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World’s Tallest Skyscrapers  What you will find on this wiki is information on a collection of the world's tallest skyscrapers. This is relevant because we will be designing and constructing some our very own environmentally friendly skyscrapers.

 The tallest of these skyscrapers is called the Burj Khalifa and stands at a height of 828 meters. It was in construction for a long time but has been recently completed in the city of Dubai. The next tallest is the creation, Taipei 101. The building stands at a considerably lesser height of around 500 meters. The building is used for office spaces and work. As the name implies the building is constructed in Taipei, Taiwan. Constructed in more recent years is the Shanghai World Financial Center. A little shy of 500 meters, this building is still very tall and has various uses. The name gives the location of this one away as well because this building lies in Shanghai, China. Coming in at the fourth tallest building in the world is the International Commerce Center. This building, constructed in the city- state of Hong Kong is slightly shorter than its Shanghai counterpart. It is used for various purposes. What makes the next building so impressive is that it is not only one building, but two towers and the fact that it was constructed over a decade ago and they are the Petronas Towers. Located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this pair is the only set of twin towers among the world's tallest 20 skyscrapers. The next construction is also located in China and it is the Nanjing Greenland Financial Complex. This building is very new as it was constructed last year and has several uses. The Willis Tower is another one of the world's greatest buildings. If you take off the antennae from the top of it the building is 442 meters tall. This makes it the world's seventh tallest building, although at its time of completion which was the year 1974. This is also the only building among the world's tallest 8 skyscrapers that is in located United States. The world's next tallest building is another one from China. It is called the Guangzhou International Finance Center and as you can guess is in the city of Guangzhou. It was built last year in 2010, has 103 floors, and has a total height of 437.5 meters. The next building that I encountered is the only other American skyscraper among the world's tallest 10. It was constructed for the financial genius Donald Trump. Appropriately named the Trump International Hotel and Tower this building was only recently constructed as it was completed only 2 years ago. It has various uses and is locate din Chicago, Illinois. Coming in last, barely managing to make its way on to the list there's also the Jin Mao tower edging its way onto the list as the tenth tallest skyscraper in the world. This one, also located in China is among the older of the bunch as it was completed in 1998 and managed a total height of 420.5 meters.

There are also several key points and facts that I find of interest and that I think the reader might as well regarding the above set of data. The first is that no less than 80% of these skyscrapers are located on the continent of Asia. Of this 80%, 75% of them are constructed in China. You might ask what about the 20% that are not Asian? These are both located in the United States. There is not one European or African creation in the mix. Also only 30% are used solely for the purpose of office space and the rest have various uses.

I hope that this collection and analysis was either useful of interesting. I got all of my information from []