How many tower cranes are still in your city?

[combusean]

With the boom over, I take stock of what's left.

Phoenix has 3, soon to be a 4th. Don't laugh--I'm happy there's at least one.

3 for CityScape


courtesy HX_Guy/gymratmanaz

The 2 at either ends of the picture are building a below-grade garage right now and will soon be working on a 300'-ish tower.

and 2 more will be installed soon to build this fat beast of a courthouse, but not before one of the above cranes comes down likely.



The suburb of Tempe has one left over.

How many are in your city? Include ones expected in the next couple months if financing is solid and construction is already underway.

[Shantytown Architect]

0. There are no buildings over 3 stories in my home town--and those are rare. In Fayetteville, where I go to school, there's one for the Garland Parking Garage but they took the one down for the Renaissance Tower about a year ago.

A shame, I'd love to see the Renaissance Tower on our meager skyline.

[muppet]

London's got loads as always - the city seems to be perpetually unfinished:

Thanx to Wjfox, www.skyscrapercity.com



www.flickr.com

Holborn looking toward The City

www.vusus.com

The City

Nihil Dicit, www.photobucket.com


GazKinz, www.photobucket.com

::Wendy::, www.flickr.com


North Bank

www.flickr.com

south

City fringe


City fringe and East End


Hyde Park

www.flickr.com

Regent's Park looking toward West End

Jimbo, www.skyscrapercity.com

West End

GazKinz, www.skyscrapercity.com

Docklands

http://homepage.mac.com

Hackney looking into suburbs


Olympic site :


wjfox, www.flickr.com, http://d.yimg.com

new CBD, Stratford City:


Great West Quarter, Brentford:


Mark Hillary, Phill4, www.flickr.com


North Greenwich




henry, www.flickr.com

Kings Cross, new quarter


www.bbcel.co.uk


picslikethis, www.flickr.com, www.dft.gov.uk

[combusean]

Holy jebus. It didn't occur to me that "uncountable" might be a possible answer. Glad I didn't add a poll.

[photoLith]

Houston has at least 14 or so still under construction with cranes. Might be more than that. Most are located in the medical center though.

[The Chemist]

Shanghai has an uncountable number. The pace of construction here continues unabated.

[ue]

2 - EPCOR "Capital Power" Tower
1 - ICON II
1 - CCIS
1 - Quest

So 5 for towers, but there are more for low rises and mid rises, especially for the Edmonton Clinic. Many of the project's are wrapping up, and although we have a lot approved, not many will start until at least 10, because of the economy.

[ColDayMan]

1 for Columbus (Franklin County Courthouse Expansion Tower)
2 for Cincinnati (Queen City Square and Banks building)

[Buckeye Native 001]

I kinda like the Maricopa County Criminal Courts Tower, fat beast that it is. It'll make for a nice strip of density along Central with the Cityscape complex when all are finished.

[mhays]

Based on a recent trip up the Space Needle, Downtown Seattle (using a larger geographic description) has about 20-22, mostly for buildings shorter than 160' and many in the five-story range. The metro is probably down to 40 but that's a wild guess.

[Lear]

A New Berlin International Airport is going to be opened in Oct. 2011.

The construction work for this 3 billion$ mega project is under full throttle...

[tdawg]

About 250 in New York, according to the Dept. of Buildings.

[initiald]

Cranes in downtown Charlotte:

2 - 50 floor Duke Energy
2 - 50 floor Vue
2 - 30 floor 1 Bank of America
1 - 12 floor Center City Green

Nascar, 440 S. Church, Catalyst, Garrison Lofts, and Ritz-Carlton all topped out within the last year so those cranes are down now, and Duke Energy is now topping out and 1 of their cranes is scheduled to come down this weekend.

[KevinFromTexas]

It's been a while since I've done a count, but off the top of my head I can think of at least 13 in downtown and the central area of the city. We lost one last week when they took down the crane for Spring, a condo tower in downtown. There's at least 2, maybe even 3 or 4 tower cranes on the UT Campus.

The tallest right now is the one for The Austonian. Shanny, one our Austin forumers measured the tower crane with a range finder. He came up with 676 feet tall, which is just 7 feet short of the building's final height. In the next couple of weeks the building will reach the 50th floor. Once it reaches the 51st floor, we'll officially have a new tallest building. It already has the highest roof in town.

1 - The Austonian
2 - W Austin Hotel & Residences
1 - Four Seasons Residences
1 - Fondren (residential building)
2 or 3 on the UT Campus.
1 - A church parking garage downtown
1 - Austin Community College parking garage in downtown.
2 - BartonPlace Condos
1 - Star Riverside

[dave8721]

Dont know the actual number of cranes but the buildings still under construction would be the 2-tower Met 2 complex featuring a 600+ foot office tower and a 40 story hotel, 1450 Brickell which is a 500 foot office tower, and a 15 story government office building is going up downtown as is a 12 story office/parking structure downtown. The cranes just came down this month on a 450 foot office tower.

[Strange Meat]

I think Denver has 5 or 6 at the moment. The one for Spire came down recently. Last year, though, there might have been 10-12.

[arkhitektor]

Salt Lake has quite a few right now:

I've never counted them all, but there are around 8 or 9 at City Creek Center:







1 at 222 S. Main:





1 at Broadway Park Lofts:





It's by no means Dubai, but for a medium sized city in a crappy economy, SLC is holding her own.

(All pics via tmac @ flickr)

[fleonzo]

Originally Posted by tdawg

About 250 in New York, according to the Dept. of Buildings.

It's funny how you put 250 and no one even blinks....and that doesn't include the metro region... where some people will surely do for other cities!

[AustinSkyscrapers]

Does anybody know how many cranes are in Dubai? According to the picture below, 15% of the world's cranes in use are currently in Dubai! Nice caption!
Just a picture showing just how active Dubai's cranes are:

Image: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/CranesDubai1.jpg

Image: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/Cranes3.jpg
Site For The Pictures: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/BurjDubai.html

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