All the elements are prepared with the factory of Levallois-Perret beside Paris, sit of the Eiffel company. Each of the 18.000 parts of the Tower is drawn and calculated before being traced with the tenth of millimetre and assembly by elements of approximately five meters. On the site, between 150 and 300 workmen, framed by a team of veterans of the large metal viaducts, deal with the assembly of this gigantic meccano. : 1887 : : 318 :

Burj Al Arab, located on an artificial island is at the same time the hotel highest of the world and only having 7 stars. Become the symbol of Dubai, this impressive infrastructure in the shape of sailing ship shelters 220 continuations in duplex. : 1999 :56 : 321

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: : 421 : 88 : 1998 Built in 1998, Jin Mao Tower rises on 88 stages (8 being a figure amulet in China). The tower offers the most beautiful most panoramic sight and of Shanghai.

: : 443 : 110 : 1973 Sears Tower of Chicago was built in less than 3 years (of 1970 to 1973), for a budget of more than 150 million dollars, that is to say 122,5 million euros. During 22 years, the tower enjoyed the title higher of the world, until 1998 and the construction of the Petronas turns.

: , : 452 : 88 :1998 Petronas required 36910 tons of steel to their construction, at a total cost of 1,6 billion dollars (1,3 billion euros). They contain the offices of the oil giant Malaysian Petronas, which they belong.

: : 492 : 101 : 2007 This immense tower, who precedes the landscape of the Chinese megalopolis, will include/understand not only offices, but also a hotel, shops, rooms of conference, and a private club.

: , : 508 : 101 : 2004 The tower Taipei 101 is one of most original world.

: : 514,8 : 131 : 2010 It is young French Herve Tordjman who is the happy architect originator of these two twin towers in the shape of ADN, who represent the life.

: - : 541 : 69 : 2010 Freedom Tower will be built in the district of World Trade Center, with the site even of old the twin towers.

The tower of emission Tokyo Tower II, planned for 2007 will make 600 m in height is the double of the current tower!!! :

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: 705 : 160 : 2008 Burj Dubai will shelter a total superfice of 500.000 square meters and will have the greatest shopping centre of the world, offices, hotels and apartments of luxury. The architects took as a starting point the the cultural influences of the area in the construction of the building, geometry of the base of the tower evoking a local flower of desert with its petals. This geometry also makes it possible as well as possible to distribute the efforts caused by the mass of the work on the structure and the ground.

Here probably most futuristic of the current projects, having to be born in about fifteen years. It is about Bionic Tower (the Tower Bionics) and will not measure less than 1228 meters of height for 300 stages and 100.000 people. It is well here about a city vertical, residences, trade and offices being joined together in the tower. As much to say that with this largest level of the current buildings will appear ridiculous :

: 1228 : 300 : 2020