Twelve of the densest forests of tall buildings on Earth. From Hong Kong to Toronto, these are humanity’s artificial mountain ranges. Tap a card to explore the city on SKYDB.
The densest skyline in the world. Steep harbour slopes and limited buildable land have pushed Hong Kong into the sky like nowhere else — a forest of residential towers, many of them supertall.
A fishing village in 1980, a megacity today. Shenzhen has added more skyscrapers in the last twenty years than any other city in history.
The original skyscraper city. From the Flatiron to One World Trade and the slender supertalls of Billionaires’ Row, NYC keeps reinventing what a tall building can be.
Home of the Burj Khalifa and a forest of towers that rose out of desert in a single generation. Dubai is the city of the supertall.
The greatest metropolis in the world, with a growing number of supertalls. The earthquake-engineering pioneered here changed how the world builds.
Where the modern skyscraper was invented. Home Insurance Building (1885), Wainwright (1891), Sears Tower (1973) — the family tree starts here.
Pudong’s skyline rose from farmland in the 1990s. Today it is dominated by the twisting Shanghai Tower — one of the most graceful supertalls ever built.
A small island that builds carefully and beautifully. Long-standing height limits have produced an unusually consistent and elegant skyline.
Twin of Shenzhen across the Pearl River — another Chinese megacity that has filled itself with hundreds of tall towers in a generation.
Home of the iconic Petronas Twin Towers, and now anchored by the Merdeka 118 — one of the tallest buildings in the world.
South Korea’s capital has grown into a dense vertical city, with the elegant Lotte World Tower as its supertall centrepiece and forests of high-rise apartments in every direction.
The busiest tall-building construction site in North America. The CN Tower defined the skyline for decades; today a wall of new condo towers along Lake Ontario keeps growing.
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