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World’s Highest Skyscraper Will Be 1050m High

8:30PM Yesterday | Jesus Diaz

Forget about the 1km high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be 50m higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap. More »

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Burj Khalifa’s Plumbing: Fewer Pipes, More Trucks

3:49AM November 9, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

When I saw the Burj Khalifa in real life I was truly stunned. Indeed, the tallest skyscraper in the world defies belief. Today I learned something that also defies belief: all the poop produced there has to be removed by trucks. More »

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Watch A Ballsy Guy Climb Up Stalin’s Skyscraper Without Any Gear

11:40PM September 22, 2011 | Casey Chan

You’re you. You have your two hands and two feet and a camera. That’s it. Can you climb up a freaking skyscraper without any protective gear, safety net, rope, and whatever else sane people use when they climb? This guy did. More »

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How The Greenest Skyscraper Ever Is Rising Out Of The Rubble Of The World Trade Center

1:30AM September 9, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center transformed from a pair of gleaming towers into a carcinogenic pile of smouldering rubble that’s still killing people. Currently rising out of that rubble, though, is a skyscraper with the most environmentally advanced technologies ever attempted at the scale. More »

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These Crazy CN Tower Ride Videos Shrivel My Testes

10:11PM September 6, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Here are some videos of the new crazy tourist ride at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto. No matter how strong that harness is, I know I will be freaking out. And loving it. More »

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New Images Of The World’s Newest Tallest Building Are Insane

6:45PM August 9, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

We showed you the first look of the world’s tallest building, the Kingdom Tower. Now, Chicago’s AS+GG Architecture has released stunning new renders of the project. The glass and steel spire would look perfectly at home in Coruscant. More »

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The First Image Of The World’s New Tallest Building

2:10AM August 3, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This is the first image of what’s going to become the tallest building in the world by the end of the decade: The one kilometre! Kingdom Tower. It will dwarf the 828m Burj Khalifa. Take a look. More »

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The Newest Way To Crap Your Pants In Terror

11:05AM August 2, 2011 | brent rose

We humans are always dreaming up new ways of almost killing ourselves without actually killing ourselves. That shot of adrenaline, when you seem to be staring in death’s face, reminds us we’re alive. More »

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How A Tae Bo Class Shook An Entire Korean Skyscraper

3:40AM July 27, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Contemporary architecture is designed to hold up against a lot. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Fad fitness martial arts. Wait, what? You mean Billy Blanks can shake buildings to their very foundations? That’s… that’s embarrassing. More »

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Tourists Can Now Dangle Precariously From CN Tower

8:00PM May 11, 2011 | Seth Abramovitch

This is not going to end well. The CN Tower, which stretches 116 stories above the Toronto skyline, its “main pod” hovering there like some sort of malevolent spacecraft, will now invite tourists to stroll around its perimeter. There will be no fences, no ledges, no plexiglass walls. NOTHING, in fact, standing between you and a 365m plunge – save for the janky, sure-to-malfunction cable that binds your harness to an overhead railing. More »