What's the tallest building in your city?

[Locut0s]

They are just finishing the last few floors of the shangri la hotel/residential mixed use tower here in Vancouver. It's a short building by most large city standards but makes a nice impression on the Vancouver skyline:

http://pricetags.files.wordpre...2007/11/shangrila1.jpg

stands 196.9 m (645 ft)

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=9790

What's the tallest building or structure in your town or city? Post a guestimate if you don't know the exact height. The site above have a very very extensive list of buildings for hundreds of cities!

 

[HannibalX]

Sears Tower

 

[dartworth]

Cleveland, Ohio

Key Tower - height 947 feet

I'm currently working at the Erieview Tower which is 529 feet. Running chilled water and steam lines up 16 floors in the main shaft...

Project has been going for about 9 months now...lots o fun...

 

[ChaoZ]

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1601

 

[miketheidiot]

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=546

 

[herm0016]

11 stories.. actually its the second tallest building in the upper peninsula... http://www.mtu.edu/tools/map/MEEM.html

 

[lokiju]

Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=57

 

[nageov3t]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building

 

[2Xtreme21]

US Steel Tower

Tallest building between Chicago and New York... and I work there. The view from the 61st floor is incredible.

 

[BlackTigers]

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1207

Wow 27 stories!!!

 

[EGGO]

Empire State right now.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
US Steel Tower

Tallest building between Chicago and New York... and I work there. The view from the 61st floor is incredible.

The tallest is Comcast Center in Philadelphia...and the Key Tower in Cleveland is taller too...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Madison Capitol
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=84973&rendTypeId=4

All 5 floors of it
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3501
87.6 meters

 

[Saint Nick]

First National Bank Tower, Omaha, Nebraska
634 ft (193 m), 40-story skyscraper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_First_National_Center

 

[Brainonska511]

The Sears Tower.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Sears Tower

Yep

will be this in 2012: Text

 

[Jawo]

The Washington Monument: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=281

Though there's a law prohibiting anything taller than the US Capital in DC....

 

[mrSHEiK124]

579 feet (176 m) and 42 floors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_North_Tampa

 

[Descartes]

I used to work in the BOA Plaza in Atlanta. I'd also see it every night, because I had a condo that looked right at it. Nice building.

 

[ElFenix]

chase tower. it was supposed to be taller but the FAA wouldn't give clearance, saying it would be a navigational hazard for planes landing at HOU.

a lot of people think the 100 foot shorter williams tower is the tallest building in houston. probably because it's all by itself out on the west loop, and so looks taller.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Sears Tower

Yep

will be this in 2012: Text

I like the design of the spire, elegant. Interesting though that nothing is planned that will be taller than the Burj Dubai, at least nothing we know about. Seems like it will keep the world record for some time!

 

[jonks]

The "freedom tower" will eventually be the tallest if they ever build the freakin thing

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: jonks
The "freedom tower" will eventually be the tallest if they ever build the freakin thing

No and not by a long shot. They are building it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower

and it will be 541 m tall. The burj dubai will be 636 m tall (2,087 ft). Meaning it will be 95m or 311 feet taller than the FT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_dubai

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: jonks
The "freedom tower" will eventually be the tallest if they ever build the freakin thing

No and not by a long shot. They are building it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower

and it will be 541 m tall. The burj dubai will be 636 m tall (2,087 ft). Meaning it will be 95m or 311 feet taller than the FT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_dubai

Topic Title: What's the tallest building in your city?

for someone who created the thread you sure did forget what it was about in a hurry

 

[0roo0roo]

nothing really qualifies as tall in the bay area.