The world’s tallest tower already stands at 158 storeys. It isn’t finished yet and its designers haven’t revealed its final height for fear of being gazumped. Yet already another tower has been announced, which will, we are assured be even taller.
If this little tale of one-upmanship reminds you of anything it has to be the breakneck pace of skyscraper construction in New York at the end of the 1920s when the Chrysler building stood briefly as the world’s tallest tower only to be pipped at the last minute by the Empire State Building a few blocks downtown.
