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The following list measures height of the roof. The more common gauge is the highest architectural detail; such ranking would have included Petronas Towers, built in 1998. See list of skyscrapers for details. (source: www.wikipedia.org)

Built	Building	City	Country	Roof		Floors	Pinnacle		Current status
1873	Equitable Life Building	New York	U.S.	142 ft	43 m	8			Demolished
1889	Auditorium Building	Chicago	U.S.	269 ft	82 m	17	349 ft	106 m	Standing
1890	New York World Building	New York City	U.S.	309 ft	94 m	20	349 ft	106 m	Demolished
1894	Manhattan Life Insurance Building	New York City	U.S.	348 ft	106 m	18			Demolished
1899	Park Row Building	New York City	U.S.	391 ft	119 m	30			Standing
1901	Philadelphia City Hall	Philadelphia	U.S.			9	548 ft	167 m	Standing
1908	Singer Building	New York City	U.S.	612 ft	187 m	47			Demolished
1909	Met Life Tower	New York City	U.S.	700 ft	213 m	50			Standing
1913	Woolworth Building	New York City	U.S.	792 ft	241 m	57			Standing
1930	40 Wall Street	New York City	U.S.			70	927 ft	283 m	Standing
1930	Chrysler Building	New York City	U.S.	925 ft	282 m	77	1,046 ft	319 m	Standing
1931	Empire State Building	New York City	U.S.	1,250 ft	381 m	102	1,472 ft	449 m	Standing
1972	World Trade Center (North tower)	New York City	U.S.	1,368 ft	417 m	110	1,732 ft	528 m	Destroyed
1974	Sears Tower	Chicago	U.S.	1,451 ft	442 m	108	1,729 ft	527 m	Standing
1998	Petronas Towers	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	1,322 ft	403 m	88	1,483 ft	452 m	Standing
2003	Taipei 101	Taipei City	Taiwan	1,474 ft	448 m	101	1,671 ft	509 m	Standing

Source: emporis.com

Future

Construction of the Burj Dubai is taking place in Dubai. Its exact future height is kept secret, but it is expected to become at least 800 m (2,625 ft) high, making it the tallest building in the world. The Burj Dubai is due to be completed in June 2009.

Plans for a 1,175 ft. skyscraper in Boston have been confirmed^{[citation
needed]}, called Trans National Place. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2008 and be completed in 2011. If completed, it would be the tallest buiding in Boston and New England.

References

Skyscrapers: Form and Function, by David Bennett, Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Quotations

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? It is lofty. It must be tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the glory and pride of exaltation must be in it. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exaltation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line."

—Louis Sullivan's The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)

"A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel."

—Mason Cooley

"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."

—Roland Barthes

"Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky."

—Rem Koolhaas

"As the twentieth century fades, North America is ceding skyscraper supremacy to Asia."

—Emily Mitchell in Time Magazine, (1994)

"The tall building ought to participate in the city as both a facade, connecting the walls of the street, and as an object against the sky."

—William Pedersen in Process Architecture, 1986

"Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified statue, of much more than heroic size."

—Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Skyline Panoramas

With tall distinctive skyscrapers, these panoramic images show how skyscrapers are able to affect, define and transform cities into skylines.

Panorama view of the Hong Kong Skyline

Chicago from Lake Michigan

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