In which country is the tallest building located? Tallest buildings in the world

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 completion of construction of the Lakhta Center (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 skyscraper was designed by Bureau of Architecture Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which later built both the Freedom Tower and the tallest this 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 taken in 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, the Porcelain Pagoda, a 78-meter-tall Buddhist temple, stood until the mid-19th century. 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. In China, where population density is extremely high, efficient use of land is essential. 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.

For some time, Taipei 101 was 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, the American Freedom Tower, on the contrary, is inferior to the Taiwanese tower by 37 meters. Center Height international trade 1 - 541.3 meters along the spire and 417 on the roof.

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

The building officially opened on November 3, 2014. It is occupied by offices, retail spaces, restaurants and the City 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. The construction of the Dubai Tower was carried out by Samsung, 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 with the Petronas Towers, the world's tallest skyscraper developed its own special type of 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.

The tallest building in the world is located in Dubai. It is the tallest skyscraper in the world, which resembles in its shape a huge talagmite. The building managed to outpace the giant, which is located in the city of Taipei, by three hundred meters.

A rough picture of the outstanding skyscrapers around the world looks like this:

Currently, Burj Khalifa is an extraordinary landmark in Dubai and around the world. The skyscraper has a height of eight hundred twenty-eight meters, and the number of floors in it is more than one hundred and sixty.

Now the building houses nine prestigious hotels and a system of beautiful fountains, which were created by analogy with the structures in Las Vegas.

The total cost required to build the skyscraper is about four billion dollars. The author of the project is the American architect Adrian Smith, who has extensive experience in creating tall buildings.

Construction of the skyscraper began in 2004, and then work continued at a rate of one or two floors per week. First carried out concrete works, which were completed after the construction of one hundred and sixty floors, then the assembly of the spire from metal structures, having a height of one hundred and eighty meters.

The opening ceremony took place on January 4th, 2010.

History and features of the construction of Burj Khalifa

The tallest building in the world is the centerpiece of the newest business center. The lower thirty-seven floors are occupied by the hotel. Seven hundred luxurious and expensive apartments are located on floors from forty-fifth to one hundred and eighth. A larger amount of space was allocated for offices.

The building is famous throughout the world for its observation deck and unique lobby, which are located on the one hundred and twenty-third and one hundred and twenty-fourth floors.

In addition, there is a tall tower that rises above the main building. It is equipped with very powerful telecommunications equipment and technology.

During the construction of the building, it was decided to use only unique building materials, which would allow the building to “stand firmly” on the foundation in the future. Therefore, a special grade of concrete was developed specifically for the skyscraper, capable of withstanding temperatures up to fifty degrees Celsius. It was poured only at night, and not only water, but also ice was added to the solution.

Sixty-five two-story elevators were installed in the building, at a total cost of thirty-six million dollars. But only a service elevator can go directly from below to the top floor. Residents, tourists and visitors to the building will move around it with transfers.

The elevators available in the skyscraper are currently the highest speed in the world. They are capable of reaching speeds of up to eighteen meters per second.

The tallest building in the world was also designed to be the safest. Thanks to the unique fire system, it will be possible to evacuate all visitors within thirty-two minutes.

The tower was designed in such a way that it could independently generate electricity for the building using a sixty-meter turbine that rotates using the wind, as well as solar panels. They are partially located on the walls of the entire tower. Their total area is about fifteen thousand square meters.

The building has special sun protection and reflective glass panels that can reduce heating in all rooms. This sophisticated system reduces the need for daily air conditioning.

For this purpose, the building uses a convection system, which draws air from below and directs it upward. For cooling they use only sea ​​water, as well as cooling modules located underground. Therefore, the air temperature in the skyscraper is no more than eighteen degrees Celsius.

As noted, on the one hundred and twenty-fourth floor of the building there is an observation deck “At the Top”. A ticket for it will cost one hundred dirhams, that is, twenty-seven dollars. But there are always very long queues behind him. To purchase an express ticket, which allows you to skip the line to the observation deck, you will need to spend four hundred dirhams, that is, more than a hundred dollars. But they are also in constant demand. You can stay on it as long as you want.

The observation deck is almost completely glazed. There are modern electronic telescopes for tourists. In addition, it will also be possible to watch recordings of historical, day and night panoramas.

The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, was designed as a “city within a city.” Therefore, it has its own lawns, boulevards and parks. In the tourist part, the skyscraper has very rich and modern interiors. In all respects, this is a unique, inimitable and, of course, unforgettable building that should definitely be visited.

Every year, dozens of skyscrapers and hundreds of high-rise buildings are built around the world. We present to your attention 13 of the world's tallest architectural masterpieces.

Hong Kong International Commerce Center

In 2010, a 118-story, 484-meter skyscraper was built in Hong Kong. It is the tallest building in the city, the seventh tallest in Asia and the ninth tallest in the world.

Shanghai World Financial Center

The 492 m high skyscraper in Shanghai was built by the Japanese company Mori Building Corporation. The main designer of the project is David Malott from New York. The unofficial name of the building is "opener".

Taipei 101

The Taipei 101 skyscraper is located in the capital of Taiwan, Taipei. The 101-story building has a height of 509.2 m. Shopping centers are located on the lower floors of the building, and offices are located on the upper floors. It is the sixth tallest structure in the world and the fifth tallest in Asia.

This skyscraper has the fastest elevators in the world, rising at a speed of 60.6 km/h. From the fifth floor to the observation deck on the 89th you can get there in just 39 seconds.

The building is made of glass, steel and aluminum and is supported by 380 concrete pillars! According to engineers, the tower will be able to withstand an earthquake of any magnitude.

Willis Tower

The Chicago skyscraper Willis Tower is 443.2 m high and has 110 floors. It was built in 1973.

At that time, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the height of the World Trade Center towers in New York. This record held for the building for 25 years.

It is now the second tallest building in the United States.

Ostankino Tower

The height of the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow is 540.1 m. The building is the 8th tallest free-standing structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa skyscraper (Dubai), the Tokyo Sky Tree, and the Shanghai Tower (Shanghai).

The Ostankino TV Tower is the tallest building in Europe and is a full member of the World Federation of Tall Towers.

World Trade Center 1

1 World Trade Center was built on the site of the destroyed Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. This is the central building in the new World Trade Center complex. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Shanghai Tower.

The 541 m high building is located on a plot of 65,000 square meters.

CN Tower

The height of the symbol of the city of Toronto, the CN Tower, is 553.33 meters.

Initially, the abbreviation CN stood for Canadian National (the tower belonged to the state company Canadian National Railways). Toronto residents decided to keep the building's original name, and now the abbreviation CN stands for Canada's National.

Guangzhou TV Tower

This is the second tallest television tower in the world. It was built from 2005 to 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games. The height of the TV tower is 600 meters. Up to a height of 450 meters, the tower resembles a combination of a hyperboloid load-bearing grid shell and a central core.

The mesh shell of the tower is made of steel pipes large diameter. The tower's spire is 160 meters high.

TV and radio tower KVLY-TV

The height of the television and radio mast, which is located in North Dakota (USA), is 628.8 meters.

The building is the third tallest structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo.

Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower is a skyscraper in the Pudong district of Shanghai in China. The height of the structure is 632 meters, total area- 380 thousand m². Next to the skyscraper is the Shanghai World Finance center.

Construction of the tower was completed in 2015. The building is the tallest building in Shanghai, the first tallest in China and the third tallest free-standing structure in the world.

Tokyo Skytree

Tokyo Skytree is the tallest television tower in the world. It is located in the Sumida area of ​​Tokyo.

The height of the television tower together with the antenna is 634 meters, it is twice as high as the Tokyo Television Tower. The height of the tower was chosen in such a way that the numbers: 6, 3, 4 were consonant with the name “Musashi” - the historical area where modern Tokyo is located.

Warsaw radio tower

The radio mast, 646.38 meters high, was considered the tallest building in the world until it collapsed in 1991, when the Burj Khalifa skyscraper took the crown.

The tower was intended for long-wave radio broadcasting to Poland and Europe. The project was developed by the famous Polish engineer Jan Polyak.

Burj Khalifa

The largest building in the world is located in Dubai. The height of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper is 828 meters! It was built in the form of a stalagmite.

This tower is a kind of “city within a city” - with its own lawns, boulevards and parks. Inside the complex there are apartments, offices, shopping centers and a hotel. The building has three separate entrances.

The hotel was designed by the famous Giorgio Armani.

Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in Dubai and the tallest skyscraper in the world. The shape of the building resembles a stalagmite, which rises up to 828 meters. The building has 163 floors, on which there are 9 hotels and a fountain system. The total cost of the structure is estimated at $4.1 billion. And this includes the most amazing facts about Burj Khalifa.

1. Tallest building in the world

It is common knowledge that Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the entire world. However, how tall is it compared to other monstrous structures? The height of the Burj Khalifa is 828 meters, and the height of the second tallest building in the world (Shanghai Tower) is 632 meters. The difference is more than obvious. Also, Burj Khalifa is three times taller than the Eiffel Tower.

2. Inside the building

Those who think that the Burj Khalifa is very impressive from the outside have simply never been inside the skyscraper. The highest observation deck is at an altitude of 452 meters. The building has a total of 164 floors, 1 of which is underground, and as many as 58 elevators that travel at a speed of 10 meters per second (these are some of the fastest elevators in the world). Burj Khalifa also has 2,957 parking spaces, 304 hotels and 904 apartments. Interestingly, the Burj Khalifa has a special elevator system designed for evacuation during a fire.

3. The skyscraper was designed by Americans and built by a South Korean company

While the Burj Khalifa is located in Dubai (the skyscraper's original name was Burj Dubai), the building was designed by the American firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Engineers from Chicago helped develop a special support structure that resembles a three-pointed star. The construction of the building was entrusted to the South Korean company Samsung Engineering and Construction.

4. Several records

Everyone knows that Burj Khalifa is the record tallest building in the world. In fact, the Dubai skyscraper holds more than just this record. It is the tallest free-standing building, the building with the highest residential floor, the building with the largest number floors, a building equipped with the highest elevators and the second highest observation deck (the highest observation deck is located in the Canton TV Tower).

5. What was needed for construction

In order to build such a titanic building of almost a kilometer, it took a lot of time and effort (namely, 6 years and 22 million man-hours). On especially busy days, more than 12,000 workers were on the construction site at one time.

6. Huge weight

The construction of the huge building required a huge amount of materials. So much aluminum was used that it would be enough to create 5 Airbus A380s. 55,000 tons of reinforcing steel and 110,000 tons of concrete were also used. This is approximately equal to the weight of 100,000 elephants. And if you take and stack the reinforcement from a building in a row, it would stretch over a quarter of the Earth.

7. Heat resistance

Dubai is very hot, with an average summer temperature of 41 degrees. In July 2002, the world's worst recorded heat at 52 degrees. Naturally, a building built in this country must withstand extreme temperature changes. That's why more than 300 Chinese cladding experts were hired to develop a cladding system that could protect against local temperatures.

8. Energy consumption

Naturally, normal life in such a huge building requires a monstrous amount of resources. For example, the Burj Khalifa requires about 950,000 liters of water every day (while Dubai on average uses about 200-300 liters of water per day). The building also consumes a huge amount of electricity (about as much as 360,000 hundred-watt light bulbs “eat”).

9. Skyscraper washing

How do they clean and wash 26,000 glass panels, which always look perfectly smooth. This is done by 12 machines, each weighing about 13 tons, moving along special rails on the outside of the building. The cars are serviced by 36 people.

10. Floral design

The design of the Burj Khalifa was inspired by the Hymenocallis, a flower that has long petals radiating out from the center. The three wings of the Burj Khalifa spread out to the sides like these petals.

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 “Zifeng 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 from local mythology (dragons with iconography on the 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 structure 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 postmodernist traditions. 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. The impact of air flow on the building is practically reduced to zero due 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. WITH 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 building is located in the world famous city Mecca and rises to 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 works 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 the city of 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 already be safely 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. Besides shopping centers and offices, it is planned to build approximately three hundred luxury apartments here, the cost of which will start at $1.5 million.