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No. 1 – Building Name: Burj Khalifa
Location:Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Height:828 m(2717 feet)
Use:Mixed Use
Built:2010
Floors:163
World’s No.1 tallest building in the world burj khalifa.An innovative tripedal design, along with the projecting shapes of its edges to cut through the wind like the front of a boat to reduce turbulence, both affording greater stability, are but a few of the smart ways the Burj Khalifa succeeded in rising to its record-setting height. The building soars more than 700 feet over its nearest competitor.
The race upward as accelerated In the last couple decades, as governments and citizens have pulled together the means for erecting record-breaking tall buildings, particularly in emerging economies in East Asia and the Middle East. “It’s a recognition that they want to project their image out into the global scene,” says Daniel Safarik of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) located at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “One easy way physically to do that, in a relative sense, is with a skyscraper.”
The same designer of the Burj Khalifa, Adrian Smith, has drawn up an even more ambitious project, the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia. It is slated to open in 2017 and soar to 3,281 feet—a full kilometer.
No. 2 – Building Name:Â Shanghai Tower
Location:Shanghai SH, China
Height:632 m(2073 feet)
Use:Mixed Use
Built:2015
Floors:121
The Shanghai Tower is a second tallest building  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 (2,073 ft) high and has 128 stories, with a total floor area of 380,000 m2 ts tiered construction, designed for high energy efficiency and sustainability, provides multiple separate zones for office, retail and leisure use.The Shanghai Tower was completed and will be open to the public in the summer of 2015.
No. 3 – Building Name: Makkah Clock Royal Tower Hotel
Location:Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Height:601 m(1972 feet)
Use:Hotel
Built:2012
Floors:120
No.3 tallest building Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel was built to afford comfortable accommodations to wealthy Muslim pilgrims making the Hajj. A factor that contributes to the building reaching so high: its gigantic footprint—a broader base supports greater height, as we’ve all learned first-hand playing with blocks as kids. “I think this building is getting by on sheer mass,” said Safarik. “You can see the way that the other buildings around it have a stabilizing effect.”
No. 4 – Building Name: One World Trade Center
Location:New york city, United States
Use:Office
Height:541.32 m(1776 feet)
Built:2014
Floors:104
The spire of One WTC attains a height of exactly 1,776 feet—a shout-out to the birth year of the United States. The building proper is only around 1,300 feet tall, but the CTBUH chose to count spire toward the building’s official height. That decision saw the new building controversially eclipse the Willis Tower in Chicago (later in this list) as the tallest building in North America. Safarik said spires have accordingly provoked controversy within CTBUH itself. “We continue to have this debate,” he says.
No. 5 – Building Name: Taipei 101
Location:Taipei, Taiwan
Use:Office
Height:508.10 m(1667 feet)
Built:2004
Floors:101
Taipei 101 “adopts some of the vernacular architecture of the region where it’s built,” Safarik says. “Here you have a classic, stacked pagoda look, which is a common thing throughout Asia.” Furthermore, the building has eight segments of eight floors each, a nod to the auspicious nature of the numeral 8 in the Chinese-speaking world.
No. 6 – Building Name: Shanghai World Financial Center
Location:Shanghai SH, China
Use:Mixed Use
Height:492 m(1614 feet)
Built:2008
Floors:101
“What’s special about this one is pretty obvious,” Safarik says. “It has a big hole in the top.” The Shanghai World Financial Center’s passing resemblance to a bottle opener is not lost on its operators, who sell miniature, functional bottle opener replicas of the tower in the observation deck gift shop.
No. 7 – Building Name:Â International Commerce Center
Location:Hong Kong HK, China
Use:Mixed Use
Height:484 m(1588 feet)
Built:2010
Floors:108
This big building was a big gamble for its developers, given its relative isolation from the rest of Hong Kong’s high-rises, but the International Commerce Center is doing just fine. The mixed-use office and hotel building has a 97 percent occupancy rate and excellent in-building services such as a 24-hour concierge.
According to the 2009 book Exploring Hong Kong: A Visitor’s Guide to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories, ICC’s designers had wanted to make it the tallest building then on the planet. But a local ordinance, which outlaws structures from rising higher than nearby mountains, stymied the dream.
No. 8 – Building Name:Â Petronas Towers
Location:Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Use:Office
Height:451.9 m(1483 feet)
Built:1998
Floors:88
A two-story skybridge connects these twin towers at the 41st and 42nd floors. It not only gives the structure its iconic look, but it also “speaks to the future of tall buildings” and urban development, Safarik says. That future will involve connecting tall buildings at height, he argues, so that people in large buildings can cross from one to another without going all the way down to the ground and up again. Few but the Petronas towers have that feature today.
No. 9 – Building Name:Â Nanjing Greenland Financial
Location:Nanjing JS, China
Use:Mixed Use
Height:450 m(1476 feet)
Built:2010
Floors:89
No. 10 – Building Name:Â Willis Tower
Location:Chicago IL, United States
Use: Office
Height:442.1Â m(1451 feet)
Built:1974
Floors:108
Formerly and still better known as the Sears Tower, this hefty, blocky office building’s design is unusual, and it will probably stay that way. “I don’t think you’re going to see something like this built again,” said Safarik. “It’s just so gigantic in its lower floors.” When the tower was constructed, huge typing pools filled whole floors, with armies of employees cut off from windows and natural lighting—a big no-no nowadays.
No. 11 – Building Name:Â KK 100
Location:Shenzhen GD, China
Use:Â Mixed Use
Height:441.8 m(1449 feet)
Built:2011
Floors:100
The Kingkey, or KK100, is the jewel of the Shenzhen, a major manufacturing metropolis just north of Hong Kong. The building’s distinctive, transparent, glassed-over top portion hosts a restaurant and mall.
No. 12 – Building Name:Â Guangzhou International Finance Center
Location:Guangzhou GD, China
Use:Â Mixed Use
Height:439 m(1440 feet)
Built:2010
Floors:103
This skyscraper’s exoskeleton prominently displays a diagrid structural system, in which steel support beams crisscross diagonally, forming diamond shapes made up of two triangular sections. These sections cut down on the amount of steel needed compared to conventional frames while remaining structurally sound.
No. 13 – Building Name:Â Trump International Hotel & Tower
Location:Chicago IL, United States
Use:Â Mixed Use
Height:423.4 m(1389 feet)
Built:2009
Floors:98
This recent addition to the Windy City’s skyline appears to reflect the signature angular styling of the Willis Tower, but the story setbacks—those ledges where the building steps back from its lower heights—were more explicitly designed to align with the heights of nearby structures such as the Wrigley Building and the Marina City Towers. The Trump International Tower and Hotel also stands as the tallest building in the world to use reinforced concrete as its primary structural material.
No. 14 – Building Name:Â Jin Mao Tower
Location:ShanghaiSH, China
Use:Â Mixed Use
Height:420.5 m(1380 feet)
Built:1999
Floors:93
This tower, which shares the pagoda styling of Taipei 101, harbors a secret: a 31-story atrium, part of the Grand Hyatt Shanghai hotel, with corridors winding around it in a vertigo-inducing spiral. “It’s one of the most spectacular spaces you’ll see in a supertall [building],” Safarik says. The Jin Mao Tower is a neighbor to the Shanghai World Financial Center, number 5 on this list, which served as the perch for this photograph.
No. 15 – Building Name:Â Princess Tower
Location:Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Use:Â Residential
Height:413 m(1356 feet)
Built:2012
Floors:101
The Princess Tower is the tallest residential building in the world. At least, it will be until New York City’s 432 Park Avenue officially opens in the winter of 2014-2015.
