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Description: If Asian countries dominate world rankings of largest buildings by floor area, this category would be from Europe and North America alone! Subscribe us: YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/Engineering8 Our Tweets: twitter.com/YT_Engineering8 Facebook page: facebook.com/Engineering8Channel Tumblr: engineering8.tumblr.com Google+ page: goo.gl/upGvEV 1. Boeing Everett Factory; Everett, Washington State, USA Idea to erect new assembly building in 1960s was came when upcoming flagship Boeing 747 is planned to be produced. Today, 767, 777, and 787 models are also assemble inside this building with floor area of 399,480 m² (98.7 acres) and usable space of 13.3 million m³ (472 million cu ft). 2. Target Import Warehouse; Savannah, Georgia, USA Believe it or not, beside this one, Target has another different import warehouse which registered in other top 10 ranking of largest building but in footprint category. Checkout that list as well from our channel. Back to the story, this building has massive 7.43 million m³ (262.4 million cu ft). 3. Jean-Luc Lagardère Plant; Toulouse-Blagnac, France Similar to Boeing story, this assembly hall was erected specifically for final assembling Airbus A380 which its huge chunks of components comes from all across Europe by land, air, and even water. With space of 5.6 million m³ (199 million cu ft), it could accommodates eight A380s at the same time. 4. Tropical Islands Resort; Krausnick, Germany Original purpose was for storing oversize payload in air cargo industry, instead it was converted into single floor tropical water theme park which is such a waste for this huge 5.2 million m³ (184 million cu ft) building. 5. Meyer Werft Dockhalle 2; Papenburg, Germany Mever Werft is main player in shipbuilding industry with main focus in constructing luxury passenger ships. Therefore, it requisites huge dry dock for that purpose—in fact the biggest one on the plant approximately 4.72 million m³ (167 million cu ft) that located in Papenburg, a city famous with shipyards since 19th century. 6. NASA Vehicle Assembly Building; Brevard County, Florida, USA Used to be the biggest building in the world during space race between USA and USSR. Four pair of Saturn V together and gigantic crawler transporter could fit into this building at the same time. Size? the inner room is about 3.66 million m³ (130 million cu ft). 7. The O2 Arena; London, United Kingdom This is one versatile indoor arena. It can be configured to fit for many purposes optimally including echo-less hall for holding events such as orchestra, and concerts. The spectators stage can also be alter and remove which gives maximum space of 2.79 million m³ (98.6 million cu ft). 8. Tesco Ireland Distribution Centre; Donabate, Ireland Just another warehouse owned by Tesco in Ireland with shape of boring rectangle, except it is the biggest warehouse within Ireland at 1.55 million m³ (54.83 million cu ft). Well, to be fair, this is the biggest Tesco warehouse ever on the planet. 9. Austal USA Module Manufacturing Facility; Mobile, Alabama, USA Being one of contractor of US navy, they recently launched LCS class vessel of USS Manchester, in 2010 they launched USS Independence. Both of these combat vesels were built in this complex facility which its module manufacturing building has room of 1.365 million m³ (48.204 million cu ft). 10. Hanover Fairground; Hannover, Germany Also known as Hannover Messe in German, it is the largest exhibition ground on earth. It consists of 27 halls with hall 3 to 9 are under the biggest building with total room space of 1.15 million m³. Ranking source from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings