A Year in Review: Trends of 2011
Skyscraper Completion Reaches New High for Fifth Year Running

Antony Wood, Executive Director, and Nathaniel Hollister, Production Coordinator, CTBUH

In January of each year, CTBUH publishes a review of tall building construction and statistics from the previous year. The annual story is becoming a familiar one: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now 2011 have each sequentially broke the record for the most 200 meter or higher buildings completed in a given year. Once again, more 200 m+ buildings were completed in 2011 than in any previous year, with a total of 88 projects opening their doors (for an overview of all 200 m+ buildings, see the “Tall Buildings in Numbers” study). Shenzhen's Kingkey 100, at 442 meters, tops the 2011 list.