List of towers

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Towers by height

This page currently lists the top 50 towers. As a non-technical definition, the term tower describes structures having limited floor space as compared to more regular buildings. They are usually used for communications (large antenna), and often have a few floors for a observation deck or restaurant, but not continuous floors below. They operate in a niche between traditional skyscrapers and other extremely tall structures like guyed masts. They tend to offer the usefulness of unmanned TV and radio masts but with the added appeal of some high floor space for a observation deck or restaurant like many skyscrapers. Their low-floor space compared to a traditional building and higher cost compared to a mast, does offers some drawbacks however. Towers are also built for a few other purposes as well, such as for air traffic control or as a monument.

Note: list not guaranteed to be accurate or up to date, and includes structures traditionally thought of as a tower, although towers with guylines for their main structure or antenna are currently included. (for a masts listing see List of masts)
Note: includes up to 2004, this list ranked by pinnacle.

Famous towers

• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Eiffel Tower
• CN Tower (also in list)

More Misc. Towers (loosely in order of height, incomplete)

(May be non-continuous)

Tall buildings called "towers", or with the word "tower" in their names

Submerged free standing towers

There are many other very tall structures such as bridges and dams that are not towers. However, there are many submerged towers such as for oil platforms. The large number of towers/masts for large wind tubines are also of a unclear classification and are not listed.

• Petronius Compliant Tower, 2000, 2100 ft \ 640m

Note: The term tower has a more general usage for use with many skyscrapers such as the Twin Towers.

See Also

• Architecture
• Building construction
• List of skyscrapers
• World's tallest structures
• United States tallest structures
• Oil platform
• List of buildings
• List of tallest church towers

External links

• http://www.skyscraperpage.com
• http://www.skyscrapers.com
• http://www.skyscrapercity.com
• http://www.brazilskyscrapers.hpg.com.br
• http://www.skyscraper.org
• http://www.geocities.com/birmingham_highrise/
• List of tall constructions (in German)