10 Buildings with the Biggest and Largest Area in the World

Here are 10 Buildings with the Largest and Biggest Area in the World

1.  New Century Global Centre (Chengdu China)
New Century Global Center is a multipurpose building in the Tianfu New Area of Chengdu, China. The 100-metre-tall (330 ft) structure is 500 by 400 metres (1,600 by 1,300 ft) in size with 1,700,000 square metres (18,000,000 sq ft) of floor space, making it the world's largest building measured by floor space. The Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington USA has the largest volume, and the Aalsmeer Flower Auction building in Aalsmeer, Netherlands, has the largest footprint.

Developed by billionaire Deng Hong's Entertainment and Travel Group (ETG), nearly 400,000 square metres (4,300,000 sq ft) of the building is devoted to shopping. It also houses offices, conference rooms, a university complex, two commercial centres, hotels, anIMAX cinema, a "Mediterranean village", a pirate ship and skating rink. The centrepiece of the building is a water park ("Paradise Island Water Park"), containing a 5,000 m² (54,000 sq ft) artificial beach, where a giant 150 by 40 m (490 by 130 ft) screen forms the horizon to offer sunrises and sunsets. At night, a stage extends out over the pool for concerts. A stand has been built overlooking the pool with a food court and entrance underneath at the floor level. The new Intercontinental Hotel will feature 1,009 rooms that are spread over 6 x 8 story blocks around the edge of the complex. The centre is connected to Line 1 of the Chengdu Metro.

The building will eventually face the Chengdu Contemporary Arts Centre, designed by award-winning British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.

2. Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 (Dubai, UAE)

Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 is an airport terminal at Dubai International Airport serving Dubai, UAE. When completed and opened on 14 October 2008, it was the largest building in the world and is currently the world's largest airport terminal, with over 1,713,000 m² (18,440,000 sq ft) of space. The partly underground Terminal 3 was built at a cost of US$4.5 billion, exclusively forEmirates and has a capacity of 43 million passengers. However it was announced on 6 September 2012 that Terminal 3 would no longer be Emirates exclusive, as Emirates and Qantas had set up an extensive code sharing agreement. Qantas would be the second and only one of two airlines to fly in and out of Terminal 3. This deal also allows Qantas to use the A380 Dedicated Concourse A.^[2]The terminal has 5 Airbus A380 gates at Concourse B, and 18 at Concourse A.

3. Abraj Al-Bait Endowment (Mecca, Saudi Arabia)

The tallest tower in the complex stands as the tallest building in Saudi Arabia, with a height of 601 meters (1,972 feet). When this is the third tallest free-standing structure in the world, surpassing Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan. current Abraj Al-Bait is a complex building premises largest area in the world with an area of ​​1,575,815 square meters (16.96193 million sq ft). Site of the complex is located across the street to the south of the entrance to the Masjid al Haram mosque or the Kaaba. To accommodate worshipers visiting the Kaaba, the Abraj Al - Bait Towers has a large prayer hall which can accommodate more than 10,000 people. The tallest tower in the complex also contains a five-star hotel, operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, to help provide lodging for the millions of pilgrims who travel to Mecca every year to perform the pilgrimage.
4. Cental World (Bangkok Thailand) 

CentralWorld is a shopping plaza and complex in Bangkok, Thailand. Located in the district of Wan Pathumrea, this mall area together with 5 star hotels and skyscrapers. 

In 2006, after three years designed and renovated, CentralWorld was expanded to 550,000 square feet for a shopping mall and 1,024,000 square meters for a completely. 

5. Aalsmeer Flower Auction, (Aalsmeer, Netherlands) 

Aalsmeer Flower Auction is a central flower market the world, every day, thousands and millions of flowers come to be marketed to the Netherlands and throughout Europe. 

The area of ​​the largest flower market in the world is to reach 990,000 sq m.

6. Beijing Capital International Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the main international airport serving Beijing. It is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Beijing's city center, in an enclave of Chaoyang District and the surroundings of that enclave in suburban Shunyi District.^[4] The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company. The airport's IATA Airport code, PEK, is based on the city's former romanized name, Peking.

Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. It had become the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements by 2009. It was the word's second busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic from 2010-2013 and as of March 1 2014 it was the busiest airport in the world in 2014. The airport registered 557,167 aircraft movements (take-offs and landings), which ranked 6th in the world in 2012.^[3] In terms of cargo traffic, Beijing airport has also witnessed rapid growth. By 2012, the airport had become the 13th busiest airport in the world by cargo traffic, registering 1,787,027 tonnes.^[3]

Beijing Capital International Airport is the main hub for Air China, the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China, which flies to around 120 destinations (excluding cargo) from Beijing. Hainan and China Southern Airlines also use the airport as their hub.

To accommodate the growing traffic volume, Beijing Capital added the enormous Terminal 3 in 2008 in time for the Olympic Games, the second largest airport terminal in the world after Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3, and the sixth largest building in the world by area. Beijing Capital International Airport covers 1,480 hectares (3,700 acres) of land. The airport area is 986 000 m², making it the building with the largest area to the 6 in the world.

7. The Venetian Macao


The Venetian Macao (Chinese: 澳門威尼斯人度假村酒店) is a luxury hotel and casino resort in Macau, China, owned by the Las Vegas Sands. The Venetian is a 39-story, $2.4 billion anchor for the seven hotels on the Cotai Strip in Macau. The 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m²) Venetian Macao is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas, and is the seventh-largest building in the world by floor area. The Venetian Macao is the largest casino in the world, and the largest single structure hotel building in Asia.

The main hotel tower was finished in July 2007 and the resort officially opened on 28 August 2007.^[2] The resort has 3000 suites, 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m²) of convention space, 1,600,000 sq ft (150,000 m²) of retail, 550,000 square feet (51,000 m²) of casino space – with 3400 slot machines and 800 gambling tables and a 15,000 seat CotaiArena for entertainment and sports events.

The lead architect for the Venetian Macao were Aedas and HKS, Inc. joint venture, who were responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the project on site

8. Sands Cotai Central 

Sands Cotai Central ((traditional Chinese (HK)): 金沙城中心)^[1] is a casino resort on the Cotai Strip, Macau. On 5 August 2011, Sands China announced that the $4 billion property^[2] long referred to as parcels five and six is now officially named Sands Cotai Central. It opened on 11 April 2012. Area is 890,000 m² (9.5 million sq ft) .

9.  Berjaya Times Square (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
 

Berjaya Times Square is a shopping and tourist places located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Berjaya Times Square is located in the city center of Kuala Lumpur, making it easily accessible by various means of transport. Berjaya Times Square is not just a mall, but it also has the largest enclosed playground inside the shopping center. Additionally, Berjaya also equipped with a hotel that is connected directly to the shopping center. 

Berjaya Times is biggest building ever built in a single phase with a building area of ​​700,000 m² (7.5 million square feet).  Inside the building, containing luxury shopping, luxury accommodation, business, food and beverage, as well as hiburan.Pengunjung the park has reached 2 million people each month. 

10 Central Park Jakarta (Jakarta, Indonesia) 
Central Park is a multipurpose complex in Jakarta, Indonesia, which consists of a shopping mall, an office tower, 3 apartments, and a hotel with an area of ​​655,000 m2 (7,050,000 sq ft) built by Great Podomoro Group. Its name comes from Central Park in New York City. Complement Jakarta Central Park West Jakarta skyline and is located between Taman Anggrek Mall and Ciputra Mall.