Many developers leave out some “unlucky” floor numbers, like 13 in the United States, or floors with “4s” in China, where the character can be associated with death. Residential towers often exaggerate numbers to make their penthouses seem higher. For example, the Empire State Building has been described as 102 stories, even though above the 86th-floor observation deck, there are no actual floors, only a staircase and an elevator that ascends the steel frame to a domed room at the summit. Sometimes the floor count is an equivalent. The last 9 buildings, shown as renderings, are still in their early stages of construction. Included are completed buildings (shown in photographs) and towers which have topped out. The towers are ordered by number of stories, starting from Burj Khalifa at the top left, through the John Hancock Center. Images of all 24 buildings of 100+ stories. To undermine the idea of a hierarchy that lines up building from the tallest down, the projects are printed on "refrigerator magnet" vinyl that invites visitors to rearrange the order to create their own "Top Ten." The installation view of the introductory wall shows, surrounding the video, the complete group of the 24 towers in our category of 100 stories and taller. Even what constitutes the height in stories can be subjective, so we simply accept the number of stories recorded by the developer or architect. For those fixated on measuring only vertical height, the professional organization the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has created three official definitions based on different metrics: 1) the architectural top 2) the highest occupied floor and 3) the tip (including added antennas, flagpoles, etc.).įor this exhibition, we decided on a simple category: all the buildings in the world today that are 100 stories or taller and that are completed or under construction. There are multiple ways to rank the world’s tallest buildings. Hover over an image for more information. The tops of the 24 towers of 100 stories or more that are completed or under construction are represented in the grid above.
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