In 2014 97 buildings towering 200 meters or taller-many sheathed in glass-were completed. That number, according to the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), was a new record, soaring past the 81 completions in 2011. In January the CTBUH released its annual report, the 2014 Tall Building Data Research Report, part of the Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis series. In it, the group also reported that a total of 11 "supertalls" (buildings of 300 meters or higher) were completed in 2014-the highest annual total on record. Since 2010, 46 supertalls have been completed, representing 54 percent of the supertalls that currently exist (85). Likewise CTBUH reported that the number of 200-meter-plus buildings in existence has hit 935, a 352 percent increase from 2000, when only 266 existed.
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