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The Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot ... • Space Needle, Seattle, Washington, ... Tallest Building in Texas Outside of Dallas and Houston 1968–2009
It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until 1996. 3 Gateway Arch: 192 m (630 ft) 1965 Steel St. Louis, Missouri: Both the width and height of the arch are 630 feet (192 m). The arch is the tallest memorial in the United States and the tallest stainless steel monument in the world. 4 Space Needle: 184 m (605 ft ...
Tallest office building in Dallas. [4] [24] [25] 2 Renaissance Tower [e] 886 (270.1) 56 1974 210th-tallest building in the world; 35th-tallest in the United States; 5th-tallest in Texas. Tallest building constructed in Dallas in the 1970s.
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The tallest structure in the city, excluding radio antennas, is the Tower of the Americas, standing 750 feet (229 m) tall. Completed for HemisFair '68, it is the tallest structure in Texas (excluding radio antennas) south of Houston, the second-tallest observation tower in the United States, and third-tallest in the Western Hemisphere.
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Downtown Dallas had a major building boom during the 1970s and '80s when rising oil prices inspired many companies to build bigger. Ten of the city's tallest skyscrapers cropped up in the 1980s alone.
Was briefly the tallest tower in the world in 2010. Second tallest tower in the world. 3: CN Tower: 553.3 m (1,815 ft) 1976: Concrete Canada: Toronto: Tallest freestanding structure in the world 1975–2007, and the world's tallest tower until 2009; tallest in the western hemisphere: 4: Ostankino Tower: 540.1 m (1,772 ft) 1967 Russia: Moscow