Westpac House, Adelaide's tallest building at 132 metres.

It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931.

** Post Tower, the tallest building in the state North Rhine-Westphalia, housing the headquarters of Deutsche Post / DHL

It was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, and it was the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark.

This was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1990 to 1992, the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark, and the first composite space frame high-rise building.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

Famous concrete structures include the Burj Khalifa ( world's tallest building ), the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal and the Roman Pantheon.

The Millikan Library, the tallest building on campus

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

The United States ' two tallest towers are both located in Chicago ; Willis Tower ( formerly Sears Tower, and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere ), and Trump International Hotel and Tower.

Presently, the four tallest buildings in the city are Willis Tower ( formerly the Sears Tower, also a building with its own zip code ), Trump International Hotel and Tower, the Aon Center ( previously the Standard Oil Building ), and the John Hancock Center.

It was the tallest building in Asia from 1992 to 1996, until the Shun Hing Square in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, was built.

The building surpassed the Bank of China Tower as the tallest building in Hong Kong until the completion of 2IFC.

Central Plaza was also the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, until it was surpassed by CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou.

The Ormsby House is currently the tallest building in downtown Carson City, at a height of 117 feet.

The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building and established a second major financial centre in London.

Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur the tallest building in South-East Asia.

Notable amongst these projects were the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers ( at the time the tallest building in the world, and, as of 2010, still the tallest twin building ), KL International Airport ( KLIA ), the North-South Expressway, the Sepang International Circuit, the Multimedia Super Corridor ( MSC ), the Bakun hydroelectric dam and Putrajaya, the new federal administrative capital.

Constructed during Bourne's tenure, the Singer Building ( demolished in 1968 ) was then the tallest building in the world.

An iconic building and tallest in Carlisle, it may soon be demolished and the surrounding area regenerated.

This record was surpassed in 2001 when the September 11 attacks caused the collapse of the nearby World Trade Center, making the Singer Building the 3rd tallest building to be destroyed, but it is still the tallest building ever peacefully demolished.

Land was slowly being assembled for the building, with several predecessor structures along Ohio Street and Pennsylvania Street being demolished in those years and the early 1980s to clear the way for what McKinney hoped would soon be Indiana's tallest office tower.

In 2008 it was demolished to make way for The Shard, which at 310 metres ( 1020 feet ) is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and the European Union.

It holds the current record for the tallest building to be demolished in the UK, surpassing Limebank House which stood at tall.

Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit ( demolished October 24, 1998 ), was the tallest department store in the world as of 1961, and, at one time, claimed to be the second largest department store ( next to Macy's ) in the United States, in terms of square footage.

The tallest of these tower blocks, Cobden House, was demolished by a controlled explosion in August 2002.

It was the tallest structure ever implosively demolished.

In 2006, two of the city centre's tallest post-war blocks were demolished.

As of 2007, the Broadmead shopping centre is being redeveloped, and the city centre's tallest post-war blocks, including Tollgate House were demolished.

Hesiod describes Alcmene as the tallest, most beautiful woman with wisdom surpassed by no person born of mortal parents.

It lies at an elevation of 1132 m ( 3717 ft ) on the right bank of the Ubaye River, and is surrounded by mountains which reach peaks of over 3000 m ; the tallest of these is the Needle of Chambeyron at 3412 m. Barcelonnette is situated 210 km from Turin, 91 km from Nice and 68 km from Gap.

Qutub Minar is the world's tallest brick minaret, commenced by Qutb-ud-din Aybak of the Slave dynasty.

According to Livy, Tarquin cut off the heads of the tallest poppies in his garden as an allegory to instruct his son Sextus to pacify a recently-conquered enemy city by executing its leading citizens.

It stands tall with its legs ; the legs can be removed if the player wishes to play lap-style on the knees, although this makes playing much more difficult and can only be done by the tallest players.

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.

* 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by and become the World's tallest highrise.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

The latest in modern architecture was also represented by the likes of the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain and the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, at its completion the tallest building in the British Empire.

At 300 m, the its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.

Its-tall spire makes it ( briefly, and by 5m ) the world's tallest building ( a title held since 1647 by Strasbourg Cathedral ).

The layout of streets doesn't have the rectangular grid pattern typical of midtown Manhattan, but small streets " barely wide enough for a single lane of traffic are bordered on both sides by some of the tallest buildings in the city ", according to one description, which creates " breathtaking artificial canyons " offering spectacular views in some instances.

In August 1976, Science published a retrospective cohort study by Educational Testing Service psychologist Herman Witkin and colleagues that screened the tallest 16 % of men ( over 184 cm ( 6 ' 0 ") in height ) born in Copenhagen from 1944 – 1947 for XXY and XYY karyotypes, and found an increased rate of minor criminal convictions for property crimes among sixteen XXY and twelve XYY men may be related to the lower intelligence of those with criminal convictions, but found no evidence that XXY or XYY men were inclined to be aggressive or violent.

The tower is 50 metres high, and is the tallest structure in Cambridge ( followed by the Cambridge University Library and King's College Chapel ).

Emley Moor is the tallest free-standing structure in the UK, and the 25th tallest in the world, and was designed by Ove Arup.

The tallest sunflower confirmed by Guinness World Records is 8. 0 m ( 2009, Germany ); surpassing the previous record of 7. 8 m ( 1986, Netherlands ).

Lee & Partners and constructed by KTRT Joint Venture and measuring from ground to roof, Taipei 101 lost the title of the tallest completed skyscraper in the world on January 4, 2010.

The tallest building in Pittsburgh until 1970, when it was eclipsed by the U. S. Steel Tower, it is capped by a step pyramid structure several stories high.

Other notable structures include the 37-story Wells Fargo Center ( with its distinctive flared base making it the defining building in the Jacksonville skyline ), originally built in 1972-74 by the Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company, and the 28 floor Riverplace Tower which, when completed in 1967, was the tallest precast, post-tensioned concrete structure in the world.

Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at, upon completion in 1972 it was among the five tallest buildings in the world.