The Tallest Buildings in the World

Created by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (the same group behind New York City’s Freedom Tower), it will be a zero-energy building — and thanks to its massive array of solar panels up top actually feed back to the grid. Everything from air-conditioning to heating to lighting will be covered by clean, green energy — enough to cover the needs of the 5,000 people expected to work there.

“It’s unique cooling system will take cold water from the river Seine and pump it around the building - eliminating the need for a traditional air conditioner. The building will also utilize cutting edge insulation, reducing amount of electricity consumption per square meter of office space per year to 16 kilowatts, the lowest in the world for a building of its size.”

Cost are expected to be about 25%-30% above that of a comparable old school office structure.

The Qatari government is close to buying most of London’s £400m Shard of Glass development, skyscraper that has not yet been built, Doha Time reported.

The 66-storey London Bridge Tower, otherwise known as the Shard of Glass, is built in south London this will become one of the tallest buildings in Europe.