What are the widest skyscrapers in the world?
Something that absolutely dominates and blocks out everything in sight with its combination of most importantly width but also height.
The one thing that comes to mind is the Metlife building. |
Place Bonaventure, Montreal. Very wide. Not especially tall. Once the second largest commercial building in the world (after Chicago's merchandise mart)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...tr%C3%A9al.jpg wikipedia |
The Mecca Clock Tower Hotel. This thing is just absurdly massive.
http://www.kapl-hajj.org/photos/clock8.jpg http://www.kapl-hajj.org/photos/clock8.jpg http://www.bennett-constructionllc.c...lock-tower.gif http://www.bennett-constructionllc.c...lock-tower.gif |
The series of wide wide residential towers next to the ICC in Hong Kong are mighty wide and impressive.
(pic from Kanto on SSC) The ICC is a 480m supertall, so that building to the right is insanely wide and very very tall. (I don't have the name) you are also looking at the ICC on its corner which makes is seem wider, and the residential tower to the right is therefore even larger because we see it straight on. http://i61.tinypic.com/2059jrr.jpg |
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building with a height of 829.8m.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Height.svg.png |
Thanks for the replies guys, cool pics! and for the post above me, you might want to reread the title...
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Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang. Around 200m wide at the base.
http://ryugyonghotel.com/ryugyong-hotel-interior-3.jpg http://assets.atlasobscura.com/artic...ges/5719/image http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibti...-pyongyang.jpg [/thread] |
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bump for some more posts
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One Chase Manhattan Plaza comes to mind. It's the enormous block behind the Lower Manhattan skyline.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...unlap_CA01.jpg (New York Times) It's the big green one in the center, several blocks behind the foreground. http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/up...manhattan1.jpg (Source) |
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here's some old school oppression for you. moscow state university
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...skva_MGU_1.jpg from wikipedia. |
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Good posts guys, thanks a bunch, some of these are behemoths!
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Cosmopolitan (603 feet tall, and about 600 feet wide), Las Vegas:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5.jpg~original ©me This photo was taken while it was still under construction. Another angle with part of Vdara showing on the right: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...d.jpg~original ©me From the other side, with Panorama condo towers on the left, Vdara, Cosmopolitan (black), and Aria: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...l.jpg~original ©me |
111 8th Ave - Google building in Manhattan, reminds me of a skyscraper laying on its side.
http://thecoolgadgets.com/wp-content...n-building.jpg |
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Chicago's Merchandise mart is really wide, not sure if its wider than that Mecca building.
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...a/IMG_3356.jpg Pic is mine |
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