All records
No. 00223
Tallest Building in the World
Burj Khalifa (architect Adrian Smith), United Arab Emirates
No. 00224
Most Distinctive Titanium-Clad Museum Form
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (architect Frank Gehry), Spain
No. 00225
Most Complex Woven Steel Stadium Structure
Beijing National Stadium ("Bird's Nest", architects Herzog & de Meuron), China
No. 00226
Most Distinctive Shell-Roof Performance Venue
Sydney Opera House (architect Jorn Utzon), Australia
No. 00227
Most Advanced Adaptive Facade System
Institut du Monde Arabe (architect Jean Nouvel), France
No. 00228
One of the First Combined Drawbridge and Suspension Bridges
Tower Bridge (architects Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry), United Kingdom
No. 00229
Tallest Modern Skyscraper in Historic London
The Shard (architect Renzo Piano), United Kingdom
No. 00230
Most Complex Curved-Glass Museum Facade
Louis Vuitton Foundation Art Museum (architect Frank Gehry), France
No. 00231
Only Memorial Holding Soil from 42 Countries
Sapar Iskakov ("Wall of Memory" memorial), Kazakhstan
No. 00232
Highest Infinity Pool
Marina Bay Sands (architect Moshe Safdie), Singapore
No. 00233
Largest Glass Greenhouse Dome Complex
Gardens by the Bay (Grant Associates and Wilkinson Eyre), Singapore
No. 00234
Tallest Building Engineered for Extreme Northern Climate
Lakhta Center Tower (architect Gordon Bennett, RMJM), Russia
No. 00235
Most Fluid Concrete Museum Structure
MAXXI Museum (architect Zaha Hadid), Italy
No. 00236
First Museum Built Around a Spiral Ramp
Guggenheim Museum New York (architect Frank Lloyd Wright), United States
No. 00237
First All-Suite Hotel on an Artificial Island
Burj Al Arab (architect Tom Wright), United Arab Emirates
No. 00238
Pioneering Twisted Residential Tower
Turning Torso (architect Santiago Calatrava), Sweden
No. 00239
Landmark All-Glass Modernist House
Farnsworth House (architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), United States
No. 00240
Iconic Aerodynamic London Skyscraper
The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe (architect Norman Foster), United Kingdom
No. 00241
Highest Indoor Waterfall in an Airport
Jewel Changi Airport (architect Moshe Safdie), Singapore
No. 00242
Most Elaborate Filtered-Light Museum Dome
Louvre Abu Dhabi (architect Jean Nouvel), United Arab Emirates
No. 00243
Longest Central Span of a Suspension Bridge
Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge (Kawasaki Heavy Industries, architect Shintaro Ono), Japan
No. 00244
Longest Bridge in the World
Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge (China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group), China
No. 00245
Highest Railway Bridge of Its Era
Rendsburg High Bridge (Deutsche Bahn, engineer Fritz Leonhardt), Germany
- Architecture, Transport & Construction
No. 00246
Longest Steel Central Arch Span
Varazdin Bridge (Hrvatske Ceste, architect Marko Muzina), Croatia
No. 00247
Oldest Bridge Lined with Shops
Ponte Vecchio (architect Taddeo Gaddi, original), Italy
No. 00248
Tallest Bridge Pylon in the World
Millau Viaduct (Eiffage, architect Norman Foster), France
No. 00249
Longest Suspension Bridge in Latin America
Rio Angel Bridge (ICA, architect Enrique Martinez), Mexico
No. 00250
One of the First Major Steel Suspension Bridges
Brooklyn Bridge (John Roebling and Washington Roebling), United States
- Architecture, Transport & Construction
No. 00251
Longest Bridge Built Entirely of Wood
John Carroll Bridge (Timberworks, architect James Hudson), Canada
No. 00252
Steepest Pedestrian Bridge
Twist Bridge (COWI, Bjarke Ingels Group), Denmark
No. 00321
World's First and Only Underwater Roundabout
Eysturoyartunnilin (Eysturoy Tunnel), Faroe Islands
No. 00328
Fastest Construction of a Monumental Domed Cathedral of Antiquity
Hagia Sophia, Türkiye
No. 00330
World's Highest Horizontal Skyscraper
The Crystal (Raffles City Chongqing), China
No. 00333
World's Largest Railway Station Complex
Chongqing East Railway Station, China
No. 00334
Highest Bridge in the World
Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, China
No. 00336
Longest Glass-Bottom Pedestrian Bridge
Bach Long Bridge, Vietnam
No. 00343
Notable Floating School Architecture
Makoko Floating School, Nigeria
No. 00347
Deepest Underwater Railway Tunnel Built Using Shield Tunneling Technology
Shenzhen–Jiangmen high-speed railway tunnel, China
No. 00352
Only Temple in the World Built and Dedicated to Rulers
Temple of the Monarch, Bhutan
No. 00353
Longest Pedestrian Escalator System
Chongqing pedestrian escalator system, China
No. 00380
World's Largest Brick Bridge
Göltzschtalbrücke, Germany
No. 00383
World's Longest Bridge-Cum-Tunnel Sea Crossing
Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, China
No. 00386
World's Highest Railway Station
Tanggula Railway Station, China
No. 00387
World's Highest Railway Tunnel
Fenghuoshan Railway Tunnel, China
No. 00389
Navigable Water Bridge over the Elbe (918 m)
Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany
No. 00397
Africa's Tallest Mosque Minaret
Great Mosque of Algiers, Algeria
No. 00403
Largest Storm Surge Barrier in the Netherlands
Oosterscheldekering, Netherlands
No. 00407
Longest Railway Tunnel in Asia
Seikan Tunnel, Japan
No. 00408
World's Tallest Twisted Building
Shanghai Tower, China
No. 00410
World's Greenest City
Singapore, Singapore