In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up ...

In 1845, the society announced the winner: architect Robert Mills, who planned a circular colonnaded building ... making the Washington Monument, at 555 feet, the world’s tallest structure.

1884: Finished at 555 feet, 5⅛ inches, the tallest building in the world at the time. You can find the National Park Service’s complete Washington Monument construction timeline here.

Wacker Drive, only 35 years old, would be the world’s tallest building demolished voluntarily ... but admittedly glitzy monument to the architectural excess of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

But if you judge a city’s size by its skyline – and people often do – then you have to ask the question: are we slipping a ...

The spectacular trophy touched down in the UAE as Al Ain became the ninth club to embrace the stunning prize during an extraordinary global tour.