The earliest architectural ranking in the world

China Taipei International Financial Center Building 1.

2. The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1 Tower).

3. The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (night view, Tower 2).

4. Sears Tower, Chicago, USA

Booth said that once the $900 million skyscraper is completed in 2008, it will install a detachable spire to prevent others from measuring its true height. He said only the president knew how high it was.

Booth declined to say how many floors the skyscraper has, but a model elevator on the construction site has buttons on the 189 floor.

The swing range of this skyscraper in the wind is 10 feet (more than 3 meters), which means that designers need to prevent the long steel cables of the elevator from shaking and colliding. This elevator can carry 50 passengers.

Such skyscrapers will make high-rise buildings in Asia lose their advantages. Among the tallest buildings in the world 10, there are currently seven in Asia, among which Taipei International Finance Center Building has10/floor, making it the tallest building in the world. Although the Toronto TV Tower in Canada is 180 feet (more than 60 meters) taller than it, it is 10 in Taipei mainly because its antenna is surprisingly high.

5. Jinmao Building, Shanghai, China

6. China international finance centre Building (Phase II)

7. CITIC Plaza Building, Guangzhou, China.

8. Xinxing Plaza Building, Shenzhen, China

Dubai, a coastal city in the Gulf region, is famous for its bold innovation. It once opened up an artificial tourist island, and Dubai skyscraper is one of many amazing projects.

New york has built many skyscrapers, because it is a land with an inch of land, and Dubai has built skyscrapers to occupy a place on the international map. Richard Rosen, director of the Washington-based Urban Land Institute, said, "Obviously, this is an image project, and there is no practical reason to build such a tall skyscraper."

From the design, Dubai skyscraper looks like a giant space shuttle ready to launch.

Booth took the reporter to the balcony on the 37th floor of a nearby building, which made people dizzy. He said that when you are on the 137 floor, you can guess what it feels like. He also said that people who build this tall building should not be afraid of heights.

Real estate developers said that the silvery white building with stainless steel and glass exterior structure will restore the reputation of the Middle East as the tallest building in the world. 1889 The Eiffel Tower in France surpassed great pyramid of giza, and the Middle East lost its reputation as the tallest building in the world.

Greg Sanger, project manager of Imeyer Dubai Skyscraper, said that the designers considered natural disasters and man-made destruction, so they adopted a concrete structure instead of a steel structure like the World Trade Center in New York to resist the impact of airplanes. In 200 1 year, terrorists hijacked a plane and crashed it into the World Trade Center in New York, which caused a fire. The steel structure of the building was melted by high temperature and the whole building collapsed.

An official from the United Arab Emirates also visited the completed foundation project with the on-site engineers. He said that compared with steel structures, concrete structures have stronger seismic and compressive capacity and better fire resistance when attacked.

9. Empire State Building, New York, USA

China Hong Kong Central Plaza Building 10.

The design appearance of this skyscraper should be attributed to adrian smith, the architect of skidmore owings Merrill in Chicago, USA. Smith once designed the Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, which is 65,438+0,378 feet (450 meters) high. Jinmao Tower ranks fourth among the tallest buildings in the world, but it ranks fifth according to the skyscraper website, because this website ranks Petronas Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur as the second and third respectively with Tower 65, Tower 438+0 and Tower 2.

South Korea's Samsung Company is the main contractor of Dubai's skyscrapers, and their staff have begun to work on the concrete platform of the foundation. The concrete platform is shaped like three round leaves, just like a local flower, embedded in the sand. The 37th floor of this skyscraper will be a hotel, and there will be 700 private apartments from 45th floor to 108 floor. Surprisingly, these apartments were sold out in just eight hours.

The rest of the building area will be used as the company office. 123rd floor is the reception hall, and124th floor is the observation deck for visitors. The observation deck has an open-air balcony specially designed for those brave people. The spires of skyscrapers are equipped with communication equipment.

World ranking of super high-rise buildings

In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the tallest skyscraper in the world will rise. Piles have been driven into the ground more than 50 meters deep, and they will support the building at least 123 height. After the skyscraper is completed, people will be able to enjoy the city scenery of Dubai from different commanding heights.

This skyscraper, named Burj Dubai, is many stories higher than the tallest skyscrapers in China, Chicago and other parts of the world, but how high it is is still a secret, in order to confuse those competitors who want to be the first in the world competition to build the world's tallest skyscraper.