| Record-keepers for skyscrapers are struggling to keep up as builders around the world create ever taller towers, stretching everything from the limits of architecture itself to the definition of a spire.
A nonprofit group in Chicago is recognized by much of the industry as the arbiter of which buildings are the highest, and its categories have proliferated: building with highest occupied floor, for example, or height from lowest entrance to architectural tip, or height from lowest entrance to the top, whether that be an architectural element or a movable antenna...............................................Full Article: Source
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