I was looking on Wikiwiki today and... How could you ever live in a building like Q1:

or the Chicago Spire:

?

I'd be so afraid..... especially in Chicagoian winds...

Here are the tallest structures... Moscow seems to be lacking in the design field, while the Burj Dubai seems to be going for way too damn huge:

I dunno.  From those heights, you could commute to work with a hang glider.

Oh... I get it, you meant for a residential building...

Where I used to live, somebody used to fly an Ultralight to work.

I like not big buildings...

Travelling with strangers from floor to floor is my idea of what hell probably is

Haha! I know! Then that dwarf riding an elevator riddle would really kill!

LOL! Yeah...

Well lying there at night would be like being rocked gently to sleep... wouldn't it

Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

That's why I liked taking train rides across India. Lovely to go to sleep to

Wow DJ, that's probably the most gory thing you've ever said

Speaking of big things, the Wikiwiki pic of the day seems to sum it up quite well: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Glen_Canyon_Dam_MC.jpg

We could play a game of iSpy just in that 1 picture!

"I spy #FFFFFF. Tell me the exact pixel location it is located at."

Ummm.... okay....

Disclaimer: Before some of you more elitist types go out and waste a few days, I'm pretty sure a single pixel of #FFFFFF exists in the above photograph.

Where's the CN Tower on that graph? 553m puts it squarely between the Taipei 101 and the Chicago Spire

And linked from the CN Tower wiki article, there's the Ostankino Tower at 540m

Just how many towers are missing from that graph?! 

The way things are going these days, it's too much to keep that graph updated!

No, it doesn't include towers.

Petronas Towers and the Sears Tower? 

Those are buildings with the name tower in them, smarty pants.

i would have thought that they all qualify as towers, given that a tower is a structure that it taller than it is wide....

In this case they make a significant difference between all of the terms. Towers usually do not serve any commercial purpose other than tourism, where office/ multiuse buildings are for more than one use, with the primary being business. It's like making the argument that since people fall asleep of boredom in their offices that they're automatically hostels.

.....Same goes for brothels...

.....Same goes for brothels...

hey-oh, this is a family-friendly discussion topic here, synth!

Not anymore....?

the spire building has to be really new. i havent been downtown lately, but i would certainly notice something like that.

Heh. Not done yet.

(The sturcture)

but still you cant build something that tall and not have people notice it, although i did completely ignore a building being built right across the street from my grandma's job.