Wednesday, June 02, 2004
QUICK: WHERE IS THE WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING?
In Chicago? In Shanghai? In Kuala Lumpur? Unless you guessed that the world's tallest building is in Taipei, you guessed wrong (for now. See a list of the world's tallest skyscrapers here).
I'm sure the PRC is busily planning a new tower to regain supremacy in what is apparently a hotly contested race. And the Koreans are surely not going to rest on their Daehan Life Insurance or Ryugyong Hotel laurels. Interestingly enough, the Europeans don't seem all that interested in such things. The tallest European building I could find comes in a measly 77th tallest (in Frankfurt Germany).
I'm sure the PRC is busily planning a new tower to regain supremacy in what is apparently a hotly contested race. And the Koreans are surely not going to rest on their Daehan Life Insurance or Ryugyong Hotel laurels. Interestingly enough, the Europeans don't seem all that interested in such things. The tallest European building I could find comes in a measly 77th tallest (in Frankfurt Germany).
