TALLEST BUILDINGSIN THE WORLD
By Tommy Cossette-Côté
April 2011
Architectural Detail
All buildings listed in this presentation are ranked by architectural detail (also called structural height).
It is a category to rank skyscrapers by measuring the “vertical elevation from the base to the highest architectural or integral structural element of the building.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world
TOP 10TALLEST BUILDINGS
WORLDWIDE
1 2 3 4 5 & 6
7 8 9 10
Burj Khalifa Taipei 101 Shanghai World Financial Center
International Commerce Center
Petronas Towers
Nanjing Greenland Financial Center
Willis Tower Kingkey Finance Tower Guangzhou West Tower
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world#Tallest_skyscrapers_by_architectural_detail_.28top_200.29
Burj Khali
fa
Taipei
101
Shan
ghai
World
Finan
cial C
enter
Internati
onal Commerc
e Cen
tre
Petronas
To
wer 1
Petronas
To
wer 2
Nanjin
g Gree
nland Fi
nancia
l Cen
ter
Willi
s Tower
Kingkey
Finan
ce To
wer
Guangzh
ou West
Tower
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
828
509 492 484452 452 450 442 442 438
Height of tallest completed buildings in the world as of 2010 (in meters)
Building
Heig
ht (m
)
TOP 10TALLEST BUILDINGS
IN CANADA
1 2 3 4
7 8 9 10
First Canadian Place Trump International Hotel and Tower
Scotia Plaza Aura (at College Park)
TD Canada Trust Tower, Brookfield Place
The Bow 1250 René-Lévesque Toronto-Dominion Centre Bay Adelaide Centre West
5 6Commerce Court
West
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Canada#Tallest_buildings_in_Canada
First Canadian Place
Trump Interna-tional Hotel and Tower
Scotia Plaza Aura (at Col-lege Park)
TD Canada Trust Tower, Brookfield
Place
Commerce Court West
The Bow 1250 René-Lévesque
Toronto-Do-minion Centre
Bay Adelaide Centre West
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
298
282275
264 263
239 236226 223 218
Height of tallest buildings (completed and under construction) in Canada as of 2010 (in meters)
Building
Heig
ht (m
)
TIMELINEOF THE TALLEST
BUILDINGSWORLDWIDE
1890New York World
BuildingManhattan Life
Insurance BuildingWoolworth Building Chrysler Building Empire State
Building
Willis Tower Petronas Towers Taipei 101 Burj KhalifaWorld Trade Center I
1974 1998 2004 2010
1894 1913 1930 1931
1972
1890 1894 1913 1930 1931 1972 1974 1998 2004 2010
Height (m) 94 106 241 319 381 417 442 452 509 828
50
150
250
350
450
550
650
750
850
94 106
241
319
381
417442 452
509
828
Timeline of the tallest buildings in the world since 1890 (in meters) He
ight
(m)
Source: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tallest-buildings-timeline.html
SOME OTHER STATISTICS…
China32% (8)
United Arab Emirates16% (4)
United States16% (4)
Hong Kong8% (2)
Qatar8% (2)
Taiwan4% (1)
Malaysia4% (1)
Kuwait4% (1)
India4% (1)
Saudi Arabia4% (1)
Percentage of buildings taller than 400 meters (completed and under construction) of countries in the world as of 2010
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buildings_taller_than_400_metres
0 500 1000 1500 2000 25000
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
400,000
f(x) = 141.624518749529 x − 308.09079753363R² = 0.998320544540017
Correlation between the number of buildings in the cities with at least 200 buildings higher than 100 meters (as of 2010) and the combined heights of
the buildings in each of these cities (in thousands of meters)
Number of buildings
Com
bine
d He
ight
(m)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_with_most_skyscrapers#Cities_with_at_least_200_buildings_.E2.89.A5_100m
201-300 301-400 401-500 501-600 601-700 701-800 801-9000
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
138
52
12
1 0 0 1
Classification of the first 200 tallest completed buildings in the world according to their height as of 2010 (in meters)
Bin (m)
Freq
uenc
y
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world#Tallest_skyscrapers_by_architectural_detail_.28top_200.29
In conclusion…
• The current tallest completed skyscraper in the world is the Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai. It is way much taller than the second one with its 828 m high.
• The tallest skyscraper in Canada is the First Canadian Place in Toronto. It is 298 m high.
• 120 years ago, the tallest skyscraper in the world did not even reach 100 m high.
• China is the country with the most skyscrapers taller than 400 m worldwide (8, which represents 32% of all of them).
• There is a very strong correlation between the number of skyscrapers in the cities with at least 200 skyscrapers higher than 100 m and the combined heights of the buildings in each of these cities (0.9983).
• There is presently no skyscraper between 509 m and 828 m tall.
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