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With the technology we have right now, the tallest structure we could possibly build is the X-Seed 4000 – this building hasn’t been built yet, but the blueprints have been completed. This mammoth structure would be 4 kilometres (2.4 miles) tall. We’re talking the same size as Mt Fuji in Japan.

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Gevora Hotel

We’ll start with the 15 tallest, then round off with the behemoths of the future.

• 17 #4 – Ping An Finance Centre, Shenzhen, China – 1,966 Feet.
• 18 #3 – Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower, Mecca, Saudi Arabia – 1,971 Feet.
• 19 #2 – Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China – 2,073 Feet.
• 20 #1 – Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE – 2,717 Feet.

Tallest buildings in the world

The Eiffel stands at 1,063 ft from base to tip, the Empire State Building is 1,250 ft (1,454 ft if you include the antenna) Eiffel Tower is taller.

Times Tower

The Eiffel Tower is the eldest. The tallest tower is Burj Khalifa (828 metres) and the shortest is the Bratislava UFO (95 metres).

1. The Burj Khalifa height is a staggering 828 meters (2716.5 feet) tall, soaring over Dubai. It’s three times as tall as the Eiffel Tower and nearly twice as tall as the Empire State Building.

The Eiffel Tower is taller than the Statue of Liberty. The Eiffel Tower currently measures 1,063 feet in height, although it was just 1,024 feet when…

300 m, 324 m to tip

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Of the 250 people who worked building the tower, nobody died as a result of actually working on the tower. One Italian guy died (Angelo Scagliotti) when he came to the tower to visit it “privately” with his wife and had an accident (source in French : Un seul mort avant l’inauguration ).

Hitler ordered the Eiffel Tower to be destroyed. When Germany occupied France during the second World War, Hitler ordered that the Eiffel Tower be torn down, but the order was never followed through.

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel

Why was the Eiffel Tower built? The Eiffel Tower was built to be one the main attractions at the Paris World’s Fair in 1889. That year, the World’s Fair covered the entire Champ de Mars in Paris and its focus was the vast constructions in iron and steel that were the great industrial advancement of that time.

engineer Gustav eiffel proposed building a 300-meter tower, which would be the world’s highest. the project cost 6.5 million francs (approximately €20 million today). The state provided 1.5 million francs, and the balance was to be paid by the monument’s operations during the fair and over the next 20 years.

One of the main reasons the Eiffel Tower is so famous is because it was a modern, artistic design that was considered ‘crazy’ at the time of construction. Another reason that the Eiffel Tower became so famous around the world was that, at the time, it was the world’s tallest structure by quite a long way.

In fact, the Tower has been repainted for over 130 years, about once every 7 years. So if it is repainted, the Eiffel Tower can last… forever.

Unsurprisingly, there’s a price tag – around $250 per person – attached to the Experience, the name given to the five- or six- course dinner tasting menu.

People call Paris “the City of Love” because of the romantic atmosphere it exudes. In fact, The City of Love isn’t just a random nickname given to Paris; it’s the perfect description anyone who visited the French capital would give to the city for all the romantic vibes they find there.

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