Best Supertall

The Petronas Tower 1 is a supertall skyscraper located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 1998, it was designed by César Pelli and stands at 452 meters. It’s notable for being the tallest building in Malaysia and once held the title of world's tallest until 2004. Primarily an office building, i...

The Bank of China Tower dominates Hong Kong’s skyline as a prominent example of 1980s architecture. Designed by I.M. Pei, its distinctive prismatic shape and height made it the city's tallest building upon completion in 1990. It serves primarily as an office complex catering to financial institution...

The Jin Mao Tower is a 420-meter mixed-use skyscraper located in the Lujiazui financial district of Shanghai, China. Completed in 1999 and designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, its structure reflects a modernist aesthetic blended with traditional Chinese pagoda motifs. The b...

The Shard, also known as the Shard London Bridge or Shard of Glass, is a 310-meter-tall mixed-use skyscraper in the London Borough of Southwark, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and completed in 2012. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom and the E...

Two International Finance Centre (Two IFC) is a 415-meter, 88-story office skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong, completed in 2003. It was designed by architect César Pelli in collaboration with local firms and served as the tallest building in Hong Kong until surpassed by the International Commerce Cen...

Lotte World Tower is a 123-story, 555-meter supertall skyscraper situated in the Sincheon-dong district of Seoul, South Korea. Designed by the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, the structure draws inspiration from traditional Korean ceramics and features a tapered, curved form. Completed in 2017...

Raffles City Chongqing is a massive mixed-use architectural complex completed in 2019 in Chongqing, China, designed by architect Moshe Safdie. The development consists of eight skyscrapers, including a 350-meter main tower, forming a distinctive curve along the Yangtze and Jialing rivers. Its defini...

The Guangzhou International Finance Centre is a 440-meter-tall mixed-use supertall skyscraper located in Guangzhou, China. Completed in 2010, the tower was designed by the British architectural firm Wilkinson Eyre and engineered by WSP. Its structural design features a reinforced concrete central co...

111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower, is a residential supertall skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Completed in 2021, the building rises to a height of 435 meters, making it one of the tallest structures in the Western Hemisphere. The tower is renowned for its extreme arc...

Cayan Tower, originally named Infinity Tower, is a 306-meter residential skyscraper located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Completed in 2013, the 75-story structure is designed with a striking helical twist that rotates the building a full 90 degrees from its base to its top. Designed by the archit...

The Ping An Finance Centre is a 599-meter-tall supertall skyscraper situated in the Futian district of Shenzhen, China. Completed in 2017, the 115-story tower was designed by the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox and serves as the headquarters for Ping An Insurance. At the time of its completion,...

Lakhta Center is a towering 87-story skyscraper situated in St. Petersburg, Russia, reaching a total height of 462 meters upon its completion in 2019. The structure serves as the primary corporate headquarters for the multinational energy corporation Gazprom. Recognized as the tallest building in bo...

Evolution Tower is a 255-meter skyscraper in the Moscow International Business Center, commonly called Moscow City, and was completed in 2015. Its office floors rotate incrementally around the building's core, producing a twisting glass form across the tower's height. The design was developed by arc...

The Yokohama Landmark Tower is a 296-meter mixed-use skyscraper located in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama, Japan. Completed in 1993 to a design by architect Hugh Stubbins, it remained Japan's tallest building until the completion of the Abeno Harukas in Osaka in 2014. The complex functions...

One Za'abeel is a mixed-use development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, completed in 2023 and designed by Japanese architecture firm Nikken Sekkei. The complex consists of two towers of differing heights connected by a horizontal sky bridge called The Link, which spans approximately 100 meters betwe...

Adrian Smith is an American architect who designed Dubai's Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010 as the world's tallest building at 828 meters.

One Liberty Place is a 60-story postmodern skyscraper located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by architect Helmut Jahn and completed in 1987. Rising to a height of 288 meters (945 feet), the office tower is famous for breaking the city's long-standing informal agreement that no building shou...

Shun Hing Square, also known as Diwang Mansion, is a 384-meter supertall skyscraper situated in the Luohu district of Shenzhen, China. Completed in 1996, the 69-story tower held the record as the tallest building in China until the completion of the CITIC Plaza in 1997. The office tower features a s...

Eureka Tower is a 297-meter residential skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 2006 and designed by the architectural firm Fender Katsalidis, the building features a gold-glazed upper section and a red stripe to represent the 1854 Eureka Stockade rebellion...

Landmark 81 is a 461-meter mixed-use skyscraper situated along the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Completed in 2018, it currently stands as the tallest building in Vietnam and ranks among the tallest structures in Southeast Asia. The tower is a central component of a luxury urban develop...

The US Bank Tower is a 73-story, 310-meter skyscraper located at 633 West Fifth Street in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles. Designed by architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the building was completed in 1989 and was the tallest building in California for many years. Th...

KK100 is a 441.8-meter mixed-use skyscraper in Shenzhen's Luohu district, completed in 2011. Designed by the architectural firm TFP Farrells, the tower has a curved, tapering profile and contains office space in its lower portion and a hotel in its upper floors. Its name refers to the developer, Kin...

Federation Tower East is a 374-meter supertall skyscraper located in the Moscow International Business Center in Russia. Completed in 2016, it is the taller of the two towers in the Federation complex and ranks among the tallest buildings in Europe. Designed by architects Sergei Tchoban and Peter Sc...

Q1 is a 322-meter residential skyscraper located in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Completed in 2005, the tower held the title of the world's tallest residential building upon its completion and remains one of the tallest structures in the Southern Hemisphere. The build...

The Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Binhai Center is a 530-meter mixed-use supertall skyscraper located in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China. Completed in 2019, the tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and features a striking, smoothly curving glass facade engineered to reduce wind loads. The...

Salesforce Tower is a 61-story commercial skyscraper located in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Designed by the architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli, it reaches a height of 326 meters and was completed in 2018. The building serves as the primary headquarters for the s...

The Exchange 106 is a supertall skyscraper situated in the Tun Razak Exchange financial district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Upon its completion in 2019, the 106-story tower reached a structural height of 492 meters, establishing it as one of the tallest buildings in Southeast Asia. The structure is...

Etihad Towers is a development consisting of five mixed-use skyscrapers located on the waterfront Corniche in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Completed in 2011, the complex includes residential apartments, commercial office space, and a luxury hotel, with the tallest structure measuring approximate...

The Exchange 106 is a supertall skyscraper situated in the Tun Razak Exchange financial district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 2019, the building features 106 floors above ground and functions as a major commercial office center in the region. It ranks among the tallest structures in South...