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Guess who managed to hold the world's highest buildings titles in history. Subscribe us: Youtube Channel: http://goo.gl/H4x2vr Our Tweets: https://twitter.com/YT_Engineering8 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Engineering8Channel Tumblr: http://engineering8.tumblr.com/ Google+ page: https://goo.gl/upGvEV Top 10 world highest buildings in history are: 10. Metropolitan Life Tower. Tallest building on the planet for 3 years. 9. Woolworth Building. Constructed which costs 13.5 USD (1913 value). Manages to hold record for 17 years. 8. bank of Manhattan Trust Building. Now known as The Trump Building. Only crowned title for a month. 7. The Chrysler Building Until today still the world's tallest brick building albeit with an internal steel skeleton. 6. Empire State Building Hold record for 40 years with design concept based on art deco. 5. World Trade Center Hold title for short time before overtook by Sears Tower. Destroyed in 9/11 tragedy. 4. Sears Tower/Willis Tower The tallest tower in Chicago. Had controversy with Petronas Towers who should hold the record. 3. Petronas Twin Towers Still the tallest twin towers in the world. 2. Taipei 101 Endowed with biggest mass damper to encounter typhoon and earthquake. 1. Burj Dubai/Burj Khalifa Current holder of world tallest buiding/structure. Forecast to be surpassed by Kingdom Tower once it finised in 2019. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_tallest_buildings_in_the_world Aurea Carmina by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400006 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ This video features images from personalities stated in links below which are licensed under CC BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ List of original image owners. (list cannot written here since its too long according to YouTube): http://psudatabase.com/CC-BY-credits-youtube-1kKYvVIbOi0.txt I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (https://www.youtube.com/editor)