The One World Trade Center in New York was the most expensive building in the world that is actually finished - but by 2022 it may well be overtaken. The majority of buildings in this list are built fairly recently: Nine out of the ** entries in this ranking were built after 2010. The oldest in this list is Bucharest's Palace of the Parliament from 1988.
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