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The Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, is 160 meters (525 ft) tall, 218 meters (716 ft) long and 158 meters (518 ft) wide, thus enclosing 3,664,883 m³ (129,428,000 ft³). See [2].
The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, holds the title of the largest office building in the world at 610,000 m² (6.6 million ft²).The Merchandise Mart in Chicago claims to be the largest commercial building in the world at 390,000 m² (4.2 million ft²).
The Palace of the ParliamentThe Palace of the Parliament Palatul Parlamentului in Bucharest, Romania is reputed to be the largest building in Europe at 350,000 m². It is probably the third largest building in the world right after The Pentagon and the Merchandise Mart. Measuring 270 with its 350,000 m² is the largest building in Europe. It is located in BucharestBucharest (population 2. 3 million, Romanian: Bucureşti is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the Dambovita river. Bucharest Bucureşti Seal of Bucharest Area& nbsp Me, RomaniaRomania (formerly spelled Rumania or Roumania is a country in southeastern Europe. Romania is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast, Hungary and Serbia in the west and Bulgaria to the south. Romania also has a small sea coast on the Black Sea.. It is used for variety of purposes—the Government of Romania is also located in this building. It was built by Nicolae CeausescuNicolae Andruta Ceauşescu nik-oh-LA-ye ahnd-RU-tsuh cha-ow-SHESS-koo ( January 26, 1918 December 25, 1989) was the leader of Communist Romania from 1965 until shortly before his execution in 1989. He was born in Scorniceşti village, Olt County in the 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends, when it was known as the Palace of the People or the House of the Republic (this name was changed to the Palace of the Parliament in 1994).
The incomplete Ryugyong HotelThe Ryugyong Hotel (or Ryu-Gyong Hotel) is a towering, empty concrete shell in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. Its 105 stories rise some 330 m (1,083 ft), and it boasts some 360,000 m² (3. 9 million ft²) of floor space, in Pyongyang, North Korea is also one of the world's largest buildings with 360,000 m² of gross floor area.
The largest pyramid, and largest individual structure by volume of material is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico, with an estimated volume of 3.3 million m³ (4.3 million yd³).
The world's largest Christian church was for centuries St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, but the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro finished in 1989 has now taken the number one spot. The largest cathedral is Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York.