Top 10 Steel Buildings in the World

Steel structure building combines the style and beauty of classical and modern architecture, and steel structure technology is heavily used on many large buildings around the world, so what are the famous steel structure buildings in the world?

No.10 Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower Tower design novel and unique, is the world’s architectural history of technical masterpieces, is an important attraction and prominent symbol of Paris, France. The tower is a steel structure, hollow, can effectively reduce the impact of wind. It is a frame structure, with stability, and the top is small and the bottom is big, the top is light and the bottom is heavy, very stable.

 

No.9 Empire State Building

 

The Empire State Building is one of the most famous landmarks and tourist attractions in New York City and the United States, the 4th tallest in the United States and the Americas, the 25th tallest skyscraper in the world, and the skyscraper that has maintained the status of the world’s tallest building for the longest time (1931-1972).

The Empire State Building is a reinforced concrete tube-within-a-tube structure, which increases the lateral stiffness of the building, so that even at wind speeds of 130 kilometers per hour, the maximum displacement of the top of the building is only 25.65 centimeters.

 

No.8 San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge

 

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world famous bridges and a marvel of modern bridge engineering. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world’s most famous steel bridges and a marvel of modern bridge engineering, with a reputation as a classic orange steel bridge.

 

No.7 Tokyo TV Tower

Tokyo TV Tower surpassed the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France by 13 meters, using half the construction materials of the Eiffel Tower, and took less than one-third of the construction time of the Eiffel Tower to build, shocking the world at the time. Its reinforced concrete structure, with strong, durable, fire performance, than the pure steel structure to save steel and low cost and other advantages.

 

No.6 Sears Tower in Chicago

The Sears Tower, also known as the Wiley Group Building, is a skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. It was once the tallest building in North America, and the building adopts a beam-and-tube structural system consisting of steel frames. The whole building is treated as a cantilevered bundle cylinder space structure the farther away from the ground the smaller the shear force at the top of the building by the wind pressure caused by the vibration is also significantly reduced. This greatly enhances the building’s stiffness and resistance to lateral forces.

 

No.5 Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers

Once the tallest skyscrapers in the world, the Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers are still the tallest twin towers in the world and the fifth tallest in the world. The reinforced concrete frame (core) extension arm structural system used in the Petronas Twin Towers is a hybrid structure based on reinforced concrete structure, using 7,500 tons of steel. The subsidiary circular frame structure next to each main structure is connected to the main structure to increase the lateral resistance of the main structure.

 

No.4 London Millennium Dome

The Millennium Dome is an exhibition and science center building located on a 300-acre site on the Greenwich Peninsula by the River Thames, costing £80 million (US$1.25 billion), and is one of the monumental buildings created in the United Kingdom to celebrate the millennium at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

No.3 U.S. World Trade Center

The World Trade Center was once the tallest twin towers in the world, an iconic landmark of New York City, and one of the tallest buildings in the world.

The twin towers at the center of the World Trade Center were designed with an innovative steel frame sleeve structural system that connects the peripheral support structure to the central core structure through horizontal floor trusses. This design gives the buildings exceptional stability. In addition to carrying the weight of the building, the external steel columns are subjected to the wind forces acting on the towers. This means that the internal supporting structure only has to bear its own vertical weight.

 

No.2 Sydney Grand Theater

The Sydney Opera House, an Australian landmark and one of the most distinctive buildings of the 20th century, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.

The Sydney Opera House uses folded reinforced concrete structural walls, utilizing a folded multi-storey structure to support the roof, which is able to bear the weight without destroying the curvature of the original design.

 

No.1 Beijing Bird’s Nest

The Bird’s Nest is the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Bird’s Nest is one of the best steel structures in the world. The components of the structure support each other, forming a network-like framework, and the undulating appearance eases the sense of volume of the building, and gives it a dramatic and powerful form. The main building is in the shape of a spatial saddle ellipse, and is currently the largest single steel structure project in the world.