The Dawn of the Megatall Skyscrapers

At the dawn of the new millennium, mankind have been racing to show their mark in the world. Traditionally it was the Euro-American countries dominate the skyline. But in recent years a new trend has emerged by the rich Middle eastern conglomerates and new emerging powers such as China and India, they too want to show their supremacy in the skies and literally touch the heavens.

Back in the 80s and 90s, tall skyscrapers were the "in" thing, and american corporations were dominating the skies with 150+ meter towers. However, in the late 90s and well into the new millennium, we welcome the era of the Supertall, beginning with the likes of the Petronas Twin Towers (452m) to the Taipei 101 (509m).

Then, the Chinese came into the race with the Shanghai World Financial Center (492m) and several Supertalls in the pipeline, until the Emirates put everything into overdrive with the Megatall Burj Khalifa (828m) at the turn of the decade. Soon, we'll see the first kilometer high and mile high towers literally scraping our clouds, and who knows far we'd go from there. Take a gander at the Viz below by Venture Software:

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-Zan

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