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The X-Seed 4000
The X-Seed 4000 is the tallest building ever fully envisioned. Height:
4 kilometers / 13,123 ft. Width: 6 kilometers at base with over 800
floors giving it the capacity to accommodate five hundred thousand
to one million inhabitants
Mile High Illinois
Location: Chicago
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956.
Height: One Mile / 528 Floors
Aeropolis 2001
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 500 Floors.
Capacity: 300,000 occupants
Mubarak al-Kabir Tower
Location: Kuwait
Height: 1,001 m / 3284 ft tall, almost twice the height of Taipei
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Al Burj
Location: Dubai
Height: 1000 m / 200 Floors
The original height was scaled down from 1600 meters
Sky City 1000
Location: Tokyo, Japan Height: 1000 meters / 400 meters (1312 feet) wide at the base, and a total floor area of 8 km² (3.1 miles² or 1976.8 acres). The design provides for 35,000 full-time residents and 100,000 workers.
Burj Dubai
Location: Dubai
Height: 800 m / 160 Floors
Estimated Completion: 2008
Center of India Tower
Location: Katangi, India
Height: 677 m / 2,222 ft / 224 Floors
Russia
Tower
Location: Moscow, Russia
Height: 612 m / 118 Floors / Estimated Completion: 2011
Incheon Towers
Location: Incheon, South Korea
Height: 610 m / 115 Floors
Estimated Completion: 2010
Chicago
Spire
Location: Chicago, USA Height: 609 m / 150 Floors / Estimated Completion: 2010
Abraji Al Bait Towers
Location: Mecca, Saudi Arabia Height: 577 m / 76 Floors Estimated Completion: 2008
Las
Vegas Tower
Location: Las Vegas, USA Height: 575m / 142 Floors Estimated Completion: 2011
Kowloon MTR Tower
Location: Hong Kong, China Height: 550 m / 1,803 ft / 102 Floors
Freedom
Tower
Location: New York City, USA Height: 541 m / 82 Floors Estimated Completion: 2011
Brusan Lotte Tower
Location: Brusan, South Korea
Height: 494 m / 101 Floors
Estimated Completion: 2012
The
Shanghai World
Financial Center Tower
Location: Katangi, India
Height: 491 m / 2,222 ft / 101 Floors Estimated Completion: 2008
International Commerce Center
Location: Hong Kong, China Height: 484 m / 108 Floors Estimated Completion: 2010
Burj
Al Alam
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Height: 484 m / 108 Floors
Estimated Completion: 2009
Ningbo Twin Towers 1 & 2
Location: Ningbo, China
Height: 480 m / 100 Floors
Estimated Completion: 2010
Shard
London Bridge Tower
Location: London
Height: 306 m / 1,003 ft / 66 floors
Transbay Tower
Location: San Francisco, USA
Height: 1200+ ft
This tower will stand more than 1,200 feet making it the tallest skyscraper
on West Coast.
