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| [[Empire Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 246 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1909]] || [[William T. Warren]] / [[William Leslie Welton]]
| [[Empire Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 246 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1909]] || [[William T. Warren]] / [[William Leslie Welton]]
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| [[Sheraton Birmingham Hotel|Sheraton Birmingham]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 246 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1975]] || Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay
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| [[Watts Building (1927)|Watts Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 236 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1927]] || [[Warren, Knight & Davis]]
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| [[Brown Marx Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 236 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1906]] || [[William Weston]]
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| [[Bankhead Hotel]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 223 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 15 || [[1926]] || H. L. Stevens & Company
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| [[Alabama Power Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 217 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1925]] || [[Warren, Knight & Davis]] / [[Sigmund Nesselroth]]
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| [[Cortland Vesta Apartments]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 211 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[2019]] || Smallwood Reynolds Stewart & Stewart
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| [[Sheraton Birmingham Hotel|Sheraton Birmingham]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 246 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1975]] || Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay
| [[Sheraton Birmingham Hotel|Sheraton Birmingham]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 246 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1975]] || Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay
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* [[Watts Building (1927)|Watts Building]], 236 feet (17 stories)
* [[Birmingham International Airport Control Tower]] (2000), 198 feet
* [[Brown Marx Building]], 236 feet
* [[Shelby Biomedical Research Building]] (2006), 185 feet
* [[Bankhead Hotel]], 223 feet
* [[Protective Life building]] (Commerce Center, 1928), 168 feet
* [[Alabama Power Building]] (1925), 217 feet
* [[UAB administration building]] (Central Bank and Trust building, 1967), 165 feet
* [[Birmingham International Airport Control Tower]], 210 feet
* [[Redmont Hotel]] (1925), 160 feet
* [[Shelby Biomedical Research Building]], 200 feet
* [[Redmont Hotel]], 197 feet
* [[Protective Life building]] (Commerce Center), 168 feet
* [[UAB administration building]], 165 feet
* [[Stonewall Building]], 160 feet
* [[Stonewall Building]], 160 feet
* [[Liberty National Building]], 16 stories
* [[Liberty National Building]], 16 floors
* [[Birmingham VA Medical Center]], 153 feet
* [[Birmingham VA Medical Center]], 153 feet
* [[Highland Manor]], 15 stories
* [[Highland Manor]], 15 stories
* [[Park Place Tower]], 15 stories
* [[Park Place Tower]], 15 stories
* [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham]], 14 stories
* [[Doubletree Hotel Birmingham]], 14 floors
* [[Birmingham City Hall]], 133 feet
* [[Birmingham City Hall]], 133 feet
* [[Woodward Building]], 132 feet
* [[Woodward Building]], 132 feet
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* [[Princeton Towers I]], 12 stories
* [[Princeton Towers I]], 12 stories
* [[Faculty Office Tower]], 12 stories
* [[Faculty Office Tower]], 12 stories
* [[Westin Birmingham]], 119 feet (9 stories]
* [[Westin Birmingham]], 119 feet (9 floors)
* [[Highland Towers]], 117 feet
* [[Highland Towers]], 117 feet
* [[Claridge Manor Apartments]], 115 feet (10 stories)
* [[Claridge Manor Apartments]], 115 feet (10 floors)
* [[Liberty National Life Building]], 115 feet
* [[Liberty National Life Building]], 115 feet
* [[Transportation Building]], 115 feet
* [[Transportation Building]], 115 feet
* [[Sparks Center]], 110 feet
* [[Sparks Center]], 110 feet
* [[2600 Highland Avenue]], 11 stories
* [[2600 Highland Avenue]], 11 floors
* [[AT&T Building]], 11 stories
* [[AT&T Building]], 11 stories
* [[Camp Hall]], 11 stories
* [[Camp Hall]], 11 stories
* [[One Concord Center]], 11 stories
* [[One Concord Center]], 11 floors
* [[One Federal Place]], 11 stories
* [[One Federal Place]], 11 floors
* [[Park Tower]], 11 stories
* [[Park Tower]], 11 stories
* [[Social Security Building (1974)]], 11 stories
* [[Social Security Building (1974)]], 11 floors
* [[Sheraton Apartments]], 107 feet
* [[Sheraton Apartments]], 107 feet
* [[Arlington Crest]], 10 stories
* [[Arlington Crest]], 10 floors
* [[Carraway Hospital]], 10 stories
* [[Carraway Hospital]], 10 floors
* [[Denman Hall]], 10 stories
* [[Denman Hall]], 10 floors
* [[Medical Forum]], 10 stories
* [[Medical Forum]], 10 floors
* [[New Pilgrim Towers]], 10 stories
* [[New Pilgrim Towers]], 10 floors
* [[Tinsley Harrison Tower]], 10 stories
* [[Tinsley Harrison Tower]], 10 floors
* [[Town House]] Apartments, 10 stories
* [[Town House]] Apartments, 10 floors
* [[YWCA Building]], 10 stories
* [[YWCA Building]], 10 floors
* [[West Pavilion]], 10 stories
* [[West Pavilion]], 10 floors
* [[Zeigler Research Building]], 10 stories
* [[Zeigler Research Building]], 10 floors


==Tall uninhabited structures==
==Tall uninhabited structures==
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* [[Essex House]], 116 feet
* [[Essex House]], 116 feet
* [[Molton Hotel]], 106 feet
* [[Molton Hotel]], 106 feet
* [[Roden Hotel]], 12 stories
* [[Roden Hotel]], 12 floors


==Notable unbuilt proposals==
==Notable unbuilt proposals==
* [[Shepherd Centre]] Building 1, 72 stories
* [[Shepherd Centre]] Building 1, 72 floors
* [[Shepherd Centre]] Building 2, 44 stories
* [[Shepherd Centre]] Building 2, 44 floors
* [[Federal Reserve building|Melaver proposal]], 18 stories
* [[Federal Reserve building|Melaver proposal]], 18 floors
* [[Daniel Corporation Office Tower]], 17 stories
* [[Daniel Corporation Office Tower]], 17 floors
* [[Corporate Realty Development|Corporate Realty Development proposal]], 16 stories
* [[Corporate Realty Development|Corporate Realty Development proposal]], 16 floors
* [[Vesta Apartments]], 16 stories
* [[Summit Condominiums]], 15 floors
* [[Summit Condominiums]], 15 stories
* [[Renaissance Plaza]], 14 floors
* [[Renaissance Plaza]], 14 stories
* [[Westin Grand Bohemian]], 14 floors
* [[Westin Grand Bohemian]], 14 stories
* [[Standard at Midtown]], 11 floors
* [[Standard at Midtown]], 11 stories


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 08:39, 29 April 2019

A c. 1910 postcard showing "A Group of Sky-Scrapers" in Birmingham
The so-called "Heaviest Corner on Earth" with four tall buildings constructed between 1902 and 1912
The top of the City Federal Building (1913), which reigned as the state's tallest building until 1969
The Wells Fargo Tower, now the tallest building in Birmingham
The unfinished Roden Hotel, c. 1917
The never-built Shepherd Centre proposal of 1987

This is a List of buildings by height:

Building Height (in feet) # of Stories Year built Architect
Shipt Tower 452 34 1986 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / Giattina, Fisher & Company
Regions-Harbert Plaza 436 32 1989 Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
Regions Center 390 30 1972 Welton Becket & Associates / Charles H. McCauley Associates
AT&T City Center 390 30 1971 Kahn & Jacobs / Warren Knight & Davis
City Federal Building 324 27 1913 William Weston
Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex 322 18 1990 Geddes Brecher Qualls & Cunningham
Thomas Jefferson Hotel 285 19 1929 David O. Whilldin
John A. Hand Building 285 21 1912 Mowbray and Uffinger / William Leslie Welton
Daniel Building 282 20 1970 Lawrence Whitten & Son
2121 Building 276 17 1963 John H. Summer and Associates
Regions Plaza 276 18 1976 Russell McCaleb & Associates / John Carl Warnecke & Associates
Two North Twentieth 272 17 1962 Lawrence Whitten & Son
Offices at 3000 RiverChase 250 14 1986 Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
Financial Center 249 17 1982
Jefferson Tower 248 16 1940 Charles McCauley
Empire Building 246 16 1909 William T. Warren / William Leslie Welton
Sheraton Birmingham 246 17 1975 Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay
Watts Building 236 17 1927 Warren, Knight & Davis
Brown Marx Building 236 16 1906 William Weston
Bankhead Hotel 223 15 1926 H. L. Stevens & Company
Alabama Power Building 217 16 1925 Warren, Knight & Davis / Sigmund Nesselroth
Cortland Vesta Apartments 211 16 2019 Smallwood Reynolds Stewart & Stewart
Sheraton Birmingham 246 17 1975 Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay

Tall uninhabited structures

Notable demolished buildings

Notable unbuilt proposals

Notes

  • Heights are to the main roof, not to spires or other appurtenances. Heights are as given by Skyscraperpage.com and Emporis.com unless more accurate information is available. The cutoff for this listing is 100 feet or 10 stories.
  • It is often related that Federal Aviation Administration rules limit the height of buildings in downtown Birmingham. The FAA has indeed published regulations that would effectively limit the heights of structures near airports. In 1963 it was hoped that some of those "glide path restrictions" would soon be relaxed and a new zoning code was proposed to allow for buildings to be constructed to 1,143 feet above mean sea level (or approximately 535 feet above the average downtown grade of 608). The agency would still have the authority to review zoning ordinances and specific plans for tall buildings for their potential impact on airport operations. However, no specific height limit for downtown Birmingham structures is currently recognized. (Bennett-1963), (West-2016)

References

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