The Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat classify a “steel skyscraper” as one where the main construction vertical and lateral structural elements and floor systems are constructed from steel. Although there are a number of incredible steel structures scattered around the world, these kinds of a buildings are a phenomenon in their own right, relying solely on the brazen strength of steel for structural integrity.Get more news about steel structure building,you can vist our website!

Of course, there have been some incredible engineering developments over the last half century that have seen other techniques introducing new materials into the structural elements of skyscrapers, but we want to look at those which only rely on entirely steel. So, here are 10 of the tallest steel buildings in the world.
The US Bank Tower is California’s tallest building and one of the most eye-catching features of the L.A skyline. Climbing 73 storeys, the building is 310 metres high and was designed to resist earthquakes of up to 8.3 on the Richter scale.

Completed in 2007, the New York Times Tower took just 4 years to build and stretches 319 metres high. The home of the New York Times, the building boasts an array of green energy features including double skin curtain walls, automated louver shading systems, a dimmable lighting system, underfloor air distribution system and cogeneration.

Far older than the US Bank Tower or the New York Times Tower, the Chrysler Building was completed in 1930, toppling the Eiffel Tower as the tallest building in the world (this title lasted just a year when the Empire State Building building was erected). Sitting at 319m, it was the first man-made structure to stand taller than 1,000 feet and it remains a defining landmark of New York’s Art Deco era.

The China World Trade Centre III is gigantic skyscraper located in a complex in Beijing’s central business district. The building topped out at 330m in 2007 and was completed in 2010. It resembles the World Trade Centres that were destroyed on September 11, hence the name. As Beijing is zone of high seismic activity, it features a composite steel plate shear wall at the base of the tower to cope with stress placed on it during an earthquake.

The Minsheng Bank Building scales 68 floors and at 331m, it is just a metre taller than World Trade Centre III. The office building’s structure is composed of steel, and rests on a multi-story podium structure. Only 237.4 m of the building’s 331m are occupied.

Chicago’s fondness for steel is no secret. Of the 5 tallest steel building’s in the world, 3 are located in Chicago. One of these is the John Hancock Centre. The building is 344m tall and features a trussed tube structural engineering design which is evident on the building’s exterior. The building was completed in 1965 and was a creation from the same company who built the World Trade Centres.

The Center is a mammoth steel structure in the central business district of Hong Kong, scaling 346m. It is one of the few skyscrapers in Hong Kong that is entirely steel-structured without a reinforced concrete core which helped see the project completed in just three short years.