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1 William Street (colloquially known as the Tower of Power) [7] [8] is a skyscraper in William Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At 259.8 metres (852 ft), it is the third-tallest building in the city and 12th-tallest building in Australia as of 2022. [ 9 ]
The Ziggurat, headquarters of the California Department of General Services. The Ziggurat is a ten-story, stepped pyramidal office building and adjacent five-story concrete parking structure located at 707 3rd Street in West Sacramento, California, on the shore of the Sacramento River.
VIA 57 West (marketed as VIΛ 57WEST) is a residential building at 625 West 57th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The pyramid shaped tower block or "tetrahedron", designed by the Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), rises 467 ft (142 m) and is 35-stories tall ...
The Cairo Tower (Egyptian Arabic: برج القاهرة, Borg El-Qāhira) is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. At 187 m (614 ft), it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing .
The building was to be completed in 1986 and to be the tallest hotel, tallest building and tallest structure. Harry Grant went bankrupt and the building never broke ground. [32] Time 108 City: 520 meters (1706 feet) 2018 Skyscraper Myanmar Yangon (New Yangon City) Would be the tallest building in Myanmar Television City Tower: 510 m (1,670 ft) 1985
Rainier Tower in Seattle. The Rainier Tower, which is a 156.56-meter (513.6 ft) skyscraper, was built in 1977 and was designed by Minoru Yamasaki. [5] This skyscraper is the tallest building to date to contain an inverted pyramid structure, which is a 37-meter (121 ft) concrete pedestal base.
Lincoln Cathedral's 525 foot (160 m) high medieval spire on the crossing tower was the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1548) before its collapse. It was the first building to be taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza and nothing taller would be built until the Eiffel Tower was finished in 1889.
The building's façade is covered in crushed quartz, giving the building its light color. [24] The four-story base contains 16,000 cubic yards (12,000 m 3) of concrete and over 300 miles (480 km) of steel rebar. It has 3,678 windows. [13] The building's foundation is 9 feet (2.7 m) thick, the result of a 3-day, 24-hour continuous concrete pour ...