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The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of January 2025, there are 177 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 25 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...
skyscraper: Formerly the tallest building in the UK from 1991-2012 when it was surpassed by The Shard: Stockland Hill Mast: 235.0 m (771.0 ft) 1961: communication: Honiton, Devon: guyed steel lattice mast
The tallest partly hotel building is the 309.6 m (1,016 ft) Shard, London. The Beetham Tower, Manchester is 169 m (554 ft) tall of which half, up to and including the 23rd floor, is a hotel. 10 Holloway Circus, Birmingham is 130 m (430 ft) tall; the lower 19 floors are occupied by a hotel.
Building skyscrapers in an old and famous town can drastically alter the image of the city. In cities such as London [ 13 ] in the United Kingdom or San Francisco in the United States, [ 14 ] there is a legal requirement called protected view , which limits the height of new buildings within or adjacent to the sightline between the two places ...
This list ranks externally complete London skyscrapers and free-standing towers that stand at least 100 m (327 ft) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equals sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings.
The Shard, [a] also referred to as the Shard London Bridge [13] and formerly London Bridge Tower, [14] is a 72-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development.
This is a list of the tallest buildings in the United Kingdom by settlement.The article includes all cities and towns with a population over 100,000.This list is based on criteria set out by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat which excludes structures such as telecommunication towers and church spires from being labelled as a 'skyscraper or tall building'.
The 49-storey Octagon residential tower, Birmingham's joint tallest building at 155-metres, viewed from Chamberlain Square, with Birmingham Town Hall to the left and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to the right. (March 2025). Viewed from the west, Birmingham's skyline is dominated by the 132-metre Mercian tower. (January 2022).