High-Hise Building Oata Base Since the inception of the Council, various surveys have been made con­ cerning the location, number of stories, height, material, and use of tall buildings around the world. The first report on these surveys was published in the Council's Proceedings of the First International Conference in 1972. TaU Building Systems and Concepts (Volume SC) brought that information up to date with a detailed survey in 1980. Changes to some of the data were reflected in Developments in TaU Buildings-1983, with further updating in Advances in TaU Buildings (January, 1986), High-Rise Buildings: Recent Progress (November, 1986), and TaU Build­ ings 0/ the World (February, 1987). This present volume provides the newer information more recently received. The original survey was based mainly on information collected from individuals in the major cities of the world. The main criterion for the selection of a city was generally its population. Another criterion was the availability of a Council member or other contact who might provide the needed information. This Appendix updates Table l. Because the data came from so many sourees, complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Buildings change names or new ones break ground, and this information is sometimes slow in reaching the Council headquarters. In this sense the survey keeps its nature as a "living document." Additions and corrections to the information presented here are welcomed, and should be brought to the attention of Council Headquarters at Lehigh University. 1003 1004 Second Century of the Skyscraper Table 1: World's TaUest Buildings. This is a list of the world's 100 tallest buildings. The information presented here includes the city in wh ich each building is located, the year of completion or "under construction" (UC) and expected year of completion, number of stories, height in meters and feet, structural material, and use of each building. Table 1 100 Tallest buildings in the world Height Year No.of Building City Comp Stories Meters Feet Material Use Sears Tower Chicago 1974 110 443 1454 Steel Office World Trade Center-North New York 1972 110 417 1368 Steel Office World Trade Center-South New York 1973 110 415 1362 Steel Office Empire State New York 1931 102 381 1250 Steel Office Bank of China HongKong UC88 72 368 1209 Mixed Office Amoco Chicago 1973 80 346 1136 Steel Office John Hancock Chicago 1968 100 344 1127 Steel Multiple Chrysler Bldg. New York 1930 77 319 1046 Steel Office Library Square Tower Los Angeles UC90 75 310 1017 Steel Office Texas Commerce Plaza Houston 1981 75 305 1002 Mixed Office Allied Bank Plaza Houston 1983 71 296 970 Steel Office 1 Wacker Drive Chicago UC90 80 295 967 Concrete Office Sll Wacker Drive Chicago UC90 65 292 959 Concrete Office Columbia Center Seattle 1985 76 291 955 Mixed Office American Intl. Bldg. New York 1931 66 290 950 Steel Office First Bank Tower Toronto 1975 72 285 935 Steel Office 40 Wall Tower New York 1966 71 283 927 Steel Office Interfirst Plaza Tower Dallas 1985 70 281 921 Mixed Office Citicorp Center New York 1977 59 2S0 919 Steel Multiple Overseas Union Bank Singapore UCS6 63 280 919 Steel Office Scotia Plaza Toronto UC88 68 275 901 Mixed Office Transco Tower Houston 19S3 64 275 901 Steel Office 900 N. Michigan Chicago UC89 67 267 875 Mixed Multiple AT&T Corp. Center Chicago UC88 64 267 875 Mixed Office Mellon Bank Philadelphia UC88 56 265 870 Mixed Office Water Tower Place Chicago 1976 74 262 859 Concrete Multiple United California Bank Los Angeles 1974 62 262 858 Steel Office Transamerica Pyramid San Francisco 1972 48 260 853 Steel Office RCA RockefeIler Center New York 1933 70 259 850 Steel Office First National Bank Chicago 1969 60 259 850 Steel Office U.S. Steel Pittsburgh 1970 64 256 841 Steel Office One Liberty Place Philadelphia UC87 60 256 840 Steel Office Atlantic Center Atlanta UC88 50 250 820 Mixed Office Cityspire New York UC87 72 248 815 Mixed Multiple One Chase Manhattan Plaza New York 1961 60 248 813 Steel Office Pan American New York 1963 59 246 80S Steel Office Momentum Place Dallas UC87 60 244 797 Steel Office Rialto Center Melbourne UC86 70 243 794 Concrete Office Woolworth Bldg. New York 1913 57 242 792 Steel Office I Palac K ultury I N auki Warsaw 1955 42 241 790 Mixed Office John Hancock Tower Boston 1973 60 241 790 Steel Office High-Rise Building Data Base 1005 Year No.of __H_e_ig::c h_t_ Building City Comp Stories Meters Feet Material Use- World Wide Plaza New York UC89 53 250 788 Steel Office M.L.C. Centre Sydney 1976 70 240 786 Concrete Office Commerce Court West Toronto 1974 52 239 784 Steel Office Republic Bank Center Houston 1983 56 238 780 Steel Office Bank of America San Francisco 1969 52 237 778 Steel Office Office Towers Caracas 1985 60 237 778 Mixed Office 3 First National Plaza Chicago 1981 58 236 775 Mixed Office I D S Center Minneapolis 1972 57 235 772 Mixed Office Norwest Center Minneapolis UC88 57 235 770 Mixed Office Singapore Treasury Bldg. Singapore 1986 52 235 770 Mixed Office One Penn Plaza New York 1972 50 234 766 Steel Office Korea Ins. Company Seoul 1985 63 233 764 Steel Office Tun Abdul Razak Penang 1985 61 232 761 Concrete Office Equitable Tower W. New York 1985 51 230 75" Steel Office Maine Montparnasse Paris 1973 64 229 751 Mixed Office Prudential Center Boston 1964 52 229 750 Steel Office Federal Reserve Bldg. Boston 1975 32 229 750 Steel Office Exxon New York 1971 54 229 750 Steel Office First International Plaza Houston 1981 55 228 748 Mixed Office Republic Plaza Denver 1983 56 227 745 Mixed Office Morgan Bank New York UC88 50 227 745 Steel Office Security Pacific National Bank I.os Angeles 1974 55 226 743 Steel Office One Liberty Plaza (U.S. Steel) New York 1972 54 226 743 Steel Office Ikebukuro Tower (Sunshine 60) Tokyo 1978 60 226 742 Steel Office Raffles City Hotel Singapore 1986 70 226 741 Concrete Hotel 20 Exchange Place (Citibank) New York 1931 55 226 741 Steel Office Crocker Center Los Angeles 1983 55 225 740 Steel Multiple Renaissance 1 Detroit 1977 73 225 739 Concrete Hotel World Financial Center New York 1985 51 225 739 Steel Office Toronto Dominion Bank Tower Toronto 1967 56 224 736 Steel Office Two Union Square Seattle UC88 56 224 736 Mixed Multiple 1600 Smith Houston 1984 55 223 732 Steel Office Southeast Financial Center Miami 1984 53 222 730 Mixed Office One Astor Plaza New York 1972 54 222 730 Mixed Office Olympia Center Chicago 1981 63 222 728 Concrete Multiple One Mellon Bank Center Pittsburgh 1983 54 222 727 Steel Office GuU Tower Houston 1982 52 221 726 Mixed Office 9 West 57th SI. New York 1974 50 221 725 Steel Office Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel Atlanta 1975 71 220 723 Concretc Hotel Carlton Centre Johannesburg 1973 50 220 722 Concrete Office Texas Commerce Tower Dallas UN87 56 219 720 Concrete Office Metropolitan Tower New York 1986 66 219 716 Concrete Multiple One Shell Plaza Houston 1971 50 218 714 Concrete Office Petro-Canada I Calgary 1983 52 217 710 Mixed Office First International Bldg. Dallas 1973 56 216 710 Steel Office Hopewell Centre Hong Kong 1981 65 216 709 Concrete Office Shinjuku Center Tokyo 1979 54 216 709 Steel Office Terminal Tower Cleveland 1930 52 216 708 Steel Office Union Carbide Bldg. New York 1960 52 215 707 Steel Office General Motors New York 1968 50 214 705 Steel Office 1006 Second Century of the Skyscraper Height Year No.of Building City Comp Stories Meters Feet Material Use Petrolaos Mexicanos Mexico City 1984 52 214 702 Steel Office American Fletcher Center Indianapolis UC89 60 214 704 Steel Office Metropolitan Life New York 1909 50 213 700 Steel Office Atlantic Richfield Plaza A Los Angeles 1972 52 212 699 Steel Office Atlantic Richfield Plaza B Los Angeles 1972 52 212 699 Steel Office One Shell Square New Orleans 1972 51 212 697 Steel Office 500 Fifth Avenue New York 1931 58 212 697 Steel Office IBM Bldg. Chicago 1973 52 212 695 Steel Office Four Allen Center Houston 1983 50 212 695 Steel Office Nomenclature GLOSSARY Accelerograph. An instrument that measures and reeords the time-history of ground acceleration at a point during an earthquake. Actions. Load and imposed or eonstrained deformations that eause stresses and deformations in struetural members. Agora. An open spaee in an ancient Greek town, used as a market and general meeting place. The forum had the same function in Roman architecture. Air-Conditioning. Artifieial ventilation with air at a eontrolled temperature and humidity. Alkai-aggregate reaction. Chemieal re action in mortar or eonerete between alkalies (sodium and potassium) from portland eement or other sources and certain eonstituents of some aggregates; under eertain conditions, deleterious expansion of the conerete or mortar may result. Allowable load. The ultimate load divided by faetor of safety. Allowable stress. Maximum permissible stress used in design of members of a strueture and based on a faetor of safety against rupture or yielding of any type. Allowable stress design or working stress design. A method of proportioning structures such that the eomputed elastie stress does not exeeed a specified limiting stress. Arcade. Strictly, a line of arehes earried on columns, either free-standing or attaehed to a wall. The term was applied during the nineteenth eentury to 1007 1008 Second Century of the Skyscraper glass-roofed shopping areas modeled on the Crystal Palace, and is now being used for passages with shops on one or both sides, irrespective of construction.