1,000 foot spire

Factual Questions
1

Since the Sears Tower was bested by that Malaysian buildng only because of the spire how about we build a building with a 1,000 foot spire.

Aside from the fact it would probably fall over if you did do you think they’d count it?

2

Just because of this sort of thing, ‘they’ have created 4 different subcategories of this record. IIRC, these are:

  1. Height to highest occupied floor (Sears Tower)
  2. Height to highest architectural element (Petronas Towers)
  3. Height to top of antenna (World Trade Center)
  4. Height to roof(?) (Sears Tower)
3

So, where does this leave the [URL HREF=“http://www.cntower.ca/”]CN Tower? It is ~553 m / ~1815 feet.

The CN Tower is officially classed as the world’s tallest “freestanding structure”; it is essentially a really big communications antenna with a revolving restaurant and a couple of observation decks along for the ride. Is the record you cited only for “office buildings”?

There was an [URL HREF=“http://www.thestar.com/back_issues/ED20000401/news/20000401NEW01e_CI-APRIL1.html”]article in the [URL HREF=“http://www.thestar.ca”]Toronto Star a week or so ago saying how the MTR Building in Hong Kong was going to be taller than the CN Tower. Trizec-Hahn, the operators, revealed a plan to heighten the CN Tower… but then, it was the 1 April edition of the Star, so who knows…

Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos…

4

[^&^%#@# picky UBB markup. If the UBB parser was Catholic, I’d have it arrested for “excessive scrupulosity”.

Let’s try that again, shall we?

So, where does this leave the CN Tower? It is ~553 m / ~1815 feet.

The CN Tower is officially classed as the world’s tallest “freestanding structure”; it is essentially a really big communications antenna with a revolving restaurant and a couple of observation decks along for the ride. Is the record you cited only for “office buildings”?

There was an article in the Toronto Star a week or so ago saying how the MTR Building in Hong Kong was going to be taller than the CN Tower. Trizec-Hahn, the operators, revealed a plan to heighten the CN Tower… but then, it was the 1 April edition of the Star, so who knows.

The interesting part in that was the link to World’s Tallest Buildings magazine…

Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos.

5

I seem to recall hearing that there is a smokestack in (Eastern?) Europe that is supposed to be in the tallest structure race as well. I think I saw it in a Poundstone book called The Ultimate. Or maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet this morning. Has anyone heard of this one besides the voices in my head?

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6

Here is a link to the FAQ at one of the better skyscraper sites.

http://www.worldstallest.com/faq.html

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