Shenzhen Energy Mansion / BIG. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu
The CTBUH has released its Year in Review, charting the year’s tall building developments around the world. 2018 saw a record-breaking 18 supertall buildings (over 300 meters tall) built across the world, and 143 buildings of over 200 meters in height completed.
To quantify the extent to which architecture reached to the sky throughout the year, the CTBUH estimate that if each tall building completed in 2018 was laid end to end, it would exceed the entire length of the island of Manhattan; some 13 miles (21.6 kilometers).
Below, we have extracted some of the most impressive statistics from the CTBUH report. For more in-depth reading, download the full report and interactive tool from the CTBUH website here.
14: the number of tall buildings completed in Shenzhen alone thing year.
Shenzhen Energy Mansion / BIG. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu
16: the number of tall buildings completed in North America this year.
3 World Trade Center / Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Image © Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
19: the number of cities that saw a new tall building completed this year.
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Shenzhen recieved the largest number of new tall buildings.. Image © Tim Griffith
42: the percentage of tall buildings completed that were dedicated to offices.
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Zhengzhou Twin Towers / gmp Architects. Image © ZMG China
76: the percentage of tall buildings in the world completed in Asia in 2018, with 109 in total.
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China Resource Tower. Image © Tim Griffith via CTBUH
88: the number of tall buildings completed in China in 2018.
Zhengzhou Twin Towers / gmp Architects. Image © Jianghe Zeng
90: the number of concrete tall towers built in 2018, equaling 63%.
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The Alvear Tower Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires. Image © Maximiliano Moratto – Inmobidrone via CTBUH
220: the height (in meters) of the Nurol Life building in Turkey, the only tall building completed in Europe this year.
The Nurol Life building in Istanbul was the only tall building completed in Europe this year. Image © Arma Elektropanc
260: the height (in meters) of the Bacata Torre 1 in Bogota, the new tallest building in Colombia.
BD Bacata Torre in Bogota, Colombia. Image © Yeison Garcia via CTBUH
326: the height of the San Francisco Salesforce Tower, one of 13 tall buildings completed in the USA this year.
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Salesforce Tower / Pelli Clarke Pelli. Image © Tim Griffith
381: the average height (in meters) of the world’s 100 tallest buildings.
CITIC Tower in Beijing. Image © CITIC Heye Investment
461: the height of the Vincorn Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City: the first building in Vietnam to break the 400-meter mark.
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the Vincom Landmark 81 is now the tallest building in Vietnam. Image © Vingroup
528: the height (in meters) of Beijing’s City Tower, the tallest completed building in 2018.
CITIC Tower, Beijing. Image © Shuhe Photo via CTBUH
1,478: the number of tall buildings now in existence around the world.
Torre Paradox, Mexico's new tallest building. Image © Lester Ali via CTBUH
35,246: the sum (in meters) of heights of all tall buildings completed in 2018.
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© Viktor Sukharukov. Image
Read the full report here.
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