Empire State Building
The Empire State Building makes our list for a number of different reasons. Not only is it one of the most iconic buildings in New York City, next to the now destroyed World Trade Center, but it is also one of only three American buildings to rank in the Top 25 of the tallest buildings world wide. The Empire State Building was built from 1930 to 1931 and it cost $635 million dollars. Not only was this building constructed quickly, but it was also made well as it ranks at the top of the LEED Rankings (energy and environmental design) list. The building stands at 1,454 feet and it has 103 floors, 73 elevators, and over 2 million square feet of traversable mass. You can find the Empire State Building playing a central role all over film and television as well as in the history books. After 9/11 occurred, taking down the World Trade Center, many feared for the Empire State Building. However, there has only ever been one plane crash, back in 1945, and it was incidental.
Empire State Building
Vostok Tower
Russia finally gets represented on our list with their Vostok Tower, otherwise known as the Federation Tower. The Vostok Tower is located in Moscow, Russia and it was built over a 12 year time span ranging from 2003 to 2015. The building cost $1.2 billion and it rates at 1,227 feet tall. There are 95 floors, 66 elevators, and over 4.7 million square feet of area that you can walk through. The building isn’t just functionally used by the company Potok, it is also used by extreme sports fanatics as a location to climb and even base jump off of. A special quirk of this building, which is the tallest in al of Europe, is that it consists of two towers located on a single platform. It is made of grade B90 concrete which is twice as strong as normal concrete and can safely take a direct hit by an aircraft.
Vostok Tower