Burj Dubai is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Designed by SOM Architects in Chicago, USA. Burj Dubai is 800 meters (2,624 feet) high and is expected to be completed in 2008. The Burj Dubai will have160th floor, and its facilities include hotels, shopping centers, office buildings and luxury apartments. The Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building project, started construction in 2004, and the completion time will be postponed from the end of 2008 to September 2009. At present, it has exceeded 688 meters and become the tallest building in the world. According to Xinhua News Agency, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (10) 10, it was announced on 5 October that a new skyscraper will be built in the world, easily surpassing the tallest building, Burj Dubai, which is nearing completion at this stage. Burj Dubai 1 100 meters high.
China Taipei "10 1 building"
"Taipei 10 1 Building" is located in Taipei, China, and is C.Y. Lee&; Partner), *** 10 1 building, completed in 2004, is the tallest building in the world with a height of 508 meters (including antenna). There is the largest and heaviest "air brake" in the world and two elevators with the highest speed in the world. It only takes 39 seconds to get from the first floor to the 89th floor. It also holds the record of the fastest elevator in the world (60.4 kilometers per hour).
China and Shanghai "Global Financial Center"
The World Financial Center was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, an American construction company. On August 26th, the Shanghai World Financial Center with the floor of * * 10 1 and the height of 492m was officially opened. It will officially welcome guests on August 30th, and the 474m-high sightseeing hall and office building at 100 will be opened at the same time. There is the highest observation deck, five-star luxury hotel and retail space in the world. Therefore, the Jinmao Tower, which is over 4,265,438+0 meters, has become the tallest building in use in Chinese mainland.
Malaysia's "National Oil Company Twin Towers"
The Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia are 452 meters high and designed by the famous architect Sass? Designed by Cesar Perry. /kloc-0 was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1998. Its design combines Islamic art style and is the deepest building in the world. It is also the tallest Twin Towers in the world at present.
Zifeng Mansion, Nanjing, China.
The main structure of 38 1m Zifeng Building in Nanjing Greenland Plaza, China has been capped, and a 69m lighthouse will be erected on the roof next month, reaching the highest point of 450m in one fell swoop. This is the tallest building in Jiangsu and the fifth tallest building in the world.
Hills Building, Chicago, USA
Sears Tower in Chicago, USA is1450ft (442m) high and * * *108th floor. It was built in 1973 and designed by SOM Architects for Sears Department Store, the largest retailer in the world at that time. It is the tallest building in the United States, surpassing the former World Trade Center in New York. Sears Tower has been the tallest building in the world for 25 years until the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were completed in 1998. If you add the height of the antenna on the top of the mountain, it is still ...
China Shanghai "Jinmao Building"
Jinmao Tower is 65,438+0,380 feet (4,265,438+0 meters) high and has 88 floors. It was completed in 65,438+0,998 and designed by SOM Architects. Its design combines the traditional pagoda modeling in China, and its name can be translated into "Golden Shengshi Building" in English.
Shanghai Jinmao Tower is located in the center of Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone in Pudong, and was completed on 1999. The 88th floor Jinmao Tower is 420.5 meters high, which is the seventh tallest building in the world and the third tallest building in China.
China and Hongkong "International Financial Center" (Phase II)
Hong Kong "International Finance Center Phase II" is located in Hong Kong, China, with a height of1.362ft (415m) and 88 floors. It was designed by the famous architect Cesar Perry. It is the sixth tallest building in the world and was completed in 2003.
"CITIC Plaza" in Guangzhou, China
China Guangzhou CITIC Plaza is located in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, with a height of 39 1 m (1, 283 ft). CITIC Plaza was built in 1997. Accurately speaking, CITIC Plaza has 80 floors above ground and two and a half floors underground, which are parking lot, electrical equipment center, power distribution room and so on. Above ground, CITIC Plaza consists of an 80-story main building, two 38-story east and west annex buildings and a 4-story CITIC Shopping Center podium building, covering an area of 2? 30,000 square meters, surrounded by green belts and low fountains. Although it is not the tallest building in China now, it is the tallest concrete building in the world.