This post is a bit old, to view the more recent progress of the building, see: The tallest building in Beijing grows to nearly 500m highAfter in August China Zun Tower surpassed China World Trade Center Tower 3 in height, it keeps growing higher.The appearance of China Zun Tower is inspired by a kind of […]
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Tallest buildings proposed to be built in Miami
Aside from New York City and Chicago, Miami is another American city that filled with tons of skyscrapers, in terms of the buildings with heights of above 150 meters, Miami has 43, ranking 3rd in United States in this respect, only after New York and Chicago. As for supertalls which is the main subject to […]
Progress of China World Trade Center 3B in September
China World Trade Center 3B is one of the only two supertall skyscrapers currently under construction in China’s capital city Beijing. As of Sept 7th, after topped out for half a year, the tower’s cladding is still being installed and still 2 floors left to reach the bottom of the crown of the building. And […]
Tallest Buildings in Kuala Lumpur in 2020
Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia is one of the cities with most skyscrapers in Southeast Asia. As of 2020, Kuala Lumpur has 40 buildings higher than 200m, the amount is tied with Jakarta, and the amount of buildings higher than 300m is five, which is more than any other city in Southeast Asia. […]
Progress of China Zun Tower in Sep 2016
Last month, the China Zun Tower surpassed China World Trade Center Tower 3 becoming the new tallest building in Beijing as expected, with a height of 333 meters by August 18th. Now it has been 20 days for the tower keeping growing over China World Trade Center Tower 3, according to the pace of the […]
Tallest skyscrapers in Moscow
The skyscrapers with heights of more than two hundred meters can rarely be seen in European cities, not to speak of supertalls, even London has only one supertall built that slightly exceed 1000 feet to its tip. However there’s an exception, that is Moscow, the city now has many supertalls built or topped out including […]
The Tallest Buildings in Tianjin beyond 300m
Tianjin is a city situated very close to Beijing, the China’s capital city, only half an hour’s distance by high-speed rail. In perspective of population, economy, and city overall strength it’s behind Beijing, but Tianjin is far ahead of Beijing in the respect of construction of skyscrapers. Currently there are 3 supertall skyscrapers built or […]
Supertall skyscrapers in Western America
Since some cities in western America like Seattle has only one supertall tower proposed or built, it’s unnecessary to write a post for only one building and they can’t be ignored as well, therefore they are integrated into this post. Skyscrapers in the cities west of Mississippi in America have always been much less than in […]
Progress of China Zun Tower by July 12th
China Zun Tower, also known as Z15 Tower, is a near-megatall skyscraper currently under construction in Central Business District area in Beijing, it will finally rise to a height of 528 meters once topped out, it is designed to be the tallest building and a landmark of the city, and will be ranked 9th by […]
Progress of China WTC 3B by July 12th
China World Trade Center 3B is a building currently under construction in Beijing Central Business District area, the tower has topped out and stands 316 m tall, a little bit shorter than WTC 3A Tower, the nuance is not easy to be discovered, from some angle the tower appears as tall as the 3A tower […]
Tallest Buildings in Guangzhou over 300m
While most Chinese cities having their numerous skyscrapers built in last five or ten years, Guangzhou is one of a few exceptions in China that had had lots of skyscrapers a long time ago, the city had already witnessed skyscraper construction booms as early as 1990s, when the majority of Chinese cities had no skyscrapers […]
Tallest Buildings in Shanghai in 2019
Shanghai is one of the first cities in China that witnessed the skyscraper construction boom, the city had had the 420m Jin Mao Tower and 468m Oriental Pearl Tower built way back in 1990s, while the majority of the Chinese cities were having the 100-meter-tall buildings as their tallest buildings. In 2008, Shanghai World Financial […]