The Tallest Buildings in the World

According to Emporis, work has stopped on 124 of the 1,431 tall buildings that are already underway. Emporis is the world’s largest provider of global building data and defines skyscrapers as buildings at least 100 meters tall.

As construction cranes littering Dubai’s skyline go idle, it’s time to revisit that ever intriguing economic indicator: the Skyscraper Curse. As this columnist has pointed out periodically, there’s an uncanny, if unscientific, correlation between financial crises and efforts to build the world’s tallest building. Look no further than Kuala Lumpur in 1997, Chicago in 1974, [...]