China may have just topped out on its new tallest building -- the 632-meter Shanghai Tower -- but if plans underway in Changsha come to fruition, that building will hold the title until only April 2014 when the country's 838-meter Sky City is completed, SIA reports citing CNN.
When that happens, Sky City will become the world's tallest building, beating the Burj Khalifa in Dubai by 10 meters.
While people debate the merits of building so high so quickly -- there's evidence that tall buildings often presage an economic collapse -- we wanted to take a look at other buildings that deserve browser time.
These aren't the tallest buildings in the world, they aren't the prettiest buildings in the world, they aren't even the most successful -- the inclusion of North Korea's disastrous Ryugyong Hotel attests to that.
But they are among the most iconic, representing their designers and their cities as memorably as anything else.
Empire State Building, New York
Height: 437 meters
Cost to build: $41 million
Completion date: May 1, 1931
China Central Television Headquarters, Beijing
Height: 234 meters
Cost to build: $600 million
Completion date: 2012
Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany
Height: 300.1 meters
Cost to build: $414 million
Completion date: 1997
The Shard, London
Height: 310 meters
Cost to build: $666 million
Completion date: November 2012
Elephant Tower, Bangkok
Height: 102 meters
Cost to build: NA
Completion date: 1997
Chrysler Building, New York
Height: 320 meters
Cost to build: $15-20 million
Saigon Skydeck , Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Height: 262 meters
Cost to build: $220 million
Completion date: October 31, 2010
Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea
Height: 330 meters
Cost to build: $750 million
Completion date: N/A
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
Height: 260 meters
Cost to build: $32 million
Completion date: 1972
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Height: 367.4 meters
Cost to build: N/A
Completion date: May 1990
Kingdom Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Height: 302 meters
Cost to build: $1 billion
Completion date: 2002
Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Height: 452 meters
Cost to build: $1.6 billion
Completion date: June 1996
Tokyo Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokyo
Height: 204 meters
Cost to build: N/A
Completion date: October 2008
Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
Height: 492 meters
Cost to build: $1.2 billion
Completion date: August 2008
Hotel & Casino Grand Lisboa, Macau
Height: 261 meters
Cost to build: $385 million
Completion date: 2008
Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama, Bahrain
Height: 240 meters
Cost to build: $150 million
Completion date: 2008
IFC Hong Kong, Two International Finance Center (2IFC), Hong Kong
Height: 415 meters
Cost to build: $2.5 billion
Completion date: August 2008
Burj al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Burj al Arab, Dubai.
Height: 321 meters
Cost to build: $650 million
Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
Height: 508 meters
Cost to build: $1.8 billion
Completion date: 2004
Torre Agbar, Barcelona, Spain
Height: 142 meters
Cost to build: $130 million
Completion date: 2004
Burj Kahlifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Height: 828 meters
Cost to build: $1.5 billion
Completion date: January 2009
30 St. Mary Axe, London
Height: 180 meters
Cost to build: $212 million
Completion date: 2003
Turning Torso, Malmo, Sweden
Height: 190 meters
Cost to build: $80 million
Completion date: 2005
One World Trade Center, New York
Height: 541 meters
Cost to build: $3.9 billion
Completion date: May 2013
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Height: 194 meters
Cost to build: $6.3 billion
Opening date: April 2010
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