tallest building in the world

The 101 storey building, which has a height of 508m, is designed to withstand the typhooon winds and earthquake tremors common in its area of the Asia Pacific.Taipei, officially known as Taipei City is the capital of the democratic industrialized island nation officially known as the Republic of China (Taiwan). Situated at the northern tip of the country, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River; it is about 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Keelung, a port city on the Pacific Ocean. It lies in the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed bounded by the two relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the citys western border. The city proper is home to an estimated 2,618,772 people. Taipei, New Taipei, and Keelung together form the Taipei Keelung metropolitan area with a population of 6,900,273. They are administered under three municipal governing bodies. Taipei sometimes refers to the whole metropolitan area, while Taipei City refers to the city proper. Taipei City proper is surrounded on all sides by New Taipei.

The 104 storey structure stands on the northwest corner of the 16 acre World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Its spire reaches a symbolic height of 1,776 ft (541m) in reference to the United States Declaration of Independence.One World Trade Center (also 1 World Trade Center or 1 WTC; the current building was dubbed the Freedom Tower during initial basework) is the name of two buildings. It most commonly refers to the primary building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, and the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. The 104 story supertall structure, which shares a name with the northern Twin Tower in the original World Trade Center that was destroyed in the September 11 attacks, stands on the northwest corner of the 16 acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center. The building is bordered to the west by West Street, to the north by Vesey Street, to the south by Fulton Street, and to the east by Washington Street. Construction on below ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the building began on April 27, 2006. On March 30, 2009, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed that the building would be known by its legal name, One World Trade Center, rather than the colloquial name, Freedom Tower.

The Burj Khalifa, previously known as the Burj Dubai, is the tallest building in the world, rising to a ridiculous 2,723 feet high with 163 floors. It took five years to build, and was completed in 2009 in Dubais main business district.

An attempt to modernize this holy city, the Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower is the tallest hotel in the world, along with the tallest clock tower and containing the worlds largest clock face. It stands at 1,972 feet high and has a whopping 120 floors.