I think it is interesting that so many Middle Eastern countries are on this list. Maybe even a bit ironic given the Tower of Babel story. I wonder if that story is included in the Quran, or if Muslims in general are aware of it.
Similarly to US, they have a lot of space and cash to build these. These big buildings just wouldn't fit in Europe for example. I mean imagine Empire states building next to Louvre😂 or Burj Khalifa next to Big Ben.
Wouldn't fit? I'd suggest that it's more to do with the lack of space in these middle-east countries that leads them to build upwards. France for example has a lot more space than many of the countries here, but cities like Paris are "historical" and protected by strict regulations. There's a park opposite the Louvre that could fit several Empire State Buildings, but it ain't gonna happen...
The skyscrapers of Dubai and other petrocities were often built on the outskirts of the city. These countries have historically been incredibly sparsely populated. Outside of a few oases, food and water are scarce on the Arabian Peninsula and there aren't many vast, arable plains to grow a crop of cereals to feed a city. So until they began producing a valuable export, the cities of the peninsula weren't very sprawling. Dubai, for example, was a fishing and pearl trading village of fewer than 100,000 people in the '50s.
Tall skyscrapers are essential to modern desert urbanization. It's more convenient to build upwards and have all of your housing and resources(shopping, entertainment, etc.) fixed in a smaller area than spread out over a large area and have everyone travel over a large area in the heat.
Considering Astana literally means "capital city", I think that has been well established. I mean, they did rename it again, but I'm not sure it was that much of an improvement.
Spent the last two minutes trying to think what obscure countries I had missed that might have sky scrapers. Ran out of time and hey presto, I missed some place called “China”!?
Kinda awkward, given that according to Wikipedia, of the 74 buildings in the world over 350m, 35 are in China. The next nearest country, the UAE, has 13 and the US has 11. In terms of cities with the most skyscrapers, China accounts for 6 of the top 10 in the world. New York (3), Dubai (4), Tokyo (6) and Chicago (7) are the only non-Chinese cities; Hong Kong (1), Shenzhen (2), Shanghai (5), Chongqing (8), Guangzhou (9) and Wuhan (10) are the Chinese cities. If you count Shenzhen and Guangzhou as one, as Jetpunk often does, then Shenyang and Singapore, which are tied, move up into 10th place. Guangzhou-Shenzhen stays second, but has substantially closed HK's massive lead. Anyway, point is China is basically THE country for skyscrapers.
I'd probably get Kazakhstan if I haven't looked at the name of building. Kazakhstan has been somewhat important Soviet Republic and part of Russian empire so I'd imagine they'd be on that list.
Is it finished? It topped out in February, but even on the builder site, it suggest it hasn't actually been completed. Would be nice to see it included soon :)
Malaysia was one of the first ones I typed because of the Petronas Towers, but I didn't hear about this new one until I took this quiz. Congrats! Malaysia is a country I'd certainly like to visit someday :)
Abu dhabi plaza doesn't seem appropriate here as it's a plaza consisting of five buildings. The supertall building is called Qasaqstan tower. So it would be appropriate to put _________ tower, abu dhabi plaza as the clue.
Qatar's Aspire Tower should be replaced with the Lusail Plaza Tower 3 (or 4 - both are the same height according to Wikipedia). Both are a meter taller than Aspire Tower (301 m).
I wish the blanks for the towers could get filled in when I guess their country. I’m now left pondering what on earth could be the name of that tower in Turkey.
Kazakhstanis are clearly not good at naming things.
What's the process of naming buildings in Kazakhstan?
How much I can recall the Baiyoke Tower II is the third or fourth tallest skyscraper
I don't know why. Maybe there's a good reason.