Chinese skyscrapers top the list of newly completed world tallest buildings setting the annual record.
China’s ambitions to impress the world and demonstrate its engineering prowess are best represented by the impressive number of new Chinese skyscrapers dominating the landscapes of country’s large cities.
China has already been on the top of list of leading skyscraper builders worldwide for the last 23 years.
According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, 88 new skyscrapers were completed in China in 2018 alone. Despite the worries of the slowing Chinese economy, this was the record year for the country. This also represents over two thirds of 143 buildings of 200 meters and higher that were completed in 2018.
For the third year in a row, the city of Shenzhen has registered the largest number of completions of 200 meters plus skyscrapers. The city’s fourteen skyscrapers constructions account for nearly ten percent of the global total this year.
The highest Chinese skyscraper in 2018 was the Citic Tower in Beijing with a height of 528 meters. It has ousted Hong Kong’s International Commercial Center from the list of top 10 tallest buildings in the world and is now the eighth tallest skyscraper and the fourth highest in China.
With 108 floors above ground, it is now the eighth tallest building in the world. The second highest skyscraper of 2018 was the Vincom Landmark 81 of 469.5 meters (1,540 feet) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, while another Chinese building is in third place. The 452 meter high (1483 feet) Changsha IFS Tower T1 was built in the city of Changsha.
In another feat of engineering was unveiling a 350-foot waterfall of Liebian Building in southwest part of the country. It flows from the side of the new Chinese skyscraper down to a public plaza in the city’s central business district.
“People in the southwestern city of Guiyang telephoned newspapers to report what they believed was a massive water leak,” the Times of the U.K. reported.
According to the reports, the electricity needed to keep the monstrous mountain of water flowing costs about $118 per hour.
