What's the tallest building in your city?

[PepePeru]

BOK Tower

203.3m - 667 ft
52 stories

 

[jonks]

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

2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...eedomtower_jan2006.jpg

2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...eedomtower_Jun2008.jpg

Huge progress there...

With no further delays they say 2011, but I have my doubts.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: abaez

Originally posted by: MotionMan
US Bank Tower

MotionMan

I'm across the street from this. My tower is better!

I use to work right down the block from it. My "tower" was 6 stories tall.

BTW, you should do the run up the tower in October, should be fun.

Only if you like watching me throw up.

Also from that page:

"This building can withstand a 8.3 richter scale earthquake. The major San Andreas Fault cannot produce a 8.0 or greater earthquake. "

My brother-in-law, who works in earthquake research, would disagree with that statement.

MotionMan

 

[destrekor]

32 floors! woot!
One Seagate

+

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: 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...

Man, I have a weird story about they key tower.
ok i was downtown right. there is one building that is way taller than all the rest. i wanted to goto top and see the view. so i go inside. its like a bank headquarters (key bank) or something? it was so fancy inside with marble floor and walls and gold stuff. ppl were looking at me weird tho prolly because i was the only one not dressed in a suit. so i look around for elevators. i find one with the highest number on it, 57. so i get in and hit 57. feel this acceleration for like 10 secs. i can feel the air pressure decreasing in my ears. the elevator shakes and rumbles. it was sweet. then it slows down and reachers floor 57. the door opens and there are two people standing right in front me, facing me. weird. howd they know i was coming? they ask what i am doing there and say that this is a private floor. it was the fanciest room i'd ever seen. they tell me i need to leave so i get back on the elevator and they follow me in . i push 1 and ask where they want to go. they say 1. the elevator gets to the ground and i get out and they stay in and watch me leave . i wanna know what that floor is for. maybe its like a penthouse?

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Empire State Building

Ditto.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: abaez

Originally posted by: MotionMan
US Bank Tower

MotionMan

I'm across the street from this. My tower is better! BTW, you should do the run up the tower in October, should be fun.

Also from that page:

"This building can withstand a 8.3 richter scale earthquake. The major San Andreas Fault cannot produce a 8.0 or greater earthquake. "

What? How would anyone know that?

Because when the damn thing decides to rip itself apart, it will not be an earth quake

First Canadian Place is the tallest building in Toronto. CN Tower is the tallest free-standing structure, not a building.

 

[waggy]

err that would be a barn or grain tower heh

 

[shiner]

BOK Tower

 

[ISAslot]

http://www.seaglebuilding.com/

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I actually live in the tallest, purely residential building in our city. It's only 40 total stories once you remove the missing floors (13, plus anything ending in 4) but it still is the tallest and probably will be for quite a while considering the type of building they are doing here now.

KT

Which building is it? I'm trying to think of any 40 story purely residential buildings downtown and I'm drawing a blank. I work at the 711 down on Denman & Comox street and the apartment building down near Davie street, between Davie and Beach is pretty tall, not sure it's 40 stories though. Other candidates I can think of are some of the towers down in Yale town and the ones near Granville St bridge.

 

[Chris27]

My high school, ~40 ft. The highest structure would be the water tower which is about 1.5x that

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I actually live in the tallest, purely residential building in our city. It's only 40 total stories once you remove the missing floors (13, plus anything ending in 4) but it still is the tallest and probably will be for quite a while considering the type of building they are doing here now.

KT

Which building is it? I'm trying to think of any 40 story purely residential buildings downtown and I'm drawing a blank. I work at the 711 down on Denman & Comox street and the apartment building down near Davie street, between Davie and Beach is pretty tall, not sure it's 40 stories though. Other candidates I can think of are some of the towers down in Yale town and the ones near Granville St bridge.

The West One next to David Lam park in Yaletown/Fale Creek North: http://www.lestwarog.com/westone/index.html

KT

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I actually live in the tallest, purely residential building in our city. It's only 40 total stories once you remove the missing floors (13, plus anything ending in 4) but it still is the tallest and probably will be for quite a while considering the type of building they are doing here now.

KT

Which building is it? I'm trying to think of any 40 story purely residential buildings downtown and I'm drawing a blank. I work at the 711 down on Denman & Comox street and the apartment building down near Davie street, between Davie and Beach is pretty tall, not sure it's 40 stories though. Other candidates I can think of are some of the towers down in Yale town and the ones near Granville St bridge.

The West One next to David Lam park in Yaletown/Fale Creek North: http://www.lestwarog.com/westone/index.html

KT

Ahh yes that's one of the ones I was thinking of. Go past there all the time when we go downtown to shop in Chinatown and the T&T super market next to Tinsel Town.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: jonks

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

2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...eedomtower_jan2006.jpg

2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...eedomtower_Jun2008.jpg

Huge progress there...

With no further delays they say 2011, but I have my doubts.

Yep. Another three year delay. 2013 now if everything goes abso fabu.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

Omaha Nebraska
Tallest: One First National Center
Floor Count 45
192.9 m

 

[bobsmith1492]

Probably about 8 stories tall... not much on huge buildings here (Holland, MI) but more of an old-fashioned downtown.

 

[OdiN]

I believe the new dorms at the college is the tallest.

 

[Alyx]

We just had a housing place go up. Its the tallest because they stuck some stupid pointy thing on top. The city planners were really dumb though, the approach for the airport goes over the city center, so there is a height limit to all the buildings in San Jose, so they are all about the same height.

Edit: Yep, 360 Residences. 90 Meters, 22 floors. Tallest building in our city of over 1 million.

 

[waffleironhead]

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[imported_Champ]

Petro Canada building(215m)...although the bow(263m) will be taking it over in a few years

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=3&statusID=1

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead

Originally posted by: 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

Always thought it was van hise. guess I am wrong.

 

[mattocs]

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/b...ower-pittsburgh-pa-usa

US Steel Building, Pittsburgh, PA. 64 Floors, 841 feet. The freight elevators are so slow in that place. I've waited hours and hours for them to come.

 

[ballmode]

our courthouse

 

[PrinceofWands]

I think the hospital is (St. Johns). It's about 6 or 7 stories (probably about 100').