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44 of the world’s 72 tallest buildings are cheating
It turns out that most of the world's tallest buildings are doing the architectural equivalent of wearing platform shoes. That is, they're scraping skies courtesy of dozens—sometimes hundreds—of meters of "vanity height," says a new report (pdf) by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), first spotted by io9. That's the term CTBUH uses...
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