10 Tallest Buildings in The World

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10 Mar 2018

This list of tallest buildings in the world ranks skyscrapers by height. Only buildings with continuously occupiable floors are included, thus non-building structures, including towers, are not included.

1. Burj Khalifa
Construction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed in 2009. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. It is designed to be the centerpiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The building was named in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; Abu Dhabi and the UAE government lent Dubai money to pay its debts. The building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest tower in the world.

2. Shanghai Tower
Is a megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. Designed by Gensler and owned by a consortium of Chinese state-owned companies, it is the tallest of a group of three adjacent supertall buildings in Pudong, the other two being the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center. The building is 632 metres high and has 137 stories, with a total floor area of 380,000 m2. Its tiered construction, designed for high energy efficiency, provides multiple separate zones for office, retail and leisure use.

3. Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower
Is a government-owned megatall building complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that strives to modernize the city in catering to its pilgrims. The central hotel building has the world's largest clock face and is the third tallest building and fourth tallest freestanding structure in the world. The building complex is metres away from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the Masjid al-Haram.

4. Ping An Finance Centre
Is a 115-storey megatallskyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. The building was commissioned by Ping An Insurance and designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. It is expected to be completed in 2016, thus becoming the 4th tallest building in the world.

5. Lotte World Tower
Is a 123-floor, 555-metre supertall skyscraper and has finished external construction on March 17, 2016. The building's final 123rd floor was topped out on 22 December 2015.[3] It is currently the tallest building in the OECD. The tower is located next to the existing first-generation Lotte World complex, which opened in 1989.

6. One World Trade Center
Also known as the Freedom Tower, 1 World Trade Center, One WTC and 1 WTC is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The supertall structure has the same name as the North Tower of theoriginal World Trade Center, which was completely destroyed in September 11, 2001.

7. CTF Finance Centre
Formerly The CTF Guangzhou, Chow Tai Fook Centre or Guangzhou East Tower is a supertall skyscraper in Guangzhou, China. It is the second of two Guangzhou Twin Towers skyscrapers built that overlook the Pearl River in Guangzhou. It was completed in 2016 with a height of 530 metres and 111 floors. The building is used as a conference centre, hotel, observatory, mall and office building.

8. Taipei 101
Formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center – is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building was officially classified as the world's tallest in 2004, and remained such until the completion of Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2009. In 2011, the building was awarded the LEED platinum certification, the highest award according to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, and became the tallest and largest green building in the world.

9. Shanghai World Financial Center
is a supertall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company, with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as its structural engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corp and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as its main contractor. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls.

10. International Commerce Centre
is a 108-storey, 484 m commercial skyscraper completed in 2010 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a part of the Union Square project on top of Kowloon Station. It was the 4th tallest building in the world (third in Asia) when its construction was completed in 2010. Now, it is the world's 10th tallest building by height, world's fifth tallest building by number of floors, as well as the tallest building in Hong Kong.

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