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Tokyo Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Height: 204 meters Cost to build: NA Completion date: October 2008 Fast fact: It's the second-tallest educational building in the world, next to the M.V. Lomonosov State University building in Moscow. The tower is one of the few educational skyscrapers...

Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Height: 452 meters Cost to build: US$1.6 billion Completion date: June 1996 Fast fact: National poet laureate A. Samad Said was commissioned to write a poem for the towers, which can be read "These towers changed the skyline of Kuala Lumpur, and jumped...

Kingdom Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Cost to build: US$458 million Completion date: 2002 Fast fact: Ladies Kingdom claims to have "almost every thing a female would need" -- even a ladies’ bank and a ladies' mosque. Some observers have drawn a connection between the Kingdom Center and a...

Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Height: 305 meters Cost to build: NA Completion date: May 1990 Fast fact: The building was criticized by feng shui masters for its sharp corners, which in feng shui terms means it will bring bad luck to its neighbors (notably the HSBC main building)...