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World's Best Skylines

By Super Admin

A skyline is best described as the overall or partial view of a silhouette of a city's tall buildings and structures consisting of many skyscrapers in front of the sky in the background. It can also be described as the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates. Skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint of a city, as no two skylines are alike. Skylines are the fingerprint of every city. All urban life begins each day and ends each night under the watch of the city's tallest skyscrapers and most grand architectural structures.

Petronas Towers While the Petronas Towers may not be the world's tallest buildings anymore, they are still quite iconic, and the skyline of Kuala Lumpur surely does not disappoint. The Petronas Twin Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the world's tallest twin buildings. They were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004 if measured from the level of the main entrance to the structural top. Supported by 75-by-75-foot concrete cores and an outer ring of widely-spaced super columns, the towers showcase a sophisticated structural system that accommodates its slender profile and provides from 14,000 to 22,000 square feet of column-free office space per floor. The hight of the building is 1,483 ft.

Sears Tower

A triumph of ingenuity and innovation, Sears Tower stands tall among the Chicago skyline. Sears Tower stands tall, over 1,700 feet aloft, overlooking the west side of Chicago's downtown Loop. Clad in bronze-tinted glass and stainless aluminum, rising with determination yet elegance from the depths of its grand foundations to the tips of its massive spires, luring tourists in daze, housing a workforce of thousands, the Big Store represents an era in Chicago of optimism and opportunity that will not be forgotten.

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931. The Empire State Building rises to 1,250 feet at the 102nd floor, and including the 203 foot pinnacle, its full height reaches 1,453 feet. The building has 85 stories of commercial and office space and an indoor and outdoor observation deck on the 86th floor. The remaining 16 stories represent the art deco tower, which is capped by a 102nd floor observatory. Atop the tower is the 203 foot pinnacle. The Empire State Building is the first building to have more than 100 floors. It also has over 100 bathrooms or lavatories.

Space Needle

The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington. It is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and the symbol of Seattle. Located in Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. The Space Needle is 605 feet high and 138 feet wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons.. Massive steel beams form the slender legs and upper body. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 mph and earthquakes up to 9.5 magnitude and has 25 lightning rods on the roof to prevent lightning damage.

Story first published: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 12:15 [IST]