I was re-watching the “Titans Who Built America” and in the episode there was a competition as to whom was going to build the world’s tallest building, Charles Chrysler or Pierre DuPont. DuPont won with the Empire State Building, Chrysler lost with e Chrysler building.
At one point the Sears Tower or “Big Willy” here in Chicago was the world’s tallest, but that was completed in 1974 and held the title only for 24 years when it was beaten out in 1998.
The top twenty tallest buildings were all built since the year 2000 and only two of those twenty are in the US and we stand at number 7 with our tallest in NY. Beaten by United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea.
We seem to be coming up short in a number of categories, but I guess we can left others have the tallest building.