This is a selfie video captured by steeplejack (a tradesman who scales buildings to inspect/repair them, originally named for climbing church steeples) James Marksbury while hanging onto the top spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City at approximately 1,000-feet. For reference, I’m just over 6’1″, so he’s at
This is a video from the streets of Shenzhen, China of people evacuating and fleeing the 71-story SEG Plaza skyscraper after it began swaying for no apparent reason. The building is the world’s 72nd tallest (21st tallest in China), and measures 256-meters (~840-feet) including its antennae. Officials reported calm winds
This is a fun visualization of the world’s tallest buildings from 1901 – 2021. I was actually unaware of the two upcoming world’s tallest buildings: the Jeddah Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Dubai Creek Tower in Dubai, but after a little research I learned the Jeddah Tower project