00A visual canon of height

Feel the height.

Not another database. The world’s tallest buildings, drawn to scale — with the argument that decides who wins.

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Current world’s tallest: Burj Khalifa828 msince 2010
Datum: Lotte World Tower554.5 mBurj Khalifa = 1.49×
Coverage: 108buildings17 countries

Elevation — world top 12Same scale · metres

828

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400

600

554.5

828 m

Burj Khalifa

678.9 m

Merdeka 118

632 m

Shanghai Tower

601 m

Makkah Royal Clock Tower

599.1 m

Ping An Finance Center

554.5 m

Lotte World Tower

541.3 m

One World Trade Center

530 m

Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

530 m

Tianjin CTF Finance Centre

527.7 m

CITIC Tower

508 m

Taipei 101

492 m

Shanghai World Financial Center

NOTE 01

Same towers. Three truths.

Petronas beat Willis because a spire is architecture and an antenna is equipment. One World Trade Center is 541 m to the spire and 387 m to the highest office. Toggle the ranking and watch the order change.

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NOTE 02

Every tower, in Korean scale

Lotte World Tower is 554.5 m — sixth on Earth, first in the OECD. We measure the rest of the sky against it.

Burj Khalifa = 1.49× Lotte World Tower

Korea in the ranking →