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Tallest buildings in the world. The largest building in the world by area and height

In the previous article we discussed the tallest skyscrapers in Russia. Unfortunately, now none of the high-rise buildings erected in the country is among the ten tallest buildings in the world. Therefore, until the construction of the Lakhta Center is completed (hello to the commentators of the previous article), we will talk about skyscrapers in the United United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, USA, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Willis Tower

The oldest of the dozen currently existing tallest skyscrapers in the world was built in 1974 in Chicago. Its height is 442 meters without the spire, with the spire - 527 meters. In the Russian-language Wikipedia, the Willis Tower ranks 11th, but this is somewhat incorrect: the Lakhta Center, which has already been ranked 8th in the ranking, will be completed in 2018.

Just think: in forty years, only nine skyscrapers in the world have surpassed the 108-story Willis Tower in Chicago, and in the United States this result was beaten only by the Freedom Tower, opened in 2014.

The design of the skyscraper was carried out by the architectural bureau Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which later erected both the Freedom Tower and the tallest at the moment building - Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building was originally called the Sears Tower, and received the name Willis in 2009. The foundation of Willis Tower rests on concrete piles driven into solid rock. The frame consists of nine square "tubes" forming one large square at the base. Each such “pipe” consists of 20 vertical beams and many horizontal ones. All nine “pipes” are welded up to the 50th floor, then seven pipes go up to 66, by the 90th floor five remain, and the remaining two “pipes” rise another 20 floors. Exactly what it looks like is clear from a photograph from 1971.

A worker stands on the spire of a tower.

The Willis Tower in this photo is on the right, with two spiers.

Zifeng Tower

In Nanjing, China mid-19th centuries stood the Porcelain Pagoda, a Buddhist temple 78 meters high. Travelers described it as one of the wonders of the world. It was replaced by the Zifeng skyscraper.

Construction of the 450-meter high-rise Zifeng building was completed in 2009. It is the business center of the city. It houses offices, shops, shopping centers, restaurants and an observatory. Total - 89 floors.

Work on the construction of the tower lasted only four years. During the process, the project was changed: the tower could have a height of 300 meters. For China, where the population density is extremely high, efficient use land is extremely important. The triangular construction site was used to the maximum: the skyscraper has triangular base.

The architects' idea was to interweave motifs of Chinese dragons, the Yangtze River and green gardens. The river is the vertical and horizontal seams that separate the glass surfaces. These surfaces themselves, according to architectural thought, are a reference to dancing dragons. Vegetation and pools were placed inside the building.

View of the city from a spire on a skyscraper.

Petronas Towers

In the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, skyscrapers called Petronas Towers were erected in 1998. The height of the two 88-story skyscrapers is 451 meters, including the spire.

The skyscraper was built in the “Islamic” style; each building is an eight-pointed star with semicircular protrusions for stability. The construction site was changed after geological surveys. Initially, one skyscraper was supposed to stand on limestone, the other on rock, so one of the buildings could sag. The site was moved 60 meters. The foundation of the towers is the deepest concrete foundation at the moment: the piles are driven 100 meters into soft soil.

Construction was complicated an important condition: Only domestically produced materials could be used. Strong elastic concrete, reinforced with quartz and comparable in strength to steel, was developed especially for the building. The mass of the skyscraper was twice that of similar steel buildings.

The bridge between the twin towers is secured with ball bearings. Rigid fastening is impossible, as the towers sway.

The elevators in the building are two-story models designed by Otis. One cabin stops only on odd-numbered floors, the second - on even-numbered floors. This saved space inside skyscrapers.

International Commerce Center

The 118 floors of the Hong Kong International Commerce Center house offices, a hotel and shopping centers. The height of the building is 484 meters. Initially, they planned to build a skyscraper 574 meters high, but the project was changed due to a ban on the construction of buildings higher than Mount Victoria.

Construction was completed in 2010, but there was no official opening: the building was already in full use by tenants. The 102nd to 118th floors are the highest above ground level hotel operated by the Ritz-Carlton. On the last, 118th floor, there is the world's highest swimming pool.

In 2008, China built the Shanghai World Financial Center, a neighbor of the Shanghai Tower. The height of the 101-story building is 492 meters, although 460 meters were originally planned. The building housed a hotel, conference rooms, offices, shops and a museum.

The building can withstand earthquakes up to magnitude seven and has fire-protected floors. After the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the design of the building was modified so that it could withstand a direct hit from an airplane.

Thanks to its silhouette, the skyscraper received the name “opener”. The trapezoidal opening at the top was supposed to be spherical, but the Chinese government forced the design to be changed so that the building did not resemble the rising sun on the Japanese flag. Such changes made it possible to reduce the cost and simplify the design. This is how the upper part of the building was planned:

Here's what happened as a result:

Taipei 101

The capital of Taiwan, Taipei, boasts a skyscraper more than half a kilometer high. Together with the spire, the height of Taipei 101 is 509.2 meters, and the number of floors is 101.

Taipei 101 was for some time also distinguished by the fastest elevators in the world: they rise at a speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour, or 16.83 meters per second. People rise from the fifth to the eighty-ninth floor in 39 seconds. Now the new record belongs to the Shanghai Tower.

On the 87th and 88th floors there is a 660-ton steel pendulum ball. This architectural solution was made not only to decorate the interior. The pendulum allows the building to compensate for gusts of wind. The durable but not rigid steel frame can withstand strongest earthquakes. These solutions, together with a foundation of piles one and a half meters in diameter driven 80 meters into the ground, made the building one of the safest in the world. On March 31, 2002, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake destroyed two cranes on the building, killing five people. There was no damage to the tower itself. But there is a theory that it was the skyscraper that activated the seismic activity.

Freedom Tower

World Trade Center 1 in Manhattan, New York, has surpassed its pursuer Taipei 101 in terms of spire by 32 meters, although if we count the distance from the ground to the roof, then the American Freedom Tower, on the contrary, is inferior to the Taiwanese tower by 37 meters. The height of the World Trade Center is 1 - 541.3 meters on the spire and 417 on the roof.

The building stands on the site occupied by the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When designing WTC1, past experience was taken into account, and the lower 57 meters were constructed using concrete instead of the standard steel structure.

The building officially opened on November 3, 2014. It is occupied by offices, trading platforms, restaurants and the Urban Television Alliance.

Royal Clock Tower

In Mecca in Saudi Arabia, in 2012, a complex of high-rise buildings, the Tower of the House, was built opposite the entrance to the al-Haram mosque, where the main shrine of Islam, the Kaaba, is located. The tallest building in the complex is the Royal Clock Tower Hotel, 601 meters high. It is designed to accommodate up to one hundred thousand pilgrims out of the five million people who visit Mecca annually. The Royal Clock Tower is the third tallest building in the world.

On the tower at a height of 400 meters there are four dials with a diameter of 43 meters. They are visible from any part of the city. This is the highest altitude clock in the world at the moment.

The length of the spire at the top of the hotel is 45 meters. The spire contains 160 loudspeakers for the call to prayer. The 107-ton crescent at the very top of the building has several rooms, one of which is a prayer room.

The tower contains 21 thousand flashing lights and 2.2 million LEDs.

Shanghai Tower

The second tallest skyscraper is located in China. This is the Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter-tall building adjacent to another skyscraper on the list - the Shanghai World Financial Center. Offices, shopping and entertainment centers, and a hotel were located on 130 floors.

The elevators in the building were developed by Mitsubishi Electric. Their speed is 18 meters per second, or 69 kilometers per hour. These are currently the fastest elevators in the world. There are three such elevators in the building, and four more two-story elevators reach a speed of 10 meters per second.

Beautiful view You shouldn't expect it from the windows of a skyscraper. The building has double walls and has a second shell designed to maintain temperature.

The tower has a twisted design, which adds stability to combat wind.

From this angle, a spiral gutter is visible to collect rainwater used for heating and air conditioning.

Burj Khalifa

Opened in 2010 in Dubai, UAE, the Burj Khalifa tower has surpassed all existing skyscrapers and is still the leader in height.

The tower was designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which created the Willis Tower and 1 World Trade Center, which we previously discussed. Was involved in the construction of the Dubai Tower Samsung company, which also participated in the construction of the Petronas Towers. There are 57 elevators in the building, they must be used with transfers - only one service elevator can go up to the top floor.

The tower houses the Armani Hotel, designed by Giorgio Armani himself, apartments, offices, shopping centers, fitness centers and observation decks with Jacuzzis. Indian billionaire B.R. Shetty completely purchased two floors, including the hundredth, at a cost of more than 12 million US dollars each.

As in the case of the Petronas Towers, they developed their own for the tallest skyscraper in the world special type concrete. It can withstand temperatures up to 48 degrees Celsius. During construction, concrete was laid at night, adding ice to the solution. The builders did not have the opportunity to secure the foundation in the rocky soil, and they used two hundred piles 45 meters long and 1.5 meters in diameter.

If the Shanghai Tower has a gutter to collect rainwater, then in the case of the Burj Khalifa Tower such an approach is not needed: there is little rainfall in the desert. Instead, the building has a condensate collection system that can collect up to 40 million liters of water per year for watering plants.

During the filming of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise decided to climb the tower to write Katie Holmes' name there and get a great shot.

Planned buildings

At the moment, there are only two building projects that can rank first in the ranking of the tallest skyscrapers in the world.

At 828 meters high, the Burj Khalifa seems less impressive compared to the Dubai Creek Harbor Tower project. Its roof height will be 928 meters - that is, it will already beat the current record by 100 meters. And the height of the spire will exceed a kilometer - it will reach 1014 meters. But this is not certain - the parameters of the building are kept secret. Like the Eiffel Tower, the Dubai Creek Harbor Tower will be open for World Expo 2020 if all goes according to plan. The foundation was laid on October 10, 2016. Add tags

Availability modern technologies And building materials provides architects all over the planet with the opportunity to continually create bold designs for the world's tallest buildings and turn them into reality. As a result, every year different countries not only thousands of ordinary buildings appear, but also hundreds of skyscrapers. Some of them are typical, while others are so unique and recognizable that they bear the title of real architectural masterpieces. This article further presents a ranking of the 10 tallest buildings in the world in ascending order, taking into account the spiers and masts on their roofs.

"Nanjing Greenland"

This structure is also known as the “Zifen Tower”, and it is located in the Chinese city of Nanjing. It consists of 89 floors and has a height of 450 meters. The commissioning of this skyscraper took place in 2010. Now the high-rise building, which is built in the shape of a triangle, has a mixed purpose. In particular, the lower floors house various shops and restaurants, while the upper floors are used as offices. The observation deck on level 72 offers beautiful views of the local area and the Yangtze River. The project was characterized by three conceptual positions - the aforementioned Chinese river, landscaped gardens and motifs of local mythology (dragons with iconography on columns).

Petronas Towers

In ninth position in the “World’s Tallest Building” ranking is the symbol of Kuala Lumpur (the capital of Malaysia) - the Twin Towers. The then Prime Minister of the state, Mahathir Mohamad, took an active part in their design. It was he who came up with the idea of ​​building them in the Islamic style, and more specifically, in the shape of eight-pointed stars. Both skyscrapers were built in 1998, consist of 88 floors and have a height of 451.9 meters. Inside they have conference rooms, art galleries and offices. The cost of the project reached 800 million US dollars. Interesting feature is that the structures were erected on soft soil, so to strengthen it, piles about 100 meters deep were driven into the ground. This foundation is the most powerful on the planet to this day. A covered walkway has been constructed between the towers, one of the important purposes of which is fire safety.

International Commerce Center in Hong Kong

The height of this building is 484 m. It consists of 118 floors and was put into operation in Kowloon in 2010. It mainly houses offices, shops and shopping centers. The top seventeen floors are occupied by a five-star hotel with a huge swimming pool on the last floor. Initially, it was planned to build a 102-story structure with a height of 574 meters, but due to the ban on building buildings higher than the surrounding mountains, the project was revised.

Shanghai World Financial Center

This representative of the "World's Tallest Building" rating was built in 2008. The World Financial Center in Shanghai is 492 meters high and consists of 101 floors. The skyscraper can boast of several prizes and awards as the best high-rise building in 2008 and the owner of the highest observation deck on the planet. The structure has passed the seismic stability test and is capable of withstanding an earthquake of up to magnitude seven. Moreover, even at the design stage, the architects provided three options for saving people during a fire. On every twelfth floor there is a protected area where you can hide from a fire or wait for rescuers.

"Taipei 101"

In sixth position on the list is a skyscraper from Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The building consists of 101 floors and its height is 508 meters. The high-rise building, built in 2004, harmoniously combines ancient Chinese architecture and modern traditions postmodernism. Between the 87th and 91st floors there is a giant pendulum ball weighing 660 tons, which significantly reduces the likelihood of collapse in the event of an earthquake or hurricane. The structure, which is predominantly made of steel, aluminum and glass, is supported by 380 pillars made of concrete and extending underground to a depth of 80 meters.

CTF Finance Center

This high-rise building is located in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. It is also known as the International Financial Center. The skyscraper was built in the modernist style and was officially opened in 2010. As of today, it belongs to the category of “the tallest buildings under construction in the world”, since work on its construction is still ongoing. According to the architects' plans, they should be completed in 2016. Then it will be a whole complex consisting of two towers. The height of the completed western building, consisting of 103 floors, is now 441 meters. The complex also includes a 28-storey building, which is connected to the existing tower through a 4-storey common basement. Impact on the building air flow is practically reduced to zero thanks to its streamlined shape.

Freedom Tower

Located in the American city of New York, the Freedom Tower is a skyscraper with a height of 541.3 meters. It should be noted that this is the tallest building in the world that is used exclusively for offices. Moreover, it is the largest high-rise building in the entire Western Hemisphere. The Freedom Tower became the main structure of the new World Trade Center, built to replace the complex destroyed by a terrorist attack in 2001. The building itself is 417 meters high up to the roof, and the remaining 124 meters fall on the 758-ton spire installed on it. On the outside it is lined with glass with a bluish tint, so it looks very beautiful.

Royal Clock Tower

The representative of Saudi Arabia closes the top three in the top tallest buildings in the world. The structure is located in the world famous city of Mecca and rises 601 meters. It consists of 102 floors and was officially opened in 2012. The skyscraper is the largest on the planet in terms of construction volume and boasts the highest clock on Earth. The mosque with the main Islamic shrine (Kaaba) is located directly across the road. The Royal Clock Tower houses a hotel that proudly bears the title of the highest in the world. It can accommodate about 100 thousand people at the same time.

Shanghai Tower

In second place in the “World’s Tallest Building” ranking is a super-tall structure called Shanghai Tower, the construction of which is currently being completed in the Chinese city of the same name. According to the project, its height will be 632 meters, and the number of floors will be 128. The cost of its implementation, according to preliminary estimates, will be 4.2 billion US dollars. It is expected that its official commissioning will take place in 2015, despite the fact that construction work started in 1993. The frame itself has already been erected, and now only finishing work. The skyscraper is multifunctional and consists of nine separate vertical zones. The finishing is made using durable glass, which provides not only protection from external weather conditions for people, but also natural ventilation.

"Burj Khalifa"

The ranking of the tallest buildings in the world is confidently headed by the Burj Khalifa, a skyscraper from Dubai (UAE). Its peak is at an altitude of 828 meters. The building was erected in 2010 and consists of 136 floors. In its shape it resembles a stalagmite. Initially, the facility was planned as a city within a city, which would have its own lawns, parks and boulevards. There are three separate entrances to the skyscraper. From the 1st floor to the 39th floor, there are offices and the Armani Hotel. This is not surprising, since the design of the hotel was personally developed by Giorgio Armani. On the site from levels 44 to 108, the architects built 900 apartments, and from 111 to 154 they equipped office space. There is an observation deck on the 124th floor.

Without a doubt, located in the city of Dubai, the tallest building in the world amazes the human imagination. Be that as it may, many high-rise buildings and dozens of skyscrapers appear on our planet every year. Many of them, even at the construction stage, can well be considered as potential competitors to the representatives of the above rating. A clear indication of this is the fact that some of them are already considered real architectural masterpieces and are recognizable throughout the planet. The most iconic objects that can now safely be included in the list of “The Tallest Buildings of the World of the Future” are considered to be the Zhongnan Center (China), Lotte World Tower ( South Korea) and World Tower (Mumbai).

The first of the mentioned structures, according to the project, should have a height of 730 meters and consist of 138 floors. If all work is completed according to schedule, then its official opening will take place in 2020. After this, the building will become the tallest in China. The project is estimated at $4.2 billion.

The height of the Lotte World Tower skyscraper in Seoul is expected to reach 556 meters. Its construction should be completed in 2016. The architects plan to place offices, shops and a hotel inside.

As for the World Tower, the building should welcome its first visitors next year. The tallest building now in Mumbai - the Imperial Tower - this structure will be almost twice as large. In addition to shopping centers and offices, it is planned to build approximately three hundred luxury apartments, the cost of which will start at $1.5 million.

A building is one of those objects that can be erected large-scale, tall, extended, majestic. It is not surprising that these buildings collect a large number of records. In this article we want to tell you about the largest buildings in the world, record holders in various categories. And let's start, of course, with the highest structure.

Tallest building

And this is the Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎). Other names: Dubai"). The height of the largest building in the world is 828 meters, 180 of which are the tallest spire on the planet. It is located in the UAE, the city of Dubai.

How many floors are in the largest building in the world? The building has 163 floors. The architectural solution of the record holder is also interesting - its shape resembles a stalagmite (a mineral formation on the vaults of caves). The building was opened not so long ago - January 4, 2010. Dedicated to the President of the United Arab Emirates - Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

The most big building in the world it was planned as a “city within a city” - with its own parks, streets, lawns. Its cost is estimated at 1.5 billion dollars! It was developed by the American design bureau Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, known around the world for other high-profile projects. The author of the appearance of the building is E. Smith. The general contractor of the work is a construction branch of the Samsung Corporation (South Korea).

The Burj Khalifa was planned from the very beginning to be the largest building in the world. Therefore, in the projects its final height was kept secret - in case of news about the construction of a higher-rise building, so that the parameters could be adjusted. Only at the opening of the skyscraper were its true dimensions announced.

Structure of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper

Let's see what the largest building in the world is like inside. According to its main purpose, it is a business center. Residential apartments, offices, hotels, shops are located here:

  • Hotel Armani (designed by Giorgio Armani himself).
  • 900 residential apartments.
  • The entire hundredth floor is the property of Indian millionaire B. R. Shetty.
  • Office space, gyms, restaurants, observation floors with Jacuzzis.

What else stands out about the Burj Khalifa?

Interestingly, the air circulating inside the building is not only cooled, but also aromatized. The scent used was specially developed by perfumers for the Burj Khalifa tower.

Another amazing invention is the water collection system. As you know, rain in Dubai is rare. But the humid and hot climate makes it possible to organize condensate collection. The designed system helps accumulate up to 40 million liters of water annually! The moisture is used to water green spaces.

There are 57 elevators in the building, of which only the service elevator circulates from the first floor to the last. On others you have to go up/down with transfers. The speed of the devices is 10 m/s. In this they are inferior to the elevators of the Taiwanese Taipei 101, whose speed is 16.83 m/s.

Many travelers speak with delight about the Dubai Fountain at the foot of the giant. It is illuminated by 6.6 thousand light sources, of which 50 are powerful spotlights. The height of the jets is up to 150 meters!

All records of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper

We know now. Let's look at all his records:

  • The tallest building, the tallest above-ground structure in modern times and in the entire history of mankind. Here the Khalifa Tower overtook the Taipei 101 skyscraper, the CN Tower, the Warsaw radio tower, and the KVLY mast.
  • House with the largest number floors.
  • The highest elevator.
  • The house with the highest floor.
  • The highest observation deck is the 148th floor (555 meters).
  • The highest restaurant in the building is the 122nd floor.

Rating of the tallest buildings

Here is a list of the 10 largest buildings in the world and large-scale objects:

  1. The already mentioned skyscraper "Burj Khalifa" in the United Arab Emirates. Height - 828 meters.
  2. in Poland (Konstantinov) - in the photo. Today it does not exist - it collapsed in 1991 during the procedure for replacing the guy. Height - 646.38 meters.
  3. TV tower in Japan. The 634-meter-high concrete structure was erected in 2010.
  4. Skyscraper "Shanghai Tower" in China. Height - 632 meters.
  5. KVLY-TV broadcast tower in Blanchard, United States. Height - 629 meters. Built in 1963.
  6. Skyscraper "Abraj al-Bayt". 601 meters and 120 floors. Built in Mecca ( Saudi Arabia) in 2012.
  7. There are two candidates in place. This is a hyperboloid 600 meters high, located in the city of the same name in China. As well as the financial international center "Pinan" (600 m), built last year also in China - the city of Shenzhen.
  8. The Lotte World Tower skyscraper, built in 2017 in Seoul (South Korea). Its height is 555 meters.
  9. Concrete tower for sensors, observations "CN Tower" in Toronto (Canada). It was built in 1976. Height - 553 meters.
  10. Skyscraper "Freedom Tower" (World Trade Center) in New York (USA). The height of the building is 541.3 meters.

The largest buildings in Russia

Speaking about giant buildings, let us also mention Russian Federation- Let's see what high-rise buildings there are on its territory:

Ten majestic buildings of the past

Let's look at the buildings that at one time delighted our ancestors with their majesty, amazing for past centuries:

  1. Temple complex"Umbilical Hill" ("Bellied Hill", "Gebekli Tepe"). Located in Turkey. The construction of the structure dates back to 10-8 thousand years BC. Columns up to 9 meters high have been found.
  2. The Tower of Jericho in Palestine, rising 8 meters. Built around 8-5 millennium BC.
  3. Ancient obelisk "Mengir Er-Grah" in Lokmaryaker (France). Erected in 5-4 thousand BC. e. Around the same time, the destruction of this 20-meter structure due to its own fall is also attributed.
  4. Newgrange mound is 13.5 meters high. Erected in 3.6-3 millennium BC. e. in Ireland.
  5. Caral Pyramid in Peru. Its height is 26 meters. It is also the oldest structure in South America (3-2.7 thousand years BC)
  6. Silberry Hill mound in Great Britain, the highest in Europe - 40 m. Erected in 2.75-2.65 millennium BC.
  7. Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt - 62 meters. The very first in ancient Egyptian culture - 2650-2620 BC.
  8. The pyramid at Medum was originally 93.5 meters high. Today it rises 65 m.
  9. Bent pyramid in Jahshur (Egypt). Initially the height was 104.7 meters. Today - 101 m.
  10. Pink egyptian pyramid- 109.5 meters. Today - 104 meters.

Future record holders

Photos of the largest buildings in the world will soon become completely different. After all, the following amazing projects are being prepared for implementation:

  • Skyscraper in Dubai Creek Harbour. The 928-meter building is planned to be erected by 2020. The opening date of the tower is not accidental. In 2020, the UAE will host international exhibition"Expo". Today the project is estimated at $1 billion. The design of the skyscraper is kept secret. It is only reported that the source of inspiration for the architects will be the Babylonian Hanging Gardens, Islamic minarets and the Eiffel Tower.
  • Kingdom Tower skyscraper on the shores of the Red Sea. The design height of the building is 1007 meters. The cost of the idea is $1.23 billion. Construction of the first kilometer-tall building in the world is scheduled to be completed by 2020.
  • Azerbaijan Tower on an artificial archipelago in Azerbaijan. The planned height is 1050 meters. It's 189 floors. Implementation of the project - 2015-2018. The opening of the complex is 2020.

Other giants

Basically, we are used to admiring the height of buildings. But it is also interesting to learn, for example, about the largest building in the world by area. Here's a selection for your consideration:

  • The largest office. Undoubtedly, Its total area is 620 thousand m2. This is a kind of ring of five concentric pentagons connected by 10 corridors. You can walk from one point to another in 7 minutes.
  • The largest terminal. Located at Dubai Airport. This is terminal No. 3 - its area is 1.7 million m2.
  • The biggest hotel. This is the Moscow Izmailovo complex, consisting of five 30-story buildings. About 15 thousand people can live in 7,500 rooms at the same time. The complex was built for the 1980 Olympics.
  • The largest shopping center. This is New South China Mall in China. Its area is about 660 thousand m2. Designed for 2,500 pavilions and shops.
  • The largest plant. This is the Boeing factory building in Everett. The area is just under 400 thousand square meters.
  • The largest entertainment center. This is the Tropical Islands Resort water park near Berlin, opened in a converted hangar. Area - 70,000 m2.
  • The largest residential building. It is considered the Princess Tower skyscraper in Dubai. The height of the building is 414 meters, the total area is more than 171 thousand m2. The building has 763 apartments.
  • The biggest own house. This building is located in Mumbai (India). Height - 173 meters (27 floors). Is the property of Indian billionaire M. Ambani, who is considered richest man in the country. The building has its own theater, spa, swimming pools, hanging gardens, 9 elevators. The house is served by 600 people.
  • The largest modern palace. This is an unusual title for the Istana Nurul Iman residence of the Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. His palace has 1,788 rooms and halls with a total area of ​​200 thousand m2.
  • Most Bolshoi Theater. "Pearl on the Water" ( national theater performing arts) is located in China. Its area is 210 thousand m2. Designed for 6500 guests.
  • Most big museum. Undoubtedly, this is the Louvre, dating back to the 12th century. Its total area is more than 160 thousand square meters, 58 thousand of which are given over to the exhibition. And there are more than 35 thousand exhibits here!
  • The largest stadium. "May Day" in Pyongyang, where more than 150,000 spectators can be accommodated.

Could be the tallest...

The failed project of the largest administrative building in the world was the Al-Burj (Nakhil, Nakhil) skyscraper, which was planned to be built near the Burj Dubai (UAE).

The height of the giant was supposed to be 1.4 km, and the number of floors - 228! Construction should also be completed by 2020. However, the project was canceled in 2009 due to its high cost during the global financial crisis.

This concludes the story about record-breaking buildings. As you now know, there are a huge number of impressive structures, both in the past and in the present.

What is human labor capable of? The answer is simple, yes to almost everything! It’s not for nothing that people build such huge and unimaginable buildings as skyscrapers. There are countless of them in various parts of the world, they are beautiful, unusual and spacious, which is very useful for the modern rhythm of life, but today we will talk about the tallest of them. So what are the tallest buildings in the world?

Tallest buildings in the World

10th place: Willis Tower

The Willis Tower was built quite a long time ago in 1973, by that time it was the tallest building in the world, and its height is truly impressive 443.2 m. Its location is Chicago (USA). If you add up its entire total area, you will get a total of 57 football fields, with such a scale there is plenty of room to roam around. This building also became famous for its participation in such films as “Divergent” and “Transformers 3: Dark Side Moon."


9th place: Zifeng High-Rise Building (Nanjing-Greenland Financial Center)

This skyscraper is located in Nanjing, China. It is 450 meters high and Zifeng was completed in 2009, so it can be considered a relatively young building. In addition to offices, shopping centers and everything else, it has a public observatory. And also from the observation deck (287 m) an unforgettable view of the entire city of Nanjing opens.


8th place: Petronas Towers 1, 2

In 8th place is a skyscraper with 88 floors - the Petronas Towers. They are located in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Their height is 451.9 meters. Only 6 years were allotted for the construction of such a miracle, and the main condition was that all materials used for construction had to be produced in Malaysia. And the Prime Minister himself took part in the design of such beauty; it was he who proposed making twin towers in the “Islamic style.”


7th place: International Commercial Center

The skyscraper was built in Hong Kong in 2010. Its height is 484 meters, and it has 118 floors. So for such a populated city as Hong Kong, this building has become an excellent place to create jobs. It also has an excellent five-star hotel at an altitude of 425 meters from the ground, which gives it the right to call itself the highest hotel in the world.


6th place: Shanghai World Financial Center

The height of this skyscraper is 492 meters, and it has 101 floors. It is located in Shanghai, China. Construction began in 1997, but at that time there was a crisis and therefore the construction was delayed and ended only in 2008. The Shanghai World Financial Center can withstand an earthquake of up to magnitude 7, which is very important feature for earthquake-prone areas. This building has records, it won the title of the world's highest observation deck on the 100th floor, and in 2008 it became the best skyscraper in the world.


5th place: Taipei 101

The skyscraper is located in the Republic of China in the city of Taipei. Its height is 509.2 m including the spire, and has 101 floors. The building was built in the postmodern style, but the architects also perfectly integrated ancient Chinese construction styles here. A special feature of this skyscraper is its elevators; they are the fastest in the world, so you can easily get from the 5th to the 89th floor in 39 seconds.


4th place: 1 World Trade Center (Freedom Tower)

The skyscraper is located in New York and took 8 years to build. But already in November 2014, this building amazed visitors with its power and spaciousness. Its height is 541.3 meters, there are 104 floors and 5 more are underground, and it is made in modern style hi-tech.


3rd place: Abraj al-Beit (Royal Clock Tower)

This complex of buildings was built in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is rightfully considered the largest building in the whole world, but not the tallest, since its height is 601 meters. There are 120 floors, on which there are many apartments, both for visitors and permanent residents of Mecca. A special feature of this building is the largest clock in the world, it can be seen from anywhere in the city, since its dials were installed on four sides of the world, probably in order to always navigate in time and not waste it.


2nd place: Shanghai Tower


1st place: Burj Khalifa (Khalifa Tower)

The tallest building in the world is the Khalifa Tower, and for good reason, because it is not just a couple of meters ahead of its predecessor, but much more. Its height is 828 meters and it is located in Dubai. The number of floors is 163. This tower has quite a few titles and is the tallest structure in the world, the tallest ever to exist in the world. Burj Khalifa is the most multifunctional building.

It’s like a city within a city, with its own parks, shops and apartments. Probably, living in such a tower, there’s no particular need to go out into the city, because everything is there, except to walk on the ground. It looks like a stalagmite, which again gives the tower a special uniqueness; its beauty is not worth talking about, you just have to see it with your own eyes, but once you see it, you are unlikely to forget it.

1. . Located in the most beautiful city Dubai, UAE. The height of the building is 828 meters, roof height is 636 m, number of storeys is 163. The skyscraper was opened in 2010. The shape of the building resembles a stalagmite. known throughout the world as " Burj Dubai» (« Dubai Tower"), renamed it, dedicating the building to the President of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan.


2. Shanghai Tower is a super-tall building under construction in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. According to the project, the height of the building is 632 meters, the number of floors is 128, the total area is 380 thousand m. After 2016, it will become the 5th in the world, also taking into account the India Tower in Mumbai.



3. Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel. The building is located in a city known to all Muslims Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The height of the building is 601 meters, the number of storeys is 120. It was put into operation in 2012. The tallest hotel in the world, the largest building in the world in terms of construction volume with the largest and highest clock in the world.



4. One World Trade Center or Freedom Tower). Hotel skyscraper located in New York (USA). Its height is 541.3 meters, number of floors is 104. Built in 2013. This is the highest office building in the world and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.


5. International Financial Center (CTF Finance Centre)- an ultra-tall skyscraper built in the modernist style. Located in the city Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. The height of the building is 437.5 meters, number of storeys is 103. The skyscraper was opened in 2010. It will be fully built in 2016.


6. Taipei 101 - skyscraper, located in the capital of Taiwan - Taipei. Its height is 508 meters, number of floors is 101. Built in 2004. Tallest office building in the world before the construction of the Freedom Tower. Architectural style in the spirit of postmodernism combines modern traditions and ancient Chinese architecture. The multi-story shopping complex in the tower contains hundreds of shops, restaurants and clubs.


7. Shanghai World Financial Center). Skyscraper in Shanghai (China). The height of the building is 492 meters, number of floors is 101. The skyscraper was opened in 2008. The building has received the following awards: Owner of the highest observation deck in the world, located on the 100th floor of the building (472 meters above the ground); best skyscraper in the world 2008.


8. International commercial center(International Commerce Center) - a skyscraper built in 2010 in the western part of the district Kowloon city Hong Kong. This is the tallest building in the city. The height of the building is 484 meters, the number of storeys is 118. It was put into operation in 2010.


9. Twin Skyscrapers is in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad participated in the design of the skyscraper, who proposed building buildings in the “Islamic” style. Therefore, in plan, the complex consists of two eight-pointed stars. The Petronas Towers houses offices, exhibition and conference rooms, art gallery. The project cost is 2 billion ringgits (800 million dollars).

Petronas Tower 1

Petronas Tower 2. The height of the building is 451.9 meters, number of storeys is 88, built in 1998.


10. - super-tall building housing the city’s business center Nanjing (China). The height of the building is 450 meters, the number of storeys is 66. It was put into operation in 2010. Mixed-use tower - the building houses office space, the lower floors are equipped with shops, shopping centers and restaurants, and there is also a public observatory.