Published: January 31, 2024
This is up 14.2 percent from 2022, which had 155 such completions. Globally, the world has amassed a total of 2,269 two-hundred-meter-plus buildings and 232 supertall (300 meters and taller) buildings through 2023. For perspective, the first 100 of these supertall buildings were completed by 2015, and the other 132 were built in the seven years since. Additionally, the first 1,000 buildings of 200 meters and greater in height were completed by 2015, a figure that has now more than doubled.
NOTE: This report reflects completion statistics as of the end of 2023. Data will be continuously updated as CTBUH confirms more building completions throughout 2024. The last building to be updated on this page was on April 25, 2024.
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The tallest building to complete in 2023 was Merdeka 118, in Kuala Lumpur, at 678.9 meters. This is the fourth time that Kuala Lumpur has completed the tallest building of the year since 1990, with its last record-holding building being Menara TM, 310 meters, which was completed in 2001. Kuala Lumpur now has 62 buildings of 200 meters or greater in height since its first, Menara Maybank, completed in 1988.
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Eighteen cities got a new tallest building, as shown below. The number of cities completing a 200-meter-plus building (56) was down from 2022's fifty-eight different cities, a decrease of 3.4 percent from 2022, and from a peak of 68 cities in 2017.
| Rank | Name | City | Floors | m | ft | 1 | Merdeka 118 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 118 | 678.9 | 2227 | 2 | Wuhan Greenland Center | Wuhan, China | 101 | 475.6 | 1560 | 3 | Ping An Finance Center Tower 1 | Jinan, China | 62 | 360 | 1181 | 4 | Mori JP Tower | Tokyo, Japan | 64 | 325.24 | 1067 | 5 | Greenland Center 1 | Hangzhou, China | 67 | 310 | 1017 | 6 | Lusail Plaza Tower 3 | Doha, Qatar | 64 | 300.65 | 986 | 7 | Lokhandwala Minerva | Mumbai, India | 78 | 300.55 | 986 | 8 | Taizhou Tiansheng Center | Taizhou, China | 66 | 299 | 981 | 9 | Haikou World Trade Center | Haikou, China | 55 | 288 | 945 | 10 | Sixth & Guadalupe | Austin, United States | 66 | 266.7 | 875 | 11 | Nest One | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 51 | 266.5 | 874 | 12 | Mohammed VI Tower | Salé, Morocco | 55 | 250 | 820 | 13 | Mahall Bomonti Izmir | Izmir, Turkey | 58 | 240 | 787 | 14 | Changchun Longxiang IBC Tower 1 | Changchun, China | 55 | 238 | 781 | 15 | Inxignia | Puebla, Mexico | 45 | 225 | 738 | 16 | Fontainebleau Las Vegas | Las Vegas, United States | 67 | 224 | 735 | 17 | China Merchants Center | Ganzhou, China | 47 | 220 | 722 | 18 | M2 | Mississauga, Canada | 62 | 201 | 659 |
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There were also exciting new starts of a number of record-breaking or notable 200-meter-plus buildings in 2023. In Dubai, the 85-story Safa Two de GRISOGONO began construction on the final plots of the Aykon City project. In Brazil, Sao Paulo’s Alto das Nações Torre 2 began construction with a targeted completion of 2025. In Nashville, 1000 Church Street, the city’s first 200-meter-plus building, began construction late in the year.
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Asia (excluding the Middle East) continues to host the most buildings amongst the 100 Tallest, with 63 buildings qualifying for that description at the end of 2023. The Middle East and North America are close behind, having 18 and 14 buildings, respectively. Europe is home to five of the 100 Tallest, and Oceania, Africa, and South America have yet to have an entrant into the list post-2020.
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At the end of 2023, all-office buildings comprised 36 of the 100 Tallest. Mixed-use buildings have been a plurality in this group since 2017 and now comprise 51, with hotel-only (3 buildings) and residential-only (10 buildings) making up the rest. "Other" uses, such as government-, religious-, and university-related functions, have not been amongst the world's 100 tallest since the Soviet Union's MV Lomonosov State University was eliminated 22 years ago.
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The abundance of buildings that use multiple materials within the primary structural system continues to dominate the world's 100 tallest, with composite and mixed structures making up 62 percent of the list. All-concrete structures, while still a common solution, now make up just 26 percent of the 100 tallest. All-steel structures have been in decline since 1960, when they peaked at supporting 93 of the world's 100 tallest buildings; today, only nine of them sport an all-steel structure. The only all-steel structure to enter the 100 tallest in the last 26 years was 30 Hudson Yards, completed in 2019.
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The average height of all completions in 2023 was 242.8 meters—a 2.8 percent increase from 2022, which had an average completion height of 236.2 meters. In light of this increase, 2023's new additions to the World's 100 Tallest increased the threshold for entry to 409.7 meters in 2023. A total of seven buildings entered the 100 tallest in 2023: Merdeka 118, Kuala Lumpur, at 678.9 meters; Wuhan Greenland Center, Wuhan, at 475.6 meters; Ping An Finance Center Tower 1, Jinan, at 360 meters; Huiyun Center, Shenzhen, at 359.2 meters; Il Primo Tower, Dubai, at 356 meters; Galaxy World Tower 1, Shenzhen, at 356 meters; and Galaxy World Tower 2, Shenzhen, at 356 meters.
Of the buildings currently under construction or topped-out, 35 are supertalls (300 meters or higher); just 27 of those completing in 2024 would set a record, surpassing the 26 supertall completions in 2019 and indicating a return to the pre-COVID pace of construction. The 2024 list will most likely be led by the completion of International Land-Sea Center, Chongqing, at 458.2 meters. In light of the massive number of skyscrapers on deck, CTBUH predicts at least 150 buildings of 200 meters and higher to complete in 2024, with as many as 190 completing. Of these, we expect between 15 and 25 to be supertalls.
