Tag: skyline

The spire of a soaring 118-story tower has topped out at over 2,227 feet above Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. Set to become the world’s second-tallest building upon its completion next year, Merdeka 118 now stands higher than China’s 2,073-foot Shanghai Tower and is dwarfed only by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. At a ceremony marking […]

Manhattan is no stranger to supertall skyscrapers but Brooklyn’s skyline has now fundamentally changed as its first supertall reached its full, vertiginous height. The 93-story, 1,066-foot-tall residential building, standing at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, was designed by SHoP Architects. (Supertalls, by definition, are residential or office buildings reaching 300 meters — 984 feet […]