Skyscrapers…

just got the news that Shanghai World Financial Center is being awarded as the Best Building Overall in Year 2008..in terms of architectural design and form, sustainability and ‘green’ concepts, structural strengths and systems, uniqueness and location.

For more information regarding this building, come and check on my previous post on this building which contains all the useful and interesting slides regarding this building…really loves this building! wish to go there and up to the world highest observatory there to view the skyline of Shanghai!

The award is presented by Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the official non-profit council that determines the height measurement in world tallest buildings.

Skyscrapers that will be completed in year 2009 which would make it to the top ten list of world tallest buildings are:

- Burj Dubai (818m, 162 floors, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

- Federation Tower (506-509m, 93 and 62 floors, Moscow, Russia)

- Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (450m, 89 floors, Nanjing, China)

- Guangzhou International Finance Center (438m, 103 floors, Guangzhou, China)

——-the buildings above, when completed during this year, will put Empire State Building (381m), Shun Hing Square (384m), CITIC Plaza (391m) and Two International Finance Centre (415m) out of top ten ranking…

Other notable skyscrapers that will be completed this year:

- Trump International Hotel and Tower (415m)

- Bank of America Tower (366m)

- Almas Tower (363m)

- Ahmed Abdul Rahim Al Attar Tower (342m)

- Al Yaqoub Tower (330m)

- China World Trade Center Tower 3 (330m)

- The Index (328m)

- Wenzhou World Trade Center (322m)

- HHHR Tower (317m)

- Eurasia (303m)

- Gate of the Orient (301m)

- Arraya 2 (300m)

- Tianjin International Trade Centre(300m)

—–Based on CTBUH, there will be a great increase of number of buildings which exceed the height of 300m..currently, there is only about over 3o buildings all around the world which are over 300m. Few years later, there will be more than 100 buildings.

Note: Building above 300m is classified as skyscraper. (Based on CTBUH)

There is a super super tall skyscraper currently under construction at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Nakheel Harbour and Tower..rising up to more than 1000m (1 km) in height with 200 floors..it is expected to be completed by year 2020…that is a long long way to go..

for more info regarding ways to measure building’s height, official top 100 world tallest buildings list, best buildings awards winners, buildings’ news, refer to www.ctbuh.org

I got the news that the Kohn Pedersen Fox (the one who designed Shanghai World Financial Center and International Commerce Centre) will be designing their first building in Kuala Lumpur..a 30 floors high..not tall..but shows that Kohn Pedersen Fox’s creative and dynamic design will penetrates into my home city, KL…