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Top 10 building in the world

Though most of these tallest buildings are located in the United States and China, a variety of countries appear here.

10 Tallest Buildings in the World — New York City is home to the tallest building in the United States, which actually ranks as the 4th tallest building worldwide.

The top ten tallest buildings worldwide according to data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat are listed herein. The organization only measures the highest points of these buildings, regardless of non-architectural and architectural extensions. This highest point measure assists in determining air traffic obstruction. It also includes extensions that can be added, modified or removed from these buildings. The expansion of towns and cities has increased the rate of such tall buildings construction in the world due to land scarcity, and there seems to be a great deal of competition within and between cities, regions and countries alike in the construction of the tallest structures and most complex geometries in bids for recognition. These skyscrapers’ locations, building functions, and the materials used to build are also changing with time. North America used to have 75 percent of the tallest buildings 20 years ago, but this has shifted to Asia and Middle East. As a result, per 2014 data, North America’s share of these dropped to 25 percent. The cost of construction has also risen due to the complexity of the structures and technological engineering approaches necessary to take them ever higher.

10. Willis Tower, United States - 1451 Feet

Willis Tower is located in Chicago, and it was completed in the year 1973. It was the tallest building in the world for 25 years. It has a height of 1,451 feet with 108 stories. It is one of the city of Chicago’s most popular tourist destinations.

9. Zifeng Tower, China - 1476 Feet

The Zifeng Tower is located in Nanjing City, and it was completed in 2008. It is 1,476 feet tall with 89 floors. The building was designed by Adrian Smith. It has office spaces, hotel rooms, observatory decks, restaurants and retail centers.

8. Petronas Towers, Malaysia - 1483 Feet

The Petronas Tower is located in Kuala Lumpur, and it was completed in 1998. It is also called the Petronas Twin Towers. It is 1,483 feet tall with 88 floors. It used to be the tallest building from 1998 to 2004. Its towers remain the tallest twin buildings in the world.

7. International Commerce Center, Hong Kong - 1588 Feet

The International Commerce Centre is located in Hong Kong, and it was completed in the year 2010. It has a height of 1588 feet tall with 118 floors. It has shopping malls, “Sky100” observation decks, restaurants and offices. The height of this building was hindered by regulations that do not allow buildings to be taller than the surrounding mountains. It has the largest sound and light show within one building, which is carried out twice per night over an area of 54,000 square feet of platforms.

6. Shanghai World Financial Center, China - 1614 Feet

The Shanghai World Financial Centre was completed in the year 2008, and has a height of 1,614 feet with 101 floors. It acts as an international finance and trade center. It has hotels, rooms, offices, conferences, observation decks and shopping malls. Its tower has a trapezoid aperture towards the peak. It has an air controlling feature called Variable Air Volume (VAV), and it is designed with a diagonal frame to mitigate bending and compressive forces from people inside the building, the wind, and heavy equipment on the ground alike.

5. Taipei 101, Taiwan - 1667 Feet

This is the fifth tallest building in the world at 1667 feet tall, and has 101 floors to symbolize time renewal. It is located in Taipei City. It has a blue-green glass curtain wall, and was completed in the year 2004. The building was designed and constructed by C. Y. Lee & Partners and KTRT Joint Venture. The building has the flexibility and resilience to withstand earthquake tremors and typhoon winds. This structure has been awarded by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) as a green building as well.

4. One World Trade Center, United States - 1776 Feet

This is the fourth tallest building in the world at 1,776 feet tall and 104 stories. It located in New York City and it was completed in the year 2014. It is the tallest building in the US. It was built to act as a functional building commemorative to the 9/11 attacks, and it also dominates the New York skyline. The One World Trade Center was designed by Owings & Merrill and David M. Childs. It has offices, an observation deck, restaurants, telecommunications antennae, and broadcast facilities. According to designers, the building has life-safety systems, dense fireproofing, and features renewable energy, the reuse of rainwater, wide pressurized stairs, and day lighting to interior parts of the tower. It also has the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and World Trade Center Transportation Hub. It is expected to have a center for the Performing Arts as well.

3. Makkah Royal Clock Tower, Saudi Arabia - 1972 Feet

This is the third tallest building in the world at 1,972 feet tall. It is also referred to as Abraj Al Bait. It is located in the Islamic holy city of Mecca. It is a complex hotel with 120 floors, and is owned by the government of Saudi Arabia. It was constructed by the Saudi Binladin Group, which is the largest construction firm in Saudi Arabia. It was completed in the year 2012. The German architecture firm SL Rasch GmbH and the Mahmoud firm co-designed the clock tower. The clock dimensions have an area of 141 square feet, hence the largest worldwide. The tower has hotel rooms, a conference center, an Islamic Museum, a prayer room that can be used by 10,000 people, a Lunar Observation Centre for watching the moon during the Holy Month, a shopping mall with five stories, and 21,000 green and white lights which signal prayer times five times a day located on the top of the clock. These prayer lights can be seen 19 miles away.

2. Shanghai Tower, China - 2073 Feet

According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, this tower is ranked to be the second tallest building in the world. It has 121 floors and a height of 2,073 feet tall. The construction of Shanghai Tower began in the year 2006 and it took eight years of work before its completion in March of 2014. The total cost of the building was $4.2 billion. The tower is located in Shanghai’s Luijiazui financial district. It is even taller than the other two world-renowned skyscrapers in Shanghai: Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Centre. This building was designed to serve as a hotel and office by the American architectural company Gensler. It has a total of 1,100 parking spaces and 320 hotel rooms. The structure has a fascinating view of the Shanghai city landscape from its top floors.

1. Burj Khalifa, United Arab Emirates - 2717 Feet

The building is located in Dubai and it holds the claim as being the world’s tallest building. It has 163 floors and a height of 2,717 feet tall, and its primary construction materials are steel and concrete. The building was designed by Owings, Skidmore and Merrill of Chicago, while the South Korean company Samsung C&T carried out the engineering and construction of the structure. It was completed in the year 2010. The building was a project by the United Arab Emirates’ government to shift the country’s economy from solely oil-based to a more tourism- and service-based nation. The building has 30,000 residences, 19 residential towers, a man-made lake which occupies 30 acres, parkland which occupies seven acres, nine hotels, and a shopping mall. This superstructure has given the United Arab Emirates international recognition.