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A scale diagram of 5 skyscrapers made using data from public-domain sources
- This diagram shows height to tip of the tallest structural elements in each building. If measured from the ground to the highest attached component of Sears Tower it is the tallest in the world, but as the attennas are not actually structural they aren't considered part of the building, thus the Sears Tower building itself is considerably shorter than Taipei 101 and behind the Petronas Towers. Using the official method of ranking heights, which counts decorative spires but not antennas, the tallest towers go in order from Tapei 101, Petronas Towers, and then the Sears Tower followed by the Jin Mao Tower. Sears tower has the most floors at 108, and has a higher roof than the roof of the Petronas Towers.
- It's true that there are many different ways of determining what the world's tallest tower is. Do you count from the foundation, or the ground level, or sea level? Does the antenna count? Do you just count up to the highest inhabitable floor? Does the Space Needle count? There are several buildings that could be the world's tallest, depending on how you look at it. See [1] (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000721.html) for more. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 19:46, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
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