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The financially troubled Gulf emirate of Dubai on Monday opened the world's tallest building, a glistening concrete, glass and steel pinnacle rising 828 metres (2,717 feet) out of the desert sands. Blazing fireworks rippled up...

Once-bustling Dubai will open the world's tallest skyscraper on Monday, boasting new limits in design and construction, hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes afflicting the Gulf emirate. Emaar, the giant property...

New Yorkers are used to living amongst huge skyscrapers around Madison Square Park but they have probably never seen anything like this. For his first New York building, Daniel Libeskind has proposed a 900+...

Istanbul is developing and turning very cosmopolitan at a fast rate. A proof of this is the Istanbul Sapphire which is a 261-meter skyscraper. It will be completed in late 2009 and will then...

One of the new generation of skyscrapers central in Moscow's International Business Centre is close to topping out. Named the City Of Capitals the project consists of two multi purpose towers called Moscow and St...

Towering 500 stories high, it is expected to house 100,000 people, in addition to having space for schools, hospitals and stores.

Below are 9 strange and unique structures which have either been approved or are in the final stages of approval. some have already been partially constructed. 1. aqua, usa (website) from a distance this skyscraper, to...