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News Release from: Chartered Institute of Building [CIOB] | Subject: Worldwide tallest ten buildings
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2006
Tall Buildings Council names worldwide
tallest ten
Shimao International Plaza, Shanghai (333 m) heads the list as the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat names ten buildings as the world's tallest completed and occupied in 2005.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named ten buildings as the world's tallest completed and occupied in 2005 Shimao International Plaza, Shanghai (333 m) heads the list: Developer, Shanghai Shimao .; Architect/Structural/MEP: East China Architecture and Design Institute
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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60 storeys, mixed use.
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Chongqing World Trade Center (283 m): Developer: Chongqing Xinlongda Real Estate Development .; Architect/ Structural/MEP, Chongqing Architecture and Design Institute.
60 storeys, mixed Triumph Palace, Moscow (264 m): Developer, DON-Story; Architect/Structural/MEP, DONStroy.
57 storeys, mixed Grand Gateway Office Tower One, Shanghai, (262 m).
Developer, Hang Lung Development Co ., Henderson Development, Hysan Development Co .; Architect, East China Architecture, Design and Research Institute Co ., Callison Architecture ; Structural Engineer, Maunsell Structural Consultants .; MEP, A.C.E.
55 storeys, mixed Chelsea Tower, Dubai (250 m).
Developer, Abdulsalam Alrafi Group; Architect/Structural/MEP: WS Atkins and Partners.
49 storeys, residential Bloomberg Tower, New York (246 m).
Developer, Vornado Realty Trust; Architect, Cesar Pelli and Associates and SLCE Architects; Structural, Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers; MEP, Flack and Kurtz 54 storeys, mixed Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia (240 m).
Developer, Investa Property Group; Architect, Foster and Partners, Hassell Pty .; Structural, Lend Lease Design, Ove Arup and Partners; MEP, Norman Disney Young.
39 stories, office Suzhou Xindi Center, Suzhou, China (232 m).
Developer, Xindi (Group) .; architect Jiangsu Architecture and Design Institute, Kohn Pedersen Fox; structural, Jiangsu Architecture and Design Institute, Parsons Brinckerhoff.
54 storeys, mixed The Arch, Hong Kong (231 m).
Developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties .; Architect, Sun Hung Kai Engineering .; Structural, Ove Arup and Partners, Hong Kong .; MEP Parsons Brinckerhoff.
65 storeys, residential David Scott of Arup in New York, recently appointed chairman of the Council in succession to Ron Klemencic, said that to be eligible for consideration, buildings must have been completed in the year for which they were entered, be fully clad and at least partially occupied.
As with the Council's official ranking of 100 tallest buildings in the world, the criteria include any structure with discrete floors designed for residential, business or manufacturing purposes.
Height is measured from sidewalk level of the main entrance to the structural top of the building including spire, but not communications antennae or flag pole.
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