At 556 meters (1824 feet), <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpf.com%2Fabout%2Fprofile" target="_blank" target="_blank">Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates'</a> pursed tower with a transparent exoskeleton is slated to be 2016's tallest top-out. It would be the world's fourth tallest today, the sixth tallest if completed by the end of next year, and probably out of the top ten a year later.<br /><em>Completion: 2016</em>
1. Lotte World Tower - Seoul, South Korea —
At 556 meters (1824 feet), Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates' pursed tower with a transparent exoskeleton is slated to be 2016's tallest top-out. It would be the world's fourth tallest today, the sixth tallest if completed by the end of next year, and probably out of the top ten a year later.
Completion: 2016
Teddy Cross
Hotel and office hybrid, this straightforward supertall (> 1,000 feet) by <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wongtung.com%2Fe_intro.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Wong Tung & Partners</a> in Hunan Province's booming capital city is more than 100 meters (328 feet) off the mark set by Lotte World Tower. Still, transplanted to America, it would come in at second place after One World Trade Center.<br /><em>Completion: 2017</em>
2. Changsha IFS Tower - Changsha, China —
Hotel and office hybrid, this straightforward supertall (> 1,000 feet) by Wong Tung & Partners in Hunan Province's booming capital city is more than 100 meters (328 feet) off the mark set by Lotte World Tower. Still, transplanted to America, it would come in at second place after One World Trade Center.
Completion: 2017
Wong Tung & Partners
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates' elastic design for another financial center in another Chinese regional hub seems to roll up like a magazine. At 450 meters (1476 feet), it is two meters shy of the Changsha tower.<br /><em>Completion: 2017</em>
3. Suzhou IFS - Suzhou, China —
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates' elastic design for another financial center in another Chinese regional hub seems to roll up like a magazine. At 450 meters (1476 feet), it is two meters shy of the Changsha tower.
Completion: 2017
E8xE8
Matching the height of Willis Tower (North America's #2), this work from <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcf-p.com%2Fa%2Ff%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">Pei Cobb Freed & Partners</a> also reflects Willis' form -- and Chicago's Trump Tower -- with tiered volumes stepping up to 442 meters (1450 feet). It will be among the world's tallest all-residential structures.<br /><em>Completion: 2017</em>
4. World One - Mumbai, India —
Matching the height of Willis Tower (North America's #2), this work from Pei Cobb Freed & Partners also reflects Willis' form -- and Chicago's Trump Tower -- with tiered volumes stepping up to 442 meters (1450 feet). It will be among the world's tallest all-residential structures.
Completion: 2017
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
This number from <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dln.com.hk%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers</a> will climb 383 meters (1257 feet), topped by a helipad. The design mimics and simplifies the neo-Gothic spires of an earlier skyscraper boom à la the Woolworth and Empire State Buildings.<br /><em>Completion: 2017</em>
5. Nanning Logan Century 1 - Nanning, China —
This number from Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers will climb 383 meters (1257 feet), topped by a helipad. The design mimics and simplifies the neo-Gothic spires of an earlier skyscraper boom à la the Woolworth and Empire State Buildings.
Completion: 2017
DLN Architects
Kohn Pedersen Fox is back with this 90-story residential building. Zigzagging cuts in the curtain-wall break up the monotony of yet another boxy tower.<br /><br /><em>Completion: 2017</em>
6. Three Sixty West Tower B - Mumbai, India —
Kohn Pedersen Fox is back with this 90-story residential building. Zigzagging cuts in the curtain-wall break up the monotony of yet another boxy tower.

Completion: 2017
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates