Unfinished Burj Dubai Wins the 'Tallest Building' Award...For Now

There are few things more fun than the “look at me!” phenomenon of trying to build the world’s tallest building. You’ve got your gigantic skyscrapers that beat out the ones by just a couple of feet and thus take the title and your “the towers on top don’t count!” kinds of people. Really, it’s one of those things that have been going on since the beginning of time, when Grogg built his rock pile slightly taller than Froog’s (those are authentic cavemen names, by the way).