Sky 100 is a 100th floor observation deck, and its Elements Mall is one of the best in the city. The land itself cost about 1 billion USD. It is part of a new financial hub in Hong Kong that is one of the world's top financial centers.

The ICC Tower overlooks beautiful Victoria Harbor.

Special features: World's tallest hotel (Ritz Carlton), world's highest swimming pool, tallest building in Hong Kong, 9th tallest in the world (2016).

The Shanghai World Financial Center has an observation deck on the 100th floor at 474 meters (1,555 feet) for sightseeing and a Hyatt Regency luxury hotel.

Special features: Fourth tallest building in China, eighth tallest in the world (2016).

The Taipei 101 building in Taiwan would be at spot 3 (for its big spire) if it were included in this list. It is considered the fastest assembled skyscraper of the supertall variety in history. The new building stands out as one of two supertall towers in Tianhe in downtown Guangzhou.

Special features: China's 3rd tallest building, 6th tallest building in the world (2016).

There is a large twin tower luxury mall complex on the bottom, a world-class observation deck at 550 meters (1,804 feet) for sightseeing, and the world's second highest luxury hotel, after the Ritz Carlton on the ICC, on top. Though it is very tall, it was built comparatively inexpensively and quickly. It won't stay at this spot for long though because Goldin Finance 117 in Tianjin that might open in 2017 or 2018 is 597 meters tall.The new Ping An Tower is a 21st century engineering marvel.

Special features: Second tallest building in China, 4th tallest in the world (2016).

It is a showcase of 21st century engineering with a spiraling cylindrical shape to help the building weather typhoons. The Shanghai Tower towers 140 meters (459 feet) above the adjacent Shanghai World Financial Center. Shanghai Tower is the second tallest building in the world after the Burj Kalifa.

Special features: tallest in China, world's 2nd tallest building (2016).

Ninety percent of the structure is being built at a factory and just 10 percent assembled on site.

Height: 632 meters (2,073 feet), 128 floors Known as Sky City, the 202-story steel skyscraper is expected to be magnitude-9 earthquake resistant and energy efficient.

All are in the Yangtze Delta (Shanghai, Nanjing) and Pearl River Delta (HK, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) areas, mostly built in the last six years. This list only includes 'buildings', not 'towers', notably the Canton Tower (600 m) and Oriental Pearl Tower (468 m). These skyscrapers are modern tourist hotspots with malls, amazing views, hotels, and fine restaurants. Almost suddenly, in early 2016, China has nine of the world's twenty supertall buildings, all above 400m, more than any other country. ICYMI: Iceland is getting a new geothermal lagoon, a ‘Willy Wonka-style’ chocolate factory is being built in Amsterdam, and a former submarine base in France has been transformed into the world’s largest digital art space.The Shanghai Tower and Financial Center are prominent on the Shanghai skyline.Ībout fifteen years ago, China was a land of 10-to-30-story buildings filling up the downtown areas of the big cities. But what that does mean is visitors have much more space to themselves – and are able to enjoy the 270-degree panoramas in relative peace and quiet.Įver wanted to feel like you’re walking in mid-air? The Crystal can deliver.

The latest part of the eight-building complex to open to the public, this huge, partially glass-bottomed observation deck – dubbed a ‘horizontal skyscraper’ – connects four of its vertical towers and offers ace views over the whole of sprawling Chongqing.ĭesigned to resemble a sail surging forward at the spot where the two rivers meet, the building is perched 250 metres up and is the highest structure of its kind in western China.Ī super-fast elevator whisks visitors up to level 47 in less than a minute. Right now, they can take in an exhibition that speculates about what life on Mars might look like in the decades to come, before stepping out on to the epic viewing platform.įor the time being, only 3,000 tickets (priced at £20, $25 or A$37) are available per day, to ensure social-distancing measures are met. Swooping across the sky at the intersection of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in south-western China, the Crystal at Raffles City Chongqing is a spectacular new building in a rather spectacular location.

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