Top 20 most iconic of the country
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1. Empire State Building, New York, United States
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Height: 437 meters Cost to build : US$41 million Completion date: May 1, 1931 Fast fact: The Empire State Building took only on...
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2. China Central Television Headquarters, Beijing, China
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Height: 234 meters Cost to build : US$600 million Completion date : January 2008 Fast fact : A building in the complex was badly dam...
3. Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany
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Height : 300.1 meters Cost to build : US$414 million Completion date : 1997 Fast fact: There is no observatory or open area on top....
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4. Elephant Tower, Bangkok, Thailand
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Height: 102 meters Cost to build: NA Completion date: 1997 Fast fact: The building contains a swimming pool. If there...
5. Bitexco Financial Tower, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Height: 262 meters Cost to build: US$220 million Completion date: October 31, 2010 Fast fact: With speeds of seven met...
6. Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, United States
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Height: 262 meters Cost to build : US$220 million Completion date : October 31, 2010 Fast fact : With speeds of seven meters per se...
7. Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
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Height : 305 meters Cost to build : NA Completion date : May 1990 Fast fact : The building was criticized by feng shui masters for i...
8. Kingdom Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Cost to build : US$458 million Completion date : 2002 Fast fact : Ladies Kingdom claims to have "almost every thing a female wou...
9. Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Height : 452 meters Cost to build : US$1.6 billion Completion date : June 1996 Fast fact : National poet laureate A. Samad Said was ...
10. Tokyo Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokyo, Japan
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Height : 204 meters Cost to build : NA Completion date : October 2008 Fast fact : It's the second-tallest educational building i...
11. Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
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Height: 492 meters Cost to build : US$1.2 billion Completion date : August 2008 Fast fact : The square “bottle opener” opening at t...
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12. Hotel & Casino Grand Lisboa, Macau
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Completion date : 2008 Fast fact : The tower is inspired by the long plumes of a Brazilian girl’s headdress. A golden structure des...
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13. Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama, Bahrain
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Height : 240 meters Cost to build: US$150 million Completion date : 2008 Fast fact : It was the world’s first wind-powered mega-str...
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14. Two International Finance Center, Hong Kong
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Height : 415 meters Cost to build : US$2.5 billion Completion date : August 2008 Fast facts : In "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The C...
15. Burj al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Height : 321 meters Cost to build : US$650 million Completion date : December 1999 Fast fact : The hotel is the only seven-star hote...
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16. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
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Height: 508 meters Cost to build : US$1.8 billion Completion date : 2004 Fast fact : The building is designed to resemble a growing...
17. Torre Agbar, Barcelona, Spain
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Height : 142 meters Cost to build : US$130 million Completion date : 2004 Fast fact : The design is inspired by the power an...
18. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Height: 828 meters Cost to build : US$1.5 billion Completion date : January 2009 Fast fact : Not only is this the world’s tallest b...
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19. 30 St. Mary Axe, London, England
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Height: 180 meters Cost to build: US$212 million Completion date: 2003 Fast fact: Despite its curvaceous body, the entire buildi...
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