Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology South State Street Chicago, IL 1-79, USA CTBUH Contact: pthurmond@ctbuh.org P: 1 (1) 7-487 F: 1 (1) 7-8 Date: January 19, 1 Trump International Hotel & Tower Named Tallest Building Completed in 9; Successful Year for the American High-Rise The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat presents the ten tallest buildings completed in 9 and examines current and future construction trends Chicago The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) today announced the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago as the tallest building completed in 9. The tower, designed by architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP and developed by the Trump Organization is now the 7 th tallest building in the world, standing at a height of 4 meters/189 feet, with 98 stories. There is much to herald in the new Trump Tower said Professor Sang Dae Kim, CTBUH Chairman. It pushes technological boundaries to achieve its great height, making a powerful mark on the Chicago skyline. In doing so, it becomes the tallest building completed in the western hemisphere since the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower was built, also in Chicago, some years ago. The year 9 marked a successful 1 months for the American skyscraper, with three of the five tallest buildings completed during the year being located in the USA Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago; Bank of America Tower in New York (second tallest at m/1198ft) and Aqua in Chicago (fifth tallest at m/88ft) an event that has not occurred since 199. Chicago is also home to more tall buildings above m completed in 9 than any other city in the world. Five buildings m or taller have opened their doors in Chicago over the past twelve months, whereas no more than three such buildings opened in any other city. Asia however, and in particular China, remains the center of global tall building construction. Over half of all buildings m or taller completed in the past twelve months were located in Asia, with some % being in China alone. This will likely remain the case for the foreseeable future, as the Chinese cities of Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen and Tianjin, amongst others continue to construct some of the tallest buildings in the world. Despite these successes, tall building construction has not gone unaffected by the global recession as many construction projects around the world are cancelled, delayed or put on-hold. Compared to 8, there has been a 8% drop in the total number of buildings m or taller completed this year. In 8, 11 such buildings were completed in the United Arab Emirates, a figure that has fallen to only three in 9. In addition, there were no buildings from Africa, Australasia, Central America, Europe or South America among the tallest buildings completed in 9.
Even with these precarious global economic conditions, the CTBUH reports that 1 promises to be by far the most active in the history of the skyscraper, as the final touches are completed on some of the tallest buildings around the world. Due to a variety of factors, a significant number of buildings which had been expected to complete in 9 have been delayed, and will now likely open in 1. The Burj Dubai (now Burj Khalifa) has already been completed as of January 4 th, 1 at 88 meters (717 ft), and others anticipated in 1 include Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (4m/147ft), The Index (Dubai, 8m/17ft), Wenzhou Trade Center (m/1ft), HHHR Tower (Dubai, 17m/14ft) and Capitol City Moscow Tower (m/989ft). Standing at 88 meters/717 feet in height, the Burj Dubai/Khalifa is 1% taller than the world s previous tallest building the 9 meter high Taipei 11 in Taiwan. It is not just height, but the sheer volume of high-rise buildings set to be completed in 1 that is astonishing. Data produced by the CTBUH suggests that over 1 buildings m or taller will be completed worldwide within the next 1 months (as shown on the graph below). This is more than the total number of buildings m or taller which are already in existence in New York and Hong Kong combined. From 1, the CTBUH expects to see a drop in the number of tall buildings completed due to the global recession, until the worldwide economy recovers. Tall Buildings m or Taller completed each year, 19 1. CTBUH.
Despite the recent economic downturn, the past decade has proven to be the most active in tall building construction history. said Philip Oldfield, CTBUH Research Coordinator. Our data shows that more tall buildings have been completed in the first ten years of the 1 st Century, than in the whole of the th Century. Prior to the year, 4 buildings m or taller had been completed. However, in the past ten years alone some 94 buildings m or taller have been added to cities and skylines around the world. The Ten Tallest Buildings Completed in 9 1. Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago 4m / 189ft. Bank of America Tower New York m / 1198ft. China World Trade Center III Beijing m / 18ft 4. Arraya Center Office Tower Kuwait City m / 984ft. Aqua Chicago m / 88ft. Al Fardan Residences Doha m / 8ft 7. Shanghai IFC South Tower Shanghai m / 8ft 8. RunHua International Building Wuxi 48m / 814ft 9. Hongdu International Plaza Wuxi 48m / 814ft 1. Xinjiekou Department Store Phase Nanjing 4m / 787ft A full graphical list of the Ten Tallest Buildings Completed in 9, with additional statistics, figures and graphs is available at 9.ctbuh.org. For high resolution images of CTBUH graphics please contact pthurmond@ctbuh.org About the CTBUH The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, is an international not-for-profit organization supported by architecture, engineering, planning, development and construction professionals, designed to facilitate exchanges among those involved in all aspects of the planning, design, construction and operation of tall buildings. The CTBUH is the world s leading body in the field of tall buildings, and the recognized source of information on tall buildings internationally. It is the arbiter of tall building height, determiner of the title The World s Tallest Building and maintains a significant database of built, under construction and proposed tall buildings. For more information, contact info@ctbuh.org or visit www.ctbuh.org.
Tall Buildings In Numbers 9: A Tall Building Review Tallest Buildings completed during 9 Key Asia Middle East North America No. Building Name City Stories m ft 1 Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago 98 4 189 Bank of America Tower New York 4 1198 China World Trade Center III Beijing 74 18 4 Arraya Center Office Tower Kuwait City 984 Aqua Chicago 87 88 Al Fardan Residences Doha 4 8 7 Shanghai IFC South Tower Shanghai 8 8 8 RunHua International Building Wuxi 48 814 9 Hongdu International Plaza Wuxi 48 48 814 1 Xinjiekou Department Store Phase Nanjing 4 787 11 Neo-China Top City Main Tower Chongqing 4 4 787 1 North La Salle Chicago 9 78 1 Duke Energy Center Charlotte 48 74 14 Huanghe River Center Building Dongguan 74 1 The Met Bangkok 9 8 748 1 Landsea International Plaza Nanjing 8 748 17 Al Tayer Tower Dubai 78 18 One Museum Park Chicago 4 7 19 1st Century Tower Shanghai 7 BM Plaza Office Tower Shanghai 7 1 Bay Adelaide West Toronto 18 71 L'Arc New World Hotel Macao 17 71 Al Biddah Tower Doha 4 1 7 4 Bakrie Tower Jakarta 48 14 7 Al Tijaria Tower Kuwait City 4 14 7 = St. Francis Tower 1 Mandaluyong 1 99 = St. Francis Tower Mandaluyong 1 99 8 Majestic Tower Sharjah 1 89 9= Metropolitan Tower 1 Suzhou 1 89 9= Metropolitan Tower Suzhou 1 89 1 Elysian Chicago 9 8 The Kitahama Residence Osaka 4 9 8 Marquis Miami 7 79 4 Northpoint South Tower Pattaya 4 7 San Lorenzo Tower Makati 7 4 9 Park City Musashi-Kosugi Mid Sky Tower Kawasaki 9 4 8 7 One Corporate Center Pasig 4 8 The Citadel Dubai 48 1 9 Note: The buildings below are not included in the adjacent diagrams, as they are under the m threshold. 9= Millennium Residence Bangkok 4 199 4 9= Millennium Residence Bangkok 4 199 4 41= Silver Towers East New York 8 199 41= Silver Towers West New York 8 199 4 Bea Financial Tower Shanghai 4 198 1 44 Millennium Tower San Francisco 8 197 4 4 1 North Wacker Chicago 4 194 8 4= Millennium Residence 1 Bangkok 1 19 1 4= Millennium Residence 4 Bangkok 1 19 1 48 North Clark Chicago 44 19 4 49 Aria Resort & Casino Las Vegas 18 RBC Centre Toronto 4 18 Tall Buildings m or Taller completed in 9: by Region North America 9 (4%) Middle East 7 (18%) Number Number 1 1 4 1 8 m m 1m 1m m 1 11 17 Asia (8%) 9 Kuwait City Mixed 9 (4%) Residential 1 (4%) Office 1 (4%) Concrete/Steel (8%) Number (Total = 8) Sum of Heights (Total = 8,991m) Composite (1%) Steel (%) 48 48 4 4 4 Concrete 8 (74%) 4 4 1 8 48 4 14 41 18 1 1 14 m m + China Chicago 8 USA 1 Shanghai Philippines 14 Tall Buildings m or Taller completed in 9: by Function Note: A total of 8 buildings over m were completed in 9 Tall Buildings m or Taller completed in 9: by Country UAE Wuxi Kuwait Doha Qatar Nanjing Thailand Tall Buildings m or Taller completed in 9: by City Japan Number (Total = 8) Sum of Heights (Total = 8,991m) Mandaluyong Note: One tall building m+ in height also completed during 9 in theses cities: Bangkok, Beijing, Charlotte, Chongqing, Dongguan, Jakarta, Kawasaki, Macao, Makatai, Miami, New York, Osaka, Pasig, Pattaya, Sharjah, and Toronto. Buildings m or taller completed during 9 were located in cities. Of these 17 are in Asia (8%), with 9 in China alone (%). Tall Buildings m or Taller completed in 9: by Structural Material Canada Dubai Indonesia Suzhou 1 14 1 1 8 4 Sum of Heights (m) Sum of Heights (m) of the tallest buildings completed in 9 are located in North America. This has not occurred since 199.
Tall Buildings m or Taller completed each year, 19 1 11 17 1 Total Number of Tall Buildings m or Taller 9 98 9 79 8 Number of buildings m+ completed each year 8 7 4 11 11 1 7 19 19 194 19 19 197 198 199 1 1 Year Total number of completed buildings in the world m or taller as of end of 9: Total number of under construction buildings in the world m or taller as of end of 9: 7 Total number of buildings m or taller completed prior to : 4 Total number of buildings m or taller completed in last decade ( through 9): 94 7 144 7 4 7 4 1 Number of buildings m+ 8 9 7 4 8 18 19 1 1 1 1 1 9 7 4 4 4 11 7 8 1 1 1 19 191 19 19 194 19 19 197 198 199 197 1971 197 197 1974 197 197 1977 1978 1979 198 1981 198 198 1984 198 198 1987 1988 1989 199 1991 199 199 1994 199 199 1997 1998 1999 1 4 7 8 9 1 11 1 8 8 4 1 1 Number of buildings m or taller completed in 9 Number of buildings m or taller completed each year Future projection: Number of buildings m or taller completed 1 1 Note: Due to a variety of factors, a significant number of tall buildings which had been expected to complete in 9 have been delayed, and will now likely be completed in 1. These include, amongst others, the Burj Dubai, Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, The Index (Dubai), Wenzhou Trade Center, HHHR Tower (Dubai) and Capitol City Moscow Tower. Note: we can predict this with some accuracy for 1 1 due to projects in advanced construction. From 1, we expect to see a drop in number due to the global recession, until the worldwide economy recovers. For more on this and the Ten Tallest Buildings Completed in 9 see http://9.ctbuh.org 4 4 1 4 supertall buildings (m+) were completed during 9, the same as in 8. 1 supertalls are expected in 1 There were no buildings from Africa, Australasia, Central America, Europe, or South America among the tallest completed in 9 In 8, 11 buildings m or taller were completed in the UAE. In 9 this figure was only
The 1 Tallest Buildings Completed in 9 The Information contained in the graphs below is accurate as of January 1st, 1 m 4m m m 1m m Taipei 11 Taipei World s Tallest Building since 4 (For reference) 1 4 7 8 9 1 Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago Bank of America Tower New York China World Tower III Beijing Arraya Center Office Tower Kuwait City Aqua Chicago Diagram of 1 tallest buildings completed in 9 (according to height to architectural top). Alfardan Residence Doha Shanghai IFC South Tower Shanghai RunHua International Building Wuxi Hongdu International Plaza Wuxi Xinjiekou Department Store Phase Nanjing Building Name/Location 1. Trump International Hotel and Tower Developer: Trump Organization Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Structural: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP MEP: WMA Consultanting Engineers Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease Photo: Marshall Gerometta / CTBUH. Bank of America Tower Developer: Durst Organization / Bank of America Architect: Cook + Fox Architects Structural: Severud Associates MEP: Jaros, Baum & Bolles Contractor: Tishman Construction Corporation Photo: Marshall Gerometta / CTBUH. China World Trade Center Developer: China World Trade Center Co. Ltd Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Structural: Arup MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Asia Co. Ltd. Contractor: Photo: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP 4. Arraya Center Office Tower Developer: Salhia Real Estate Co. Architect: Fentress Architects Structural: Pan Arab Consulting Engineers MEP: Pan Arab Consulting Engineers Contractor: Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading Co. Photo: Pawel Sulima. Aqua Developer: Magellan Development Group Architect: Studio Gang Structural: Magnusson Klemencic Associates MEP: Advance Mechanical Systems, Inc Contractor: James McHugh Construction Company Photo: Steve Hall Hendrich Blessing Chicago, USA New York, USA Beijing, China Kuwait City, Kuwait Chicago, USA Hgt (m/ft) 4 / 189 / 1198 / 18 / 984 / 88 Floors 98 Use: Hotel / Residential Ranking: Use: Office Structural Material: Steel 4 Ranking: 14 Use: Office / Hotel Structural Material: Steel 74 Ranking: 4 Use: Office Ranking: 41 87 Use: Hotel / Residential Ranking: 9
. Alfardan Residences Developer: Al Fardan Real Estate Company Architect: Arab Engineering Bureau Structural: Hyder Consulting MEP: Shaker Consulting Group Contractor: Construction Development Company Photo: Hyder Consulting Middle East Limited 7. Shanghai IFC South Tower Developer: Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Structural: Aecom Structural Consultants Ltd. MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Asia Co. Ltd. Contractor: Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co., Ltd Photo: Sun Hung Kai Properties 8. RunHua International Building Developer: Wuxi Rundili Construction & Development Group Architect: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. Structural: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. MEP: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. Contractor: Nan Tong Construction General Contractor Co., Ltd. Photo: Chen Kai 9. Hongdou International Plaza Developer: Wuxi Hongdu Development Group Architect: C.Y. Lee & Partners Architects/Planners Structural: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. MEP: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. Contractor: Shanghai No.4 Construction Co., Ltd. Photo: Zou Jin 1. Xinjiekou Department Store Phase Developer: Nanjing Xinjiekou Department Store Co., Ltd. Architect: Frederic Rolland International Structural: Nanjing Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. MEP: Nanjing Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. Contractor: Nanjing Dadi Construction (Group) Co., Ltd Photo: Wei Gu Doha, Qatar Shanghai, China Wuxi, China Wuxi, China Nanjing, China / 8 4 Use: Residential Ranking: 119 / 8 48 / 814 48 / 814 4 / 787 8 Use: Office / Hotel Structural Material: Composite Ranking: 18 Use: Office / Hotel / Residential Ranking: 17 4 Use: Office / Residential Ranking: 18 Use: Office Structural Material: Composite Ranking: 17 NEW YORK. Bank of America Tower CHICAGO 1. Trump International Hotel & Tower. Aqua KUWAIT CITY 4. Arraya Center Office Tower DOHA. Alfardan Residence BEIJING. China World Tower III NANJING 1. Xinjiekou Department Store Phase WUXI 8. RunHua International Building 9. Hongdou International Plaza SHANGHAI 7. Shanghai IFC South Tower The 1 Tallest Building Completed in 9 was compiled as per CTBUH Criteria for Defining and Measuring Tall Buildings. For more information on CTBUH height criteria please see http://criteria.ctbuh.org