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The CN Tower ( French: Tour CN) is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [3] [8] Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands. Its name "CN" referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower.
CN Tower Fast Facts. July 11, 2023 at 10:03 AM. ... June 2018 - A renovation project is completed on the LookOut Level, with the opening of a new eatery called the Bistro. The platform is designed ...
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark. Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors.
The Milad Tower ( Persian: برج میلاد, Borj-e Milād) (lit. Birth Tower), also known as the Tehran Tower ( برج تهران Borj-e Tehrān ), [3] is a multi-purpose tower in Tehran, Iran. It is the sixth-tallest tower [4] and the world's first telecommunication tower in terms of the usage area of the top structure and the tallest tower ...
One World Trade Center. / 40.71306°N 74.01333°W / 40.71306; -74.01333. One World Trade Center, also known as One World Trade, One WTC, and formerly called the Freedom Tower during initial planning stages, [note 1] is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
The North Tower was 417 m (1,368 ft) and the South Tower 415 m (1,362 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Empire State Building by 36 m (118 ft). Two years later the Sears Tower was built in Chicago, standing at 442 m (1,450 ft) with 110 floors, surpassing the height of the World Trade Center by 25 m (82 ft).
The second-tallest structure in the world is the 679-metre-tall (2,227 ft) Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, while the third-tallest self-supporting structure and the tallest tower in the world is the Tokyo Skytree (634 m or 2,080 ft). The tallest guyed structure is the KRDK-TV mast in North Dakota, U.S. at 630 metres (2,060 ft).
The original total height of the tower was 365 metres (1,198 ft), but it rose to 368 metres (1,207 ft) after the installation of a new antenna in 1997. [5] The Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest free-standing structure in Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower, the Kyiv TV Tower and the Riga Radio and TV Tower.