Aside from insurance salesmen though, the Ping An Finance Centre also houses offices, hotels and retail spaces – alongside an entire conference centre. Next up is the 115 floor Ping An Finance Centre, which is host to the Ping An Insurance Group, funnily enough. Pictured: Ping An Finance Centre, fourth tallest building in the world Has the Shanghai Tower been climbed? Our Russian friends over at On The Roofs created this stunning video as they ascended the Shanghai Tower in the evening fog and went one further than just climbing the building itself as they continued to climb to the top of a crane perched on the top of the building. In 2013, close to the time of its completion, it was considered as one of ‘The greenest super high-rise buildings on earth.’ These credentials have been achieved by capturing rainwater for internal use, a 25% reduction in structural steel, and 270 wind turbines located near the top of the tower which have been used to generate up to 10% of the tower’s energy. The most interesting thing about the Shanghai Tower is its green credentials. Once the grounds of a golf driving range, this area of Shanghai now hosts a spiralling tower. There’s a whopping 200 metre difference between the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world and this, the Shanghai Tower – the second tallest building in the world. Pictured: Shanghai Tower, second tallest building in the worldĬonstruction completed: 6th September 2014 The Burj Khalifa has also been climbed to the top by three BASE jumpers, who then jumped from the summit of the world’s tallest building. Unlike many of his other attempts, Robert was assisted by a rope and harness in order to comply with UAE safety laws. Has the Burj Khalifa been climbed? Well-known ‘Spiderman’ Alain Robert spent six hours climbing the outside of the Burj Khalifa.

All of the foundations have been designed to support the astonishing total building weight of 450,000 tonnes. These foundations weigh more than 110,000 tonnes and are buried more than 50 metres deep. Consisting of over 160 floors, the building has a multi-purpose use ranging from ‘Armani Hotel’ to office spaces.īecause of the extremely weak underlying rock beneath the Burj Khalifa, over 43,000 metres cubed of concrete had to be used to construct the concrete and steel foundations. Pictured: Burj Khalifa, tallest building in the worldĬoming in at an astonishing 1.5 million US dollars, the Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world is also one of the most expensive buildings in this roundup. That’s 8,020 metres short of the highest mountain in the world – Mount Everest. The highest, the Burj Khalifa, reaches up to a height of 828 metres. It’s also interesting to look at the height of these buildings. The most interesting thing about all of these buildings is that nine out of ten of them are in Asia, and all were built in the 21st century – showing the speed at which the eastern hemisphere are developing and building these skyscrapers. “The Burj Khalifa reaches … 8,020 metres short of the highest mountain in the world”

Don’t worry, we’ll be sure to keep this list of the tallest buildings in the world updated as and when the buildings are built. There is, for example, a new number one incoming – keep an eye out for the kilometre high Jeddah Tower due later this year (2020). The tallest building in the world is something that will frequently change.There are buildings being constructed which will knock many buildings off this list.

With that being said, this is a list of the tallest buildings in the world (we’re not including out and out towers, like the 634 metre high Tokyo Skytree). The tallest building in the world doesn’t sit between two tectonic plates and can be clearly measured without taking into account the prominence of each building – just measure top to bottom. Unlike the highest mountain in Europe, there’s no question as to what the tallest building in the world is – it’s quite a black and white picture really (it’s the Burj Khalifa).

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