Top 5 tallest Buildings of the world

Hey guys, I am going to tell you about the top 5 tallest buildings in the world.

 

1. Burj Khalifa 

Burj Khalifa is the  tallest building of the world. Burj khalifa construction completed in 2010.

There are 163 floors in this building, and the overall height of this building is 828m.

It is located in Dubai.

Construction began of  Burj khalifa in 2004 and exterior completed in 2009 about 5 year later.

The primary structure is reinforced concrete, and some of the structural steel for the building originated from the palace of the republic east burlin, the former East German parliament.

 

The building was originally named Burj Dubai. But was renamed in the honour of the ruler Abu Dhabi and President of UAE.

Government lent Dubai money to pay it debs. The building broke numerous records including designation of the tallest building of the world.

Adrian Smith designed Burj Khalifa, Skidmore,  owing and merril whose firm designed TTowerand one world trade center.

 

2. Shanghai Tower

The second tallest building in the world is Shanghai Tower.

It has 128 floors and the height of this building is 632m.

This building is located in Sanghai, China.

This building is also known as twisting ToTowerecause its overall design is twisted.

The construction worked on the toToweregan in November 2008  and topped out on 3 August 2013.

The exterior was completed in summer September 2104.

The sanghai towers were designed by the American architectural firm Gentler with Sanghainese architect Jun xia leading the design team.

However takes the former of nine cylindrical buildings stacked atop each other 128 floors, all enclosed by the inner layer of the glass Facade.

 

3. ABRAJ AL Bait Clock Tower

This the third tallest building of the world.

There are 120 floors in this buildings.

Height of this building is 601m.

This building located at Mecca Saudi Arabia.

This is also known as Mecca, the Royal Clock Tower.

The building complex is meters away from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the great mosque of Mecca.

 

The developer and contractor of the complex is the Saudi Binladin groups. The kingdoms largest construction company.

The worlds second most expensive  building with total cost US $15 billion.

The building is topped by a four-faced Clock visible from 25 km (16 miles away).

Clocklock is the highest in the world at over 400m (1300 feet) above the ground. The Clock faces are the lageat in the world.

They are surpassing the cevahir mall Clock building in Istanbul. Each Clock faces measuring 43m (141 feet) in diameter and is illuminated by 2 million LED lights with four oriented edges.

Just above Clocklock alongside substantial Arabic script reading.

 

4. Ping a Finance Center 

This is the fourth tallest buildings of the world.

It has nearly 115 floors. 

The height of this building is 599m

And the building is located in Shenzhen, China.

The building is located within the central business district Shenzhen.

Design of the building began in 2008 with Kohn Pedersan Focmx associates providing architectural design.

 

5. Lotte world tower

This building has 123 floors.

Height of this building is 554.5 m

It is located in Seoul, South Korea. 

So guys these are the top 5 tallest buildings of the world. 

It's is the tallest building in South Korea.

 

Lotte Tower was a landmark of Seoul and the first 100 story buildings in Korea when it was completed.

It was the the fourth highest building in the world and the highest OCED countries.

The concept design calls a slender cone with convex, gently curved sides. An exterior of pole colored glass drows inspiration from Korean ceramics and features accents of metal filigree.

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