Tallest Buildings In History To Scale (1 pixel = 1 meter)

Top 10 tallest buildings in history over time (3200BC to 2021) using to-scale building images where 1 pixel on the screen is equal to 1 meter when viewed in full 1080p quality.

Building height for this video is generally "architectural height", meaning the tallest of roof & spire height. The data does not count antennas, which can make certain buildings appear taller than others even if they rank lower. Also note that communication towers and other non-building, non-ancient structures were not included in the plot.

Note that the data set only has one image per building but some buildings change height over time either due to damage or additions. In those cases the building's size may not exactly align to scale with others.

Also note that years in which the top 10 buildings in the world did not change were excluded from the plot. There were some years (and long periods) in history with no new tall buildings in the top 10; skipping those years was the only good way I found to keep the graph moving and interesting.

Data: Custom data set compiled from various sources including:
Wikipedia

Images:

Plotting:
No existing data visualization tools were capable of making this plot the way I wanted, so I made this as a custom data viz in the browser with JavaScript.

Music:
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

[mattburrowes]

For those wondering, the Pyramid of Khufu is the Pyramid of giza.

[Wilbert-lidf]

I'm surprise that the CN tower in Toronto, Canada 🍁 was not included at 1, 815 feet tall, broke records in 1976 if the Eiffel tower which is not a building was included then these observation towers should of it is part of our architectural history

[dimetronome]

Nice work, but it seems inconsistent. For example, why do you include the Eiffel Tower, but no other observation towers?

[ryanslearningchannel]

The shot of the Twin Towers disappearing is so sad 7:25😭😭😭

[mehboobahmaddemon]

7:25 world 2 towers: ima head out see ya

[Geographyandhistory]

Even tho this has many inaccuracies it's still amazing

[lscstudiosvb]

wow, the 417m and 415m buildings seem really structurally sound! I'm sure nothing will happen to them!

[McePlayss]

I’m a fan of such tall buildings :>

[milliexfriends]

they did not js do the john hancock tower like that (they called it 875 north michigan ave, which is just the adress)

[ryanmanchikanti]

Could you please make a tutorial on creating such bar graph race videos, would really appreciate it. PS I'm still not over the dbz video it's insane !

[jydjkmu]

steps to make tallest building:

1. climb up to mt everest

2. put ur house there
u did it

[ryanslearningchannel]

I love how in this shot 4:00 the Pyramid of Khufu is still the tallest in 1746

[ahmadfaizabdrahman]

7:15 most tallest twin buildings in the world (1998-present)

[avneeshp]

Hindu Temples (many over 1000yrs left the chat..)

*Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam*

The Tallest Temple (gopuram)
Is 236m --One can easily see the coast of Sri Lanka from the top of the gopuram.
This temple is about 700 yrs old!!
You guys only now how to include churches & pyramids but these temples are way older..

[mattburrowes]

Nobody ever takes notice of the sky tower.

[cool]

How the chinese came dominating it in simply 20 years lol

[harryjamesrichardson]

The Eiffel Tower is 324m not 300m in 1960

[ryanslearningchannel]

I love how half the video the top 3 are just Pyramids🤣🤣🤣

[brandon.cho.portfolio]

Do you spell one of the pyramids wrong?

[fabianm]

I looked up the new grange on google earth it’s in Ireland 🇮🇪🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮