World's Tallest Buildings

These are the World's Top 10 Tallest buildings.

It only includes the buildings that are finished until now, and the height includes the spire on top of the buildings but not the antennas.

So, here are the buildings:

509m - Taipei 101 Tower
452m - Petronas Towers 1 & 2
442m - Sears Tower
421m - Jin Mao Building
414m - Two International Finance Center
391m - CITIC plaza
384m - Shun Hing Square
381m - Empire State Building
374m - Central Plaza

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Information and pictures:
wikipedia.org
architecture.about.com
emporis.com

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Ok.. I made this like 2 monts ago ;) in photo doesn't look as good.. but ohh..

Escher: Eye & Hand with Reflecting Sphere

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"Ginger & Fred" Dancing building by Gehry

Frank Gehry's "Ginger and Fred" in Prague

Essay by Josef Pesch

The Californian architect Frank O. Gehry and his Czech co-architect Vladimir Milunic have designed an impressive building to fill a space left empty in the centre of Prague after World War II bombing. It is a 'dancing building' and was named "Ginger & Fred" in an allusion to the American film icons. The building is part of the tradition of deconstructive architecture (also known as catastrophe architecture): Gehry's postmodern signature is undeniably visible - and stands in marked contrast to the building's historic setting. It is thus perceived by many people to be an alien element, a Californian eye-sore in one of the few central-European cities not reduced to rubble and ashes at the end of World War II. Some say "Ginger & Fred" repeats the destruction of the cityscape on this site, where American bombs (accidentally) destroyed a building at the end of the war.

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Hundertwasser House

Hundertwasserhaus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German Hundertwasserhaus) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This landmark of Vienna is located in the 3. district, Kegelgasse 34-38 / Löwengasse 41-43, at 48° 12′ 26″ N, 16° 23′ 39″ E.

The house was built between 1983 and 1986 by architect Univ.-Prof. Joseph Krawina. It features undulating floors ("an uneven floor is a melody to the feet"), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. Hundertwasser took no payment for the design of the house, declaring that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from going up in its place.

Within the house there are 52 apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a total of 250 trees and bushes. The Hundertwasser House is one of Austria's most visited buildings, and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage.

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