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[[Image:Sky-Scrapers of Birmingham postcard.jpg|right|thumb|275px|A c. 1910 postcard showing "A Group of Sky-Scrapers" in Birmingham]]
[[Image:Sky-Scrapers of Birmingham postcard.jpg|right|thumb|225px|A c. 1910 postcard showing "A Group of Sky-Scrapers" in Birmingham]]
[[Image:Heaviest corner.jpg|right|thumb|275px|The so-called "[[Heaviest Corner on Earth]]" with four tall buildings constructed between 1902 and 1912]]
[[Image:Heaviest corner.jpg|right|thumb|225px|The so-called "[[Heaviest Corner on Earth]]" with four tall buildings constructed between 1902 and 1912]]
[[Image:City Federal top.jpg|right|thumb|275px|The top of the [[City Federal Building]] (1913), which reigned as the state's tallest building until 1969]]
[[Image:City Federal top.jpg|right|thumb|225px|The top of the [[City Federal Building]] (1913), which reigned as the state's tallest building until 1969]]
[[Image:Wachovia Tower.jpg|right|thumb|275px|The [[Wells Fargo Tower]], now the tallest building in Birmingham]]
[[Image:Wachovia Tower.jpg|right|thumb|225px|The [[Wells Fargo Tower]], now the tallest building in Birmingham]]
[[Image:Roden Hotel.jpg|right|thumb|275px|The unfinished [[Roden Hotel]], c. 1917]]
[[Image:Roden Hotel.jpg|right|thumb|225px|The unfinished [[Roden Hotel]], c. 1917]]
[[Image:Shepherd Centre rendering.jpg|right|thumb|275px|The never-built [[Shepherd Centre]] proposal of [[1987]]]]
[[Image:Shepherd Centre rendering.jpg|right|thumb|225px|The never-built [[Shepherd Centre]] proposal of [[1987]]]]


This is a '''List of buildings by height''':
This is a '''List of buildings by height''':


* [[Wells Fargo Tower]], 454 feet
==Tall buildings (200 feet or more)==
* [[Regions-Harbert Plaza]], 437 feet
{| class="sortable" border="0"
* [[Regions Center]], 399 feet
|-
* [[BellSouth Building]], 390 feet
! Building !! Height (in feet) !! # of Stories !! Year built !! Architect
* [[City Federal Building]], 325 feet
|-
* [[Alabama Power Building (1990)]], 322 feet
| [[Shipt Tower]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 454 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 34 || [[1986]] || Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / [[Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio|Giattina, Fisher & Company]]
* [[Thomas Jefferson Hotel]], 287 feet
|-
* [[John Hand Building]], 285 feet
| [[1901 Sixth Avenue]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 437 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 32 || [[1989]] || Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
* [[Daniel Building]], 283 feet
|-
* [[2121 Building]], 276 feet
| [[Regions Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 390 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 30 || [[1972]] || Welton Becket & Associates / [[Charles McCauley|Charles H. McCauley Associates]]
* [[Regions Plaza]], 276 feet
|-
* [[Two North Twentieth]], 264 feet
| [[AT&T City Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 390 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 30 || [[1971]] || Kahn & Jacobs / [[Warren Knight & Davis]]
* [[Financial Center]], 262 feet
|-
* [[Galleria Tower]], 17-stories, 250 feet
| [[City Federal Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 325 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 27 || [[1913]] || [[William Weston]]  
* [[Empire Building]], 249 feet
|-
* [[Watts Tower]], 249 feet
| [[Thomas Jefferson Hotel]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 287 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 19 || [[1929]] || [[David O. Whilldin]]
* [[Jefferson Tower]], 248 feet
|-
* [[Sheraton Birmingham]], 246 feet
| [[John A. Hand Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 284 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 21 || [[1912]] || Mowbray and Uffinger / [[William Leslie Welton]]
* [[Brown Marx Building]], 236 feet
|-
* [[Bankhead Hotel]], 223 feet
| [[Daniel Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 283 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 20 || [[1970]] || [[Lawrence Whitten & Son]]
* [[Alabama Power Building]] (1925), 217 feet
|-
* [[Birmingham International Airport Control Tower]], 210 feet
| [[Regions Plaza]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 276 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 18 || [[1976]] || Russell McCaleb & Associates / John Carl Warnecke & Associates
* [[Shelby Biomedical Research Building]], 200 feet
|-
* [[Redmont Hotel]], 197 feet
| [[Two North Twentieth]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 273 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1962]] || [[Lawrence Whitten & Son]]
* [[Protective Life building]] (Commerce Center), 168 feet
|-
* [[UAB administration building]], 165 feet
| [[Offices at 3000 RiverChase]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 250 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 14 || [[1986]] || Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
|-
| [[Empire Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 247 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1909]] || [[William T. Warren]] / [[William Leslie Welton]]
|-
| [[Alabama Power Company Headquarters Complex]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 238 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 18 || [[1990]] || Geddes Brecher Qualls & Cunningham
|-
| [[Watts Building (1928)|Watts Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 236 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1928]] || [[Warren, Knight & Davis]]
|-
| [[Brown Marx Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 236 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1906]] || [[William Weston]]
|-
| [[Jefferson Tower]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 235 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1940]] || Charles McCauley
|-
| [[Financial Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 225 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1982]] ||
|-
| [[Bankhead Hotel]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 223 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 15 || [[1926]] || H. L. Stevens & Company
|-
| [[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]]
|-
| [[Sheraton Birmingham Hotel|Sheraton Birmingham]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 212 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1975]] || Tiller, Neal, Butner, Rosa & Seay
|-
| [[Liberty Towers at Midtown|Liberty National Building addition]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 212 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[1971]] || [[Warren, Knight & Davis]]
|-
| [[Cortland Vesta Apartments]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 211 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 16 || [[2019]] || Smallwood Reynolds Stewart & Stewart
|-
| [[Scholar Birmingham]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 190 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[2020]] || Myefski Architects
|-
|}
 
==Mid-rise buildings (100 to 200 feet)==
* [[Birmingham International Airport Control Tower]] (2000), 198 feet
* [[Shelby Biomedical Research Building]] (2006), 185 feet
* [[2121 Building]] (1963), 276 feet, 17 floors
* [[AT&T Microwave Tower]] (1968), 185 feet
* [[Protective Life building]] (Commerce Center, 1928), 168 feet
* [[UAB administration building]] (Central Bank and Trust building, 1967), 165 feet
* [[Redmont Hotel]] (1925), 160 feet
* [[Stonewall Building]], 160 feet
* [[Stonewall Building]], 160 feet
* [[Liberty National Building]], 16 stories
* [[Children's Hospital]] Harbert Tower (2012), 159 feet
* [[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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* [[Jefferson County Courthouse (1931)]], 128 feet
* [[Jefferson County Courthouse (1931)]], 128 feet
* [[Farley Building]], 126 feet
* [[Farley Building]], 126 feet
* [[Ramsay-McCormack Tower]], 122 feet
* [[Frank Nelson Building]], 120 feet
* [[Frank Nelson Building]], 120 feet
* [[Pizitz building|Pizitz Department Store]], 120 feet
* [[Pizitz building|Pizitz Department Store]], 120 feet
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* [[Building Trades Towers]], 12 stories
* [[Building Trades Towers]], 12 stories
* [[Princeton Towers I]], 12 stories
* [[Princeton Towers I]], 12 stories
* [[UAB Office Tower]], 12 stories
* [[Faculty Office Tower]], 12 stories
* [[James C. Lee Building]], 12 floors
* [[Westin Birmingham]], 119 feet, 9 floors
* [[Highland Towers]], 117 feet
* [[Highland Towers]], 117 feet
* [[Claridge Manor Apartments]], 115 feet
* [[Claridge Manor Apartments]], 115 feet, 10 floors
* [[Liberty National Life Building]], 115 feet
* [[Liberty Towers at Midtown|Liberty National Building]] (Pioneer Building, 1925), 115 feet, 10 floors
* [[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
* [[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
* [[UAB Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital]] (2025), 11 stories
* [[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
* [[Medical Forum]], 10 floors
* [[Medical Forum]], 10 stories
* [[New Pilgrim Towers]] (1980), 10 floors
* [[New Pilgrim Towers]], 10 stories
* [[Tinsley Harrison Tower]], 10 floors
* [[Tinsley Harrison Research Tower]], 10 stories
* [[Town House]] Apartments, 10 floors
* [[Townhouse Apartments]], 10 stories
* [[YWCA Building]], 10 floors
* [[YWCA Building]], 10 stories
* [[West Pavilion]], 10 floors
* [[West Pavilion]], 10 stories
* [[Zeigler Research Building]], 10 floors
* [[Zeigler Research Building]], 10 stories
 
==Tall uninhabited structures==
* [[WBRC Tower]], 1,378 feet
* [[WVTM Tower]], 1,339 feet
* [[WIAT Tower]] (1974), 1,194 feet
* [[WTTO Tower]] (1986), 1,062 feet
* [[TopGolf]] (2018) range net, 170 feet


==Notable demolished buildings==
==Notable demolished buildings==
* [[Tutwiler Hotel (1914)]], 175 feet
* [[Tutwiler Hotel (1914)]], 175 feet
* [[Parliament House]], 142 feet
* [[Parliament House]], 142 feet
* [[Ramsay-McCormack Tower]], 122 feet
* [[YMCA (1911)]], 120 feet
* [[YMCA (1911)]], 120 feet
* [[Essex House]], 116 feet
* [[Essex House]], 116 feet
* [[Molton Hotel]], 106 feet
* [[Molton Hotel]], 106 feet
* [[Roden Hotel]], 12 stories
* [[Roden Hotel]], 12 floors
* [[Denman Hall]], 10 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
* [[Summit Condominiums]], 15 stories
* [[Summit Condominiums]], 15 floors
* [[Renaissance Plaza]], 14 stories
* [[University Tower]], 15 floors
* [[The Westin Grand Bohemian]], 14 stories
* [[Renaissance Plaza]], 14 floors
* [[Standard at Midtown]], 11 stories
* [[Westin Grand Bohemian]], 14 floors
* [[Standard at Midtown]], 11 floors
* [[2040 Highland Avenue]], 10 floors


==Notes==
==Notes==
* Heights are to the main roof, not to spires or other appurtenances. Heights are as given by Skyscraperpage.com and [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/?id=birmingham-al-usa Emporis.com] unless more accurate information is available. The cutoff for this listing is 100 feet or 10 stories.
* Heights are to the main roof, not to spires or other appurtenances. Heights are as given by Skyscraperpage.com and [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/?id=birmingham-al-usa 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==
* Bennett, James (August 22, 1963) "[http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/BPLSB02/id/3390 50 Story Buildings OK is Aim]" {{BPH}} - via {{BPLDC}}
* "Slideshow: Birmingham's tallest buildings" (September 29, 2011) {{BBJ}}
* West, Ty (January 7, 2016) "Throwback Thursday: Remember when a 72-story skyscraper was proposed in downtown Birmingham?" {{BBJ}}


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[[Category:Tall buildings|*]]
[[Category:Lists|Buildings]]
[[Category:Lists of buildings|Tall buildings]]

Latest revision as of 14:57, 21 March 2024

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:

Tall buildings (200 feet or more)

Building Height (in feet) # of Stories Year built Architect
Shipt Tower 454 34 1986 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / Giattina, Fisher & Company
1901 Sixth Avenue 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 1928 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
Liberty National Building addition 212 16 1971 Warren, Knight & Davis
Cortland Vesta Apartments 211 16 2019 Smallwood Reynolds Stewart & Stewart
Scholar Birmingham 190 17 2020 Myefski Architects

Mid-rise buildings (100 to 200 feet)

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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