432 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, HEIGHT: 1,396 feet, 96 stories
COMPLETION: 2015 PENTHOUSE PRICE: $95 mln
Around the globe, developers are taking luxury living to a new level, erecting superstructures that command dizzying prices per square foot from plutocrats in search of killer views. In Manhattan, 432 Park Avenue (under construction) is on track to set the record for the tallest all-residential structure in the world, although planned projects in China and India are competing to be top dog. The current record holder? Dubai’s 1,358-foot-tall Princess Tower.
PRINCESS TOWER
DUBAIHEIGHT: 1,358 feet, 107 stories
COMPLETED: 2012
PENTHOUSE PRICE: $28.5 mln
THE SHARD
LONDON
HEIGHT: 1,016 feet, 95 stories
COMPLETED: 2012
PENTHOUSE PRICE: $78 mln
ECHO BRICKELL
MIAMI
HEIGHT: 750 feet, 60 stories
COMPLETION: 2016
PENTHOUSE PRICE: $8 mln
MEIER-ON-ROTHSCHILD
TEL AVIV
HEIGHT: 590 feet,
42 stories
COMPLETION: 2014
PENTHOUSE PRICE: $50 mln
ONE57
NEW YORK CITYHEIGHT: 1,004 feet, 75 stories
COMPLETION: 2013
PENTHOUSE PRICE: $90 mln
TOUR ODEON MONACO
HEIGHT: 558 feet, 49 stories
COMPLETION: 2014
PENTHOUSE PRICE: $250 mln
Ctbuh; Extell Development; Dbox for Cim Group & Macklowe Properties; Berggruen Residential; Property Markets Group; Knight Frank
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(This story appears in the 31 May, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)