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This is the tallest building in my hometown, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

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It was built in 1958.

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It's actually considered by many Broken Arrowans to be an important landmark. I don't really know why...

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Though it certainly isnt our BEST, it's our tallest, at 821 feet - the USX tower.

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First interstate bank in downtown Casper,Wyoming. Only a midrise but a clean looking building interstatebank.jpg

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Parque Central Complex, Caracas, Venezuela.

It is 221 m (725 ft) tall, and has 54 floors. 2 years ago the east tower caught fire and 10 floors were destroyed.

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The Space Needle isn't the tallest building in Seattle but is almost.

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The Space Needle is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest and symbol of the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington. It was designated a historic landmark on April 19, 1999.[1] Located on the grounds of Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators — 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. It is now privately owned. The Space Needle is a tower 184 m (605 feet) high and 42 m (138 feet) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons. It is built to withstand winds of up to 240 km/h (150 mph) and earthquakes up to 9.5 magnitude (which, by coincidence, was just enough to resist Seattle's later discovered Cascadia earthquake) and has 25 lightning rods on the roof to withstand lightning strikes.

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Although I'm not officially from Toronto, there's not really any other good tall buidlings elsewhere in the GTA. Sooo, heres the tallest building in Toronto, and also Canada.

First Canada Place

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Standing at 978 feet with 72 floors this building was completed in 1975. It is the world headquarters of BMO Financial Group as the logo at the top displays.

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Well here in Norfolk, Va our tallest is.

Current Tallest:                                                                    Dominion Tower [340 feet]

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Under Construction but future tallest:                              Granby Tower [450 feet]

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And just our Downtown

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EDIT: Images Now chould come up

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These two buildings will be the tallest in Belfast once finished. The Obel Tower (curved one) will be a residential tower and hotel and will be 85m high and Bedford Square Building will be 105m high, that beautiful old building, Ewart Building will be restored as part of the development.

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this is the highest building in my home city Tilburg, holland

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it's about 140 meters high and it's a residental tower, it's the second highest residential tower in the Netherlands. it's not for from my school so i see it almost every day.

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The tallest building in my town is a bizarre brutalist building with a control tower thing on top. Its on the Texas A&M University campus

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We also have a 13 story hotel building. It's from the 70's and is concrete prefab. It was an originally a private dorm for the university but that concept failed when students all began moving into houses(Says alot about the planning or lack thereof in this town)So far its not doing very good business, and the rooms arent that great. At night its almost entirely dark. I have the feeling it will eventually be abandoned and hopefully imploded.Sucks to have such an eyesore in town

We also had this pretty office tower going up that was going to be for a bank, but the bank got bought out by a bigger bank and now the construction has been stopped for like a year and its sitting as a shell...

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@hamster: The "Plaza Hotel", eh? It does need to be knocked down. And I thought the Hilton was taller.


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@hamster: The "Plaza Hotel", eh? It does need to be knocked down. And I thought the Hilton was taller.quote>

yeah.

I thought the hilton was only 10 stories, but I might be wrong.

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Here in Sudbury its the building that loves to play second to everything, second tallest building in Canada and, the dead give away, second tallest smoke stack in the world. And really, the CN Tower is taller then First Canada place, as is the Superstack. You can see it from pretty much any where in the city, and the city covers over 3000 square kilometers!

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Originally posted by: Anung Mwka Here in Sudbury its the building that loves to play second to everything, second tallest building in Canada and, the dead give away, second tallest smoke stack in the world. And really, the CN Tower is taller then First Canada place, as is the Superstack. You can see it from pretty much any where in the city, and the city covers over 3000 square kilometers!

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Yes, the CN tower is taller than First Canada place but its not by definition a building in the strict sense of the term.

 Also, just to clarify, The City of Sudbury is much larger in area than the actual urban area of Sudbury... just to avoid any misunderstandings about the whole 3000km^2

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NB POWER BUILDING

Height: 9 floors (47.6 m, 156 f)

Occupants: NB Power along with BMO

Facts: My mom works on the 6th floor...the view isnt very spectacular for the tallest building...XP

Yeah, this building doesnt impress me that much.  I guess Im just used to it, hah, Im even looking at right now!  Ive seen bigger such as the Empire State and First Canadian Place, so I just dont see it as that atll anymore.  Before I saw these other buildings, I thought it was the tallest thing, like, ever!  Same with Moncton's little "skyscrapers".  Ah, whatever, New Brunswick isnt a very vertical province.

Also see it in pixel art form, HERE!

Yes I drew that.  On MS Paint.

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Belfort of my hometown, Gent, Belgium.

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(98 meters tall)

Construction began in 1314 and the tower was reconfigered many times over the next century, present form is of early 20 century and is based on the original design for the tower.

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Originally posted by: Resender Belfort of my hometown, Gent, Belgium.

<img src="http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7808/belfortgentda2.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" />

(98 meters tall)

Construction began in 1314 and the tower was reconfigered many times over the next century, present form is of early 20 century and is based on the original design for the tower.quote>

looks to me like wherever they took that picture from is higher... haha, unless it was a helicopter.

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the picture is taken from the top of Sint-Baafskathedraal which is 82 meters high

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Here is the Hilton Hotel in downtown Springfield, IL, USA. It is the tallest building between Chicago and St. Louis, MO i think. Maybe the State Capital is taller but i doubt it. Here they both are 00spring-b.jpg

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This is the tallest in my town as far as I know...

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