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Weiguan Jinlong is the best example, assuming we consider 17 stories to be a skyscraper.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/02/19/...

Not that I can see, but the Citicorp Center in NYC could have if not for emergency actions that were taken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_cr...

The whole welding vs bolting consideration is what’s most interesting to me. I’m still in awe the space needle is 100% bolted

Are you not counting the Surfside (Miami) condo collapse?

Also since it talked about the leaning tower of Pisa: the Civic tower in Pavia (1989) and original Campanile in Venice (1902), probably more examples like that.

At 12 floors, the Champlain Towers South in Surfside would generally not be considered a skyscraper.

Approximately the same size of residential structure, a condo tower in Islamabad Pakistan collapsed in an earthquake in 2005. The earthquake didn't collapse any other condos in the same city, it wasn't an extremely severe one, the fault was with deficiencies in the structural engineering and construction.

https://www.google.com/search?q=margalla+towers+islamabad+co...