What’s the tallest building in fiction? Check out this study

The tallest building in our world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which rises 828 meters into the air. But what about buildings in other worlds? What about buildings in the worlds of books, movies and video games? They probably make the Burj Khalifa look like an ant-hill!

That’s what BuildWorld set out to answer. They looked at the tallest buildings from the worlds of books, movies and video games and came to some conclusions:

• The tallest fictional building is the International Space Elevator from the Ace Combat video games, at 100,000,000 metres high.
• The tallest building in film is the residential tower of 500 Republica on the planet of Coruscant in Star Wars, at 4,040 meters high.
• The tallest building in fantasy is Sauron’s stronghold of Barad-dûr from The Lord of the Rings at 1,500 meters high.

As I suspected, the Burj Khalifa has nothing on any of these.

BuildWorld also made some nifty graphics. Take a look below:

There are a couple of buildings from Game of Thrones on here, including the Great Pyramid of Meereen (243 meters) and the Wall (213 meters). The Lord of the Rings dominates this chart, though.

As mentioned, the 500 Republica is the tallest building in all of film, but the Tyrell Corporation Headquarters from Blade Runner isn’t far behind, and that’s a lot wider.

But nothing has height like the buildings from video games. They really reach for the stars there.

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