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Tallest freestanding structure in UK. Original 137 m (449 ft) tower built in 1956, replaced 1964. Second 385 m (1,263 ft) guyed tubular mast was built 1964 to replace the tower, but collapsed in 1969 due to icing and strong winds. Durris Mast: 322.6 m (1,058 ft) 1961: communication: Durris, Aberdeenshire: guyed steel lattice mast
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 ...
[5] [6] In 1965, its 54-year reign as the tallest building in Liverpool came to an end with the completion of the Radio City Tower. At 138 metres (453 ft), it originally housed a revolving restaurant and then, since 2000, a radio station. [7] In 2008, the Radio City Tower was topped by Beetham Organization's West Tower. [8]
Furness Quay Tower 1 is the tallest tower in a scheme in the heart of Salford Quays delivering over 750 apartments. The scheme includes a smaller tower and the conversion of Furness House and Custom House, two 1970s office buildings. [69] 35 New Victoria Tower 1 89 (292) 25 2022 Residential Central Business District, Manchester
The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility next to the B1225, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the village of Donington on Bain in the civil parish of South Willingham, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England (grid reference).
The tower was designed by local firm HGP Architects and engineering consultants Scott Wilson and built by Mowlem with steelwork by Butterley Engineering. [6] The Spinnaker Tower reflects Portsmouth's maritime history through its design and is named after a spinnaker, a type of sail that balloons outward. [7] The tower was opened on 18 October 2005.
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Some of the tallest buildings in the city range from 1960s tower blocks, to new office developments such as 1 Atlantic Square, St Andrew House, the Argyle Building and the Livingstone Tower. The tallest building ever to have stood in Glasgow was the 91 m (299 ft) tall Tait Tower in Bellahouston , built for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, but ...