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* [[Massey Building]], 130 feet
* [[Massey Building]], 130 feet
* [[Jefferson County Courthouse (1931)]], 128 feet
* [[Jefferson County Courthouse (1931)]], 128 feet
* [[AT&T Building]] (1968), 128 feet
* [[Farley Building]], 126 feet
* [[Farley Building]], 126 feet
* [[Ramsay-McCormack Tower]], 122 feet
* [[Ramsay-McCormack Tower]], 122 feet
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* [[Sparks Center]], 110 feet
* [[Sparks Center]], 110 feet
* [[2600 Highland Avenue]], 11 floors
* [[2600 Highland Avenue]], 11 floors
* [[AT&T Building]], 11 stories
* [[Camp Hall]], 11 stories
* [[Camp Hall]], 11 stories
* [[One Concord Center]], 11 floors
* [[One Concord Center]], 11 floors

Revision as of 09:38, 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 454 34 1986 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / Giattina, Fisher & Company
Regions-Harbert Plaza 437 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 325 27 1913 William Weston
Thomas Jefferson Hotel 287 19 1929 David O. Whilldin
John A. Hand Building 284 21 1912 Mowbray and Uffinger / William Leslie Welton
Daniel Building 283 20 1970 Lawrence Whitten & Son
Regions Plaza 276 18 1976 Russell McCaleb & Associates / John Carl Warnecke & Associates
Two North Twentieth 273 17 1962 Lawrence Whitten & Son
Offices at 3000 RiverChase 250 14 1986 Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
Empire Building 247 16 1909 William T. Warren / William Leslie Welton
Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex 238 18 1990 Geddes Brecher Qualls & Cunningham
Watts Building 236 17 1927 Warren, Knight & Davis
Brown Marx Building 236 16 1906 William Weston
Jefferson Tower 235 16 1940 Charles McCauley
Financial Center 225 17 1982
Bankhead Hotel 223 15 1926 H. L. Stevens & Company
Alabama Power Building 217 16 1925 Warren, Knight & Davis / Sigmund Nesselroth
Sheraton Birmingham 212 17 1975 Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay
Cortland Vesta Apartments 211 16 2019 Smallwood Reynolds Stewart & Stewart

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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