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Description: Top 10 compilation of the biggest/largest buildings in the world by floor area measurement. Subscribe us: Youtube Channel: goo.gl/H4x2vr Our Tweets: twitter.com/YT_Engineering8 Facebook page: facebook.com/Engineering8Channel Tumblr: engineering8.tumblr.com Google+ page: goo.gl/upGvEV In this case, floor area in different floor level considered different which is slightly different than measurement on building footprint. Ten largest buildings in the world by floor area: ====================================== 10. Central Park Jakarta Complex; Jakarta, Indonesia Located between two shopping malls in West Jakarta, it was officially launched in 2011 with floor area of 655,000 m² (7.05 million sq ft). 9. Berjaya Times Square; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia As it completed in October 2003, this multipurpose complex was once the world's biggest building ever built in single phase. However, due to massive 700,000 m² (7,500,000 sq ft) of floor area, few top retail floors are almost vacant because of low traffic. 8. Sands Cotai Central; Macau SAR Housing 6,000 rooms across four different hotel brands that operate under the same building with floor space of 0.89 million m² (9.6 million sq ft). First hotel opened in April 2012 followed by few series of opening with the latest in 2015, this 4 billion dollar worth of property is designed by Aedas and build by Hsin Chong Construction Group which took 6 years after so many delays. 7. The Venetian Macao; Macau SAR Like Sands Cotai Central, this building owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp. It opened in 2007 and modeled after her older sister in Las Vegas. Beside endowed with 0.98 million m² (10.5 million sq ft) of floor space, it is also crowned as the world's largest casino and Asia's largest single structure hotel building. 6. Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3; Beijing, China Opened in preparation for 2008 Summer Olympic Games, it titled as biggest airport terminal for 5 month before took by Dubai T3. This building measures 0.98 million m² (10.6 million sq ft) of floor space. 5. Aalsmeer Flower Auction; Aalsmeer, Netherlands Albeit being the only one from Europe in the list, this is world's largest building by footprint and largest flower emporium with 0.99 million m² (10.7 million sq ft) of single level floor area. 4. CentralWorld; Bangkok, Thailand After renovation in 2006, it became the biggest mall in Southeast Asia with 1 million m² (11 million sq ft) floor area. Parts of building were burnt during political turmoil in 2010 by the way. 3. Makkah Royal Clock Towers; Mecca, Saudi Arabia Also known as Abraj Al-Bait Towers, it is part of program by Saudi government to cope with exponentially increasing annual pilgrims into Mecca and Medina. If third in list does not impress you, it displays four world's biggest clocks with 43 meters of diameters each. Heck, the tallest clock measures 601 meter at tip. 2. Dubai International Airport Terminal 3; Dubai, UAE Opened in October 2008 and snatch title from Beijing T3 as the largest airport terminal building on the planet and still being one, the floor area measures 1.7 million m² (18.4 million sq ft). 1. New Century Global Center; Chengdu, China Lo and behold the champion, at 1.76 million m² (18.9 million sq ft) vast of floor area which took 3 years of construction and opened in July 2013. It houses offices, conference rooms, a university complex, two commercial centers, and not forgotten the glorious water theme park on the top floor with massive glass roof supported by latticed steel structure. I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (youtube.com/editor)