Living the high life: Hong Kong tops world charts for skyscrapers - and most of them are residential

When you think of the world’s most striking cityscapes, you might initially imagine the towering skyscrapers of New York, Dubai or even Shanghai.

But these days it’s Hong Kong which has the most skyscrapers of any city in the world - with nearly three quarters of them used for housing.

With 310 high-rises standing at least 492 feet height, the city has overtaken its international counterparts in the global city rankings by number of skyscrapers, helped by a spike in residential development projects completed since the late 1990s.

Hong Kong has seen a boom in skyscraper construction at the start of the new millennium.

The year 2003 has seen a peak 56 skyscrapers completed in the city, highlighted by 88-storey Two International Finance Centre in Central District that was once the tallest in the city before being surpassed by International Commerce Centre in Kowloon, now the world’s ninth tallest by height, in 2010.