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BY SPACE (USEABLE VOLUME, IN M³) . In Brandenburg , Germany , the Aerium of the Cargolifter AG was built as a hangar for a never constructed giant Airship and has a volume of 5.2 million m³;, is 107 m tall, 360 m long and 210 m wide. It's the world largest hall without pillars and is now used as a resort called '' Tropical Islands ''. {Link without Title} The Palace Of The Parliament in Bucharest , Romania , Europe , with a total of 2,550,000 m³ or 90 052 400.1 cubic feet. It takes third place in the world total office space (useable floor space) provided. (N.B. Nasa's Vehicle Assembly Building ) BY AREA (IN M&2) By footprint (m&2) The chiefly one-storey Aalsmeer Flower Auction , The Netherlands , with its 990,000 M&2 of floor space is probably the world's largest building in terms of both footprint and floor area. The Guinness Book Of Records records it as the largest commercial building in the world. It is located in Aalsmeer , The Netherlands . Around 20 million flowers are sold in the building every day. By floor area (all levels) The Aalsmeer Flower Auction also holds the record by floor area. The Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur with its floor area of 700,000 m&2 claims to be "the world's largest building ever built in a single phase". The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia , United States, headquarters of the Department Of Defense , has 610,000 M&2 (6.6 Million ft&2) in floor area and 2 Million M³ (77,015,000 ft³) in volume. The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois , United States, claims to be the largest commercial building in the world, but at 390,000 M&2 (4.2 Million Ft&2) it is considerably smaller than the Aalsmeer Flower Auction. The never completed Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang , North Korea is also one of the world's largest buildings with 360,000 M&2 of gross floor area. The Palace Of The Parliament in Bucharest , Romania , has a floor space of 350,000 m&2. Cœur Défense , in Paris ( La Défense ), France , has the same floor space with several buildings which share a common basement. The 1200 m long Tempelhof International Airport building in Berlin with its 284,000 m&2 was the world's largest building when constructed, but today ranks seventh according to this list. BY MASS (IN TONS) The heaviest building in the world is the Palace Of The Parliament in Romania (see above), made of 1,000,000 m³ of marble from Transylvania and 700,000 metric tonnes of steel and bronze. The building also features 3,500 metric tonnes of crystal glass and 900,000 m³ of wood. It measures 270m by 240m, 86m high, and 92m under ground. The largest Pyramid , and largest individual structure by volume of material is the Great Pyramid Of Cholula , in Puebla , Mexico , with an estimated volume of 3.3 Million M³ (4.3 Million Yd³) . SPECIAL CATEGORIES The world's largest Christian church is St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City . A dispute remains as to whether it was superseded by the 1989 completion of the Basilica Of Our Lady Of Peace Of Yamoussoukro in Yamoussoukro , Côte D'Ivoire . The '''largest cathedral''' (and largest Protestant church) is either the Cathedral Of Saint John The Divine in New York City , United States, or Liverpool Anglican Cathedral in England (this title is disputed). The '''highest church''' is the Cathedral in Ulm, Germany ; at 161.53 m (529.95 feet) it surpasses any other church in the world. The Todaiji temple in Nara , Japan , holds the claim for largest wooden building in the world, though this is disputed. The current building is 30% smaller than the former (otherwise identical) temple which was destroyed in a fire. Blimp Hangar 2, at the Tillamook Air Museum , in Tillamook, Oregon , is also thought by some to be the world's largest wooden stucture. The Guinness Book Of World Records lists Woolloomooloo Bay Wharf in Sydney as the largest wooden structure in the world. The Great Wall Of China is the longest man-made structure in the world with a length of over 6,352 km (3,948 miles). The Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna , Austria holds the distinction of being the longest single residential building in the world at over one kilometer in length (1100m) and spanning four Tram stops, The former Seaside Resort Prora on the Island of Rügen , Germany has a Length of almost five Kilometer s, is however divided into eight single buildings standing in a row. If the buildings were joined across the small spaces between them, they'd make the world's longest building. Largest slaughterhouse in the world is the Smithfield Packing Company in Smithfield, Virginia. SEE ALSO
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