Groundscraper

A groundscraper is a large building that has relatively few stories but which greatly extends horizontally.

Encarta defines groundscraper as "a large low or medium-rise building, typically containing offices, that spreads horizontally and occupies a large amount of land".^[1]

• 5 Broadgate, a groundscaper owned by Swiss bank UBS, was once the largest office building in the City of London.^[2]
• Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center in Shenzhen is as large as the Empire State Building, but is laid out horizontally and five stories above ground level.^[3][4][5] A park occupies the space below.^[4][5]
• The Pentagon – the world's second largest office building
• Apple Park
• Bharat Mandapam
• The Squaire
• Colossus of Prora, originally 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in length.
• Estonian National Museum
• SAS Frösundavik Office Building^[6]
• The klystron gallery at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is 3 kilometers long and 1 story high.
• Each arm of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors is 4 kilometers long and housed in an above-ground concrete structure.
• Boeing Everett Factory main assembly building, world's largest building by volume but only 114 feet (35 m) tall.

• Earthscraper
• Skyscraper
• List of largest buildings