History of the tallest buildings in the world | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-09

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00:01:47 1 Definition of terms
00:01:57 1.1 Meaning of "building"
00:03:54 1.2 Determination of height
00:04:36 2 Tallest buildings (7th to 12th century)
00:05:40 3 Tallest buildings (13th century–1908)
00:05:52 3.1 Churches and cathedrals
00:08:23 3.2 Skyscrapers
00:08:39 4 Tallest buildings (from 1908)
00:10:37 5 Charts
00:10:46 5.1 1870–present
00:10:56 5.2 1300–present
00:11:15 6 History of increment in height of skyscrapers
00:13:49 7 History of supertall skyscrapers by location
00:14:51 8 Increment in usage of skyscrapers
00:16:36 9 See also
00:17:05 10 Notes



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The tallest building in the world, as of 2019, is Burj Khalifa. The title of "world's tallest building" has been borne by various buildings, such as the Rouen Cathedral and the Empire State Building.
The skyscraper was invented in Chicago in 1884 when the Home Insurance Building was constructed using a steel-frame with curtain walls instead of load-bearing walls. For the next hundred years, the world's tallest building was always in the United States with New York City accumulating 86 years, and Chicago accumulating 30 years. After just over a century (1885–1998), the distinction moved to the Eastern Hemisphere. Malaysia was the first country to break the United States' record of constructing the tallest buildings in the world when the Petronas Twin Towers were completed in 1998. Taiwan's Taipei 101 was the next building to hold the record, beginning in 2004. 
Before the modern skyscraper era, many Christian churches and cathedrals, built mainly in England and Germanic territories between c. 1250–1894, comprised the tallest buildings in the world. Before the 13th century, the tallest buildings in the world cannot be conclusively determined. For instance, the Lighthouse of Alexandria (completed about 280 BC) has been estimated to be 100 m (330 ft) tall, but its true height is not known. For thousands of years, the Great Pyramid in Egypt was the tallest structure in the world, but the Great Pyramid is not considered a building since it is not habitable.