what's the tallest building in the world?????

Answer 1

The answer depends on how you measure height. It's like having a really big hat and claiming you are very tall, even though normally we measure from head to toe. Buildings can be measured from the base to either their antenna/spire, to the highest floor that is actual inhabitable structure (which is a more accurate depiction), to their highest structural point but not a spire, or to their roof. The way you measure makes a big difference!

The Sears Tower is 1729 feet from tip of tower to base, making it the tallest from spire to base. But the spire adds 279 feet; it is 1450 feet from the top floor to the base.

The Taipei 101 is "technically" the tallest when you consider base to the highest building "structure", not including the spire (1671 feet). But from the roof to base, the difference is much smaller: the Taipei is 1474 feet versus the Sears Tower's 1451 feet- only a 23-foot difference.

The Sears Tower, by contrast to the rather gaunt Taipei 101, is also an enormous building in terms of volume and true office floor space. It compares better to the destroyed Twin Towers in that there is a lot more true office space very high up.

The Taipei's claim rests on measurement from base to "top structure", which can technically be anything, even a viewing platform but no inhabitable office space.

The World Trade Center towers were truly the tallest if you consider the actual inhabitable office floors. They were 110 floors of actual office space, and not just a narrowed-down design like a pyramid, which most buildings like Sears Tower, Petronas Towers, and Taipei 101 have.

I personally think it's misleading to consider narrowed-down floor area or structure at a very high altitude as the basis of measurement. By this method, one can simply build an extremely narrow building and at the top add one floor or a random structure, and claim the prize.

The Taipei 101 is the Manute Bol of buildings: really really tall but thin and gaunt. Compare for yourself by looking at the link, below.

Answer 2

i think that wud be the SEARS TOWER

The Sears Tower is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, and the tallest building in the United States, by the measurement from the ground to its roof. By the measurement to the top of the antenna/spire, One World Trade Center passed it by 58 cm (1.9 ft) until it was destroyed on September 11th, 2001. Commissioned by Sears, Roebuck and Company, it was designed by chief architect Bruce Graham and structural engineers Srinivasa "Hal" Iyengar and Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Construction commenced in August 1970 and the building reached its originally anticipated maximum height on May 3, 1973. When completed, the Sears Tower had overtaken the roof of the World Trade Center in New York City as the world's tallest building. The tower has 108 stories as counted by standard methods, though the building owners count the main roof as 109 and the mechanical penthouse roof as 110. Or 101 stories if you don't count any of the mechanical floors (30-32, 64-65, 88-89 & 109-110). The distance to the roof is 442 m (1,450 ft 7 in), measured from the east entrance.

In February 1982, two television antennas were added to the structure, increasing its total height to 520 m (1,707 ft). The western antenna was later extended to 527 m (1,729 ft) on June 5, 2000 to improve reception of local NBC station WMAQ-TV.

Two-story high black bands appear on the tower around the 30th–32nd, 64th–65th, 88th–89th, and 106th–107th floors. These are louvers which allow ventilation for service equipment and obscure the structure's belt trusses which Sears Roebuck did not want to be visible as on the John Hancock Center.

Answer 3

Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan

The Burj Dubai skyscraper.
When finished in two years, the silvery steel-and-glass building is expected to rise beyond 2,300 feet and more than 160 floors — dozens of stories taller than the world’s current tallest building, the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, which measures 1,671 feet and 101 floors.

Answer 4

Taipei 101 is the tallest buildin' in the world
it iz in Taiwan
currently 508 meters tall

Answer 5

the CN Tower in Canada is the world's tallest building

Answer 6

the tallest building in the world was the Sears Tower until they built a building in China it beat the Sears Tower by putting on antennas

Answer 7

the Petronas Towers

Answer 8

Well, there's this outhouse on top of Mount Everest! It only serves one customer, has no electricity or heater, and if you decide to visit, B.Y.O.T.P. (bring your own toilet paper) but so far nobody has topped it!