    Although dozen of such buildings have been proposed, currently only two are under construction, Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia and the Burj Azizi in United Arab Emirates. Both towers will surpass 1000m in height when completed. [2] All of the buildings on this list have well over 100 floors.