The highest building from Beijing - Z15 Tower

The highest building from Beijing will be Z15 Tower (528 m). After its completion next year, Z15 will join the 10 tallest buildings in the world, nudging aside Taipei 101 by 20 meters, and becoming one of six buildings in China that are among the world's highest. Designed by TFP Farrells, Z15 Tower will be finished in 2017. On March 31, it finished pouring the concrete for the first 40 of its eventual 108 floors above ground, with another seven underground. It will reach 528 meters in total and become the tallest building in Beijing, towering over the China World Summit Wing by 198 meters. It will be almost double in height as the Titanic was long.

On Aug. 14, 2016 shows the Z15 Tower (1st R), also known as China Zun, under construction at CBD (Central Business District) of the Chaoyang District of Beijing, capital of China. The Z15 Tower now reached the height of 330 meters with 68 finished stories, becoming the highest building in Beijing. It's expected to be 528 meters high with 40 more stories to be constructed.

Height: 528 m

Construction started: September 19, 2011

Estimated completion: 2018

Floor count: 108

The highest building from Karachi - Bahria Icon Tower

Bahria Icon Tower is a skyscraper located in Karachi (Pakistan), on coast of the Arabian Sea. The complex includes a 62 storey corporate and a 40 story resudential tower. The building consists of 10 floors of serviced corporate offices, 40 floors of serviced apartments, Pakistan's highest located terraced restaurant and South Asia's first double-decker high speed elevator along with a shopping mall.

Construction started: 2010

Construction completed: Jan 2016

Cost: USD 162.5  million

Height: 286 m

Floor count: 62

The highest building from Shanghai - Shanghai Tower

The highest building from Shanghai is Shanghai Tower. Shanghai Tower, the tallest office building in the world, is a project that required an investment of $ 2.4 billion. Is the highest building in China and the second highest in the world, but also one of the most ambitious architectural projects ever created on earth. Shanghai Tower has a height of 632 meters, is located in Lujiazui financial area from Shanghai, the second most important city from China and also the financial capital of the Asian state.

Shanghai Tower is located in a city dominated so far by financial building Shanghai World Financial Centre (492m) and Jin Mao Tower (421m). The building with a futuristic architecture thus entering into a top of the tallest buildings in the world with over 600m, after Dubai's Burj Khalifa (828m) and ahead Mkkah Royal Clock Tower in Saudi Arabia, with a height of 601M. Shanghai Tower, a project started in 2008, required an colossal investment of 2.4 billion dollars project with a total area of 380,000 square meters.

Shanghai Tower (650 meters) - video

Shanghai Tower was designed by the American architect Gensler. According to him, the facade curved and spiral shape of the building symbolizes the "dynamism of modern China." Shanghai Tower is spread over 128 floors and will include new "vertical neighborhoods", with an atrium full of nature, called "Sky Lobby".

Largest Cities in the World

When we say largest cities in the World we are referring strictly to population. On the first three places we have the following cities: Shanghai (China) with 23,416,000 people, Karachi (Pakistan) with 25,400,000 people and Beijing (China) with 21,009,000 people. Below we have the list with the most populated cities in the world.

São Paulo (Brazil) - 20,365,000 

Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 15,669,000

New Delhi (India) - 24,998,000

Lagos (Nigeria) - 13,123,000

Istanbul (Turkey) - 15,328,000

Tokyo (Japan) - 37,843,000

Mumbai (India) - 17,712,000

Moscow (Russia) - 16,170,000

Guangzhou (China) - 20,597,000

Paris (France) - 12,005,077

Shenzhen (China) - 12,084,000

Suzhou (China) - 10,650,501

Kinshasa (Congo) - 13,265,000

Cairo (Egypt) - 18,290,000

Jakarta (Indonesia) - 30,539,000

Lahore (Pakistan) - 10,355,000

Seoul (South Korea) - 12,700,000

Mexico City (Mexico) - 20,063,000

London (United Kingdom) - 10,236,000

Lima (Peru) - 10,750,000

New York City (United States) - 20,630,000

Bengaluru (India) - 9,807,000

Bangkok (Thailand) - 14,998,000

Dongguan (China) - 8,220,207

Chongqing (China) - 8,189,800

Nanjing (China) - 8,187,828

Tehran (Iran) - 13,532,000

Shenyang (China) - 8,106,171

Bogotá (Colombia) - 8,854,722

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) - 7,681,700

Hong Kong (Hong Kong) - 7,298,600

Baghdad (Iraq) - 7,180,889

Chennai (India) - 7,088,000

Changsha (China) - 7,044,118

Wuhan (China) - 6,886,253

Tianjin (China) - 10,920,000

Hyderabad (India) - 6,809,970

Hanoi (Vietnam) - 6,844,100

Faisalabad (Pakistan) - 6,480,765

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - 12,727,000

Foshan (China) - 6,151,622

Zunyi (China) - 6,127,009

Santiago (Chile) - 5,743,719

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) - 5,676,621

Ahmedabad (India) - 5,570,585

Singapore (Singapore) - 5,535,000

Shantou (China) - 5,391,028

Yangon (Myanmar) - 5,214,000

Saint Petersburg (Russia) - 5,191,690

Abidjan (Ivory Coast) - 4,765,000

Chengdu (China) - 10,376,000

Alexandria (Egypt) - 4,616,625

Kolkata (India) - 4,486,679

Ankara (Turkey) - 4,585,000

Surat (India) - 4,462,002

Johannesburg (South Africa) - 4,434,827

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) - 4,364,541

Harbin (China) - 4,280,701

Giza (Egypt) - 15,600,000

Zhengzhou (China) - 4,122,087

New Taipei City (Taiwan) - 3,954,929

Los Angeles (United States) - 15,058,000

Cape Town (South Africa) - 3,740,026

Yokohama (Japan) - 3,726,167

Hangzhou (China) - 3,560,391

Xiamen (China) - 3,531,347

Quanzhou (China) - 3,520,846

Berlin (Germany) - 3,517,424

Busan (South Korea) - 3,510,833

Rawalpindi (Pakistan) - 3,510,000

Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) - 3,456,259

Durban (South Africa) - 3,442,361

Hyderabad (Pakistan) - 3,429,471

Kabul (Afganistan) - 3,414,100

Casablanca (Morocco) - 3,359,818

Hefei (China) - 3,352,076

Pyongyang (North Korea) - 3,255,388

Madrid (Spain) - 3,207,247

Peshawar (Pakistan) - 3,201,000

Ekurhuleni (South Africa) - 3,178,470

Nairobi (Kenya) - 3,138,369

Zhongshan (China) - 3,121,275

Pune (India) - 3,115,431

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) - 3,103,67

Jaipur (India) - 3,073,350

Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 3,054,300

Lucknow (India) - 3,001,475

Wenzhou (China) - 3,039,439

Osaka (Japan) - 17,444,000

Kyiv (Ukraine) - 2,908,703

Manila (Philippines) - 12,877,253

Izmir (Turkey) - 4,168,000

Chicago (United States) - 9,156,000

Nagoya (Japan) - 10,177,000

Taipei (Taiwan) - 2,704,974

Luanda (Angola) - 2,825,311

Houston (United States) - 2,296,224

Kochi (India) - 4.221,140

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - 1,768,000

Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - 2,234,566