As we started the 21st century, just 11 short years ago, the Petronas Towers held the title of “The World’s Tallest” at 452 meters (1,483 feet) in height. Taipei 101 took the title in 2004, at 508 meters (1,667 feet).Then, at the end of the decade, the Burj Khalifa set new standards at 828 meters (2,717 feet) – over half a mile high. Now, with work set to start on-site in January 2012 for Jeddah’s 1,000+ meter Kingdom Tower (see Figure 2), we can expect that in a mere two decades (2000–2020) the height of the “World’s Tallest Building” will have more than doubled.
10: Lotte World
Tower, Seoul
9: Goldin
Finance 117, Tianjin
8: Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel
7: Wuhan
Greenland Center
 
6: Shanghai
Tower
 
5: Signature Tower Jakarta
4: Seoul Light
DMC Tower
 3: Ping An Finance Center, Shenzhen 
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