There's a correlation between the rise of tall buildings and financial turmoil, according to the British investment bank Barclays Capital, which cites vertical growth in NYC ('30), Chicago ('74), Kuala Lumpur ('97) and, in recent years, Dubai. This could mean interesting things for China, where more than half of the 124 skyscrapers currently underway will be finished by 2018. [Architizer]
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