Top 5 Tallest Buildings In The world... Lotte World Tower is "5th Place"

 Top 5 tallest buildings in the world... Lotte World Tower is "5th place"

Humans have an instinct to climb high places. It is for a number of complex reasons: challenge, conquest, domination, and show off. Even in the Genesis of the Old Testament, the Tower of Babel, created by the greed of humans who built tall and huge towers to reach the sky, appeared. Such desires of humans come true at the end of the 19th century with the development of construction technology such as steel and concrete construction methods, and the development of electric high-speed elevators (elevators).



Skyscrapers  which means'houses touching the sky', are starting to be built mainly in Manhattan, the United States, in order to dramatically increase the efficiency of land use in cities along with this construction technology. Not long ago, there was competition in the Middle East to build the world's best landmarks based on ample oil money. There are no exact standards, but in the past, buildings over 200 meters were usually classified as skyscrapers. Currently, residential and commercial complexes in Korea are also at the level of over 200m, so a very high-rise building that exceeds 500m can only show a business card of a skyscraper.

#5 Seoul, Lotte World Tower
Lotte World Tower, 1819 feet (555m)

So, what is the highest height that humans can erect? There is the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, which is being built for the first time in mankind to reach a height of more than 1km, so it is easily over 1km . Although it has not yet been realized, the concept of a 4km high building was also introduced. First, we will introduce you to the top 5 existing skyscrapers in the world.

Lotte World Tower, which opened in April 2017, has 123 stories above the ground and 6 stories below the ground, and boasts a total height of 555 meters, including a spire structure of 40.3 meters. It also features a double deck elevator that can reach the 117th floor from the 2nd basement level within 1 minute.

4.Pingan International Financial Center, Shenzhen, China
Ping'an Finance Center, 1965 feet (599m)

 

Construction of the Ping An International Financial Center started in 2010, initially aiming for a height of 660 meters. However, due to the flight route problem, the height of the spire was reduced by about 60 meters. It consists of one building with 115 floors, 600 meters high, and two buildings with 66 floors and 320 meters, and was completed in 2016.

#3 Saudi Arabia, Abraz R. Bite
Abraj Al Bait, 1972 feet (601m)

#2 Shanghai Tower, China
Shanghai Tower, 2073 feet (632m)

The Shanghai Tower, which started construction in 2008 and completed in 2015, boasts a height of 128 stories. It is said that the shape of the building that twists up from the first floor lobby to the top by about 360 degrees is the shape of a flying dragon. There is an observation deck on the 118th floor. The elevator is said to be fast enough to go up from the ground to the observation deck in less than 30 seconds.

#1 United Arab Emirates, Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa, 2717 feet (828m)

Currently, the tallest building in the world is Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Middle East, with 163 floors. It stands at 828 meters, almost 200 meters higher than the second-place Shanghai Tower. Burj means'tower' in Arabic, and Khalifa is said to have been obtained from Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan, the name of the President of the United Arab Emirates. Burj Khalifa has taken the title of'the best in the world' since it was built, but if the'Jeddah Tower', which is aimed at a height of more than one kilometer in Saudi Arabia, may have to be given its title.

Saudi'Jeddah Tower', the world's tallest building dream

(Expected appearance upon completion of Jeddah Tower)

The'Jeddah Tower ', which is being built in the coastal city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, is about 1km (1007m) high , and if completed, it is expected to take the unrivaled first place in the global skyscraper competition. The building, which is in full swing with the goal of completion in 2020, was originally planned to be one mile (about 1600 meters) high. However, it is said that the height was drastically reduced due to ground and building stability problems.



In fact, the height of the Jeddah Tower is about 377 meters, except for the spire, the actual building is 630 meters high. It seems that there is an ambition to build a building that exceeds one kilometer, even if it is impossible.  



How much will the construction of the Jeddah Tower benefit? Unlike the United Arab Emirates, where Dubai and Abu Dhabi belong, Saudi Arabia is a very closed country economically and religiously. In the case of female foreign tourists, the tourist process is so complicated that they must be accompanied by a family member to enter the country. Because of this situation, there was also a snarky response saying that the only purpose was to build a landmark higher than the Burj Khalifa abroad.