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! Building !! Height (in feet) !! # of Stories !! Year built !! Architect | ! Building !! Height (in feet) !! # of Stories !! Year built !! Architect | ||
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| [[Wells Fargo Tower]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[Wells Fargo Tower]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 452 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 34 || [[1986]] || Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / [[Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio|Giattina, Fisher & Company]] | ||
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| [[Regions-Harbert Plaza]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[Regions-Harbert Plaza]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 436 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 32 || [[1989]] || Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum | ||
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| [[Regions Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 399 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 30 || [[1972]] || Welton Becket & Associates / [[Charles McCauley|Charles H. McCauley Associates]] | | [[Regions Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 399 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 30 || [[1972]] || Welton Becket & Associates / [[Charles McCauley|Charles H. McCauley Associates]] | ||
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| [[Regions Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[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]] | ||
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| [[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]] | | [[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]] | ||
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| [[City Federal Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[City Federal Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 324 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 27 || [[1913]] || [[William Weston]] | ||
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| [[Alabama Power Building (1990)|Alabama Power Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 322 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | -- || [[1990]] || | | [[Alabama Power Building (1990)|Alabama Power Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 322 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | -- || [[1990]] || | ||
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| [[Thomas Jefferson Hotel]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[Thomas Jefferson Hotel]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 285 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 19 || [[1929]] || [[David O. Whilldin]] | ||
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| [[John A. Hand Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[John A. Hand Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 285 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 21 || [[1912]] || Mowbray and Uffinger / [[William Leslie Welton]] | ||
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| [[Daniel Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[Daniel Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 282 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 20 || [[1970]] || | ||
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| [[2121 Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 276 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1962]] || John H. Summer and Associates | | [[2121 Building]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 276 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1962]] || John H. Summer and Associates | ||
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| [[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 | | [[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 | ||
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| [[Two North Twentieth]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | | | [[Two North Twentieth]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 272 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 17 || [[1962]] || [[Lawrence Whitten]] | ||
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| [[Financial Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 249 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | -- || -- || | | [[Financial Center]] || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | 249 || style="text-align: right; padding-right: 1em;" | -- || -- || | ||
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==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. | ||
==References== | |||
* " Slideshow: Birmingham's tallest buildings" (September 29, 2011) ''Birmingham Business Journal'' | |||
[[Category:Tall buildings|*]] | [[Category:Tall buildings|*]] | ||
[[Category:Lists|Buildings]] | [[Category:Lists|Buildings]] | ||
Revision as of 18:06, 29 September 2011
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
This is a List of buildings by height:
- Watts Tower, 249 feet
- Jefferson Tower, 248 feet
- Sheraton Birmingham, 246 feet
- Brown Marx Building, 236 feet
- Bankhead Hotel, 223 feet
- Alabama Power Building (1925), 217 feet
- Birmingham International Airport Control Tower, 210 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
- Liberty National Building, 16 stories
- Birmingham VA Medical Center, 153 feet
- Highland Manor, 15 stories
- Park Place Tower, 15 stories
- Doubletree Hotel Birmingham, 14 stories
- Birmingham City Hall, 133 feet
- Woodward Building, 132 feet
- Massey Building, 130 feet
- Jefferson County Courthouse (1931), 128 feet
- Farley Building, 126 feet
- Ramsay-McCormack Tower, 122 feet
- Frank Nelson Building, 120 feet
- Pizitz Department Store, 120 feet
- Title Building, 120 feet
- Jackson Building, 120 feet
- Colonial Plaza, 12 stories
- Building Trades Towers, 12 stories
- Princeton Towers I, 12 stories
- UAB Office Tower, 12 stories
- Highland Towers, 117 feet
- Claridge Manor Apartments, 115 feet
- Liberty National Life Building, 115 feet
- Transportation Building, 115 feet
- Sparks Center, 110 feet
- 2600 Highland Avenue, 11 stories
- AT&T Building, 11 stories
- Camp Hall, 11 stories
- One Concord Center, 11 stories
- One Federal Place, 11 stories
- Park Tower, 11 stories
- Social Security Building (1974), 11 stories
- Sheraton Apartments, 107 feet
- Arlington Crest, 10 stories
- Carraway Hospital, 10 stories
- Denman Hall, 10 stories
- Medical Forum, 10 stories
- New Pilgrim Towers, 10 stories
- Tinsley Harrison Research Tower, 10 stories
- Townhouse Apartments, 10 stories
- YWCA Building, 10 stories
- West Pavilion, 10 stories
- Zeigler Research Building, 10 stories
Tall uninhabited structures
Notable demolished buildings
- Tutwiler Hotel (1914), 175 feet
- Parliament House, 142 feet
- YMCA (1911), 120 feet
- Essex House, 116 feet
- Molton Hotel, 106 feet
- Roden Hotel, 12 stories
Notable unbuilt proposals
- Shepherd Centre Building 1, 72 stories
- Shepherd Centre Building 2, 44 stories
- Melaver proposal, 18 stories
- Daniel Corporation Office Tower, 17 stories
- Corporate Realty Development proposal, 16 stories
- Summit Condominiums, 15 stories
- Renaissance Plaza, 14 stories
- The Westin Grand Bohemian, 14 stories
- Standard at Midtown, 11 stories
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.
References
- " Slideshow: Birmingham's tallest buildings" (September 29, 2011) Birmingham Business Journal