Check out our list of the top 10 tallest buildings in the world.
What building is the world’s tallest? Where is it located? What’s the tallest building in the USA? How about China? Find the answers with our amazing list of skyscrapers.
In September 2020, an architecture firm and luxury condo building company began constructing what will be the largest residential tower in Canada – SkyTower. It’s in Toronto, and at 1,025 feet high, it’ll be the city’s second-largest building behind the CN Tower.
The heights are measured from the ground to the architectural top of the buildings, listed in feet and are accurate as of 2020.
Enjoy our list of the top 10 tallest buildings in the world.
10. TAIPEI 101
Height: 1,667 feet Floors: 101 Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Completion date: 2004
The Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a supertall skyscraper designed by C.Y. Lee and C.P. Wang in Xinyi, Taipei, Taiwan. This building was officially classified as the world’s tallest from its opening in 2004 until the 2010 completion of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.
9. CITIC Tower
Height: 1,731 feet Floors: 109 Location: Beijing, China
Completion date: 2018
CITIC Tower is a supertall skyscraper in the Central Business District of Beijing. It is popularly known as China Zun. The 109-storey, 528 m building is the tallest building in the city, surpassing that of the China World Trade Center Tower III by 190 metres.
8. Tianjin CTF Finance Centre
Height: 1,739 feet Floors: 97 Location: Tianjin, China
Completion date: Expected in 2019
Tianjin CTF Finance Center is a super-tall skyscraper in Tianjin, China. Construction started in 2013 and was completed in 2019. The tower is the second tallest building in Tianjin after Goldin Finance 117, eighth tallest building in the world, and the tallest building in the world with fewer than 100 floors.
8. Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre
Height: 1,739 feet Floors: 111 Location: Guangzhou, China
Completion date: 2016
The Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre is a 1,739-foot tall mixed-use skyscraper in Guangzhou, Guangdong, which was completed in October 2016. It is the tallest completed building in Guangzhou, the third-tallest in China, and the seventh-tallest in the world.
6. One World Trade Center
Height: 1,776 feet Floors: 94 Location: New York City, US
Completion date: 2014
One World Trade Center is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. One WTC is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world.
5. Lotte World Tower
Height: 1,819 feet Floors: 123 Location: Seoul, South Korea
Completion date: 2017
Lotte World Tower is a 556-metre, 123-story skyscraper located in Seoul, South Korea. It opened to the public on April 11, 2017, and is currently the tallest building in South Korea and the fifth tallest in the world.
4. Ping An Finance Center
Height: 1,965 feet Floors: 115 Location: Shenzhen, China
Completion date: 2017
The Ping An International Finance Center is a 115-story, 599 m supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong. The building was commissioned by Ping An Insurance and designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.
3. Makkah Royal Clock Tower
Height: 1,972 feet Floors: 120 Location: Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Completion date: 2012
The Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Collectively they are called The Abraj Al-Bait (“Towers of the House”). Abraj Al-Bait are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that aims to modernize the city in catering to its pilgrims.
The Makkah Royal Clock Tower, has the world’s largest clock face. The clock tower contains the Clock Tower Museum that occupies the top four floors of the tower.
2. Shanghai Tower
Height: 2,073 feet Floors: 128 Location: Shanghai, China
Completion date: 2015
Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. It is the world’s second-tallest building by height to architectural top and it shares the record of having the world’s highest observation deck within a building or structure at 562 m.
1. Burj Khalifa
Height: 2,716 feet Floors: 163 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Completion date: 2010
The Burj Khalifa, known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m and a roof height of 828 m, the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in 2009.