nope
2006-07-08 06:56:13
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answer #1
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answered by Sultana 4
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The Taipei 101 tower is the tallest building in the world at the moment, soon to be overtaken by another one in Dubai. The Empire State Building isn't even the tallest in America, the Sears Tower in Chicago is.
Listed by height to architectural top (ie. not including antennas):
1. Taipei 101 - 509m
2/3. Petronas Towers, KL - 452m
4. Sears Tower, Chicago - 442m
5. Jin mao Building, Shanghai - 421m
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9. Empire State Building - 381m
The CN Tower in toronto is taller than them all at 553m, but it does not count because it only has like 2 actual floors or something.
The WTC towers were 415m.
2006-07-08 06:54:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Up until 1998 the tallest building status was essentially uncontested. Counting buildings as structures with floors throughout, New York City's World Trade Center was the tallest including the antennas, Sears Tower in Chicago excluding the antennas. As antennas were usually excluded, Sears Tower was counted as the tallest. When Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was built, some felt that the "spire" extending to 9 meters higher than the roof of the Sears Tower was just added to "cheat" its way into the spot as tallest building. Excluding the spire, the Petronas Towers were not taller than the Sears Tower. Therefore, before the Petronas Towers were completed, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat defined four categories in which the "world's tallest building" can be measured:
1. Height to the structural or architectural top (including spires and pinnacles, but not antennas, masts or flagpoles)
2. Height to the highest occupied floor
3. Height to the top of the roof
4. Height to the top of antenna
The height is measured from the sidewalk level of the main entrance. In all of these categories, Sears Tower had held the top spot. After Petronas was built, Sears Tower became second in the first category only.
On April 20, 2004, the Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan was completed. Its completion gave it the record for the first three categories.
Today, Taipei 101 leads in the first category with 509 m (1,671 ft); in the second category with an occupied floor at 439 m (1,441 ft); and in the third category with 449 m (1,474 ft). The first category was formerly held by the Petronas Twin Towers with 452 m (1,483 ft), and before that by Sears Tower with 442 m (1,451 ft). The second and third categories were held by the Sears Tower, with 442 m (1,451 ft).
The Sears Tower still leads in the fourth category with 527 m (1,729 ft), previously held by the World Trade Center until the extension of the Chicago tower's western broadcast antenna in 2000, over a year prior to the Trade Center's destruction in 2001. Its antenna included, 1 World Trade Center measured 526 m (1,727 ft). The World Trade Center became the world's tallest buildings to be demolished–indeed, its site entered the record books twice on September 11, 2001, in that category, replacing the Singer Building, which once stood a block from the WTC site.
The Ostankino Tower and the CN Tower are excluded from these categories because they are not "habitable buildings", which are defined as frame structures made with floors and walls throughout.
2006-07-08 06:57:45
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answered by Scott D 2
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No; Taipei 101 is the tallest building in the world. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in the US. The Freedom Tower, which will be built to replace the WTC, will be tallest whenever it is built.
2006-07-08 06:57:03
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answered by sandislandtim 6
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The Sears tower in Chicago is the tallest in the USA. But there are others taller than that around the world
2006-07-08 06:58:02
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answered by MandyHawk 3
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No--the Taipei 101 is the tallest building in the world.
2006-07-08 06:55:28
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answered by Anonymous
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no-the sears tower is tallest in the US along with a bunch of other buioldings worldwide. I think there is a building in dubai that is the tallest int he world.
2006-07-08 06:55:19
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answered by Sharp Marble 6
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NO
petronas towers,malaysia are the tallest.
2006-07-08 06:57:38
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answered by Anonymous
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No, it's the Petronas Twin Towers, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...They're amazing!
2006-07-08 06:55:25
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answered by krisx42 3
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no, it has been towered over for decades.
2006-07-08 06:54:54
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answered by judy_r8 6
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