World Building

World Building can refer to:

  • The New York World Building, the tallest building in the world from 1890 to 1894.
  • The Sun Tower in Vancouver, British Columbia was known as the World Building until 1924.
  • The term world-building refers to the construction of fictional worlds or milieux.

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or building:

    Peradventure at this instant, there are beings gazing up to this very world as their future heaven.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)