The World's Tallest Buildings 1990

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The World's Tallest buildings [min.183m] in 1990

by Paul Kazmierczak and Egbert Gramsbergen

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#	building	city	country	height	floors	year
color codes: built, under construction, demolished/destroyed
1	Sears Tower	Chicago	USA	442m / 1450ft	108	1974
2	1 World Trade Center	New York City	USA	417m / 1368ft	110	1972
3	2 World Trade Center	New York City	USA	415m / 1363ft	110	1973
4	Empire State Building	New York City	USA	381m / 1250ft	102	1931
	Central Plaza	Hong Kong	China	374m / 1227ft	78	1992
5	Bank of China	Hong Kong	China	369m / 1209ft	70	1990
6	Aon Center	Chicago	USA	346m / 1136ft	80	1973
7	John Hancock Center	Chicago	USA	344m / 1127ft	100	1969
8	Crysler Building	New York City	USA	319m / 1046ft	77	1930
	Bank of America Plaza	Atlanta	USA	312m / 1023ft	55	1993
9	Libbary Tower	Los Angeles	USA	310m / 1018ft	73	1990
10	AT&T Corporate Center	Chicago	USA	307m / 1007ft	60	1989
11	Chase Tower	Houston	USA	305m / 1002ft	75	1982
12	Two Prudential Plaza	Chicago	USA	303m / 995ft	64	1990
13	First Canadian Place	Toronto	Canada	298m / 978ft	72	1975
14	Wells Fargo Plaza	Houston	USA	296m / 972ft	71	1983
	Landmark Tower	Yokohama	Japan	296m / 971ft	70	1993
15	311 N. Wacker Drive	Chicago	USA	293m / 961ft	65	1990
16	American Int'l Building	New York City	USA	290m / 952ft	67	1932
	Key Tower	Cleveland	USA	289m / 947ft	57	1991
17	One Liberty Place	Philadelphia	USA	288m / 945ft	61	1987
18	Bank of America Center	Seattle	USA	286m / 937ft	76	1985
19	The Trump Building	New York City	USA	283m / 927ft	71	1930
20	Bank of America Plaza	Dallas	USA	281m / 921ft	72	1985
	United Overseas Bank Plaza 1	Singapore	Singapore	280m / 919ft	66	1992
21	Overseas Union Bank Ceter	Singapore	Singapore	280m / 919ft	59	1986
22	Citigroup Center	New York City	USA	279m / 915ft	59	1977
23	Scotia Plaza	Toronto	Canada	275m / 902ft	68	1988
24	Williams Tower	Houston	USA	275m / 901ft	64	1983
25	Renaissance Tower	Dallas	USA	270m / 886ft	56	1974
	Bank of America Corporate Center	Charlotte	USA	265m / 871ft	60	1992
	Suntrust Bank Tower	Atlanta	USA	265m / 871ft	60	1992
26	900 N. Michigan	Chicago	USA	265m / 871ft	66	1989
	120 Collins Street	Melbourne	Australia	264m / 866ft	52	1991
27	Canada Trust Tower	Toronto	Canada	263m / 863ft	51	1990
28	Water Tower Place	Chicago	USA	262m / 859ft	74	1976
29	Aon Tower	Los Angeles	USA	262m / 858ft	62	1974
	101 Collins Street	Melbourne	Australia	260m / 853ft	50	1991
30	Transamerica Pyramid	San Francisco	USA	260m / 853ft	48	1972
31	Bank One Plaza	Chicago	USA	259m / 850ft	60	1969
32	GE Building	New York City	USA	259m / 850ft	69	1933
33	Two Liberty Place	Philadelphia	USA	258m / 848ft	58	1989
34	Messeturn	Frankfurt	Germany	257m / 842ft	70	1990
35	US Steel Tower	Pittsburgh	USA	256m / 841ft	64	1970
36	Rialto Towers	Melbourne	Australia	251m / 824ft	63	1986
37	One Atlantic Center	Atlanta	USA	250m / 820ft	50	1987
	Central Park	Perth	Australia	249m / 817ft	52	1992
38	Korea Life Insurance Building	Seoul	S. Korea	249m / 817ft	63	1985
39	Cityspire	New York City	USA	248m / 814ft	75	1989
40	One Chase Manhattan Plaza	New York City	USA	248m / 813ft	60	1961
41	Bank One Center	Indianapolis	USA	247m / 811ft	48	1990
42	Metlife Building	New York City	USA	246m / 808ft	60	1963
	Melbourne Central Office Tower	Melbourne	Australia	246m / 807ft	53	1991
	Shin Kong Life Tower	Taipei	Taiwan	244m / 801ft	51	1993
	Chifley Tower	Sydney	Australia	244m / 801ft	50	1992
	Metropolitan Government Building 1	Tokyo	Japan	244m / 799ft	48	1991
43	Menara Maybank	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	244m / 799ft	50	1988
44	Mellon Bank Center	Philadelphia	USA	241m / 792ft	54	1990
45	Woolworth Building	New York City	USA	241m / 792ft	57	1913
46	John Hancock Tower	Boston	USA	241m / 790ft	60	1976
47	Bank One Center	Dallas	USA	240m / 787ft	60	1987
48	Sunshine 60 Building	Tokyo	Japan	240m / 787ft	60	1978
49	Moscow State University	Moscow	Russia	240m / 787ft	36	1953
50	Commerence Court West	Toronto	Canada	239m / 784ft	57	1967
51	Bank of America Center	Houston	USA	238m / 780ft	56	1984
52	Bank of America	San Francisco	USA	237m / 779ft	52	1969
53	1 Worldwide Plaza	New York City	USA	237m / 778ft	50	1989
	US Bank Place	Minneapolis	USA	237m / 776ft	53	1992
54	IDS Center	Minneapolis	USA	236m / 775ft	57	1973
55	Wells Fargo Center	Minneapolis	USA	236m / 773ft	57	1988
56	Washington Mutal Tower	Seattle	USA	235m / 772ft	55	1988
	1 Canada Square	London	UK	235m / 771ft	50	1991
57	Temasak Tower	Singapore	Singapore	235m / 771ft	52	1986
58	191 Peachtree Tower	Atlanta	USA	235m / 770ft	50	1990
59	3 First National Plaza	Chicago	USA	234m / 767ft	57	1981
60	Wachovia Financial Center	Miami	USA	233m / 764ft	55	1984
61	Heritage Plaza	Houston	USA	232m / 762ft	53	1987
62	Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak	Penang	Malaysia	232m / 761ft	65	1985
63	Palace of Culture and Science	Warsaw	Poland	231m / 757ft	42	1955
	Carnegie Hall Tower	New York City	USA	231m / 757ft	60	1991
	Chicago Title and Trust building	Chicago	USA	230m / 756ft	50	1992
64	AXA Tower	New York City	USA	229m / 752ft	54	1986
	2 California Plaza	Los Angeles	USA	229m / 750ft	52	1992
65	One Penn Plaza	New York City	USA	229m / 750ft	57	1972
66	1251 Avenue of the Americas	New York City	USA	229m / 750ft	54	1971
67	Prudential Tower	Boston	USA	229m / 750ft	52	1962
	Gas Company Tower	Los Angeles	USA	228m / 749ft	52	1991
68	Trade Tower	Seoul	S. Korea	228m / 748ft	55	1988
69	1100 Louisiana	Houston	USA	228m / 748ft	55	1980
70	MLC Centre	Sydney	Australia	228m / 748ft	60	1977
	Governor Phillip Tower	Sydney	Australia	227m / 745ft	64	1993
71	60 Wall Street	New York City	USA	227m / 745ft	55	1989
72	One Astor Plaza	New York City	USA	227m / 745ft	54	1972
73	1 Liberty Plaza	New York City	USA	226m / 743ft	54	1973
74	Swissotel Singapore the Stamford	Singapore	Singapore	226m / 742ft	73	1986
75	Reliant Energy Plaza	Houston	USA	226m / 741ft	53	1974
76	20 Exchange Plaza	New York City	USA	226m / 741ft	57	1931
77	Two Union Square	Seattle	USA	226m / 740ft	56	1989
	Verizon Tower	Philadelphia	USA	225m / 739ft	55	1991
78	Three World Financial Center	New York City	USA	225m / 739ft	51	1986
79	Chase Tower	Dallas	USA	225m / 738ft	55	1987
80	Shinjuku Mitsui Building	Tokyo	Japan	225m / 738ft	55	1974
	Melbourne Central	Melbourne	Australia	224m / 735ft	49	1991
81	ARCO Center	Los Angeles	USA	224m / 735ft	55	1974
82	1600 Smith Street	Houston	USA	223m / 732ft	53	1984
83	Shinjuku Center Building	Tokyo	Japan	223m / 731ft	54	1979
84	TD Tower	Toronto	Canada	223m / 731ft	56	1967
85	Carlton Centre	Johannesburg	S. Africa	223m / 730ft	50	1973
	Chang-Gu World Trade Center	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	222m / 728ft	50	1992
86	Marriot Renaissance Center	Detroit	USA	221m / 726ft	73	1977
87	777 Tower	Los Angeles	USA	221m / 725ft	53	1990
88	Olympia Center	Chicago	USA	221m / 725ft	63	1986
89	Parque Central Torre Este	Caracas	Venezuela	221m / 725ft	56	1984
90	Mellon Bank Center	Pittsburgh	USA	221m / 725ft	54	1983
91	Chevron Tower	Houston	USA	221m / 725ft	52	1982
92	Parque Central Torre Oeste	Caracas	Venezuela	221m / 725ft	56	1979
93	Wells Fargo Center	Los Angeles	USA	220m / 723ft	54	1983
94	Westin Peachtree Plaza	Atlanta	USA	220m / 723ft	73	1976
95	Key Bank Tower	Seattle	USA	220m / 722ft	62	1990
96	Fountain Place	Dallas	USA	219m / 720ft	62	1985
97	United California Bank	Los Angeles	USA	219m / 717ft	52	1990
98	Metropolitan Tower	New York City	USA	218m / 716ft	68	1987
	Telstra Corporate Buiding	Melbourne	Australia	218m / 715ft	47	1992
99	Republic Plaza	Denver	USA	218m / 714ft	56	1984
100	1 Shell Plaza	Houston	USA	218m / 714ft	50	1971
101	1801 California	Denver	USA	216m / 709ft	52	1982
102	Hopewell Centre	Hong Kong	China	216m / 709ft	64	1980
103	Terminal Tower	Cleveland	USA	216m / 708ft	52	1930
104	JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters	New York City	USA	215m / 707ft	52	1960
105	Petro-Canada Centre	Calgary	Canada	215m / 705ft	53	1984
106	General Motors Building	New York City	USA	215m / 705ft	50	1968
	Sun Hung Kai Centre	Hong Kong	China	215m / 704ft	56	1991
107	BankWest Tower	Perth	Australia	214m / 702ft	48	1988
108	Torre Pemex	Mexico City	Mexico	214m / 702ft	52	1984
	Shangri-La Hotel	Hong Kong	China	213m / 700ft	57	1991
109	Metropolitan Life Tower	New York City	USA	213m / 700ft	50	1909
110	515 Tower	Los Angeles	USA	213m / 699ft	52	1971
111	Bank of America Tower	Los Angeles	USA	213m / 699ft	52	1971
112	Wells Fargo Center	Denver	USA	213m / 698ft	52	1983
113	Georgia Pacific Tower	Atlanta	USA	212m / 697ft	52	1981
114	1 Shell Plaza	New Orleans	USA	212m / 697ft	51	1972
115	500 5th Avenue	New York City	USA	212m / 697ft	60	1931
116	California Center	San Francisco	USA	212m / 695ft	48	1986
117	IBM Building	Chicago	USA	212m / 695ft	52	1973
	Americas Tower	New York City	USA	211m / 692ft	50	1992
118	Promenade 2	Atlanta	USA	211m / 691ft	40	1989
119	1400 Smith Street	Houston	USA	211m / 691ft	50	1983
120	Shinjuku Sumitomo	Tokyo	Japan	210m / 690ft	52	1974
121	Solow Building	New York City	USA	210m / 689ft	50	1974
122	Tour Montparnasse	Paris	France	210m / 689ft	59	1973
123	HSBC Bank Building	New York City	USA	210m / 688ft	52	1967
124	55 Water Street	New York City	USA	209m / 687ft	53	1972
125	277 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	209m / 687ft	50	1962
126	Trammel Crow Tower	Dallas	USA	209m / 686ft	50	1985
127	Shinjuku Nomura Building	Tokyo	Japan	209m / 686ft	53	1978
	Metroplaza Tower 2	Hong Kong	China	209m / 685ft	47	1992
128	1585 Broadway	New York City	USA	209m / 685ft	42	1989
129	Three Allen Center	Houston	USA	209m / 685ft	50	1980
130	Bay Wellington Tower	Toronto	Canada	208m / 683ft	49	1990
	Westend Strabe 1	Frankfurt	Germany	208m / 682ft	51	1993
	Four Seasons Hotel	New York City	USA	208m / 682ft	52	1993
131	Jing Guang Center	Beijing	China	208m / 682ft	53	1990
132	181 West Madison	Chicago	USA	207m / 680ft	50	1990
133	One Houston Center	Houston	USA	207m / 678ft	46	1978
134	BellSouth Building	Atlanta	USA	206m / 677ft	47	1980
135	Bertelsmann Building	New York City	USA	206m / 676ft	42	1990
	Citibank Plaza	Hong Kong	China	205m / 674ft	51	1992
136	McGraw-Hill Building	New York City	USA	205m / 674ft	51	1969
	Le 1000 rue de la Gauchetiere	Montreal	Canada	205m / 673ft	51	1992
137	One Magnificent Mile	Chicago	USA	205m / 673ft	57	1983
138	Lincoln Building	New York City	USA	205m / 673ft	53	1930
139	33 South Sixth	Minneapolis	USA	204m / 669ft	52	1983
140	Paramount Plaza	New York City	USA	204m / 669ft	48	1970
	R.R. Donnelley Building	Chicago	USA	204m / 668ft	49	1992
141	One Williams Center	Tulsa	USA	203m / 667ft	52	1975
142	Trump Tower	New York City	USA	202m / 664ft	58	1983
143	First City Tower	Houston	USA	202m / 662ft	49	1981
144	OCBC Centre	Singapore	Singapore	201m / 659ft	52	1976
145	BP Tower	Cleveland	USA	201m / 658ft	45	1985
146	Citibank Building	New York City	USA	201m / 658ft	50	1990
147	Guangdong International Building	Guangzhou	China	200m / 657ft	63	1990
	ORC-200	Osaka	Japan	200m / 656ft	51	1993
148	Yasuda Kasai Kaijo Building	Tokyo	Japan	200m / 656ft	43	1976
149	1700 Pacific Avenue	Dallas	USA	200m / 655ft	50	1983
150	Bank of New York Building	New York City	USA	199m / 654ft	50	1931
	Conrad International Hotel	Hong Kong	China	199m / 653ft	61	1991
151	599 Lexington Avenue	New York City	USA	199m / 653ft	50	1986
152	Queensway Government Office Building	Hong Kong	China	199m / 652ft	56	1985
153	712 5th Avenue	New York City	USA	198m / 650ft	52	1990
154	Hotel Ukrine	Moscow	Russia	198m / 650ft	34	1955
155	Chanin Building	New York City	USA	198m / 649ft	56	1930
156	Cityplex Tower	Tulsa	USA	198m / 648ft	60	1979
157	245 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	198m / 648ft	44	1966
158	Richard J. Daley Center	Chicago	USA	198m / 648ft	32	1965
159	Sony Tower	New York City	USA	197m / 647ft	37	1984
160	Bankers Hall East Tower	Calgary	Canada	197m / 646ft	52	1989
	Cable TV Tower	Hong Kong	China	197m / 645ft	41	1993
161	Two World Financial Center	New York City	USA	197m / 645ft	44	1987
162	Place St. Charles	New Orleans	USA	197m / 645ft	53	1985
163	Thanksgiving Tower	Dallas	USA	197m / 645ft	50	1982
164	Lake Point Tower	Chicago	USA	197m / 645ft	69	1968
	Sinn Sathorn	Bangkok	Thailand	195m / 640ft	44	1993
	Le 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque	Montreal	Canada	195m / 640ft	47	1992
165	One New York Plaza	New York City	USA	195m / 640ft	50	1969
166	570 Lexington Avenue	New York City	USA	195m / 640ft	50	1931
	Times Square Natwest Tower	Hong Kong	China	194m / 636ft	40	1993
167	Leo Burnett Building	Chicago	USA	194m / 635ft	46	1989
168	One PPG Place	Pittsburgh	USA	194m / 635ft	40	1984
169	345 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	193m / 634ft	44	1969
170	Menara Prime	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	193m / 633ft	46	1990
171	AAP Centre	Sydney	Australia	193m / 633ft	48	1982
172	One Kansas City Place	Kansas City	USA	193m / 632ft	42	1988
	801 Grand	Des Moines	USA	192m / 630ft	44	1991
173	Torre Calpatria	Bogota	Colombia	192m / 630ft	50	1979
174	Verizon Building	New York City	USA	192m / 630ft	40	1974
175	W.R. Grace Building	New York City	USA	192m / 630ft	50	1971
176	1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza	Seattle	USA	192m / 630ft	50	1969
177	Home Insurance Plaza	New York City	USA	192m / 630ft	45	1966
178	Energy Plaza	Dallas	USA	192m / 629ft	49	1983
179	101 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	192m / 629ft	49	1982
180	Rhodes State Office Tower	Columbus	USA	192m / 629ft	41	1973
181	Central Park Place	New York City	USA	191m / 628ft	56	1988
182	One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza	New York City	USA	191m / 628ft	49	1972
183	888 7th Avenue	New York City	USA	191m / 628ft	46	1971
184	NBC Tower	Chicago	USA	191m / 627ft	37	1989
185	Independence Blue Cross Building	Philadelphia	USA	191m / 625ft	45	1990
186	Bank of America Tower	Miami	USA	191m / 625ft	47	1986
187	San Philipe Plaza	Houston	USA	191m / 625ft	45	1984
188	Citigroup Center	Los Angeles	USA	191m / 625ft	48	1979
189	Burlington House	New York City	USA	191m / 625ft	50	1969
190	Elm Place	Dallas	USA	191m / 625ft	52	1964
191	Waldorf=Astoria	New York City	USA	191m / 625ft	47	1931
192	International Plaza	Singapore	Singapore	190m / 624ft	50	1976
	Trump Palace Condominiums	New York City	USA	190m / 623ft	54	1991
193	Singapore Land Tower	Singapore	Singapore	190m / 623ft	48	1980
194	Nauru House	Melbourne	Australia	190m / 623ft	50	1977
195	Tour de la Bourse	Montreal	Canada	190m / 623ft	47	1964
196	Olympic Tower	New York City	USA	189m / 620ft	51	1976
197	610 Place	Los Angeles	USA	189m / 620ft	42	1967
198	Mercantile Building	New York City	USA	189m / 620ft	48	1929
	Comerica Tower	Detroit	USA	189m / 619ft	45	1992
199	Bank of America Tower	Jacksonville	USA	188m / 617ft	43	1990
200	One Exchange Square	Hong Kong	China	188m / 617ft	52	1985
201	Two Exchange Square	Hong Kong	China	188m / 617ft	52	1985
202	AMP Centre	Sydney	Australia	188m / 617ft	45	1976
203	1 Place Ville-Marie	Montreal	Canada	188m / 617ft	43	1962
204	Fifth Avenue Place	Pittsburgh	USA	188m / 616ft	31	1988
205	750 7th Avenue	New York City	USA	187m / 615ft	35	1989
206	One Oxford Centre	Pittsburgh	USA	187m / 615ft	46	1983
207	919 3rd Avenue	New York City	USA	187m / 615ft	47	1971
208	New York Life Building	New York City	USA	187m / 615ft	40	1928
	9 Queen's Road Central	Hong Kong	China	187m / 614ft	39	1991
209	Tour Total Fina Elf	Paris	France	187m / 614ft	48	1985
210	Tower 49	New York City	USA	187m / 614ft	45	1985
211	Federal Reserve Bank Building	Boston	USA	187m / 614ft	32	1976
212	Tour Gan	Paris	France	187m / 614ft	42	1974
	Singer Building	New York City	USA	187m / 612ft	47	1908-1968
	Entertainment Building	Hong Kong	China	187m / 612ft	33	1993
	Trianon	Frankfurt	Germany	186m / 610ft	45	1993
213	Lippo Centre II	Hong Kong	China	186m / 610ft	48	1988
214	DBS Building Tower One	Singapore	Singapore	186m / 610ft	50	1975
	GLG Grand	Atlanta	USA	186m / 609ft	53	1992
215	Credit Lyonnais Building	New York City	USA	186m / 609ft	45	1964
	Chicago Place	Chicago	USA	185m / 608ft	49	1991
	Sino Plaza	Hong Kong	China	185m / 607ft	38	1992
216	Standard Chartered Bank Building	Hong Kong	China	185m / 607ft	42	1990
217	Sofitel Hotel, Collins Place	Melbourne	Australia	185m / 607ft	50	1981
218	ANZ Tower	Melbourne	Australia	185m / 607ft	46	1980
219	Exxon Building	Houston	USA	185m / 606ft	44	1963
220	Chicago Board of Trade	Chicago	USA	184m / 605ft	44	1930
221	Tour Areva	Paris	France	184m / 604ft	44	1974
222	590 Madison Avenue	New York City	USA	184m / 603ft	41	1983
223	Republic Center Tower I	Dallas	USA	183m / 602ft	36	1954
224	US Bank Center	Milwaukee	USA	183m / 601ft	42	1973
225	CAN Plaza	Chicago	USA	183m / 601ft	44	1972
226	One Boston Place	Boston	USA	183m / 601ft	41	1970
227	One Prudential Plaza	Chicago	USA	183m / 601ft	41	1955
	Heller International Building	Chicago	USA	183m / 600ft	45	1992
228	Capital Mansion	Beijing	China	183m / 600ft	52	1990
229	Capita Centre	Sydney	Australia	183m / 600ft	31	1989
230	One International Place	Boston	USA	183m / 600ft	46	1987
231	PSA Building	Singapore	Singapore	183m / 600ft	42	1986
232	50 Fremont Center	San Francisco	USA	183m / 600ft	43	1985
233	101 California Street	San Francisco	USA	183m / 600ft	48	1982
234	Torre de Cali	Cali	Colombia	183m / 600ft	44	1980
235	Tower 42	London	UK	183m / 600ft	43	1980
236	Royal Trust Tower	Toronto	Canada	183m / 600ft	46	1969

created: 2005-09-13
last update: 2005-09-30