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.

It is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Pittsburgh skyline.

U. S. Steel Tower, also known as the Steel Building ( formerly USX Tower ), is the tallest skyscraper in Pittsburgh, the fourth tallest building in Pennsylvania, and the 37th tallest in the United States.

Prior to 1970, the tallest building in Pittsburgh, at 44 stories, was the Gulf Building.

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* List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh

* List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh

* List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh

* List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh

The pyramid remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3, 800 years, unsurpassed until the 160-metre-tall spire of Lincoln Cathedral was completed c. 1300.

It remained the tallest building in Trinidad and Tobago until the construction of the Nicholas Tower in 2003.

* Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world ever built after it officially opened on December 31, 2004, a record it held until the opening of the Burj Khalifa ( Formerly known as Burj Dubai ) in January 2010, standing at 828 m ( 2, 717 ft ).

With the spire reaching around 525 feet ( 160 m ) it becomes the world's tallest structure ( surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4, 000 years ), a record it holds until the spire is blown down in 1549.

The City Hall remained the tallest building in the city until 1987 when One Liberty Place was constructed.

Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the Tour First.

Another notable American elm, named Herbie, was the tallest American elm in New England until it was cut down on January 19, 2010, after Dutch elm disease became fatal.

It is high, has 50 floors, and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area ( a title previously held by the Tour Montparnasse, which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011, bringing it to its current height from a previous ; the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower ).

It remained the tallest structure in the London area until 1991.

Up until the 19th century, the Boston Stump had the tallest roof of any building, religious or secular, in the world.

It was the tallest structure in Alaska until its demolition in 2010.

According to the CTBUH's official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 until surpassed by Taipei 101.

The Petronas Towers were the tallest buildings in the world for six years, until Taipei 101 was completed in 2004.

It has been the hub of the city's growth since the 14th century and was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest building in Minnesota and remained so until the Foshay Tower was finished in Minneapolis in 1929.

The world's tallest building was not to rise and its Madison Square site was to remain a parking lot until 1989.

It had been the tallest building in Europe from its completion in 1997 until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow.

The maypole there was the tallest by far, reaching over a hundred and thirty feet, and it stood until being blown over by a high wind in 1672, when it was moved to Wansted in Essex and served as a mount for a telescope.

It is high, which made it the tallest building in the UK until the topping out of One Canada Square in the Docklands in 1990.

It held the status of tallest building in the City of London for 30 years, until it was surpassed by the Heron Tower in December 2009.