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TOP 10 HIGHEST BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD, 2016 1. Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the tallest at 828 m (2,717 ft). The CTBUH only recognizes buildings that are complete, however, and some buildings listed within these list articles are not considered complete by the CTBUH. 2.Shanghai Tower The Shanghai Tower (Chinese: 上海中心大厦; pinyin: Shànghǎi Zhōngxīn Dàshà; Shanghainese: Zånhe Tsonshin Dusa; literally: "Shanghai Center Tower")designed for high energy efficiency, provides multiple separate zones for office, retail and leisure use. The exterior of Shanghai Tower was completed in the summer of 2015. 3. Abraj Al Bait The Abraj Al-Bait Towers, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, is a government-ownedmegatall building complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that strives to modernize the city in catering to its pilgrims. The central hotel building has the world's largest clock face and is the third tallest building and fourth tallest freestanding structure in the world. 4. Ping An Finance Centre The building is located within the Central Business District of Shenzhen in Futian. Its 18,931 square metre lot was purchased by Ping An Group via auction at a price of 1.6568 billion RMB on November 6, 2007. Its foundation stone was laid on August 29, 2009 and construction started in November the same year. 5.Lotte World Tower Lotte World Tower (Korean: 롯데월드 타워) is a 123-floor, 555-metre (1,821 ft) supertall skyscraper and has finished external construction on March 17, 2016. 6. One World Trade Center One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower,[13] 1 World Trade Center, One WTC and1 WTC) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. 7. CTF Finance Centre: CTF Finance Centre formerly The CTF Guangzhou, Chow Tai Fook Centre (simplified Chinese: 周大福商业中心; traditional Chinese: 周大福商業中心; pinyin: Zhōu Dà Fú Shāngyèzhōngxīn; Jyutping: zau1 daai6 fuk1 soeng1 jip6 8. 8. Taipei 101: Taipei 101 (Chinese: 臺北101 / 台北101) – stylized as TAIPEI 101[1] and formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center – is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building was officially classified as the world's tallest in 2004, and remained such until the completion of Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2009. In 2011, the building was awarded the LEED platinum certification, the highest award according to theLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, and became the tallest and largest green building in the world.[9][10] 9. Shanghai World Financial Center: The Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC; Chinese: 上海环球金融中心) is a supertall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company, with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as its structural engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corp and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as its main contractor. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls.Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel component, comprising 174 rooms and suites occupying the 79th to the 93rd floors, and constituting the second-highest hotel in the world after the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, which occupies floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre.[5] 10. International Commerce Centre: The International Commerce Centre (Chinese: 環球貿易廣場) (abbreviated ICC) is a 108-storey (seebelow), 484 m (1,588 ft) commercial skyscraper completed in 2010 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a part of the Union Square project on top of Kowloon Station. It was the 4th tallest building in the world (third in Asia) when its construction was completed in 2010. Now, it is the world's 10th tallest building by height,world's fifth tallest building by number of floors, as well as the tallest building in Hong Kong. ====================================================== I have taken the information from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world