This year saw the 100th 'super tall' building of more than 300 m built when the Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, towers 1 and 2, topped out in June, in China. The 303 m Jiangxi project is now the tallest building complex in Nanchang, stepping above the International Finance Centre (239 m) and the still-under-construction Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower (268 m). More than half of the world's tallest buildings have been built in the last four years, with the total super tall category almost tripling in the last seven years. The world's current tallest building - the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE - towers 828 m above the desert. However, it will lose its crown when the 1 km high Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is completed. Meanwhile, there are plans in China for the 1 km Phoenix Towers, in Wuhan. If this project goes ahead, it will undoubtedly be designed to eclipse the Kingdom Tower.
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