Top 5 Skyscrapers tallest of their time. As Construction industry has developed a lot with new innovations reaching higher to highest. Structure plays vital role in this as it is the backbone of any building.

“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.” -Federico Garcia Lorca

#1 BURJ KHALIFA -TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD

  • Type- Mixed use
  • Height- 828 M; 2717 FT.
  • Architect- Adrian Smith
  • Architectural Firm- SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill)
  • Architectural style- Neo Futurism
  • Location- Dubai, UAE
  • Structure System- Bundled Tube

Architectural features of triple- lobed footprint, an abstraction of the Hymenocallis flower. Modular Y- shaped structure maximizing space and view of Arabian Gulf. 26 Helical levels decreases the cross section of the tower incrementally as it spirals skyward. Burj Khalifa uses “Bundled Tube” system invented by Fazlur Rahman Khan.

#2 SHANGHAI TOWER

  • Type- Mixed Use
  • Height- 632 M ;2073 FT.
  • Architect- Jun Xia
  • Architectural Firm- Gensler
  • Architectural style- Futuristic Architecture
  • Location- Shanghai, China
  • Structure System- Composite: Core- reinforced concrete, Columns- Concrete encased steel, Floor Spanning- Steel

Shanghai Tower world’s 2nd Tallest Building, 1st tallest in Asia, China and Shanghai. Tower takes form of nine cylindrical building stacked atop each other. “Vertical urbanism” offers sustainable way of living in vertical city. Shanghai tower labeled with LEED Platinum BD+C: Core and Shell.

#3 TAIPEI 101

  • Type- Commercial
  • Height- 509.2 M ; 1671 FT.
  • Architect- C.Y Lee and C.P Wang
  • Architectural Firm- C.Y Lee and Partners Architects/ Planners
  • Architectural style- Postmodern Architecture
  • Location- Taiwan
  • Structure System- Outrigger trusses, Moment frames, Belt trusses

Taipei 101 structure depicts a Bamboo stalk and Pagoda style. Designed to withstand typhoon winds and earthquakes that are frequent in Taiwan with the help of “Tuned Mass damper” which is passive damping system consist of Spring, Viscous damping device, and a secondary mass attached to the Vibrating structure.

#4 KK100

  • Type- Mixed Use
  • Height- 442 M ; 1450 FT.
  • Architect- TFP Farrells
  • Architectural Firm- Huasen Architectural and Engineering Designing Consultants Ltd.
  • Architectural style- Modern Architecture
  • Location- China
  • Structure System- Composite: Core- reinforced concrete, Columns- Concrete encased steel, Floor Spanning- Steel

KK 100 China’s slimmest building. Mixed use building has three major functions- Grade A office, 6 Star Hotels, Residential Building. It consist of “Mini City” in itself. The tower curving form of building symbolises wealth, prosperity of city of Shenzhen.

#5 432 PARK AVENUE

  • Type- Residential
  • Height- 426 M ; 1397 FT.
  • Architect- Rafael Vinoly
  • Architectural Firm- SLCE Architects
  • Architectural style- Modern Architecture
  • Location- New York
  • Structure System- Dual Tube in Tube

Park Avenue is the Tallest Residential tower, Super slender with square grid of 15.5ft by 15.5 ft. Simplicity and Symmetry being its main attribute this building has 86 residential floors. Structural system ” Dual Tube in Tube” i.e Hollow tube which are perpendicular to ground. In order to provide strength and lateral stiffness, five outrigger, each spanning over two stories with slenderness ratio 1:15.

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