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Tallest freestanding structure in UK. Original 137 m (449 ft) tower built in 1956, replaced 1964. Second 385 m (1,263 ft) guyed tubular mast was built 1964 to replace the tower, but collapsed in 1969 due to icing and strong winds.
Tallest chimney. Drax Power Station (Drax, North Yorkshire) - 259 m (850 ft) [82] Tallest free-standing lattice tower. Crystal Palace transmitting station 219 m (719 ft) Tallest wind turbine. Samsung Heavy Industries 7 MW wind turbine prototype 196 m (643 ft) Tallest electricity pylon. 400 kV Thames Crossing 190.5 m (625 ft) Tallest bridge
This is a list of tallest freestanding structures in the world past and present. To be freestanding a structure must not be supported by guy wires , the sea or other types of auxiliary support. It therefore does not include guyed masts , partially guyed towers and drilling platforms but does include towers , skyscrapers ( pinnacle height) and ...
It holds a Guinness World Record for being the tallest fully rotating freestanding structure in the world, in which the whole structure is capable of rotating 360 degrees. [2] The Glasgow Tower is the tallest building in Glasgow and Scotland, and has held these records since its completion in 2001. [2]
It is protected under UK law as a Grade II listed building. It is the tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom, [1] [2] and 25th tallest tower in the world. [1] It was the seventh tallest freestanding structure and was fourth tallest tower in the European Union before Brexit. [1]
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of January 2025, there are 177 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 25 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...
The tower is 138 metres (453 ft) tall, [1] and is the second-tallest free-standing structure in Liverpool. It has a 10 m (33 ft) long antenna on the roof, making it the tallest structure in Liverpool when antennas are included.
Was briefly the tallest tower in the world in 2010. Second tallest tower in the world. 3: CN Tower: 553.3 m (1,815 ft) 1976: Concrete Canada: Toronto: Tallest freestanding structure in the world 1975–2007, and the world's tallest tower until 2009; tallest in the western hemisphere: 4: Ostankino Tower: 540.1 m (1,772 ft) 1967 Russia: Moscow