A brief history of tall buildings, famous tall buildings

High-rise buildings began to be built in ancient times, and the Alexandria Lighthouse built by Egypt in 280 BC is more than 100 meters high and is a stone structure (the ruins remain today). China built in 523 Dengfeng County, Henan Songyue Temple Tower, 40 meters high, for the brick structure, built in 1056 in Shanxi Ying County Buddha Palace Temple Shakya Pagoda, more than 67 meters high, for the wooden structure, are preserved to this day.

Modern high-rise buildings first emerged from the United States, with the construction of the first 11-story self-supporting and steel-framed insurance company building in Chicago in 1883. The Woolworth Building, built in New York in 1913, is 52 stories high. The Empire State Building, built in New York in 1931, is 381 meters high and has 102 floors.

After World War II, there was a worldwide boom in tall buildings. 1962 The two World Center towers were built in New York in 1976, each with 110 floors and a height of 411 meters. Built in Chicago in 1974, the Sears Tower is 110 stories tall and 443 meters tall, once the tallest building in the world.

Canada built Toronto's Commerce Palace, the former 239 meters high, and the First Bank Tower in Toronto, which is 295 meters high. In the past decade, Japan has built a large number of buildings with a height of more than 100 meters, such as the Ikebukuro Sunshine Building in Tokyo, which is 60 floors and 226 meters high. There are dozens of 30 50-storey high-rise buildings in the Defense district of Paris, France.

The Soviet Union built a 40-story building in 1971 and developed into a high-rise complex.

The high-rise buildings of modern China were built in the 20 and 30s of the 20th century. In 1934, the International Hotel was built in Shanghai, with a height of 22 floors. In the 50s, a 13-storey Minzu Hotel and a 15-storey Civil Aviation Building were built in Beijing; In the 60s, an 18-storey People's Building and a 27-storey Guangzhou Hotel were built in Guangzhou.

Since the end of the 70s, a large number of high-rise residential buildings have been built in major cities across the country, such as Beijing's Qiansanmen, Fuxingmen, Jianguomen and Caoxi North Road in Shanghai, all of which have built 12 16-storey high-rise residential buildings, as well as a large number of high-rise office buildings and hotels. The Shenzhen International ** Center Building, built in 1986, is 50 storeys high. The construction of Shanghai Jin Mao Tower started in 1994 and was completed in 1998, with 88 floors above ground, 93 floors and 3 floors underground if you add the minaret.

Shanghai World Financial Center is a skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Shanghai, China, which was completed on August 29, 2008. It is the second tallest building in China, the third tallest building in the world, and the highest flat-roofed building in the world, with a height of 492 meters and 101 floors above ground.

The tallest building: Kingdom Tower.

English name: Kingdom Tower Country City: Saudi Arabia.

The Kingdom Tower is a landmark in Saudi Arabia.

The second tallest building: Burj Khalifa.

English name: Burj Khalifa Tower Country City: United Arab Emirates.

The Burj Khalifa is 828 meters tall and has 162 floors and cost $1.5 billion, and the building itself cost at least $1 billion, not including its large shopping mall, lake and slightly lower towers.

The third tallest building: the Indian Tower.

English name: India Tower Country City: Mumbai, India.

The Tower of India has a total of 125 floors and has 882,000 square feet of multi-level usable space. Each rotating area floor within the tower has a completely different purpose, divided into residential, office, retail, entertainment and more.

1, International Finance Center Building, Taipei, China. Taipei 101 is 508 meters tall (including antennas), has the world's largest and heaviest "wind damper", and two of the world's fastest elevators, from the first floor to the 89th floor, in just 39 seconds.

2, International Finance Center Building, Taipei, China. Taipei 101 is 508 meters tall (including antennas), has the world's largest and heaviest "wind damper", and two of the world's fastest elevators, from the first floor to the 89th floor, in just 39 seconds.

3, Petronas Gemini Tower (night view, Tower 2), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4, Sears Tower, 443 meters, located in Chicago, USA.

5, Jin Mao Tower, m, located in Shanghai, China.

6, International Finance Center Tower (Phase II), 420 meters, located in Hong Kong, China.

7. CITIC Plaza Building, 391 meters, located in Guangzhou, China.

The skyscraper was born in Chicago in the eighties of the 19th century, and the ten-storey "Chicago Home Insurance Building" is recognized as the world's first skyscraper. However, in less than 120 years, skyscrapers around the world have challenged people's ability to withstand height again and again, from the Eiffel Tower, the first building to surpass the pyramid, to the Empire State Building, which dominated nearly half a century, until the emergence of Taipei 101, and then to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010 with a height of 828 meters and 168 floors, the world's tallest building, which is the first skyscraper in human history to exceed 600 meters.