1. Burj Khalifa

Height: 828 meters
Floor: 168
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Complete: December 30, 2008

The tower-shaped sharp needle and is described as "vertical city" because it obscures all existing buildings and limited repel architecture and construction. The tower consists of 164 stories, more than any other building in the world and has a 124-floor balcony allows a panoramic view of the city.

The tower 828 m high and 1.69 billion dollars worth, was built from 9/2004, and to 12,000 workers to complete. At one point, just after 3 days a new layer to be grown up. The amount of concrete used to build enough towers to cover a 2,065 km long roads and reinforcing steel can fully extended quarter way around the earth. On the 39th floor, a luxury bathroom and entertainment facilities can meet the needs of the most sumptuous mogul in the world.

Cooling System creates enough water to fill 20 Olympic swimming pools every year. The tower design includes 1,000 apartments and 49 floors for offices and a hotel by expert fashion designer Giorgio Armani. The tower not only broke the record for height but also enrolled in other records as the highest balcony to observe the world's fastest elevators with speed 64 km / h...Toan the outer surface the tower is made of glass and steel can cover an area of ​​17 football fields. Located at the foot of the tower will be the center of Downtown Burj Dubai width 202 ha, including 30,000 homes, 9 hotels, a 24,000 m2 park, the biggest mall Dubai Mall world wide 836,000 m2 and a large lake 120,000 m2.

Works by Adrian Smith from Chicago, United States, and bring ideas designed to bridge the gap between the Arab world traditions with modern Western style. Dubai hopes the tower will be inaugurated help polish the image of a country being torn to pieces because of the economic crisis and the debt pile.

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2. Tokyo Sky Tree

Height: 634 meters
Country: Japan
City: Tokyo
Complete: February 29, 2012

Tokyo Sky Tree Tower is the new TV tower in Tokyo, located in Sumida area near Asakusa district. With a height of 634 meter Tokyo Sky Tree is a television tower with the highest Japanese architecture and ranks second in the world at the time of completion.

Tokyo Sky Tree - a joint project of the railway company Tobu television and radio city. With a height of Tokyo Sky Tree is turned over to city-wide coverage, and of course more efficient than existing Tokyo Television Tower with a height of 333 meters. Structurally, the Tokyo Sky Tree is set two observation deck and a commercial center - Tokyo Sky Tree Town.

The tower has a restaurant and two cafes on the observatories, and an emergency staircase with 2,523 steps. Just 50 seconds the elevator will take you to the lower observation deck at a height of 350 meters and an additional 30 seconds to take you to the observatory at an altitude higher than 450 meters. The tower was built with extremely durable steel tubes and crank medical centers around a concrete column. In case of an earthquake, concrete pillars and steel frame are designed interact to reduce movement of the whole tower. The tower is designed to withstand magnitude 7 earthquake. Tokyo Sky Tree Tower is expected to enhance the operation of broadcast television and radio stations in the capital Tokyo and the tourist attractions.

The tower Guinness Book of World Records recognized as the tallest tower, surpassing China's Canton Tower (600 meters high). Building the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa is currently in Dubai with a height of 828 meters. The building of the skyscraper group, other than those towers.

3. Willis Tower

Height: 527 meters
Floor: 108
Country: United States
City: Chicago
Complete: 1973

Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States since 1973.

A building to see the ingenuity and creativity, Sears Tower presence on Chicago's skyline, and was built in 1974. The building is 442 meters tall (1,450 ft).

The building was designed by Fazlur Kahn includes nine different frame tube, which is actually nine skyscrapers combined together into one building. The result is an interesting tower, which looks different from every angle. With comprehensive security networks and more than 3.8 million square feet of office and retail space, Sears Tower is an ideal business location in Chicago.

July 16, 2009, at 10 am, the building and the building was officially renamed Willis Tower.

"Willis Tower is not only the symbol of Chicago, but it is also a symbol of the country is the whole world to know"

4. Taipei 101

Height: 509 meters
Floor: 101
Country: Taiwan
City: Ack-ack
Complete: 2004

Taipei 101 Tower, formerly known as the World Financial Center Taipei. The building has a height of 449.2 meters to the roof, if you count the antenna mast on the roof of the building will reach 509.2 m height. The building includes 101 stories above the ground as his name in the basement with built deep into the ground, and also serve as a solid foundation to support the weight of the whole project.

The foundation of the building was reinforced by 380 large piles, each pile has a diameter of 1.5 m plunged 80m to the ground, piles also penetrates deeper into the hard rock 30m below the surface and can withstand loads from 1,000 to 1,320 tons.

Inside the tower, suspended between floors 88 and 89 is a giant metal sphere, is described as a balance for the building of the hurricane with winds of more than 216km / g, the earthquake 7-magnitude earthquake.

To be able to be 101 floors of the building, you can choose between 61 lifts, including 2 lifts with high speed (1.010m/phut) in just 39 seconds should tourists have been "shot jump "up to level 89. It has an indoor observation deck lets you see the entire city at 383.4 m elevation. At the end of the day, Tai Pan Bar, located at the terrace of the Grand Formosa hotel should be the final destination of visitors to sip a cocktail and watch the Taipei cityscape at night.

5. The World Financial Center Shanghai

Height: 492 meters
Floor: 101
Country: China
City: Shanghai
Complete: 2008

World Financial Center Shanghai is a glass skyscraper soaring blue sky, with some very special opening on top. Near the top of a building about to open trapezoid, winds to ease the world's financial center has 101 floors.

The ground floor of the world's financial center Shanghai is used as shopping mall and corridor with elevator, with the spinning kaleidoscope ceiling. The upper floor, one of the office layout, conference rooms, hotel rooms, and observation.

Apart from the layout of office space with smart functions and specifications, modern, world financial center Shanghai is also a multi-functional complex, like a five-star luxury hotel, with the retail sector urban sophistication, leased areas, meeting space, an area of ​​"green" open, and an observatory on the ninetieth floor private, throughout the story is always the one hundred or more.

In early 2008, when completed, the world's financial center Shanghai will be soaring sky blue, to 492 m, and this is not just a symbol of the twenty-first century in Shanghai, but also position well out of Asia in the context of global financial markets.

6. Center for International Trade

Height: 484 meters
Floor: 118
Country: Hong Kong
City: Hong Kong
Complete: 2010

It is the tallest building in Hong Kong, with 118 floors. Used to blue hotel and office. From floors 102 to floors 118 with a total of 312 rooms overlooking the harbor and city.

7. Petronas Towers

Height: 452 meters
Floor: 88
Country: Malaysia
City: Kuala Lumpur
Complete: 1998

Petronas Towers have 88 floors, the roof height of the building is 403 m, growing on land used to be a racing school. The structure of the building is mostly concrete with extremely good bearing capacity. Surface complete with two glass towers and steel, was designed by art motifs Islam, the main religion in Malaysia.

Due ground pretty hard, the Petronas Towers nails dug deep to 120 m, with a record of building high-rise buildings in the world. Had to have a huge amount of concrete was poured at the base to ensure stability.

An impressive landmark twin towers of the bridge is in the air (Skybridge), a height of 170 m and 158 m long, is located in the 41st and 42nd floors, which is considered the floor for visitors who want to move up the higher levels have to change elevators here. After the terror of 9/11, no longer stinging open to visitors. Each day is only 1,400 passengers on tour and totally free. The building is closed on Monday every week.

Below the twin towers is Suria KLCC - one of the major commercial center and the most modern Malaysia and Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, the famous Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaysia. Outside the building is a park with jogging track and promenade. A fountain with water recitals, lake walks and children's playground.

The building is the first fully working office of Petronas Company, the owner of the company and the subsidiary. Towers spent most of the rest of the rental.

8. Jin Mao Tower

Height: 421 meters
Floor: 88
Country: China
City: Shanghai
Complete: 1998

Being the second tallest building only to Shanghai World Financial Center in mainland China, Jin Mao Tower is located in the center of Lujiazui Finance and Trade Districts in Pudong.

The tower has the best elevators available. Two direct elevators operate at the speed of 9.1 meters (nearly 30 feet) per second that can send visitors from the ground floor to the 88th floor for only 45 seconds. There are also five to six elevators every 10 floors, which reduce waiting-time to 35 seconds even during rush hours. The tower has an annex building 6-stories high which houses the exhibition halls, conference rooms, multi-function halls, grand banquet halls and a recreational center.

The 88-stories Jin Mao Tower was completed in 1999. It is 420.5 meters (almost 1380 feet) tall and covers an area of 2.3 hectares (5.68 acres). The architect, Adrian D. Smith, of this skyscraper ingeniously combined the elements of traditional Chinese culture with the newest architectural styles of the time, which makes it one of the best-constructed buildings in China.

9. Two International Finance Centre

Height: 415 meters
Floor: 88
Country: Hong Kong
City: Hong Kong
Complete: 2003

Situated on Hong Kong Island near the narrowest crossing of the Victoria Harbour, 2 IFC - as it has become known - is a stunning architectural accomplishment. Designed by Cesar Pelli, who is responsible for myriad other well-known buildings including those of the World Financial Center in New York, this soaring tower reaches a height of 1,362 feet (415 meters).

Pelli gave the building a somewhat tapered look, with the floors at the top of the 88-story building being slightly smaller than the ones below. Covered in lightly reflective glass panels and pearl-colored mullions, the building is topped with a crown that reaches inward and upward.

The floor plan is open, with few columns taking up space inside. A central core houses the primary structure and building services. At its completion in 2003, Two International Finance Centre was equipped with the finest state-of-the-art equipment suitable for conducting high-stakes business, including high-bandwidth fiber-optic, wireless, and satellite networks and trading floors with exceptionally tall ceilings.

The building is cooled using seawater and there are 62 double-decker elevators that service the building, resulting in an average wait time of only 30 seconds!

Because it was being built when the World Trade Center tragedy occurred, the safety of the building was double checked again and again and Two IFC is considered one of the safest buildings in the world. Experts say evacuation of the building could be accomplished in less than 30 minutes.

10. CITIC Plaza

Height: 391 meters
Floor: 80
Country: China
City: Guangzhou
Complete: 1997

CITIC Plaza is a 80 story skyscraper in Tianhe District of Guangzhou. These architectures include high-altitude 391 m of the two antennas on the roof ridge. The building has 598 rooms and 36 lifts. The design of the tower was made by the architectural firm of Dennis Lau Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers. Building on the CITIC Plaza began in 1993 and was completed in 1997. CITIC Plaza is the tallest concrete building in the world.

CITIC Plaza is located in the bustling Tianhe District Guangzhou City. Guangzhou, formerly called Canton, is the capital of the Guangdong Providence, located in South China, 200 km north of Hong Kong. The city has a population of 4 million people and is one of China's cities expanded with many skyscrapers.

The office building is part of CITIC complex also includes 142 meters, 38 apartment buildings and a bustling shopping center. It is also near a new fire station to serve Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Railway and Shenzhen. There are also many restaurants and other commercial buildings in the region, including Guangzhou Book Center and Plaza flooded. The complex is named CITIC China International Trust and Investment Company, which is a state-owned company established the People's Republic of China government encourages investment in China.

11. Shun Hing Square

Height: 384 meters
Floor: 69
Country: China
City: Shenzhen
Complete 1996

Standards Shun Hing Square Shun Hing Square skyscraper in Shantou, China. The height of the building has 69 floors and is 384M. Completed in 1996, within 1 year (from 1996-1997), this building is the tallest building in China until CITIC Plaza in Guangzhou was built.

12. Empire State Building

Height: 381 meters
Floor: 102
Country: United States
City: New York
Complete: 1931

Empire State Building is a symbol of financial strength and is the heart of the city of New York. The building is designed in Art Deco style, a form of architecture popular in the 20th and 30th centuries.

Empire State Building is modeled from a pencil shape, style is quite modern, 381 m tall with 102 floors, built in a record short time, only 16 months. The name of the tower is named after the nickname (nickname) of the City of New York (Empire State). It is considered to be the tallest tower in the world for 40 years, since the completion in 1931, surpassing the Chrysler Building. Only until the World Trade Center (WTC) was completed in 1972, the Empire State Building in New take second place standing. However, after the WTC collapsed in 2001, it held the top spot in the New York and American runners, after the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Including the antenna, up to 443 m high building. 85 floors are reserved for the trade center and offices for lease, with an area of ​​over 200,000 m2. An observatory indoor and outdoor 86th floor. The remaining 16 floors of the cone where the lighting extravaganza. Empire State Building is the first building to have more than 100 floors. It has a total of 6,500 windows, 73 elevators, 1,860 high rank from the street up to 102 floors. Land area is more than 254,000 m2.

Empire State Building has one of the outdoor observatory ideal world, attracting more than 110 million people every year on the 86th floor. From here, can cover over New York. In fact, the building is an observatory on level 102 is again open to the public. But it has to be closed in 1999 and then re-open in January 11/2005. Even so, it does not attract tourists as floor area 86.

13. Central Plaza

Height: 341 meters
Floor: 78
Country: Hong Kong
City: Hong Kong
Complete: 1992

Central Plaza is a high skyscraper in Hong Kong Monday. Central Plaza is 374 meters tall, 78 floors and completed in 1992. The Center is one of the few skyscrapers in Hong Kong are fully structural steel and reinforced concrete core.

The building is located on Queen's Road Central in the Central & Western, between the station MTR Island Line's Sheung Wan and Central. The Center is notable for its hundreds of neon lights arranged as bars in increasing numbers from the bottom to the top of the tower to create the color spectrum in the night. At Christmas, the neon lights of the buildings are arranged in a festive motif and look like Christmas trees. If the translation from the Chinese name of the building called Central Center for buildings located in the Central district of Hong Kong.

The building is a project of the Center for Land Development Corporation to build it, the center had to tear down several buildings and alleys of old. The Central irregular shape because surrounding buildings located in Queen's Road Central, Jubilee Street, Des Voeux Road Central and Gilman's Bazaar were re-planned. The alley and road including Gilman Street, Wing On Street, Tung Man Street, Hing Lung Street, Tit Lung Hing Hong Laneva Streetda be shortened. In addition, a number of ancient structures had been removed. Many clothing stores located on Wing On Street, also known as Cloth Alley, were moved to the Western Market (western markets) are Eu Yan Sang - a pharmacy ships - were also moved to the area near the Stag Building (Stag building) to continue the business.

14. Bank of China Tower

Height: 367 meters
Floor: 72
Country: Hong Kong
City: Hong Kong
Complete: 1992

Bank of China Tower is one of the buildings is recognized as the world's tallest at Hong Kong Center. This building is the headquarters of Bank of China (Hong Kong).

The building was designed architect IMPei, 315m high, if the two towers are 369m tall building. Built in 1989, the building has 70 floors and is located near the central metro station. This building was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992. This is also the first building outside the United States exceed the height 1000foot. This also means this is the tallest building outside the United States since it was completed in 1990. Currently Bank of China Tower is the 3rd tallest building in Hong Kong, after Two International Finance Center building, and Central Plaza.

Expressionism is structured into the design of the building with pictures of bamboo rose, symbolizing prosperity and vitality. The entire structure is assisted by five steel columns at each corner of the building with a triangular frame transfer the weight of the structure up in this column. Some have criticized feng shui architecture of the building and sharp images in countless X original design is not good, though Pei modified the design by the advice he has been before the courts the house was built.

There is a small terrace to observe the 43th floor of the building is open to the public, but to visit the main terrace at 70 stories is permitted only when there is an appointment. The main address of the building is 1 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong.

15. Bank of America Tower

Height: 366 meters
Floor: 54
Country:United States
City: New York
Complete: 2009

Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York City is a skyscraper projects worth $ 1 billion is being built on the west side of Sixth Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd Street, opposite Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan.

The unit is designed Cook Fox Architects. This building is one of the buildings environmentally friendly and highly efficient in the world. Anticipated to be completed in 2009. This is the building that Bank of America Corporation will use.

The tower reached a maximum height on December 15, 2007 when the roof was put on, it is the second tallest building in New York City [2] and is the 3rd tallest building in the United States, as well as 13th tallest building in the world the present moment with a height of 360 meters, 54 floors.

If the top of the tower height is 366 m, the second highest in New York City, after the Empire State Building.