Give a list of tallest structures of different kind for your country!

Alpha · #1 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 12:30 PM**

Let us give a list of the tallest structures of different kind for your country.
If the actual tallest of one kind is not the tallest of this kind, that existed in your country, than mention this in brackets. Please use as much categories as possible, but only those for which exist adaquate structures in other country ( skyscraper mixed use is for example not a good category).
The categories I choose for the following list for Germany are a good choice, as most of the structure mentioned there may exist in all countries.

The following is the list for Germany. Please try to find the corresponding tallest for your country ( for many structural types it is very easy for others not)

TALLESTS OF GERMANY

All categories: TV Tower Berlin, 368 metres

Towers
Free-standing tower: TV Tower Berlin, 368 metres
Concrete tower: TV Tower Berlin, 368 metres
Lattice tower: Pylons of Elbekreuzung 2, 227 metres
Electricity pylon: Pylons of Elbekreuzung 2, 227 metres
Wind turbine: Fuhrländer Wind turbine Laasow, 205 metres
Aerial tramway support pillar: Eibseebahn: 85 metres
Wood tower: Funkturm Rottenbuch, 62.5 metres ( 1933-1945: Mühlacker Radio Tower: 190 metres, 1945-1948: Tegel Radio Tower: 165 metres, 1948-1983: Ismaning Radio Tower: 163 metres)

Chimneys
Chimney: Chimney of Buschhaus Power Station: 308 metres ( until 2006: Chimney of Westerholt Power Station: 337 metres)
Cooling tower: Niederaussem Power Station: 200 metres
Chimney built of bricks: Halsbrücker Esse, 140 metres

Buildings
Highrise (any use): Commerzbank-Tower: 300 metres
Industrial Building: Niederaussem Power Station (Block K): 168 metres
Church: Ulm Münster: 161 metres
Residential highrise: Colonia-Hochhaus: 155 metres
Silo: Schapfenmühle Silo: 125 metres
Light advertisement: Bayer-Kreuz: 118 metres

Guyed Masts
Guyed mast, grounded: Donebach longwave transmitter: 363 metres
Guyed mast, insulated: Masts of DHO38: 353 metres
Partially guyed tower: Waldenburg TV Tower: 165 metres

Bridges and Dams

For all bridges, height of tallest pillar is given

Bridge: Kochertalbrücke: 178 metres
Lattice steel bridge: Müngstener Brücke: 107 metres (also tallest rail bridge)
Suspension bridge: Köhlbrandbrücke: 135 metres
Dam: Trinkwassertalsperre Frauenau: 86 metres

M.K. · #2 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 2:30 PM**

Unfortunatly not included in this site yet. The telecommunication towers of television and radio on top of office buildings in SP are the tallest structures in Brazil. They are 150-200m high and in quantity of 12 aprox. I unfortunatly can not be more precise. For example has:

Tower:
Globo Tower on Trianon Corporate Office bldg - 185m (115m+70m) IF SOMEONE DRAWS THEM, I APPRECIATE A LOT- See Emporis.com for photos.

Alpha · #3 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 6:21 PM**

@Mkmillenium: Count skyscrapers with towers on its roof as skyscrapers in this defintion. I gave for all "tallest in German" in the upper list the pinnacle height as this height definition is the only defintion available for all kinds of architectural structures.

JManc · #4 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 7:07 PM**

tallest structure in TX is a guyed TV tower in missouri city (~2000')

tallest building in TX is JP morgan chase tower (1002')

Aleks · #5 Posted **Mar 10, 2007, 4:27 AM**

the torre torrena in monterrey mexico-tallest free standing structure in mexico
torre mayor-tallest skyscraper

Exodus · #6 Posted **Mar 10, 2007, 8:07 AM**

This might be breaking it down a bit too much, but as far as I know the Marriott Ren. Cen. in Detroit is the tallest hotel in the U.S.

koops65 · #7 Posted **Mar 12, 2007, 1:58 AM**

Here are some from Canada:
Tallest Structure, Tallest Freestanding Structure * (World Record)
CN Tower Toronto, Ont. 553.3 m 1976
Tallest Smokestack
Inco Superstack Sudbury, Ont. 380 m 1972
Tallest Guyed Mast
CHCH Television Tower Hamilton, Ont. 357.5 m 1960
Tallest Highrise Building
First Canadian Place Toronto, Ont. 298.1 m(355 Pinnacle) 1975

Alpha · #8 Posted **Mar 14, 2007, 10:25 AM**

Was the 371 metre tall CBC Tower ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_Tower ) not rebuilt?

lawsond · #9 Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 10:54 PM**

^^^

doesn't toronto have the tallest residential building in the world?
or did i dream that?
can't think what it is...1 king west?

Frogfisher · #10 Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 11:24 PM**

Denmark

Mast:
Thule Radio Mast(1954) - 378,3 m(officially it is part of Denmark but it is placed in Greenland)
Tommerup Transmitter(1975) - 321,3 m

Bridge Pillar:
Great Belt East Bridge(1998) - 254 m

Building:
Amtssygehuset i Herlev(1976) - 120 m

Tower:
Chritstiansborg(1928) - 106 m