Pictures and info about some of the tallest buildings in the world, both: realized and projected. Coordinated by: Arzate Salinas Jonathan

1. THE TOWERS WORLD

2. BUILDINGS THAT
WERE NEVER BUILT

3. Tatlin’s Tower would have dwarfed the
Eiffel Tower in Paris. The tower was to
be built from industrial materials:
iron, glass and steel.
It was envisioned as a towering
symbol of modernity. The tower’s
main form was a twin helix which
spiraled up to 400m/1312ft in
height, where visitors would be
transported around with the aid of
various mechanical devices.
Tatlin’s Tower
Designed around 1917 for St. Petersburg Russia

4. Interesting Fact: At the base of
the structure was a rotating
cube which was designed as a
venue for lectures, conferences
and legislative meetings.
The cube would complete a
rotation in the span of one year.
Above that cube would be a
smaller pyramid housing
executive activities and
completing a rotation once a
month.
Tatlin’s Tower
Designed around 1917 for St. Petersburg Russia

5. The Illinois was a proposedmile-high
(1,609 meters/5,280 feet)
skyscraper, envisioned by Frank Lloyd
Wright.
Wright believed that it would have been
technically possibleto construct such a
building even at the time it was
proposed. The designin cluded 528
stories, with a grossarea of 18.46
millions quarefeet.
The Illinois
Designed in 1956 for Chicago Illinois

6. InterestingFact:
A number of problems occurred in
Wright’sdesign of The Illinois including
space that was needed to sevice the
elevators which would occupy all of the
space available on the lower
floors, thus defeating the purpose of
the building’ s height.
The Illinois
Designed in 1956 for Chicago Illinois

7. Plans called for a 457 meters / 1500
footstonetower in Jackson Park,
Chicago, onthesite of the 1893
Chicago World’sFair.
French-bornarchitect and MIT
Professor Désiré Despradelle came up
with the winning design. With more
financial backing the structure would
have been by far the tallest man-
made object in the world.
Beacon of Progress
Designed around 1891 for Chicago Illinois

8. InterestingFact:
The design called for an
amphitheater at the base to
seat 100,000 people and
sweeping piers that would
extend into Lake Michigan for
regattas.
Beacon of Progress
Designed around 1891 for Chicago Illinois

9. This design is obviously more of a far fetched
vision than a seriously considered project. The
Architect Eugene Tsui originally conceived the
idea of the Ultima Tower as part of a study of
the compact urbanarea of San Francisco.
The structure would utilize atmospheric energy
conversion by conver ting the difference in
atmospheric pressure at the top and bottom of
the structure into electrical power. The Ultima
Tower is 500 storiestall (two miles high) and is
intended to house one million residents.
Ultima Tower
Designed in 1991 for San Francisco California

10. Interesting Fact:
The structure’s shape is
modeled after the tallest
structure not made by man–
African termite nests.
Ultima Tower
Designed in 1991 for San Francisco California

11. Hotel Attraction was to be the tallest
building in New York at the time and
was designed by architect Antoni
Gaudi. The planned total height was
360 meters / 1181 ft and was
probably unrealistic for its time.
Little is known about the origins of
Hotel Attraction and was unknown
until 1956, when a report called ―The
New World Called Gaudí‖ was
published.
Hotel Attraction
Designed in 1908 for New York City

12. Interesting Fact: The drawings
by Gaudi of the Attraction
Hotel had actually been
proposed as a basis for the
rebuilding of the Ground Zero
project in Manhattan.
Hotel Attraction
Designed in 1908 for New York City

13. WORDLD´S TALLEST
TOWERS

14. BURJ KHALIFA — The world's tallest tower

15. CN TOWER

16. TAIPEI 101

17. PETRONAS TOWERS

18. SEARS TOWER

19. JIM MAO TOWER

20. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTRE

21. CITIC PLAZA

22. SHUNG HING SQUARE

23. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

24. CENTRAL PLAZA