The dam will be 315 metres (about 1,033 feet) high when fully completed. It will be as high as a 100-storey skyscraper, ...

Already topped out when construction hit a pause, it now holds the unenviable record of world's tallest abandoned skyscraper. At a whopping 1,959 feet, it is nearly twice as tall as The Shard.

The Shuangjiangkou hydropower project in southwest China – which will be the world’s tallest dam when completed – began ...