5 Tallest Building in the world

1.  Buri Khalifa (2010)

Buri Khalifa Khalifa or until the current tower is the tallest skyscraper in the world, with building height reaches 828 m. Located in the city of Dubai, United Arab emirates. Construction of buildings began construction on September 21, 2004, and the outer structure of the building was successfully completed on  

1 October 2009. Building construction project is a collaboration between several leading architecture such as Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago, headed by an architecture "Adrian Smith", and Bill Baker as the Underlying Architecture. The main contractor in the completion of this project is Samsung C & T of Korea, until the project finished it takes funds of approximately 1.5 billion dollars in the United States.

2. Taipei 101 Tower (2004-2010)

Taipei 101 Tower or the Taipei Financial Center Corporation is a skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan, which officially crowned as the world's tallest building in 2004 and then to a new record broken in 2010 by Buri Khalifa skyscraper located in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Building the work of architect CY Lee and Partners is the high reached 509 yards and also become a symbol of modernism country Taiwan. Based on the name of this building inspired total floor building owned by that number reached 101 floors. Building construction was completed in 2004 with the sophisticated construction that is able to absorb shocks of earthquake and hurricane exposure.

3. Shanghai World Financial Center. (2007)

Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, the skyscraper is located at 100 Century Avenue, Pudong Shanghai, China. Building height is approximately 492 meters of completed completed on the 14th of september 2007, although in the workmanship that had been delayed by the economic crisis that hit Asia in 1997-1998, then was named the second highest building in the world in 2008. total funding until the completion of this building project to cost approximately 1.20 billion dollars. Interesting part of this building is the part that sits at the peak, ie a square aperture, which serves as a windbreak that makes this building became more stable. In mythology, the Chinese that the symbol box was described as a symbol for the earth.

4. Petronas Twin Towers (1998-2007)

Building twin skyscraper has 88 floors (452 m) was completed completed during the 6 years (1992-1998), situated on the road Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The work of Cesar Pelli architecture which cost around 1.6 Billion Dollars was crowned as the world's tallest skyscraper before his record broken by a skyscraper "Shanghai World Financial Center" in 2008.

88-story building has a total of 78 elevators with a floor area of 395,000 square meters.The concept of architects building consisting of two iconic towers describes Malaysia as a Muslim country and Designed by frame and reinforced concrete and equipped with glass-coated steel.

In the process of building workmanship is tilled by the contractor for each tower, tower 1 was built by a Japanese consortium led by Hazama Corporation, while the second tower was built by contractors from Korean company Samsung C & T and Kukdong.

5. Wilis Tower (1974-1998)

Willis tower building was previously named the Sears Tower, which is addressed in Chicago Illinois, USA. Completed skyscraper completed in 1974 it succeeded in occupying the record for world's tallest building for 25 years, before his record unbeaten by the twin Petronas Towers (Malaysia) in 1998.
Results cooperation architect "Bruce Graham" and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) has a floor area of 424,000 square meters, with 104 elevators and 16 elevators that connect the floor by floor in the building. Construction of this building has a stability against the wind in the workmanship architect Bruce Graham uses a new form for kostruksi frame building, with 200 sets of tubes are combined and embedded in the basic rocks, as well as 76,000 tons of steel are joined to strengthen the building.