Top 10 countries with the most skyscrapers in the world 2026: China, US, UAE and other leading nations

[Beijingwalker]

I like skyscrapers and farmlands side by side as in Hangzhou city, beauty of contrast.

Post in thread 'Wheat harvest season near Hangzhou, beautiful blend of past, present and future'

Feb 20, 2025

Hangzhou, nature and modernity coexist in harmony

• Beijingwalker

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

See, what i suggested, doesn't mean you have to pack them in a small area. You can have a city made up of appartment buildings and still look beautiful, well planned and well managed. I took help of chatgpt to give me a 3D visualization of this idea and the following is the result.

It doesn't have to look ugly.

Well there are other downsides to having tall residential buildings

June 24th, 2026 at 6:04 PM with most people in their homes:

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https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela-earthquake-live-high-casualties-feared-after-back-to-back-tremors-hit-south-american-country-13557399

Venezuela earthquake latest: 'Devastating' number feared dead after two tremors​

Venezuela just had a Magnitude 7 and they are worried about mass casualties.



Single family home vs 7.1 quake

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7.1 Massive California Earthquake caught on Camera

 

[RealNapster]

Well there are other downsides to having tall residential buildings

6:04 PM with most people in their homes

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https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela-earthquake-live-high-casualties-feared-after-back-to-back-tremors-hit-south-american-country-13557399

Venezuela earthquake latest: 'Devastating' number feared dead after two tremors​

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Buildings don't fail in earthquakes because they want to.... they fail because they are constructed that way. Cost cutting is the culprit here. Not the building itself. I am a civil engineer by profession. Modern construction approaches can ensure that a structure remain safe even in magnitude 8.0 earthquake. Heck, even modular highrise buildings these days offer same level of earthquake resistance.

See there are things to consider,

1. Type of land and its bearing capacity matters.
2. Total load of the building and its design parameters matters.
3. Right materials and approach for the right structure.

You can not build every building on every soil condition using every material. I am sure the world can find small pockets of lands dispersed throughout the globe suitable to build these blocks each containing 50-100 such buildings. This is the need of the hour becaise unlike USA, the world dont have enough land to build suburban design towns. Pakistan is adding 5 million people every year to its population. India too. Hongkong dont have land. New Zealand is a small island country. Majority of the countries dont have much options. They got limited land which they can either use to grow food or build suburban towns over it.

 

[Nimble]

Where is Europe ? are they poor or undeveloped ?

European architecture is more beautiful in my opinion.

what an ugly style .... Hong Kong
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Almaty ( Kazakhstan ) is much better to live
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Agreed... Hong Kong looks dead with no beauty.... European architecture is any day beautiful and Turkiye also looks same like Europe as it's so closed to Europe....

 

[Beijingwalker]

Agreed... Hong Kong looks dead with no beauty.... European architecture is any day beautiful and Turkiye also looks same like Europe as it's so closed to Europe....

You Indians can only dream to have a city like Hong kong.