In 1962, nine skyscrapers that are among the tallest buildings in the world were in Manhattan. In 1981, the situation has changed a bit, and only five of the tallest towers reaching for the sky all on the same island, and in company with three Chicago skyscrapers, they accounted for eight of the ten highest skyscrapers in the world. Today, the only skyscraper of the United States, which is among the ten tallest buildings is One World Trade Center which can be found in Lower Manhattan. Despite this, Apple remains the leader when it comes to concentration of skyscrapers in the cities.
Data collected by the resource Newgeography site Skyscraper Center shows that most of the buildings with a height less than 150 metres are mainly in East Asia (7 of 10 and 18 of the 25 tallest buildings in the world).
Hong Kong ranked first in the ranking of cities with the largest number of tall buildings. In total there are 317 skyscrapers and only one of them, Centre for international trade, included in the list of the tallest buildings in the world.
new york is second place and there is a total of, 257 skyscrapers. The tallest building in the Big Apple, One World Trade Center is the 6th tallest building in the world, but soon and with this title he will have to part, when, in 2020-ies will be completed the construction of high-rise buildings with a height of 541 meters. And then, for the first time in the history of skyscrapers, the United States will not be included in the top 10 countries with the highest buildings in the world.
Behind new York in the ranking of cities with the highest concentration of skyscrapers, followed by Dubai, Tokyo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chicago, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Singapore.
In the coming decades, the list of 25 incredibly high skyscrapers of the world replenished with buildings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (vysolov 1000 metres), the two skyscrapers in new York, and two skyscrapers in Russia: in Saint-Petersburg and in Grozny.
