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Concrete tower Observation, UHF/VHF-transmission Germany Frankfurt/Main Chimney of Power Station Westerholt: 337 1,106 1981 Chimney Power station Germany Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia Demolished on 3 December 2006. Tallest free-standing structure ever demolished in a controlled manner. The Marina Torch: 336.1 1,105 2011 Skyscraper
The second-tallest structure in Nevada is the Moapa Entravision Tower at Moapa, a 426.7 m (1,400 ft) tall guyed TV mast at Moapa erected in 2008, the third-tallest is the 401 m (1,316 ft) tall Moapa Kemp Tower at Moapa, the fourth-tallest is Stratosphere Tower near downtown Las Vegas, which was erected in 1994–96 and reaches 1,149 ft (350 m ...
The Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo, Japan has been the tallest tower since 2012.. This list includes extant structures that fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and which is self-supporting or free-standing, meaning no guy-wires for support."
The world's tallest human-made structure is the 828-metre-tall (2,717 ft) Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The building gained the official title of "tallest building in the world" and the tallest self-supported structure at its opening on January 9, 2010.
CN Tower, 553 m (1,814 ft), tallest free-standing structure in the world on land until 12 September 2007, when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa (officially surpassed when the Burj Khalifa opened, on 4 January 2010) Cape Race LORAN-C transmission mast, 411.48 m (1,350 ft) (collapsed in 1993, replaced afterwards by 260.3 m (854 ft) tall mast)
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10 Universal City Plaza (10 UCP) is a 36-story, 154.23 m (506.0 ft) rhombic skyscraper in Universal City, California near Los Angeles [1] [6] and is the headquarters of Universal Studios. The tower was completed in 1984 by Hathaway Dinwiddie, was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , and contains 820,000 sq ft (76,000 m 2 ) of office space.
It is a part of the Asia Plaza Tri-Tower Complex, that comprise three buildings, located in the new CBD of Asia New Bay Area. [27] [28] 103 GIFT Diamond Tower: 410 m (1,350 ft) 2002 Skyscraper Commercial India Gandhinagar: Diamond Tower and the core CBD of GIFT will comprise a total of 25,800,000 sq ft (2,400,000 m 2). [29] 87 Solar updraft tower