Mumbai's Imperial Heights is world's 40th tallest residential building

Mumbai’s real estate market is that of extremes. On the one hand, hundreds of skyscrapers are constructed and on the other at least 60 percent of the city’s population lives in slums.More than2,500 high-rise buildings are already constructed in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in addition to more than a 1,000 mid-rises existing already. In number of residential skyscrapers, the city comes at 18th in the world and Imperial Heights at Tardeo is the 40th tallest residential building.Completed in 2010 and designed by Hafeez Contractor, the 60-storeyed Imperial Towers is also 95th tallest structure in Asia( excluding the Middle East) and India’s tallest tower, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). ( For a full fact sheet on the towers, click here)

However, according to the latest data released by CTBUH, Mumbai did not figure in the list of annual tall building data research report on 200-metre-plus buildings completed across the world last year.

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[caption id=“attachment_1348579” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Imperial Heights in Mumbai. Picture courtesy: CTBUH[/caption]

While Burj Khalifa in Dubai currently holds the title for the world’s tallest building, rising 828 metres. This title may be transferred early next year to Sky City, a 838-metre, prefabricated skyscraper in Changsha, China by Broad Sustainable Building.

According to the report, 2013 was the second-most successful year on record for completion of buildings 200 meters or greater in height. In 2013, as many as 73 such buildings were completed, second only to the 81 completions of 2011. And of the 73 buildings completed in 2013, as many as 12 - or 16 percent - entered the list of 100 Tallest Buildings in the World.

“From 2000 to 2013, the total number of 200-meter-plus buildings in existence increased from 261 to 830 - an astounding 318 percent,” the report added.

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The tallest building to complete in 2013 was the 355-meter JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai Tower 2 in Dubai, the UAE.

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Asia completely dominated the world tall-building industry, at 74 percent of worldwide completions with 53 buildings in 2013, against 53 percent with 35 buildings in 2012. Asia now contains 45 percent of the 100 Tallest Buildings in the World.

For the sixth year running, China had the most 200-meter-plus completions of any nation, 37. These buildings are located across 22 cities.

Three of the five tallest buildings completed are in the United Arab Emirates for the second year in a row.

The city of Goyang, Korea, has debuted on the world skyscraper stage with eight 200-meter-plus buildings completing in 2013.

Europe has two of the 10 tallest buildings completed in a given year for the first time since 1953.

Panama added two buildings over 200 meters, bringing the small Central American nation’s count up to 19. It had none as recently as 2008.

Of the 73 buildings over 200 meters completed in 2013, only one, 1717 Broadway in New York, was in the United States

The sum of all the 200+ meter buildings completed in 2013 was 17,662 meters, the second-tallest year in history, after 2011

[caption id=“attachment_1348525” align=“aligncenter” width=“600”]  Tall Buildings 200 meters or Taller Completed in 2013: by City. Chart obtained from CTBUH report[/caption]