The Sad Fates Of The World's Six Tallest Unfinished Buildings

Building a house is stressful. Building a skyscraper is a nuclear bomb of stress, problems, and carefully-coordinated chaos that is closely tied to the economy, and that is easily derailed by war, politics, and financial downturns.
It's not an uncommon story. There are plenty of super-tall buildings that were proposed but never made it through to reality. Recently, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat looked at a unique subset of these failed projects that are especially interesting: Super-tall buildings that actually did begin construction, but were never completed.