Buildings around the world listed by usable space (volume), footprint (area), and floor space (area) comprise single structures that are suitable for continuous human occupancy. There are, however, some exceptions, including factories and warehouses.
Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington, United States is the world's largest building by volume. The AvtoVAZ main assembly building in Tolyatti, Russia is the largest building in area footprint. The New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China is the largest building in terms of total floor area. Due to the incomplete nature of this list, buildings are not ranked. The Aerium near Berlin, Germany is the largest uninterrupted volume in the world.
Largest usable volume
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File:Aerial Boeing Everett Factory October 2011.jpg|Boeing's Everett factory seen in 2011
File:Tropical Islands Draufsicht.JPG|Interior of the high airship hangar used as Tropical Islands
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Buildings around the world with the largest usable space, sorted by volume, having a volume of at least :
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name
! Country and territory
! Built
! Place
! data-sort-type="number"|Floor area
! data-sort-type="number"|Volume
! class="unsortable"|Description
! class="unsortable"|
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| Boeing Everett Factory
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| 1967
|Everett, Washington
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| 13.3 million m<sup>3</sup> (472 million cu ft)
| Boeing's assembly site for a selection of the company's largest aircraft, originally built for construction of the 747.
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|Gigafactory Texas
|
| 2022
|Austin, Texas
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|9.57 million m<sup>3</sup> (338 million cu ft)
| Tesla's Gigafactory Giga Texas is 16 city blocks long with a length of .
|
|-
|Jean-Luc Lagardère Plant
|
| 2004
|Toulouse-Blagnac
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| 5.6 million m<sup>3</sup> (199 million cu ft)
| The assembly hall of the Airbus A380, the world's largest airliner.
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|-
|Aerium
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|1999–2000
|Halbe, Brandenburg
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| 5.2 million m<sup>3</sup> (184 million cu ft)
| A hangar originally intended for a giant Cargolifter airship, this building now houses the indoor water park Tropical Islands.
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|Meyer Werft Dockhalle 2
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|
|Papenburg, Niedersachsen
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| 4.72 million m<sup>3</sup> (167 million cu ft)
| Dry dock for construction of cruise ships.
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|-
|Chantiers de l'Atlantique
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| 1862
|Saint-Nazaire
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|3.7 million m<sup>3</sup> (131 million ft<sup>3</sup>)
|Dry dock for construction of cruise ships.
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|Boeing Composite Wing Center
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|2014–2016
|Everett, Washington
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|3.7 million m<sup>3</sup> (131 million ft<sup>3</sup>)
|Boeing's assembly site for the production of composite wings for the 777-8 and 777-9.
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|-
|Inex Sipoo
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| 2018
|Sipoo
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| 3.5 million m<sup>3</sup> (130 million ft<sup>3</sup>)
| Large grocery distribution center, completed in 2018. Expansion to the distribution center completed in 2020.
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|-
|NASA Vehicle Assembly Building
|
| 1966
|Kennedy Space Center, Florida
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| 3.66 million m<sup>3</sup> (130 million cu ft)
| Originally built to enable simultaneous assembly and shelter for four Saturn V rockets.
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|-
|The O2
|
| 1999
|London
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| 2.79 million m<sup>3</sup> (98.6 million ft<sup>3</sup>)
| Originally the Millennium Dome designed for London's millennium celebrations. The world's largest non-industrial building by volume.
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|-
|The Palace of Parliament
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| 1984-1997
|Bucharest
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|2.55 million m<sup>3</sup> (90 million cu ft)
|Heaviest building in the world; accommodating the two houses of the Parliament of Romania: the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, along with three museums and an international conference center.
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|-
|Goodyear Airdock
|
|1929
|Akron, Ohio
|34 000 m<sup>2</sup> (364,000 ft<sup>2</sup>)
|1.55 million m<sup>3</sup> (55 million cu ft)
|Airship Hangar for the Goodyear Company, at one time the largest building in the world without interior supports.
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|-
|Tesco Donabate Distribution Centre
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| 2007
| Donabate, Fingal
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| 1.55 million m<sup>3</sup> (54.83 million cu ft)
| Large dry grocery distribution center near Dublin. Opened in 2007 at a cost of €70 million.
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|-
|Cœur Défense
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| 2001
|Paris
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|1.55 million m<sup>3</sup> (54.83 million cu ft)
|Second largest office building in Europe and largest skyscraper by floor area in Europe.
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|-
| Target Import Warehouse
|
|2006
|Savannah, Georgia
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| 1.5 million m<sup>3</sup> (52.97 million cu ft)
| Built to distribute imported product to internal Target distribution centers.
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|Louvre Palace
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| 1190
|Paris
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| 1.5 million m<sup>3</sup> (52.97 million cu ft)
|Largest palace in the world.
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|-
| Austal USA (Module Manufacturing Facility)
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|Mobile, Alabama
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| 1.365 million m<sup>3</sup> (48.204 million cu ft)
| The facility is capable of constructing six large aluminium vessels such as the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and/or Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) per year.
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|-
| Bielefeld University (main building)
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| Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia
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| 1.2 million m<sup>3</sup> (42.378 million cu ft)
| Modernist university building (built 1970–1976) aspiring to bring all faculties together into one huge building.
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|-
| Hanover Fairground (Halls 3–9)
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| Hannover, Niedersachsen
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| 1.15 million m<sup>3</sup> (40.612 million cu ft)
| Largest exhibition ground in the world with 27 halls. Halls 1–2 and 10–27 are in separate adjacent buildings.
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| National Exhibition Centre (Halls 1–5)
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|
| Solihull, West Midlands
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| 1.14 million m<sup>3</sup> (40.259 million cu ft)
| Large exhibition centre southeast of Birmingham. Halls 6–20 are in a separate building.
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|-
| 2800 Polar Way
|
| 2015
|Richland, Washington
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| 1.029 million m<sup>3</sup> (36.241 million cu ft)
| Built-to-suit by Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) and constructed by Victory Unlimited Construction as the world's largest refrigerated warehouse, , and largest automated freezer.
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| Hangar One
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| 1933
|Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California
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| 1 million m<sup>3</sup> (35 million cu ft)
| A naval airship hangar opened in 1933 as the hangar for the rigid airship . The hangar measures long, wide, with a peak of high.
|
|}
Largest floor area
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File:环球中心 - panoramio (6).jpg|New Century Global Center in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
File:Dubai - International (DXB - OMDB) AN1885939.jpg|Concourse B, part of Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport
File:Berjaya Time Square in the afternoon, Kuala Lumpur (Dec 2006).jpg|Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
File:Surat Diamond Bourse Aerial View.jpg|Surat Diamond Bourse in Surat, Gujarat, India
File:GM headquarters in Detroit.JPG|The Renaissance Center in Detroit
File:Centara Grand Hotel.jpg|CentralWorld, Bangkok, Thailand
File:Osaka Station City.JPG|Ōsaka Station City
File:Venetian Macau.jpg|The Venetian Macao
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Buildings with the largest usable floor area including multiple stories of at least :
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name
! Country and territory
! Place
! data-sort-type="number" | Floor area
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| AvtoVAZ main assembly building
| ||Tolyatti
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| Lada car factory. The floor area shown here is of the main building, not including the attached smaller buildings.
|-
|New Luosiwan International Trade City
|
|Kunming
|3,140,000 m<sup>2</sup>
(33,798,680 ft<sup>2</sup>)
|New Luosiwan International Trade City is a large-scale international trade city integrating production and processing, commercial trade, warehousing and logistics, e-commerce, entertainment and leisure.
|-
| New Century Global Center
| ||Chengdu
|
| "home to several hotels, a skating rink, a university and a water park with its artificial beach measuring 5,000 square meters"
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| Dubai International Airport Terminal 3
| ||Dubai
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| Three buildings connected by tunnels. "The baggage handling system used in the terminal is the biggest in the world and consists of 0.62-mile conveyor belts and 21 screening points." "<!-- The Abraj Al-Bait is a complex consisting of seven skyscrapers located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. -->The building is both the tallest and the largest in Saudi Arabia with a height of 1906 feet and a 16.9 million square feet floor area ... <!--and ranks as [no longer] the fourth tallest structure in the world.--><!-- Built by the Saudi government at the cost of $15 billion, the Abraj Al Bait is also the most expensively built building in the world.-->"
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| Iran Mall
| ||Tehran
| >
| World's Largest Mall
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| Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1
| ||Frankfurt
| >
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| Chongqing East railway station
| || Chongqing
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| Aalsmeer Flower Auction
| ||Aalsmeer
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| Largest flower auction building in the world
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| Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3
| ||Beijing
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| Three buildings connected by train.
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| The Venetian Macao
| ||Macau
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| 2nd largest casino in the world.
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| Gigafactory Texas
| ||Austin, Texas
|
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| Osaka Station City
| ||Umeda, Osaka
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| CentralWorld
| || Bangkok
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| 830 thousand square meter area reflects the total retail floor area
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| King Abdulaziz International Airport Terminal 1
| ||Jeddah
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| Ciputra World Surabaya
| ||Surabaya
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|Beijing Daxing International Airport Terminal
|||Beijing
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| Berjaya Times Square
| ||Kuala Lumpur
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| Surat Diamond Bourse
| ||Surat
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| World's largest office building and diamond trading hub.
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| Perpa Trade Center
| || Istanbul
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| Central Park Jakarta Complex
| ||Jakarta
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| Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Terminal 2
| ||Guangzhou
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| Kemang Village
| ||Jakarta
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| Gandaria City
| ||Jakarta
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| The Palazzo
| || Paradise, Nevada
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| Grand Indonesia
| ||Jakarta
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| Shanghai Pudong International Airport Satellite Concourse
| ||Shanghai
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|| World's largest stand-alone satellite terminal
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| The Pentagon
| ||Arlington County, Virginia
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| K-25
| ||Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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| Demolished in 2013.
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| United States Air Force Plant 4
| ||Fort Worth, Texas
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| Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
| ||Amsterdam
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|Hamad International Airport
|||Doha
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| LAX Rental Car Center
| ||Los Angeles, California
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| Under construction; scheduled to open in 2024.
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|Ciputra World 1 Complex
|||Jakarta
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| Marina Bay Sands
| ||Singapore
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| Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower
| || Hanoi
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| Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 1
| ||Chek Lap Kok
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| Suvarnabhumi Airport
| ||Samut Prakan
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| ATL Logistics Centre, Centre B
| ||New Territories
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| Kunming Changshui International Airport
| ||Kunming
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|Barcelona Airport Terminal 1
| ||Barcelona
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| Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center
| ||Seattle, Washington
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| Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport Terminal 3A
| ||Chongqing
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|Tesla Factory
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|Fremont, California
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| Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3
| || Delhi
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| Siam Paragon
| || Bangkok
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| Incheon International Airport Terminal 1
| ||Seoul
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| Chrysler World Headquarters and Technology Center
| ||Auburn Hills, Michigan
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|SAS iTower A
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|Hyderabad
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|The largest skyscraper by floor area in the world.
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| Frankfurt Airport Terminal 2
| ||Frankfurt
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| Barajas Airport Terminal 4 main building
| ||Madrid
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|Azabudai Hills Main Tower
| ||Tokyo
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| The second-largest skyscraper by floor area in the world and largest in Japan, and the tallest building in Japan with the height of .
|-
|Ping An Finance Center
| ||Shenzhen
|
| The third-largest skyscraper by floor area in the world, the second tallest building in China, the fourth tallest building in Asia and the fourth tallest building in the world, with the height of .
|-
| Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport Terminal 3
| ||Shenzhen
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| Tesla Giga Nevada
|
|Storey County, Nevada
|455,000 m<sup>2</sup> (4.9 million ft<sup>2</sup>)
| Also known as Gigafactory 1.
|-
|The Exchange 106
| ||Kuala Lumpur
|
| The largest skyscraper by floor area in Malaysia, the third tallest building in Malaysia, the fourth tallest building in Southeast Asia and the 23rd tallest building in the world, with the height of .
|-
| Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport Terminal 2
| ||Mumbai
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|Persian Gulf Complex (, mojtama'e Khalij-e Fars)
| ||Shiraz
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|Narita International Airport Terminal 1
| ||Narita
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| Renaissance Center
| ||Detroit, Michigan
|
|Five connected towers
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| Soekarno–Hatta International Airport Terminal 3
| ||Tangerang
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| Mid Valley Megamall
| ||Kuala Lumpur
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| Willis Tower
| ||Chicago, Illinois
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| Also known as Sears Tower
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| USAA McDermott Building
| ||San Antonio, Texas
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| Taipei 101
| ||Taipei
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|Nagoya Station
| ||Nagoya
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|Boeing Plant
| ||Everett, Washington
|
| Value is footprint; floor space is greater.
| || Busan
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| Industrial building
| Boeing Everett Factory
| || Everett, Washington
| 398,000 m<sup>2</sup> (4.3 million sq ft)
| 13.3 million m<sup>3</sup> (472 million cubic ft)
|-
| Legislature building
| Sappaya-Sapasathan
| || Bangkok
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| Office building
| Surat Diamond Bourse
| || Surat
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| Skyscraper
| SAS iTower A
| || Hyderabad
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| Bus depot
| Millennium Park Bus Depot
| || Delhi
| 305,265 m<sup>2</sup> (3.6 million sq ft)
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| Courthouse
| Istanbul Justice Palace
| || Istanbul
| 300,000 m<sup>2</sup> (3.0 million sq ft)
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| Bus terminal
| Tel Aviv Central Bus Station
| || Tel Aviv
| 230,000 m2 (2.5 million sq ft)
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| Museum
| Louvre Museum
| || Paris
| 210,000 m<sup>2</sup> (2,260,421 sq ft)
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| Current residence
| Presidential Complex
| || Ankara
| 200,020 m<sup>2</sup> (2,152,997 sq ft)
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| Current royal residence
| Istana Nurul Iman
| || Bandar Seri Begawan
| 200,000 m<sup>2</sup> (2,152,782 sq ft)
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| Royal palace
| Louvre Palace
| || Paris
| 244,000 m<sup>2</sup> (2,626,000 sq ft)
|2 million m<sup>3</sup> (70 million cu ft)
|-
| Shipbuilding hall
| Meyer Werft Dockhalle 2
| || Papenburg, Niedersachsen
| 63,000 m<sup>2</sup> (678,000 sq ft)
| 4.72 million m<sup>3</sup> (167 million cu ft)
|-
| Hemispherical building
| Sphere
| || Paradise, Nevada
| 81,300 m<sup>2</sup> (875,000 sq ft)
|-
|Residential Building
|Regent International Center
| || Hangzhou
|260,000m² (2,798,616 ft<sup>2</sup>)
|}
See also
- List of largest office buildings
- List of largest shopping malls
- List of tallest buildings
- List of largest mosques
- List of skyscrapers by floor area