The Tallest Buildings in the World

MANAMA: Bahrain could become home of the world’s tallest skyscraper
if a project by Danish company Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S gets the
go-ahead. Company project director Louis Becker, who was in Riyadh
yesterday, is planning to have a meeting about the proposed project with
a building contractor in Bahrain later this week. The company’s design for
a skyscraper measures 1,022 metres - double the Taiwan Taipei 101,
which is currently the world’s tallest building at 506 metres. It was chosen
by the Bahrain contractor because of the company’s previous
experiences of building in Saudi Arabia, according to a report in the
Copenhagen Post. The company designed both the Foreign Affairs
Ministry in

Donald Trump plans a $300 million skyscraper in downtown Philadelphia on the banks of the Delaware River. The 45-story Trump Tower Philadelphia would
have
263 high-end condos that would range in price from $700,000 to $3.5 million, the Philadelphia Business Journal said Friday. The tower will have, among its
amenities, child-care services, a wine cellar, a cigar lounge, a billiard room, and a five-star restaurant with fine dining and views of the Delaware River