List of longest buildings
This is a list of the longest single-segment buildings (excluding those not intended for human occupancy) in the world, and broken down by continent (which are not included in the world section).
World
Africa
Asia
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Great Wall of China | Fortification | From Spring and Autumn period to Ming dynasty | 8,851.8 km | — | China | |
| 2. | Kumbhalgarh | Fortification | 15th century | 36 km | — | India | |
| 3. | Ranikot Fort | Fortification | 17th century | 8.6 km | — | Pakistan | |
| 4. | Kansai International Airport | Airport terminal | 1991–1994 | 1,700 m | Osaka | Japan |
Europe
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Walls of Ston | Fortification | 1461 | 5,500 m | Ston | Croatia | |
| 2. | Prora | Hotel | 1936-1939 | 4,500 m | Binz | Germany | 54°26′2″N 13°34′30″E |
| 3. | Venetian Walls of Candia | Fortification | 1462–1560 | 4,300 m | Heraklion | Greece | 35.331987°N 25.130427°E |
| 4. | Fenestrelle Fort | Fortification | 1728-1850 | 3,000+ m | Fenestrelle | Italy | 45°01′47″N 7°03′38″E |
| 5. | Modlin Fortress | Barracks | 1832–1862 | 2,250 m | — | Poland | |
| 6. | Moscow Kremlin Wall | Fortification | 1485–1495 | 2,235 m | Moscow | Russia | 55.751667°N 37.617778°E |
| 7. | Karl Marx-Hof | Residential building | 1927–1930 | 2,200 m | Vienna | Austria | |
| 8. | Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodi st. | Apartment house | 1970-s | 1,750 m | Lutsk | Ukraine | 50.761219°N 25.368719°E |
| 9. | Saint Kevin's Lunatic Asylum | Lunatic Asylum | 1852 | 1,600 m | Cork | Ireland | 51.896753°N 8.507266°W |
| 10. | Apartment house on Kolsky av. and Beringa st. | Apartment house | 1970-s | 1,488 m[10] | Murmansk | Russia | 68.918002°N 33.094526°E |
| 11. | Bymuren 1-175 | Residential building | 1972–1974 | 1,475 m | Hvidovre | Denmark | 55.6272°N 12.4462°E |
| 12. | Apartment house on Akademika Zabolotnogo st. | Apartment house | 1969–1980 | 1,240 m | Kiev | Ukraine | 50.364066°N 30.463371°E |
| 13. | Terminal 4, Madrid-Barajas Airport | Airport terminal | 2006 | 1,175 m | Madrid | Spain | |
| 14. | Potroom of the Hydro Husnes Aluminium Factory | Potroom | ~1065 m | Husnes | Norway | 59.8653°N 5.7672°E | |
| 15. | Le Lignon | Residential building | 1963–1971 | 1,060 m | Geneva | Switzerland | 46.20317°N 6.09792°E |
| 16. | "Lange Jammer" Longest skyscraper in the world 60 m high and 1,000 m long | 1968–2010 | 1,000 m | Märkisches Viertel | Germany | 52.5957°N 13.3553°E | |
| 17. | "Corviale" is the longest with a unique body, and parallelepiped building shape | Residential building | 1972–1982 | 1,000 m | Rome | Italy | 41.850959°N 12.411654°E |
| 18. | Potroom of the Rio Tinto Alcan Aluminium Factory | Potroom | ~1000 m | Straumsvík | Iceland | 64.0457°N 22.0275°W | |
| 19. | Blok 21 apartment complex - (official name B-7) | Apartment house | 972.5 m | Belgrade | Serbia | 44.8144°N 20.4272°E | |
| 20. | Turbine hall, Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant | Turbine hall | 955 m | Lubmin | Germany | 54.142391°N 13.660035°E | |
| 21. | Falowiec | Residential building | 1970–1973 | 860 m | Gdańsk | Poland | (satellite photo) |
| 22. | "Chinese wall" (Great Wall of China) | Residential building | 1971–1974 | ~830 m | Dnipro | Ukraine | 48.417367°N 35.061021°E |
| 23. | "Kilometergebäude" at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base | 820 m | Fürstenfeldbruck | Germany | 48.197118°N 11.275449°E | ||
| 24. | Turbine hall, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant | Turbine hall | 803 m | Chernobyl | Ukraine | 51.388749°N 30.106326°E | |
| 25. | Serpentin (longest of buildings forming the) at Les Courtillières. Whole structure is over 1.1 km long in 3 buildings. Architect: Émile Aillaud. | Residential building | 1955–1956 | ~700 m | Pantin | France | 48.912643°N 2.410716°E |
Note. The Kraft durch Freude seaside resort Prora consists of eight separate buildings, each measuring ~486 m .
Thermal power stations in Russia and other parts of former Soviet Union often have also long buildings. According to Wikimapia the building of Ekibastus GRES-1 is 537 metres that of Luganskaya GRES north of Schastia, Ukraine 672 metres long.
Russian fortification line of 1560th (Zhizdra - Pereyaslavl-Ryazanskiy) have length ~600 km. Full length of all Russian fortification lines - ~4,000 km.
North America
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | LIGO-Livingston | Observatory | 1994–1999 | each arm 4,000 m[4] | Livingston, Louisiana | United States | |
| 2. | Klystron gallery above the Stanford Linear Accelerator | Research facility | 1962–1966 | 3,073.72 m[11] | Menlo Park, California | United States | |
| 3. | Red Dog Mine Conveyer Enclosure.[12] | Zinc mine conveyer enclosure | 1991 | 1,700 m | — | United States | |
| 4. | McNamara Terminal Concourse A at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | Airport terminal | 2002 | 1,600 m | Detroit, Michigan | United States | |
Oceania
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Willsmere - Kew Asylum | Residential | 1871 | 950 m | Kew, Victoria | Australia | |
| 2. | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre | Exhibition centre | 1996 | 450 m | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | |
| 3. | The Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground | Stadium | 1996 | 400 m | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | |
| 4. | Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre | Exhibition centre | 1988 | 310 m | Sydney, New South Wales | Australia | |
| 5. | Flinders Street station | Railway station | 1910 | 280 m | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia |
South America
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Central Institute of Sciences (ICC) of the University of Brasília | University | 1961 | 750 m | Brasília, Federal District | Brazil | |
| 2. | Edificio Caliche, Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Caliche Building, Gran Vía housing complex [13] | Residential | 1970-1974 | 680 m | Antofagasta | Chile | |
| 3. | Edificio Huanchaca (Curvo), Conjunto Habitacional Gran Vía - Huanchaca Building, Gran Vía housing complex[13] | Residential | 1967-1969 | 380 m | Antofagasta | Chile | |
| 4. | Minhocão de Guadalupe - Guadalupe's Big Earthworm | Residential | 1950 | 320 m | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | |
| 5. | Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera | Public service | 2017 | 310 m | Quito | Ecuador | 0.1732°S 78.4841°W |
| 6. | Conjunto Residencial Alcalde Mendes de Moraes (Pedregulho) | Residential | 1947 | 270 m | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 22.8924°S 43.2332°W |
Middle East
| No. | Building | Type | Year(s) built | Length | City | Country | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Great Wall of Gorgan | Fortification | 224-651 AD | 195,000m | — | Iran | |
| 2. | Terminal 3, Concourse B at the Dubai International Airport | Airport terminal | 2008 | 924m | Dubai | United Arab Emirates |
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See also
- List of buildings and structures
- List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
References
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- http://www.rajasthaninfo.org/kumbhalgarh.htm
- Ondaatje, Christopher (May 1996). Sindh revisited: a journey in the footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Burton : 1842-1849, the India years. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-00-255436-7.
- https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
- https://www.sejong.go.kr/eng/sub03_01_12.do
- Imfeld, Hans. "How Long is the SLAC Gallery? SLAC-PUB-12761, August 2007". Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
- https://earth.esa.int/web/earth-watching/image-of-the-week/content/-/article/three-gorges-dam-china-landsat
- Cargo Mega Terminal at Dubai Airports Archived 2012-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Alaska Structures. "Conveyer Pipeline Enclosures." Alaska Structures. Retrieved 21 August 2014
- Какой должна была бы главная площадь города, если б все мечты архитекторов сбылись // ТВ-21
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- Alaska Structures. "Conveyer Pipeline Enclosures." Alaska Structures. Retrieved 21 August 2014
- Galeno, Claudio. "Ricardo Pulgar San Martín, el conjunto habitacional Gran Vía y el edificio Huanchaca". In: Muñoz, María Dolores (ed.), et al. Docomomo Chile: Trayectorias de la ciudad moderna. Concepción: Universidad de Concepción, 2012, p.145-149.
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