Widest Skyscraper in the World
Ok, that everybody is following the TBW is somehow not surprising and the internet offers us thousands of pages with tons of pictures. - But what about the widest building of the world (WBW ?!) ? Well, there is hardly information on that with a bit of googling. One building that is popping up here and there is a skyscraper in Hong Kong, called the Harbourside Building. It belongs definitely to 'one of the' widest buildings int the world, but which one is THE widest building in the world?I couldn't figure it out on the spot, so I will leave you with this info - if you know more, let me know!
Some more info regarding the Harbourside Building: Basically the building consists of 3 towers that have been built together as one skyscraper. With its 75 floors it is the second tallest residential building in HK (where the Sorrento is the #1 with only 1 additional meter!). The wall-like skyscraper has been completed in 2003 and has a height of 255m.
What is quite interesting are the six open gaps between the three towers which reduce the wind pressure.
posted by yvesdominic at 7/20/2006
4 Comments:
i also think this is the widest skyscraper in the world!
The widest skyscraper I don't know. But the widest building in the world is according to my knowledge Prora [ http://www.ddr-im-www.de/Berichte/MWulf/Prora/prora1.jpg & http://www.expi.de/pvf/skand05/RUEG-KDF-prora.jpg ]. Each of the buildings is 0.5 km long, so making it in total 8 km long!
Though if you look at the pictures closely you will see that the 8 buildings are not connected. They were supposed to, but the total construction has never finished after WWII...
Here you go, I think this one is the answer:
Kansai International Airport is located on a man-made island in Osaka Bay, serving the Osaka area. It was constructed at a cost of over $14 billion US, beginning in 1986. It opened for flights in 1996, but construction continues. At approximately 4 X 1 km, the island is constructed in around 18m of water, entirely from landfill. These stats make it the largest man-made island (and the largest landfill) in the world. The main terminal building, at approx. 1.6 km in length, is the world's longest building.
But again, it's just a building and not a highrise. So if we want to move one step further down we can even mention the GREAT WALL OF CHINA, which is the world's largest structure, but does not count as a building.
Hope you agree.
By the way, nice blog!
GE Building (1933) is about the proportion of that thing (and no holes). And the Abraj Al Bait Hotel, at 1,972 ft tall and 3/5ths of a square mile of floors, is a honking big building (though it is kind of a complex).
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