List of largest buildings in the world

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This following is a List of largest buildings in the world by mass, area and some other special categories.

Contents 1 By space (useable volume, in m³) 2 By area (in m²) 2.1 By footprint (m²) 2.2 By floor area (all levels) 3 By mass (in tons) 4 Special categories 5 See also

[edit] By space (useable volume, in m³)

• Boeing - claims that its Everett Plant near Seattle, Washington, United States, is the largest building in the world by volume at 13.3 million m³ (470 million ft³), having grown from the original 5.64 million m³ (200 million ft³). The building is used to assemble the company's 747, 767 and 777 aircraft, and will be used for the 787. [1] This claim is supported by the Guinness Book of Records.

• Aerium - In Brandenburg, Germany, the Aerium of the Cargolifter AG was built as a hangar for a never constructed giant airship and has a volume of 5.2 million m³, is 107 m tall, 360 m long and 210 m wide. It's the world's largest hall without pillars and is now used as a resort called Tropical Islands.[2]

• Palace of the Parliament- The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, with a total of 2.55 million m³ or 90 million ft³. It takes third place in the world total office space (useable floor space) provided.

• NASA - its Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida, United States encloses 3.66 million m³ of space.

[edit] By area (in m²)

[edit] By footprint (m²)

The chiefly one-storey Aalsmeer Flower Auction, the Netherlands, with its 990,000 m² of floor space is probably the world's largest building in terms of both footprint and floor area. The Guinness Book of Records records has it as the largest commercial building in the world. It is located in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. Around 20 million flowers are sold in the building every day.

[edit] By floor area (all levels)

The Aalsmeer Flower Auction also holds the record by floor area. The Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with its floor area of 700,000 m² claims to be "the world's largest building ever built in a single phase".

The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, United States, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, has 610,000 m² (6.6 million ft²) in floor area and 2 million m³ (77,015,000 ft³) in volume.

The container freight station of the Asia Terminals Ltd. at the Kwai Chung Container Terminals in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, is the largest multistorey industrial building in one discrete structure. It is 109.5 m (359 ft 3 in) tall and has 15 storeys. It has 865,937m² (9,320,868ft²) in floor area. [3]

The terminal building of the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, is the largest airport terminal building, which has superseded the passenger terminal of the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China on September 28, 2006 with a size of 563,000 m². The Hong Kong International airport passenger terminal is 1.3 km (0.8 miles) long and covers 550,000 m² (135.9 acres). [4] The new Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, People's Republic of China will beat the current record in 2007 with a size of 900,000 m².

The Chrysler Technical Center is 4.5 million sqft.

The Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, United States, contains 3.8 million square feet (350,000 m²) of floor area.

The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois, United States, claims to be the largest commercial building in the world, but at 390,000 m² (4.2 million ft²) it is considerably smaller than the Aalsmeer Flower Auction.

Each of the former World Trade Center towers in New York, New York, United States contained 3.8 million square feet (350,000 m²) of office space.

The never completed Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is also one of the world's largest buildings with 360,000 m² of gross floor area and the world's largest (and tallest) un-occupied building.

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, has a floor space of 350,000 m². Cœur Défense, in Paris (La Défense), France, has the same floor space with several buildings which share a common basement.

The 1200 m long Tempelhof International Airport building in Berlin, Germany with its 284,000 m² was the world's largest building when constructed, but today ranks seventh according to this list.

[edit] By mass (in tons)

The heaviest building in the world is the Palace of the Parliament in Romania (see above), made of 1,000,000 m³ of marble from Transylvania and 700,000 metric tons of steel and bronze. The building also features 3,500 metric tons of crystal glass and 900,000 m³ of wood. It measures 270m by 240m, 86m high, and 92m under ground.

The largest pyramid, and largest individual structure by volume of material is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Puebla, Mexico, with an estimated volume of 3.3 million m³ (4.3 million yd³).

[edit] Special categories

The Snowcastle of Kemi is the world's biggest snow castle, built yearly in Kemi, Finland since 1996. The area covered by the snow castle has varied from 13,000 to over 20,000 square meters.

The world's largest Christian church is St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. A dispute remains as to whether it was superseded by the 1989 completion of the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire. The largest cathedral (and largest Protestant church) is either the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, United States, or Liverpool Anglican Cathedral in England (this title is disputed). The highest church is the Ulm Munster, Germany; at 161.53 m (529.95 feet) it surpasses any other church in the world.

The Kerimäki Church in Kerimäki, Finland, is the world's largest wooden church. The Todaiji temple in Nara, Japan, is called largest wooden building in the world, though this is disputed. Other candidates include three temples: Nanyue Temple on Henshan Mountain, China, Xiantong Temple in Shanxi Province, China, and Zhebang Temple in Tibet. (The current temple at Zhebang is 30% smaller than the former (otherwise identical) temple, which was destroyed in a fire.) The Wutaishan in Shanxi province has the largest buddhism building group in the world.

The Guinness Book of Records lists Woolloomooloo Bay Wharf in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as the largest wooden structure in the world. Blimp Hangar 2, at the Tillamook Air Museum, in Tillamook, Oregon, is also thought by some to be the world's largest wooden stucture.

The Forbidden City in Beijing, China is considered as the largest palace in the world with, it is claimed, 9999 rooms and 0.72 million square meters.

The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made structure in the world with a length of over 6,352 km (3,948 miles).

The Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna, Austria holds the distinction of being the longest single residential building in the world at over one kilometer in length (1100m) and spanning four tram stops,

The former seaside resort Prora on the island of Rügen, Germany has a length of almost five kilometers, is however divided into eight single buildings standing in a row. If the buildings were joined across the small spaces between them, they'd make the world's longest building.

The Stockholm Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, is the largest hemispherical building, with a total volume of 600,000 m³ (21,188,800 cubic feet).

The largest slaughterhouse in the world is the Smithfield Packing Company in Tar Heel, North Carolina.

[edit] See also

• List of building types
• List of buildings
• List of castles
• List of cathedrals
• List of football stadiums by capacity
• List of fortifications
• List of forts
• List of indoor arenas
• List of masts
• List of shopping malls by country
• List of stadiums
• List of tallest buildings in the world
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the world by country
• List of tallest churches in the world
• List of tallest structures in the world
• List of tallest structures in the world by type of use
• List of towers