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Use the filters below to create a tallest buildings list. You can view detailed information on a building by clicking its name. View the seminal tall buildings CTBUH features as case studies.
Towers are most often built to use their height for various purposes, and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure. Some common purposes are for telecommunications, and as a viewing platform. The Tokyo Skytree, completed in 2012, is 634 m (2,080 ft), making it the tallest tower in the world. Spinnaker Tower.
The list below offers an introduction to a few of the other tallest buildings in the world, many of which have been built in the 21st century in Asia and the Middle East, where construction costs tend to be lower than in other parts of the globe.
World's Tallest Towers. This chart is an artifact of the 20th century that was updated in 2010 and in 2020. It was originally created by the Skyscraper Museum as a wall mural for its debut exhibition in 1997 and added as the first feature on our new website, which was one of the only 1.1 million registered sites in 1997.
This is a list of the tallest buildings. Tall buildings, such as skyscrapers, are intended here as enclosed structures with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least 350 metres (1,150 ft). Such definition excludes non-building structures, such as towers.
3 wrz 2024 · As it stands, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building worldwide at 828 meters (2,717ft). Based in Dubai, the UAE, the 163-stored building was completed in 2010. In second place comes the...
24 cze 2020 · According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) database, the following buildings comprised the world’s full roster of supertall skyscrapers in 1999: With the exception of the original World Trade Center towers in New York, all these iconic structures are still standing.
