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The list of cities with most skyscrapers ranks cities around the world by their number of skyscrapers. A skyscraper is defined as a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors [1] and is taller than approximately 150 m (492 ft). [2] Historically, the term first referred to buildings with 10 to 20 floors in the 1880s.
9th-tallest building in New York City. [33] [34] St. Regis Chicago: Chicago: 1,198 ft (365 m) 101 2020 Topped off April 26, 2019. Third-tallest building in Chicago and the tallest building in the world designed by a woman. [35] [36] Aon Center: Chicago
Tallest building in Europe and Russia; Northernmost skyscraper in the world [30] 17 Landmark 81: 461.2 1,513 81 (+ 3 below ground) Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam: 2018 Tallest building in Vietnam [31] 18 Chongqing International Land-Sea Center: 458.0 1,503 98 (+ 4 below ground) Chongqing China: 2024 19 The Exchange 106: 453.6 1,488 95 (+ 6 below ground)
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Tallest building on the West Coast from 1969 to 1972. Renamed from Bank of America Center in 2005. Tallest building constructed in the city in the 1960s. [150] [151] 105= One Worldwide Plaza: New York City: United States 237 (778) 50 1989 [152] 105= 50 West Street: New York City: United States 237 (778) 63 2017 Topped out in October 2015. [153 ...
The Park Row Building, at 391 feet (119 m), was the city's tallest building from 1899 to 1908, [27] and the world's tallest office building during the same time span. [28] By 1900, fifteen skyscrapers in New York City exceeded 250 feet (76 m) in height.
The city with the most supertall buildings is Dubai at 31 entries, followed by Shenzhen and New York City with 20 and 18 supertall buildings respectively. As of 2025 [update] , there are 70 cities across the world with at least one supertall building, and 250 completed supertall buildings in the world.
The tallest building in the city is the 110-story Willis Tower (also known as the Sears Tower), which rises 1,451 feet (442 m) in the Chicago Loop and was completed in 1974. [2] [3] Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world upon its completion, and remained the tallest building in the United States until May 10, 2013. [4]