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39-861: 30 Hudson Yards (also known during construction as the North Tower ) is a supertall skyscraper on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City . Located near Hell's Kitchen , Chelsea , and the Penn Station area, the building is part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project , a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's West Side Yard . It is the sixth-tallest building in New York City and

78-618: A laser beam that on special occasions shines high into the night sky over Gateshead 's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art . In 2007, working closely with a group of local ex-miners, he was also commissioned to create a new work on the landmark site of a former colliery near St Helens, Merseyside , as part of the Big Art Project, a major national public art initiative linked to Channel 4 . Unveiled in spring 2009, Dream consists of an elongated white structure 20 metres (66 ft) tall, weighing 500 tons, which has been carved to resemble

117-403: A $ 490 million mortgage from Deutsche Bank on their office condominium space. Kohn Pedersen Fox was chosen for the design of the building, while Thornton Tomasetti was lead structural engineer and Jaros, Baum & Bolles provided MEP engineering services. Originally planned to be 1,337 feet (408 m) tall, the building was later downsized to 1,270 feet (390 m) tall, making it still

156-595: A 225 sq ft (20.9 m) glass triangle in the floor which looks down to the street 1,131 ft (345 m) below. There is also a grand outdoor staircase on the east side of the deck. Edge opened to visitors on March 11, 2020, and temporarily closed two days later due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City . Edge reopened on September 2, 2020. In October 2021, it was announced that 30 Hudson Yards would host another attraction dubbed “City Climb at Edge” which allows visitors to ascend an outdoor staircase located at

195-691: A new wing of Broadcasting House in London. At 22:00 GMT each evening a beam of light will be projected from the sculpture extending 1 km into the sky for 30 minutes to coincide with the BBC News at Ten . In 2010, Plensa's Alchemist was installed in front of the Stratton Student Center, facing the main entrance of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts . It

234-662: A rise in the construction of supertall skyscrapers internationally, which accelerated in the 2010s, especially in China. East Asia has become a hotspot for building such tall skyscrapers. The first supertall buildings to be built in Mainland China were CITIC Plaza in Guangzhou and Shun Hing Square in Shenzhen , both built in 1996. In the 2010s, China overtook the United States to become

273-558: A supertall building in construction in Abidjan , Ivory Coast , will be the first such building in West Africa . This list includes completed skyscrapers that stand between 300 and 599 m (984 and 1,965 ft) in height, based on standard height measurements. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. This list does not include topped out buildings that have not been fully completed. This list does not include

312-680: Is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver. He has also created opera sets, video projections and acoustic installations. Plensa was born in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain . He left the studies of fine arts in Barcelona and continued to train in a self-taught way. Plensa's works include the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois , which opened in July 2004. The fountain

351-592: Is a large, hollow seated figure similar to other contemporary Plensa figures, except that it is composed of numerals and mathematical symbols , to honor MIT's traditional STEM -focused teaching and research. The sculpture was donated anonymously on the occasion of MIT's 150th anniversary . On 21 September 2010, Spillover II was unveiled in Atwater Park in Shorewood , Wisconsin , United States . A 260 cm (102 in) tall statue consisting of steel letters welded together in

390-586: Is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15 m) tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces. In the summer of 2007, he participated in the Chicago public art exhibit, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet . Another Plensa piece is Blake in Gateshead in North East England ,

429-730: The Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York unveiled a 32-ton sculpture by Plensa called Laura . The 20-foot (6.1 m) tall sculpture is composed of 20 massive pieces of marble from the south of Spain. In 2013, Plensa installed a sculpture named Ainsa I at the entrance of the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis . In 2017, Love was installed in the Frisian city of Leeuwarden , Netherlands . In 2019,

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468-657: The Burj Al Arab hotel in 1999, the first supertall building in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East. Saudi Arabia became the next country in the Middle East with a supertall building with the construction of the Kingdom Centre in 2002. Qatar completed its first supertall building, Aspire Tower , in 2007, while Kuwait completed its first supertall skyscraper, Arraya Tower , two years later. The Central Bank of

507-681: The MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona organized the most ambitious solo exhibition in his hometown, curated by the museum's director, Ferran Barenblit . The exhibition traveled to the Museum of Modern Art Moscow , where it achieved notable success. In 2020, Dreaming was installed outside of the Richmond-Adelaide Centre in Toronto . Also in 2020, Behind the Walls was installed outside

546-792: The Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia . Construction is underway on Waterline in Austin and Waldorf Astoria Miami in Miami , both of which would be the first supertall buildings in their respective cities. The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong was the first supertall skyscraper to be built outside of the United States in 1990. This preceded

585-460: The Time Warner Center , also owned by Related, at Columbus Circle . The company would occupy half the building, below the 38th floor. In mid-2015, Related received a $ 690 million loan from Bank of America , Wells Fargo , and CIBC which allowed construction to start. By January 2016, the structure's first few aboveground floors were already complete. Construction of the observation deck at

624-671: The U.S. Bank Tower , both office buildings. After the September 11 attacks , New York City was left with only two supertall buildings. This preceded a significant boom in the construction of supertall buildings, which began with The New York Times Building in 2007. and accelerated in the 2010s with the development of the Hudson Yards complex and residential supertall skyscrapers on Billionaires' Row . Currently, New York City has 17 supertall buildings, and 2 more under construction. In 2018, two more US cities gained their first supertall buildings:

663-535: The eighth-tallest in the United States as of November 2022. The building has a triangular observation deck , known as The Edge , jutting out from the 100th floor, with a bar and event space on the 101st floor. This observation deck, at 1,100 feet (340 m), opened in March 2020 and is the second-highest outdoor observation deck containing optically transparent flooring in the world, after Skywalk in Madeira . The building

702-559: The "On Hold" table below. This list includes unfinished buildings with no construction activity that were planned to be supertall skyscrapers. The height column indicates the intended height. This list ranks cities by number of completed supertall buildings. This list is inclusive of megatall buildings (buildings above 600 meters in height). It does not include supertall buildings that are topped out or under construction. Jaume Plensa Jaume Plensa i Suñé ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʒawmə ˈplɛnsə] ; born 23 August 1955)

741-782: The 100th and 101st floors. Edge contains a cantilevered outdoor terrace jutting 80 feet (24 m) outward south of the building on the 100th floor, providing panoramic views of Manhattan and the Hudson River . Edge is the second highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere after the SkyPod at the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The tallest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere. However, both are lower than Top of

780-564: The 90-story tower with 2.6 million square feet. The building opened on March 15, 2019. One month later, WarnerMedia executed a leaseback and sold their space to Related and Allianz for $ 2.2 billion after signing a 15-year lease for 1.5 million square feet (140,000 m). The sale closed in June 2019. The partners financed the purchase with a 10-year, $ 1.43 billion commercial mortgage-backed security interest-only loan from Deutsche Bank , Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs . In June, KKR took out

819-703: The Eastern Rail Yard, for much of Phase 1 to sit upon and to allow the Gateway Rail Tunnel project to pass underground with a clear path. The platform is rested on caissons that are drilled underground into the solid bedrock known as Manhattan schist . On December 12, 2013, it was announced that Tutor Perini Building Corp. was awarded a US$ 510 million contract to build the platform. In 2013, Time Warner (later WarnerMedia, and now Warner Bros. Discovery) announced its intention to move most of its offices to 30 Hudson Yards, vacating its current headquarters at

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858-829: The Republic of Turkey in Istanbul , currently under construction, will become the first supertall building in Turkey . Azrieli Spire Tower in Tel Aviv and Beyond Tower in Givatayim , both in construction, will become the first supertall buildings in Israel . Europe currently has nine supertall buildings, all completed since 2010. With the exception of The Shard in London , United Kingdom and Varso Tower in Poland ,

897-752: The United States to have a supertall building in North America – T.Op Torre 1 in Monterrey , which was built in 2020. Torre Rise is currently under construction in the same city, which would become the tallest building in all of Latin America if completed. While Canada has no completed supertall buildings, it has three under construction – The One , Skytower at Pinnacle One Younge , and Concord Sky , all of which are in Toronto . In Australia, supertall buildings have been built in Gold Coast and Melbourne , making Australia

936-524: The World, the rooftop observation deck at top of the original South Tower of the World Trade Center which was 1,377 feet (419.7 m) high. Edge is also the second highest observation deck in New York City , after One World Observatory . Visitors can lean into the nine-foot (2.7 m) high clear glass barricade slanted 6.6 degrees outward to safely check out the street and rooftops below. Edge also features

975-636: The completion of the John Hancock Center in Chicago in 1969. The John Hancock Center was the first supertall to be built outside New York City. Supertalls remained the purview of New York City and Chicago until the completion of the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston . Two more American cities gained a supertall skyscraper in the 20th century: Atlanta with the Bank of American Plaza , and Los Angeles with

1014-457: The country with the most supertall buildings. Other cities in China that have built multiple supertall buildings since 2000 include Guiyang , Nanjing , Nanning , Tianjin , and Wuhan . Taiwan completed its first supertall building, 85 Sky Tower , in the city of Kaohsiung in 1997. This was followed by Taipei 101 in Taiwan's capital of Taipei 7 years later, which became the tallest building in

1053-570: The development's tallest building. WarnerMedia's space features amenities including a cafeteria, a fitness center, a two-level auditorium and cinema and an outdoor deck. The protruding outdoor deck has resulted in reviewers likening the building's shape to a duck. The building's lobby contains artwork by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa consisting of 11 stainless steel spheres hanging from the ceiling, meant to represent global unity and cultural diversity. The building features an 1,100-foot-tall (340 m) outdoor observation deck known as "Edge", located on

1092-792: The first supertall building in Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1997. They were followed by the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia in 1998, which overtook the Sears Tower as the tallest buildings in the world at the time, and the World Trade Center as the tallest twin towers in the world. Vietnam received its first supertall building in 2012 upon the completion of Landmark 72 in Hanoi . Likewise, Indonesia completed its first supertall building, Autograph Tower in 2022. Dubai completed

1131-567: The four tallest buildings in the world : the Burj Khalifa , Merdeka 118 , Shanghai Tower , and The Clock Towers , which are over 600 meters and classified as "megatall". This list includes skyscrapers under construction that are planned to be between 300 and 600 meters (984 and 1,968 feet) tall. based on standard height measurements. The "year" column indicates the expected year of completion. This list does not include buildings whose construction has been suspended indefinitely, which are listed in

1170-528: The head and neck of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation. The structure is coated in sparkling white Spanish dolomite , as a contrast to the coal which used to be mined there. On 16 June 2008, Plensa's sculpture of a listening glass entitled Breathing was dedicated by the incumbent Secretary-General of the United Nations , Ban Ki-moon , as a memorial to journalists killed whilst undertaking their work. The sculpture in steel and glass sits atop

1209-601: The only Oceanian country with supertall skyscrapers. South Asia currently has only one supertall building, Lokhandwala Minerva in Mumbai , India , which was built in 2023. South America's sole supertall building is Gran Torre Costanera in Santiago , Chile . Similarly, Africa has only one supertall building, the Iconic Tower , located in Egypt's New Administrative Capital . Tour F ,

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1248-798: The remainder are in Russia –six in Moscow and one, the Lakhta Centre , in Saint Petersburg . All supertall buildings in Moscow are located in Moscow International Business Centre . The first of these was Moscow Tower in the City of Capitals complex, which was built in 2010. After Brexit , Varso Tower remains the only supertall building in the European Union. Mexico is the only country besides

1287-487: The shape of a man on top of a concrete base. El alma del Ebro was created for the International Exposition in Zaragoza , the theme of which was "Water and Sustainable Development". It is eleven meters high, the sculpted letters representing cells of the human body which is over 60% water. Its white letters and hollow structure invite the viewer to look inside and reflect on the relationship between human beings and water. A similar sculpture entitled Singapore Soul (2011)

1326-450: The top of the tower began in April 2018. The observation deck was nearly complete by mid-2018. In January 2019, WarnerMedia hired Douglas Harmon and Adam Spies of Cushman & Wakefield to find a buyer that would sell their office condominium and allow the company to lease it back—known as a sale-leaseback. WarnerMedia's office condo included more than 1.4 million square feet on floors 16 through 51 and represented approximately 60 percent of

1365-555: The top of the tower's crown. It was opened to the public on November 9, 2021, and is the highest open-air building ascent in the world. Supertall building China is the country with the most supertall buildings at 109 entries, followed by the United Arab Emirates and the United States with 35 and 31 supertall buildings respectively. The city with the most supertall buildings is Dubai at 31 entries, followed by Shenzhen and New York City with 20 and 18 supertall buildings respectively. As of 2024 , there are 70 cities across

1404-420: The world at the time. Japan and South Korea both constructed their first supertall buildings in the 2010s; Japan with Abeno Harukas in Osaka in 2014, and South Korea with the Northeast Asia Trade Tower in Incheon in 2012. In North Korea , construction of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang has been completed, but the hotel remains unopened as of 2024. Baiyoke Tower II in Bangkok , Thailand became

1443-421: The world with at least one supertall building, and 235 completed supertall buildings in the world. The first supertall skyscraper to be completed was the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1930, which was 319 meters (1,047 feet) tall. This was followed a year later by the Empire State Building , which rose to a height of 381 meters (1,250 feet). No supertall buildings would be constructed for 38 years until

1482-401: Was formerly the headquarters for WarnerMedia until the company was merged in 2022 to form Warner Bros. Discovery , which remains a tenant. The building also serves as the headquarters for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ., an American global investment company. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on December 4, 2012. Early construction work focused on building a platform to cover much of

1521-421: Was installed in front of the Ocean Financial Centre in Singapore . And an ensemble piece entitled I, You, She, He... with three figures composed of the letters, each seated on large flat boulders, can be seen at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park , in Grand Rapids, Michigan . From May to mid-August 2011, the work Echo was displayed in Madison Square Park in Manhattan . In November 2012,

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