This document discusses several of the tallest buildings in the world throughout history. It provides details on the Burj Dubai, Taipei 101, Petronas Towers, Sears Tower, Jin Mao Tower, Empire State Building, Two International Finance Centre, CITIC Plaza, Shun Hing Square, Central Plaza, Emirates Office Tower, Bank of China, Tuntex Sky Tower, Aon Center, The Center in Hong Kong, and the proposed Madinat al-Hareer tower in Kuwait. Key details include heights, dates of construction, records held for tallest building, and locations. The document also briefly discusses potential future structures and advances in science and technology.

1. GREAT CIVILIANS
ENORMOUS BUILDINGS
M. Awais Yaqoob
(University of Engineering and Technology, Lahroe)

2. Mega buildings

3. BURJ DUBAI
The Burj Dubai ("Tower of
Dubai") is a skyscraper
currently under construction,
since April 15, 2005, in Dubai,
Its exact final height remains a
closely-guarded secret, but is
believed to go well beyond the
estimated 705 metres and is
estimated to have 200 habitable
floors, which would make it
have almost twice as many
floors as that of the Sears
Tower, Chicago which
currently has the highest
number of habitable floors
(108).

4. TAIPEI 101
The world's tallest building is
now in Taiwan. With a height of
509 meters(1671 FT)and 101
storeys above ground and five
stories below--the Taipei 101
building has surpassed the 462-
meter Sears Tower in Chicago
and the 451-meter Petronas Twin
Tower in Malaysia to acquire the
title "world's tallest
building”.Construction of
TAIPEI 101 started in 1999 and
complete in 2004

5. PETRONAS TOWER
Petronas Towers, twin in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, that are the
world's tallest twin towers.
Standing 1,483 ft (452 m) high
having 88-storeys .construction
of twin towers started in 1995
and completed in 1997, they
surpassed Chicago's Sears
Tower as the record-holding
tallest structure; they
themselves were surpassed by
Taipei 101 in 2003

6. SEARS TOWER
Sears Tower, Chicago, the
world's third tallest building.
Until the opening of the 1,483-ft
(452-m) Petronas Towers
(1997) in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, it was the world's
tallest building. Constructed
from 1970 to 1974 for Sears, it
rises 110 stories to a height of
1,450 ft (442 m); the 253 ft (77
m) television antenna topping it
makes it the world's third
largest freestanding structure at
1,703 ft (519 m).

7. JIN MAO TOWER
The Jin Mao Building or
Jin Mao Tower is an 88-
story landmark skyscraper
in Shanghai,the fifth
tallest in the world by roof
height and the seventh
tallest by pinnacle
height.hieght of JIN MAO
TOWER is 420 m(1380
ft).construction of jin mao
tower started in 1993 and
ends in 1998.

8. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
The tower rises to 381 m at the
(1,250 feet )102nd floor, and its
full structural height (including
broadcast antenna) reaches
1,472 feet (448 m). It was the
first building to have more than
100 floors.
It remained the tallest
skyscraper in the world for a
record 41 years until the
construction of the World Trade
Center, and shortly afterwards
the Sears Tower.

9. TWO INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
CENTRE
Also known as 2IFC and
branded as "Two ifc", Two
International Finance
Centre was completed in
2003.this 415 m(1362 FT)
tall building is currently
Hong Kong's tallest, with
88 storeys (an extremely
lucky number in
Cantonese culture) and 22
high-ceiling trading
floors.

10. CITIC
CITIC Plaza is an 80-story
high-rise building built in
Guangzhou, People's
Republic of China. Its
structural height is 391 m
(1,283 ft) including two tall
antennas like spires on the top.
When it was completed in 1997,
it was the tallest building in the
world outside of New York and
Chicago. seventh worldwide in
the high-rise ranking. It is,
however, the tallest concrete
building in the world.

11. SHUN HING SQUARE
Shun Hing Square (is a tall
high-rise building in Shenzhen,
China. Its structural height is
384 m (1,260 ft) and has 69
stories. It was completed in
1996 and for one year (from
1996 till 1997), it was the tallest
building in China until
Guangzhou's CITIC Plaza was
completed. It now ranks fourth
in China and eighth worldwide
in the high-rise ranking.

12. CENTRAL PLAZA
Central Plaza located in Wan
Chai, is the second tallest
skyscraper in Hong Kong. With
a height of 374 m, Central
Plaza is only surpassed by 2
IFC (420 m) in Central. It used
to be the tallest building in Asia
from 1992 to 1996, was built.
The 78-storey building was
completed in August 1992. The
building surpassed the Bank of
China Tower as the tallest
building in Hong Kong until the
completion of 2IFC.

13. EMIRATES OFFICE TOWER
Also referred to as Emirates
Tower One is a 54 floor office
building in the city of Dubai
Connected with 56 floor
Emirates Towers Hotel .The
tower has a total structural
height of 1,163 ft (354.6 m) and
roof height of 1,020 ft (311 m)
making it the 12th tallest
currently-standing fully-
habitable building in the world..
Construction was completed on
November 1999.

14. BANK OF CHINA
The building is 315 metres high
with two masts reaching 369
metres (1209 feet) high. The 70
story building was built in 1989
and is located near Central
MTR station. This was the
tallest building in Hong Kong
and Asia from 1989 to 1992,
and it was the first building
outside the United States to
break the 1000 foot mark. That
also means it was the tallest
outside America from its
completion year, 1990.

15. TUNTEX SKY TOWER
Tuntex Sky Tower, or the T & C
Tower, is a 85-floor skyscraper
located in Kaohsiung, Republic
of China( Taiwan ). Situated in
the downtown Ling Ya district
the structure is 347 m (1140
feet) high and has 85 floors. An
antenna pushes the building
height to 378 m. The building
was constructed from 1994 to
1996 and opened in 1997.

16. Aon Center
The Aon Center in Chicago,
and completed in 1972. With 83
floors and a height of 1,136 feet
(346.3 m), it is surpassed in
height only by the Sears Tower
in Chicago, and is third tallest
behind the Empire State
Building in the United States.

17. The Center
The Center (Chinese) is the
fourth tallest skyscraper in
Hong Kong, after Two
International Finance Centre
(88 storeys), Central Plaza and
Bank of China Tower. With a
height of 346m, it comprises 73
storeys. The Center is one of the
few skyscrapers in Hong Kong
that is totally steel-structured
with no reinforced concrete
core

18. MADINAT AL- HAREER
Madinat al-Hareer, meaning
City of Silk, is a proposed 250
square kilometer planned urban
area in Subia, an area just
opposite Kuwait City The main
attraction of Madinat al-
Hareer, the Mubarak al-Kabir
Tower will stand at 1,001 m
tall, almost twice the height of
the current tallest building in
the world Taipei 101, which is
509m tall

19. STRUCTURES IN THE DAY
AFTER TOMORROW
Today we are passing
through an era of science &
technology in which on one
hand we are venturing
intothe nano Cosmos & on
the other hand we are
moving ahead towards the
end of our Galaxy

20. THANKS