Where is the tallest house in the world?

People have long learned to build tall houses, now many live literally above the clouds. And how did it all start?

The tallest house in the world. Home Insurence

In 1885 in Chicago was built the world's first skyscraper, Home Insurence. Now it may sound funny, but it was only ten stories high. The height of the building was forty-two meters. The house was designed by the architect William LeBaron Jenny. His brainchild was not only the first high-rise, but also the first skeleton building. It was thanks to the frame of steel beams and curtain walls, it was possible to build a structure of this height. This also allowed later to attach to the "Home Insurence" two more floors. Twelve-story skyscraper was demolished in 1931. In America, and in the rest of the world, taller houses began to be built, and over time a generally accepted category of "skyscraper" - a building with more than 150 floors arose.

The tallest house in the world. Burj Khalifa

It took a century and a half (and in the scale of history it's not so much), and human ambitions allowed to build a building whose height was twenty times higher than the height of the first skyscraper. In January 2010, the official opening of the skyscraper "Tower of the Khalifa" ("Burj Khalifa") took place in the city of Dubai . Originally it was planned to name it the "Dubai Tower" ("Burj Dubai"), but then decided to rename the colossal skyscraper in honor of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyanyan - President of the United Arab Emirates. The height of the building is 828 meters, it consists of 162 floors. The construction was conducted at a record pace, it began in 2004 and for a week the workers managed to build one or two floors. The grandiose high building, whose construction costed four billion dollars, despite the fact that it was necessary to rewrite the project documentation many times , was completed in only five years.

Information for comparison. The tallest building of the late nineteenth century - the famous German Cologne Cathedral - was built for more than six hundred years. The construction began in 1248, and ended in 1880. The height of the cathedral was 157 meters.

Usually in such high skyscrapers are located hotels, shops and office space, but in " Burj Khalifa" they also made a thousand elite residential apartments. The tallest house in the world gives the chance to live "behind the clouds", but for this you have to spend the sky-high sum of money. The cost of one square meter of housing in it is from 10 to 20 thousand dollars.

The tallest house in the world. Mercury City Tower

In 2013, Moscow is completing the construction of the skyscraper Mercury City Tower. In total there will be 77 aboveground and 5 underground floors. The height of the building is almost 340 meters, due to which the skyscraper has already received the title "The highest house in Europe". Here will be located restaurants, shopping and entertainment areas, office space, apartments and penthouse with panoramic glass, a large underground parking.

In our capital there is also the longest house. In Moscow, in the Otradnoye district, on Rimsky-Korsakov Street, there is a house, the total length of which exceeds 1000 meters. It was not immediately so long, in different years new sections were attached to the house, so several postal addresses were assigned to one building. In order to get around the house around, you need to make almost an hour walk.