CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2017 2017: Skyscraper History’s Tallest, Highest- Volume, and Most Geographically Diverse Year Abstract The 2017 Tall Building Year in Review / Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis report shows that more buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed in 2017 than in any other year, with a total of 144 completions. Notably, 2017 was also the most geographically diverse year in terms of the number of cities and countries that completed 200-meter-plus buildings, with 69 cities across 23 countries represented in the data, up from 54 cities across 18 countries in 2016. The report covers other statistical highlights of 2017 and predicts completions for 2018. Keywords: 2017, Completions, Height, Statistics, Skyscrapers, Urbanization Figure 1. Tallest in 2017: Ping An Finance Center, Shenzhen, 599 meters. © Tim Griffith for KPF Figure 2. 131st-Tallest in 2017: Shahar Tower, Givatayim, 202 meters. © Assaf Pinchuk The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2017 Year in Review report www.ctbuh.org | www.skyscrapercenter.com 160 160 150 Buildings 200 Meters or Taller Completed Each Year from 1960 to 2018 144 140 130 130 127 1,478 1,500 120 1,448 1,400 115 1,319 1,300 110 Total Number of 200-meter-plus Buildings in 1,200 Existence at Decade’s end from 1920 to 2018 102 1,100 100 1,000 900 90 800 700 81 80 609 600 74 73 500 70 69 400 Number of buildings 200 m+ completed each year 300 60 263 73 200 146 126 146 138 52 100 50 71 28 50 24 47 2 6 11 11 15 5 11 3 3 1 0 1920 1930 1940 19501960 1970 1980 19902000 2010 2017 2018 40 32 31 31 30 27 23 22 20 20 19 18 17 17 15 15 15 14 13 12 12 11 11 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 10 8 8 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2014 2015 2008 2012 2016 2017 2018 2010 Notes: Number of 200 m+ buildings Projected number of 200 m+ buildings 1. We can predict 2018–2019 building completions with some accuracy due to projects now in Number of supertalls (300 m+) Projected number of supertalls (300 m+) advanced construction. A range is given to indicate the challenging factors in predicting building completion dates. Number of megatalls (600 m+) Projected number of megatalls (600 m+) 2. Totals after 2001 take into account the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2. Figure 3. Number of 200-meter-plus buildings completed each year from 1960 to 2017, with projections through 2018. More buildings of 200 meters’ height or Notably, 2017 was also the most countries that saw their tallest building greater were completed in 2017 than in any geographically diverse year in terms of the completed this year. other year, with a total of 144 completions, number of cities and countries that marking the fourth consecutive record- completed 200-meter-plus buildings, with Once again, for the 10th time in a row, China breaking year (see Figure 3). This is an 69 cities across 23 countries represented in completed the greatest number of increase of 95 percent from 2013, when only the data, up from 54 cities across 18 200-meter-plus buildings in 2017 (see Figure 74 buildings of 200 meters or more were countries in 2016. High-rise construction is 4), with 76 completions for 53 percent of the completed. The total number of 200-meter no longer confined to a select few financial total. Although this is a slight decrease from buildings in the world is now 1,319, an and business centers, but rather is 2016, when China completed 83 such increase of 12.3 percent from 2016, and a becoming the accepted global model for buildings, or 65 percent of the global total, 402 percent increase from 2000, when only densification, as more than one million China is still by far the world leader in 263 existed. The total sum of heights – that people on our planet urbanize each week. skyscraper construction. In fact, the city with is, if the heights of all completions in 2017 Thirteen cities saw their first 200-meter- the most 200-meter-plus building were added together – was 35,145 meters, plus high-rise completion in 2017, in completions, Shenzhen, China, finished 12 making 2017 the “tallest year ever.” addition to the 28 cities and eight buildings, or 8.3 percent of the year’s global The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2017 Year in Review report www.ctbuh.org | www.skyscrapercenter.com 2017 Completions: 200 m+ Buildings by Country Note: Two or fewer tall buildings 200 m+ in height were also completed during 2017 in these countries: Australia, Israel, Japan, Panama, Saudi 80 19,000 total, and more than any other country on 18,802 Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Colombia, Kenya, Mexico, Qatar, Sri Lanka 76 the list, except China (see Figures 4 & 5). This Total Number (Total = 144) is the second year that Shenzhen was the Sum of Heights (Total = 35,146 m) ) city with the most 200-meter-plus 30 3,000 (m Total Number of Countries = 23 s completions in the world. It’s the third year ht Heig 2,339 in a row in which the tallest building to of er m complete in that year is in China. That 1,940 Su mb 20 2,000 Nu building, Ping An Finance Center, also 1,342 happens to be in Shenzhen (see Figure 1). 1,165 1,101 The United States completed the second- 10 1,064 10 920 884 1,000 greatest number of 200-meter-plus 7 702 700 5 5 buildings of any country, with 10 buildings 4 4 4 4 3 3 finished in 2017. 0 0 China USA South Korea Canada Indonesia UAE Turkey North Korea Malaysia India Philippines Figure 4. Buildings 200 meters or taller completed in 2017 by country. Key Worldwide Market Snapshots of 2017 Asia (Not including Middle East) 14 3,500 While 2017 may have been the most 3,300 Note: Two or fewer tall buildings 200 m+ in height were also completed during 2017 in these cities: Nanchang, Bangkok, Chicago, Chongqing, Dongguan, geographically diverse year for 200-meter- Guangzhou, Hefei, Melbourne, Nanjing, Panama City, Riyadh, Shenyang, Singapore, 12 12 Tokyo, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Abu Dhabi, Baoji, Beijing, Calgary, Cartagena, Colombo, 3,000 plus building completions, Asia retained its Dalian, Doha, Foshan, Fuzhou, Giv'atayim, Hong Kong, Houston, Huizhou, Izmir, Johor Bahru, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Liuzhou, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Nantong, status as the world’s skyscraper epicenter, Philadelphia, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Sanya, Seattle, Suzhou, Tel Aviv, Tianjin, Xiamen, Xuzhou, Yantai, Yinchuan, Zhanjiang, Zhuhai completing 109 buildings of at least 200 10 2,500 Total Number (Total = 144) meters in height, representing 76 percent of Sum of Heights (Total = 35,146 m) the total. This marks a small decline from the 8 Total Number of Cities = 69 2,000 83 percent share it held in 2016, and is in 7 ) (m line with China’s slight decline in total 1,655 s ht er 1,500 completion share (see Figure 4). The top two mb 6 Heig Nu of 55 m cities, Shenzhen and Nanning, are in China, Su 1,137 1,101 1,064 with Jakarta, Indonesia and Chengdu, China, 1,034 1,032 986 444444 4 955 1,000 920 918 906 848 tied for third place with five completions 814 792 333333 33 700 702 664 each (see Figure 5). 2 500 Surprisingly, Pyongyang, North Korea, tied for sixth place with four buildings of 200 0 0 r Seoul meters or greater completed in 2017, after Jakarta Wuhan Busan Dubai Makati Nanning Toronto Istanbul Mumbai Shenzhen Chengdu Changsha Shanghai Pyongyang Hangzhou New York City Kuala Lumpu having completed no buildings over 200 Figure 5. Buildings 200 meters or taller completed in 2017 by city. meters in 2016. Seoul, South Korea completed three 200-meter-plus buildings, including Lotte World Tower, a 555-meter mixed-use building – the city’s first “supertall”, or building of 300 meters or higher (see Case Study, p. 12 and Figure 6). Mumbai completed its new tallest building (as well as India’s), One Avighna Park, at 266 meters. Two other 200-meter-plus buildings completed in the coastal city in 2017. Sri Lanka also completed its new tallest building, the Grand Hyatt Colombo, which rises to 230 meters. Middle East and Africa The Middle East had nine completions in 2017, representing 6.3 percent of the global Figure 6. Second-Tallest in 2017: Lotte World Tower, Seoul, 555 meters. © Tim Griffith for KPF The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2017 Year in Review report www.ctbuh.org | www.skyscrapercenter.com 83 76 69 83 65 76 69 65 37 25 22 22 20 20 20 37 16 14 14 13 12 Yearly 200-meter-plus Tall Building Completions,11 By Region/Country 8 25 83 6 6 6 22 22 4 3 3 20 20 20 2 1 1 China 16 76 14 14 13 12 11 69 8 6 6 6 65 4 3 3 2 1 1 83 China 76 69 65 8 37 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 Europe 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 25 22 22 8 20 20 20 5 4 4 4 16 3 3 3 2 2 2 Europe 1 1 1 1 1 14 1 114 1 37 13 12 11 Figure 8.