The World's Tallest Buildings 1980

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The World's Tallest buildings [min.183m] in 1980

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
5	Aon Center	Chicago	USA	346m / 1136ft	80	1973
6	John Hancock Center	Chicago	USA	344m / 1127ft	100	1969
7	Crysler Building	New York City	USA	319m / 1046ft	77	1930
	Chase Tower	Houston	USA	305m / 1002ft	75	1982
8	First Canadian Place	Toronto	Canada	298m / 978ft	72	1975
	Wells Fargo Plaza	Houston	USA	296m / 972ft	71	1983
9	American Int'l Building	New York City	USA	290m / 952ft	67	1932
10	The Trump Building	New York City	USA	283m / 927ft	71	1930
11	Citigroup Center	New York City	USA	279m / 915ft	59	1977
	Williams Tower	Houston	USA	275m / 901ft	64	1983
12	Renaissance Tower	Dallas	USA	270m / 886ft	56	1974
13	Water Tower Place	Chicago	USA	262m / 859ft	74	1976
14	Aon Tower	Los Angeles	USA	262m / 858ft	62	1974
15	Transamerica Pyramid	San Francisco	USA	260m / 853ft	48	1972
16	Bank One Plaza	Chicago	USA	259m / 850ft	60	1969
17	GE Building	New York City	USA	259m / 850ft	69	1933
18	US Steel Tower	Pittsburgh	USA	256m / 841ft	64	1970
19	One Chase Manhattan Plaza	New York City	USA	248m / 813ft	60	1961
20	Metlife Building	New York City	USA	246m / 808ft	60	1963
21	Woolworth Building	New York City	USA	241m / 792ft	57	1913
22	John Hancock Tower	Boston	USA	241m / 790ft	60	1976
23	Sunshine 60 Building	Tokyo	Japan	240m / 787ft	60	1978
24	Moscow State University	Moscow	Russia	240m / 787ft	36	1953
25	Commerence Court West	Toronto	Canada	239m / 784ft	57	1967
26	Bank of America	San Francisco	USA	237m / 779ft	52	1969
27	IDS Center	Minneapolis	USA	236m / 775ft	57	1973
	3 First National Plaza	Chicago	USA	234m / 767ft	57	1981
28	Palace of Culture and Science	Warsaw	Poland	231m / 757ft	42	1955
29	One Penn Plaza	New York City	USA	229m / 750ft	57	1972
30	1251 Avenue of the Americas	New York City	USA	229m / 750ft	54	1971
31	Prudential Tower	Boston	USA	229m / 750ft	52	1962
32	1100 Louisiana	Houston	USA	228m / 748ft	55	1980
33	MLC Centre	Sydney	Australia	228m / 748ft	60	1977
34	One Astor Plaza	New York City	USA	227m / 745ft	54	1972
35	1 Liberty Plaza	New York City	USA	226m / 743ft	54	1973
36	Reliant Energy Plaza	Houston	USA	226m / 741ft	53	1974
37	20 Exchange Plaza	New York City	USA	226m / 741ft	57	1931
38	Shinjuku Mitsui Building	Tokyo	Japan	225m / 738ft	55	1974
39	ARCO Center	Los Angeles	USA	224m / 735ft	55	1974
40	Shinjuku Center Building	Tokyo	Japan	223m / 731ft	54	1979
41	TD Tower	Toronto	Canada	223m / 731ft	56	1967
42	Carlton Centre	Johannesburg	S. Africa	223m / 730ft	50	1973
43	Marriot Renaissance Center	Detroit	USA	221m / 726ft	73	1977
	Mellon Bank Center	Pittsburgh	USA	221m / 725ft	54	1983
	Chevron Tower	Houston	USA	221m / 725ft	52	1982
44	Parque Central Torre Oeste	Caracas	Venezuela	221m / 725ft	56	1979
	Wells Fargo Center	Los Angeles	USA	220m / 723ft	54	1983
45	Westin Peachtree Plaza	Atlanta	USA	220m / 723ft	73	1976
46	1 Shell Plaza	Houston	USA	218m / 714ft	50	1971
	1801 California	Denver	USA	216m / 709ft	52	1982
47	Hopewell Centre	Hong Kong	China	216m / 709ft	64	1980
48	Terminal Tower	Cleveland	USA	216m / 708ft	52	1930
49	JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters	New York City	USA	215m / 707ft	52	1960
50	General Motors Building	New York City	USA	215m / 705ft	50	1968
51	Metropolitan Life Tower	New York City	USA	213m / 700ft	50	1909
52	515 Tower	Los Angeles	USA	213m / 699ft	52	1971
53	Bank of America Tower	Los Angeles	USA	213m / 699ft	52	1971
	Wells Fargo Center	Denver	USA	213m / 698ft	52	1983
	Georgia Pacific Tower	Atlanta	USA	212m / 697ft	52	1981
54	1 Shell Plaza	New Orleans	USA	212m / 697ft	51	1972
55	500 5th Avenue	New York City	USA	212m / 697ft	60	1931
56	IBM Building	Chicago	USA	212m / 695ft	52	1973
	1400 Smith Street	Houston	USA	211m / 691ft	50	1983
57	Shinjuku Sumitomo	Tokyo	Japan	210m / 690ft	52	1974
58	Solow Building	New York City	USA	210m / 689ft	50	1974
59	Tour Montparnasse	Paris	France	210m / 689ft	59	1973
60	HSBC Bank Building	New York City	USA	210m / 688ft	52	1967
61	55 Water Street	New York City	USA	209m / 687ft	53	1972
62	277 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	209m / 687ft	50	1962
63	Shinjuku Nomura Building	Tokyo	Japan	209m / 686ft	53	1978
64	Three Allen Center	Houston	USA	209m / 685ft	50	1980
65	One Houston Center	Houston	USA	207m / 678ft	46	1978
66	BellSouth Building	Atlanta	USA	206m / 677ft	47	1980
67	McGraw-Hill Building	New York City	USA	205m / 674ft	51	1969
	One Magnificent Mile	Chicago	USA	205m / 673ft	57	1983
68	Lincoln Building	New York City	USA	205m / 673ft	53	1930
	33 South Sixth	Minneapolis	USA	204m / 669ft	52	1983
69	Paramount Plaza	New York City	USA	204m / 669ft	48	1970
70	One Williams Center	Tulsa	USA	203m / 667ft	52	1975
	Trump Tower	New York City	USA	202m / 664ft	58	1983
	First City Tower	Houston	USA	202m / 662ft	49	1981
71	OCBC Centre	Singapore	Singapore	201m / 659ft	52	1976
72	Yasuda Kasai Kaijo Building	Tokyo	Japan	200m / 656ft	43	1976
	1700 Pacific Avenue	Dallas	USA	200m / 655ft	50	1983
73	Bank of New York Building	New York City	USA	199m / 654ft	50	1931
74	Hotel Ukrine	Moscow	Russia	198m / 650ft	34	1955
75	Chanin Building	New York City	USA	198m / 649ft	56	1930
76	Cityplex Tower	Tulsa	USA	198m / 648ft	60	1979
77	245 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	198m / 648ft	44	1966
78	Richard J. Daley Center	Chicago	USA	198m / 648ft	32	1965
	Thanksgiving Tower	Dallas	USA	197m / 645ft	50	1982
79	Lake Point Tower	Chicago	USA	197m / 645ft	69	1968
80	One New York Plaza	New York City	USA	195m / 640ft	50	1969
81	570 Lexington Avenue	New York City	USA	195m / 640ft	50	1931
82	345 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	193m / 634ft	44	1969
	AAP Centre	Sydney	Australia	193m / 633ft	48	1982
83	Torre Calpatria	Bogota	Colombia	192m / 630ft	50	1979
84	Verizon Building	New York City	USA	192m / 630ft	40	1974
85	W.R. Grace Building	New York City	USA	192m / 630ft	50	1971
86	1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza	Seattle	USA	192m / 630ft	50	1969
87	Home Insurance Plaza	New York City	USA	192m / 630ft	45	1966
	Energy Plaza	Dallas	USA	192m / 629ft	49	1983
	101 Park Avenue	New York City	USA	192m / 629ft	49	1982
88	Rhodes State Office Tower	Columbus	USA	192m / 629ft	41	1973
89	One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza	New York City	USA	191m / 628ft	49	1972
90	888 7th Avenue	New York City	USA	191m / 628ft	46	1971
91	Citigroup Center	Los Angeles	USA	191m / 625ft	48	1979
92	Burlington House	New York City	USA	191m / 625ft	50	1969
93	Elm Place	Dallas	USA	191m / 625ft	52	1964
94	Waldorf=Astoria	New York City	USA	191m / 625ft	47	1931
95	International Plaza	Singapore	Singapore	190m / 624ft	50	1976
96	Singapore Land Tower	Singapore	Singapore	190m / 623ft	48	1980
97	Nauru House	Melbourne	Australia	190m / 623ft	50	1977
98	Tour de la Bourse	Montreal	Canada	190m / 623ft	47	1964
99	Olympic Tower	New York City	USA	189m / 620ft	51	1976
100	610 Place	Los Angeles	USA	189m / 620ft	42	1967
101	Mercantile Building	New York City	USA	189m / 620ft	48	1929
102	AMP Centre	Sydney	Australia	188m / 617ft	45	1976
103	1 Place Ville-Marie	Montreal	Canada	188m / 617ft	43	1962
	One Oxford Centre	Pittsburgh	USA	187m / 615ft	46	1983
104	919 3rd Avenue	New York City	USA	187m / 615ft	47	1971
105	New York Life Building	New York City	USA	187m / 615ft	40	1928
106	Federal Reserve Bank Building	Boston	USA	187m / 614ft	32	1976
107	Tour Gan	Paris	France	187m / 614ft	42	1974
	Singer Building	New York City	USA	187m / 612ft	47	1908-1968
108	DBS Building Tower One	Singapore	Singapore	186m / 610ft	50	1975
109	Credit Lyonnais Building	New York City	USA	186m / 609ft	45	1964
	Sofitel Hotel, Collins Place	Melbourne	Australia	185m / 607ft	50	1981
110	ANZ Tower	Melbourne	Australia	185m / 607ft	46	1980
111	Exxon Building	Houston	USA	185m / 606ft	44	1963
112	Chicago Board of Trade	Chicago	USA	184m / 605ft	44	1930
113	Tour Areva	Paris	France	184m / 604ft	44	1974
	590 Madison Avenue	New York City	USA	184m / 603ft	41	1983
114	Republic Center Tower I	Dallas	USA	183m / 602ft	36	1954
115	US Bank Center	Milwaukee	USA	183m / 601ft	42	1973
116	CAN Plaza	Chicago	USA	183m / 601ft	44	1972
117	One Boston Place	Boston	USA	183m / 601ft	41	1970
118	One Prudential Plaza	Chicago	USA	183m / 601ft	41	1955
	101 California Street	San Francisco	USA	183m / 600ft	48	1982
119	Torre de Cali	Cali	Colombia	183m / 600ft	44	1980
120	Tower 42	London	UK	183m / 600ft	43	1980
121	Royal Trust Tower	Toronto	Canada	183m / 600ft	46	1969

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