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In the realm of supertall skyscrapers, the recently completed Pearl River Tower (PRT) in Guangzhou, China, isn't that tall. At 1,020 feet, it is the 59th-tallest tower in the world, and just 36 feet taller than the 300-meter (984 feet) minimum that constitutes one widely held definition of a supertall building. It isn't even the tallest in Guangzhou's new business district, where shiny office and hotel towers are arranged—much like tchotchkes on a coffee table—around a park that covers a subway station and a vast underground shopping mall.