Skyscrapers look like their name. They are buildings so high; it appears like they are scraping, or touching the sky. With better technology, architects people who design buildings engineers and builders have been able to build buildings higher and higher. For the cities and countries where they are built, they bring a sense of pride and visitors. They bring their money and the desire to be entertained. Daniel Safarik works for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a group with members all over the world. He says the race to build tall buildings started in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries between companies showing their economic power. Now, he says, the competition is between cities, and countries. “Part of the competition, of course has to do with pure height and the bragging rights to say that you hold that title. That is certainly the case with say, the top ten and twenty.” But just being a very tall building is no longer enough to get people to visit. Safarik says those that invest heavily in entertainment will be most successful financially.
Title: The Tallest Buildings in the World
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1821/tall_buildings.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='The Tallest Buildings in the World' data-article-id='2338'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='4104'>Skyscrapers look like their name.</span> <span data-start-time='4104' data-end-time='13521'>They are buildings so high; it appears like they are scraping, or touching the sky.</span> <span data-start-time='13521' data-end-time='28292'>With better technology, architects people who design buildings engineers and builders have been able to build buildings higher and higher.</span> <span data-start-time='28292' data-end-time='37063'>For the cities and countries where they are built, they bring a sense of pride and visitors.</span> <span data-start-time='37063' data-end-time='43313'>They bring their money and the desire to be entertained.</span> <span data-start-time='43313' data-end-time='55375'>Daniel Safarik works for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a group with members all over the world.</span> <span data-start-time='55375' data-end-time='71313'>He says the race to build tall buildings started in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries between companies showing their economic power.</span> <span data-start-time='71313' data-end-time='78375'>Now, he says, the competition is between cities, and countries.</span> <span data-start-time='78375' data-end-time='85667'>“Part of the competition, of course has to do with pure height and the bragging rights to say that you hold that title.</span> <span data-start-time='85667' data-end-time='90938'>That is certainly the case with say, the top ten and twenty.”</span> <span data-start-time='90938' data-end-time='99167'>But just being a very tall building is no longer enough to get people to visit.</span> <span data-start-time='99167' data-end-time='110292'>Safarik says those that invest heavily in entertainment will be most successful financially.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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