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Tuntex Sky Tower

Height: 378.0m (1240ft)
Floor count: 85
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Architect: C.y Lee
Consrtruction: 1994 -1996
Interesting info: 2nd tallest building in Taiwan Republic of China.

The Aon Center

Height: 346m (1,136ft)
Floor count: 83
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Edward Durell Stone
Construction: 1970-1972
Interesting info: In early 2003 the aon center was sold for $465,000,000.

Transamerica Pyramid

Height: 260m (853ft)
Floor count: 48
Location: San Francisco, United States
Architect: William Pereira
Construction: 1969-1972
Interesting info: The building's façade is covered in crushed quartz, giving the building its pure white colour.

Vancouver Skyline

Columbia Center (formely Bank Of America Tower)

Height: 284 m (967ft)
Floor count: 76
Location: Seattle, United States
Architect: Chester Lidsey Architects
Construction: 1982-1985
Interesting info: On June 16, 2004, the 9/11 Commission reported that the original plan for the September 11, 2001 attacks called for the hijacking of ten planes, to be crashed into targets including the "tallest buildings in California and Washington State," which would have been the Columbia Center and the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles.

International Finance Centre

Height: 415.8m (1,364ft)
Floor count: 90
Location: Hong Kong, China
Architect: Cesar Pelli
Construction: 2003
Interesting info: An advertisement was put up on the skyscraper from October to November of 2003 that stretched more than 50 stories, covering an area of 19,000 m² and a length of 230 m, making it the world's largest advertisement ever put on a skyscraper.

Jin Mao Building

Height: 420.5 (1,380ft)
Floor count: 88
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Skidmore Owings and Merrill
Construction: 1998
Interesting info: 5th tallest building in the world at the moment

Sydney Skyline