Worlds Tallest Building Completed

[calgaryrocks]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

The top 40 some floors are empty shells, too small to do anything practical with.

thats insane, so they basically put a large tower (Nexen building for example) on top just for the hieght

[JimmytheT]

Floors Use
160-206 Mechanical
156-159 Communication and Broadcast
155 Mechanical
139-154 Corporate Suites
136-138 Mechanical
125-135 Corporate Suites
124 Observatory
123 Sky Lobby
122 At.mosphere restaurant
111-121 Corporate Suites
109-110 Mechanical
77-108 Residential
76 Sky Lobby
44-72 Residential
43 Sky Lobby
40-42 Mechanical
38-39 Armani Hotel suites
19-37 Residences
17-18 Mechanical
9-16 Armani Residences
1-8 Armani HotelGround Armani Hotel Concourse Armani Hotel
B1-B2 Parking, Mechanical



Floor usage chart that I found. Hope it posts okay.

Edit: There that should do it.

[burn_this_city]

According to some skyscraper forum it only cost $1.4B to build. If you tried that here it would easily be double that.

[Knut]

^^^ You do not have to pay slave-labour much.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Hesla

^^^ You do not have to pay slave-labour much.

Very true, that whole city was built on the backs of Indians. The Bow downtown is expected to cost $1.4B and will be less than half the height.

[FurnaceFace]

I was there in February and the outer facade was just being completed. It's a very impressive structure to stand near and look up at. It's so big it's hard to grasp the scale of it as there are no buildings around it to give it scale. It was still a construction site so we could only get as close as the mall beside it but even then it was immense. I can't imagine standing beside it and looking up or going up to the top of it. Pretty crazy you can build something that is most of a kilometer tall.

[troutman]

We shouldn't count radio antennas or empty shell floors when awarding the record.

What is the highest functional floor? That should be the prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallest_building


For buildings, there is debate over:

• whether only habitable height is considered.
• whether communication towers with observation galleries should be considered "habitable" in this sense.
• whether roof-top antennas should be considered towards height of buildings; with particular interest in whether components that look like spires can be either classified as antennas or architectural detail.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the organization that determines the title of the "World’s Tallest Building," recognizes a building only if at least fifty percent of its height is made up of floor plates containing habitable floor area.[1] Structures that do not meet this criterion, such as the CN Tower, are defined as "towers."

CTBUH defined four categories in which the world's tallest building can be measured:[11]

1. Height to Architectural Top (including spires and pinnacles, but not antennas, masts or flagpoles). This measurement is the most widely utilized and is used to define the rankings of the 100 Tallest Buildings in the World.
2. Highest Occupied Floor
3. Height to Top of Roof (omitted from criteria in November 2009[12])
4. Height to Tip

[troutman]

The Bow under construction in Calgary (to be the tallest building in Western Canada) will only be the 222nd tallest building in the world:

http://homepages.ipact.nl/~egram/buildings.html

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by troutman

We shouldn't count radio antennas or empty shell floors when awarding the record.

What is the highest functional floor? That should be the prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallest_building



For buildings, there is debate over:

• whether only habitable height is considered.
• whether communication towers with observation galleries should be considered "habitable" in this sense.
• whether roof-top antennas should be considered towards height of buildings; with particular interest in whether components that look like spires can be either classified as antennas or architectural detail.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the organization that determines the title of the "World’s Tallest Building," recognizes a building only if at least fifty percent of its height is made up of floor plates containing habitable floor area.[1] Structures that do not meet this criterion, such as the CN Tower, are defined as "towers."

Welcome to the grey area. Based on the way the rulings go Montreal has a taller building than Calgary's Suncor Centre (formerly Petro-Can), just take a look at the diagram:

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=45382188

Hmm, I wonder which building is actually taller?

Now add in buildings currently under construction in both cities and you get this diagram:

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=45382363

[GoJetsGo]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

You can find all sorts of pics of this building and comments on it by skyscraper nerds (of which I am one) here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...68#post4633668

Wow thanks for the link...

What's with the crazy dude taking photos from the TOP of the Spire???







That is crazy!!!

[Acey]

Originally Posted by JimmytheT

Floors Use
160-206 Mechanical

Shows where their priorities are.

[burn_this_city]

They need to clean the scum on the bottom of those ponds.

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by GoJetsGo

That is crazy!!!

For reference the building in the bottom left corner is I'd guess something around 30-40 stories. My pictures are from nearby it and it wasn't small. Compared to the Burj it was wee.

[CaptainCrunch]

Geez if you decided to end it all and throw yourself off of the top spire, it would take you about 8 seconds to hit the ground.


Thats a long wait.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by troutman

The Bow under construction in Calgary (to be the tallest building in Western Canada) will only be the 222nd tallest building in the world:

Before someone else from SSP does it, the tallest outside Toronto

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Geez if you decided to end it all and throw yourself off of the top spire, it would take you about 8 seconds to hit the ground.


Thats a long wait.

You sure it's 8 seconds?

[3 Justin 3]

Yeah, it'd take 8 seconds. That gives you enough time to receive a text and read "I didn't sleep with your brother, it's all a mistake". ooohh

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Before someone else from SSP does it, the tallest outside Toronto

How did I miss that?

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Hope none of you have vertigo..

I had to hold on to my chair the first couple times he put the camera over the edge.

[SebC]

Looks like something from Coruscant.