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In this video you can see 1. tallest building throughout history 2. historical tallest buildings/structures 3. present tallest structures 4. future of tallest structure - content of video- The great pyramid at giza in egypt was the world's tallest structure for nearly 4000 years, with 147 metre height, until the great age of cathedral building began in medieval europe. lincoln cathedral in England, which was built in 1311, had a great spire that made it slightly taller than the pyramid with 160metre height, although it was blow down in a storm in 1549. the washington monument in washington became the world's tallest structure in 1884 with 169 metre height, before the eiffel tower in paris of france, almost doubled the record for five years later with 301 metre. In 1930 the skyscraper of the 20th century Chrysler building of newyork break the record of eiffel tower with 318metre high mark. Empire state building set the new record right after one year with 381 metre height.after that the in 1973 world trade centre of newyork with 417 metre height claimed the record. the world trade centre was brought down by terrorist attack on 11 september 2001. In 1973 sears tower set the record with 443 metre height which was break by CN tower in 1976 with 553 metre height. in 1998 petronas twins tower of kuala lumpur set the new record of tallest manmade structure of 452 metres which was break by Taipei 101 in 2004. right now the tallest building in world is Burj khalifa standing at 829.8 metre. which will be break by Jeddah tower previously known as kingdom tower. it will be a first structure that will reach 1 kilometre high mark. it will be 173m taller than burj khalifa. jeddah tower might be completed as 2019. --tallest structures in the world - #talleststructures #tallestbuildings #tallestskyscrapers #structurehistory #tallestbuildinghistory #engineeringhistory