Taps Coogan – May 11th, 2021

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The tallest building in the world to be completed in 2020 was New York City’s Central Park Tower, which now represents the tallest building outside Asia by roof height (though not when including spires) and the tallest residential building in the world.

Despite a recent renaissance of skyscraper construction in New York, China absolutely dominated the rest of the world in building skyscrapers yet again in 2020, as the following chart from Statista.com reveals.

China completed 53 skyscrapers in 2020, a full half of the number completed world-wide. The UAE completed 12, the US completed ten, and the UK: five.

All told, the 106 skyscrapers completed in 2020 represented a roughly 20% decrease compared to 2019. Looking forward, skyscrapers, the embodiment of high density urban living, have an increasingly questionable future in a world of ‘work from anywhere’ and amid a general exodus from city living, particularly in high tax US regions like New York, Chicago, and LA.

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