In its annual report, the 2016 Tall Building Year in Review, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that 2016 saw the completion of a record 128 buildings 655 feet or higher.
This number surpasses the previous record of 114 completions set in 2015. Eighteen of these buildings became the tallest in their city, country, or region, and ten earned the designation of supertall, at 965 feet and above.
The majority of these buildings — 107, or 84% of them — stand in Asia, which maintains its position as global skyscraper epicenter.
China topped this list with a record 84 completions, including the tallest building among those completed last year, the Guangzhou CTF Finance Center. The 1,740-foot mixed-use skyscraper, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, now stands the second-tallest building in China and the fifth-tallest building in the world.
Shenzhen saw the most new 655-foot-plus buildings of any city in 2016 with 11 completions for a total height of 8,555 feet. Tied for second with six buildings each were Guangzhou, China; Chongqing, China; and Goyang, South Korea.
The United States took a distant second to China with seven new completions—representing all the 655-feet-plus development in North America—while six tall buildings were built in South Korea, five in Indonesia, and four each in the Philippines and Qatar.
View the full report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitathere.
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