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This list of tallest buildings by height to roof ranks completed skyscrapers by height to roof which reach a height of 300 metres (984 ft) or more. Only buildings with continuously occupiable floors are included, thus non-building structures , including towers, are not included.
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RankNameCityCompletion A Completed Building Must ...12010220233201542012The world's tallest human-made structure is the 828-metre-tall (2,717 ft) Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building gained the official title of "tallest building in the world" and the tallest self-supported structure at its opening on January 9, 2010.
CategoryStructureCountryLocationBuilding [5] (list)Self-supporting tower [6] (list)- Burj Khalifa
- Shanghai Tower
- Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower
- Ping An Finance Center
- Lotte World Tower
- One World Trade Center
- Guangzhou CTF Finance Center
- Tianjin CTF Finance Center
- China Zun
- Taipei 101
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The Burj Khalifa, translated as Khalifa Tower, is the world-renowned tallest building in the world. It measures approximately 2,717 feet tall and includes over 160 stories. It is named in honor of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi to honor him for money donated to complete the building. The Burj Khalifa uses the bundled tube structural system which works by combining multiple structural tubes which resist lateral loads and acts as a...
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Although professional golfer Walter Hagen might think “no one remembers who came in second,” it is difficult to forget China's Shanghai Tower. The building also comes second when it comes to the world's fastest elevators and it shares the title for world's tallest indoor observation desk with the Ping An Finance Center. Despite these second-place accolades or near wins, you probably won’t be disappointed if you visit Shanghai Tower. Each floor plate is carefully rotated to create an effortles...
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The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower may be the most unique skyscraper on our list. It certainly does not look like the kind of pencil towers you may have imagined would help achieve the extra height. Translated from Arabic to Towers of the House, it is actually a complex of seven buildings that cater to the many pilgrims to Mecca. It sits in an optimal location since for many, the pilgrimage end just next door at the most sacred place in Islam: the Great Mosque of Mecca. The iconic clock tower is t...
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ThePing An International Finance Centeris the fourth tallest building in the world but only the second tallest building in China. Though it is obviously an engineering marvel already, the building almost became more prestigious by beating out the Shanghai Tower and becoming the tallest building in the world, but the antenna was never installed since there was concern it would obstruct flight paths. It does, however, have the world's tallest indoor observation deck—tied with the Shanghai Tower...
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Lotte World Toweris a diagrid building that has been referred to as “Korea's crown jewel.” Lotte World Tower is named after its developer and owner, Lotte Group, for which the nearby recreation complex is also named. Both sites are important tourism destinations for Seoul. The light color palette of the glass curtain walls and gentle curvature of the building are inspired by Korean ceramics and stand in stark contrast to the mountainous city. The building includes all of the mixed-use spaces...
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1 WTC, or the Freedom Tower, is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere in addition to its position as the sixth tallest building in the world. Its official name of One World Trade Centerwas previously the northern tower of the Twin Towers destroyed in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The tower is part of a complex which includes multiple office buildings and a National September 11 Memorial & Museum on the ground of the original Twin Towers. As a measure of added symbolism, th...
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The Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centerserves the megapolis of Guangzhou to meet its recent growth and urban expansion. The building sits on a platform or podium of eight floors of spaces mostly meant for the public and is supported by eight mega columns, similar to the Tianjin CTF Finance Center. The Guangzhou CTF Finance Center is a great example of “form follows function” in a skyscraper. Since the multipurpose building serves different functions, it needs slightly different floor sizes...
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Though the Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Binhai Centeris only the eighth tallest building in the world, it is the tallest building in the world with fewer than 100 floors. The skyscraper is considered part of the Tianjin Economic Development Area—a free market zone in Binhai, Tianjin, China—and provides new residences, office spaces, and a hotel. The building's elegant curvature is created through eight perfectly integrated mega columns, which simultaneously act to support the building and create aes...
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TheCITC Tower, often nicknamed China Zun, is the tallest building in Beijing and may stay that way for a long time due to new height restrictions for future projects. China Zun gets both its name and design inspiration from a historical vessel that the architects abstracted to fit its record-breaking structure. (A zunis an ancient wine vessel used in rituals during the Bronze Age in China.) This form also provided an additional function: the natural curvature of the vessel—which is wider on t...
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Taipei 101, previously called Taipei Financial Center, is one of the most recognizable buildings on this list of skyscrapers. It was also, for a period of time, the tallest building in the world until it was beat out by our current champion, the Burj Khalifa. While many skyscrapers are examples of contemporary design that could exist anywhere, there is something distinctly Asian about Taipei 101. There are eight separate vertical pieces of the building that each hold eight floors. This is rel...
Nov 1, 2023 · The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has developed its own system for classifying tall buildings, stating that the Burj Khalifa (828 m.) is the world’s tallest building...
- Nicolás Valencia
tallest buildings in the world, the highest-standing buildings on the globe, as determined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), an international nonprofit organization headquartered in Chicago. The CTBUH recognizes a tall building as having 14 or more stories and standing more than 50 meters (165 feet) tall.
May 24, 2024 · The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world standing at a gargantuan 828m (2,717ft) tall. Construction began in 2004 and was formally opened in early 2010, although work still needed to be done on the interior.
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