Liberty Heights (also known as Wakefield Street Tower, or 17 New Wakefield Street) is a skyscraper apartment building in Manchester, England, and is the third tallest building in Manchester after the Beetham Tower and CIS Tower, Beetham Tower, also known as the Hilton Tower, is a landmark 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, in which country?
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17 New Wakefield Street Liberty Heights (also known as Wakefield Street Tower, or 17 New Wakefield Street) is a skyscraper apartment building in Manchester, England, west of Oxford Street. 17 New Wakefield Street was designed by local architect Stephen Hodder in a clustered architectural form and was completed in September 2012. The skyscraper is situated adjacent to Oxford Road railway station, on the corner of Great Marlborough Street. The skyscraper is 37 storeys high at a height of 109 metres and is the third tallest building in Manchester after the Beetham Tower and CIS Tower.
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Beetham Tower, Manchester Beetham Tower (also known as the Hilton Tower) is a landmark 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, England. Completed in 2006, it is named after its developers, the Beetham Organisation, and was designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners. The development occupies a sliver of land at the top of Deansgate, hence its elongated plan and was proposed in July 2003, with construction starting a year later. At a height of 554 ft , it is the tallest building in the United Kingdom outside London and 10th tallest building in the United Kingdom.
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No. 1 Croydon No. 1 Croydon (formerly the NLA Tower, and colloquially the 50p Building, the Weddingcake or the Threepenny bit building) is a skyscraper at 12–16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, London, next to East Croydon station. It was designed by Richard Seifert & Partners and completed in 1970. It has 24 storeys and is 269 ft high. 'NLA' stood for 'Noble Lowndes Annuities'. It was one of many new buildings constructed in the growing town of Croydon in the 1960s. The development of tall buildings was later encouraged in the 2004 London Plan, which led to the erection of new skyscrapers as London went through a high-rise boom.
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Aragon Tower Aragon Tower on the Pepys Estate in Deptford, is one of London's tallest, privately owned residential towers at 92 metres with 29 floors. It contains 158 residential apartments ranging from 2 to 3 bedrooms, with the original floors being dual aspect maisonettes of the scissor section design.
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Liberty Towers (Jersey City) The Liberty Towers is an apartment complex in Jersey City, New Jersey. It consists of Liberty Towers West, and Liberty Towers East, both of which were constructed from 2001 to 2003 and have 36 floors. They are tied for the 11th tallest building in the Jersey City at 380 ft (120 m). Although they are considered two different buildings, they rise from the same podium, which is used for parking and also contains a lobby. On top of the podium is a deck with leisure facilities for the tenants. The complex has 648 units.
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Parkinson Building The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed art deco building and campanile located at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The campanile is the highest point of the building and stands at 57 metres (187 ft) tall, making it the 17th-tallest building in the city of Leeds.
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225 Liberty Street 225 Liberty Street, formerly Two World Financial Center, is one of the tallest skyscrapers in New York City, located at 225 Liberty Street in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Rising 645 feet (197 m), the building is the second tallest of the four buildings in the World Financial Center complex that stands in southwest Manhattan. It is similar in design to Three World Financial Center, except that its roof is dome-shaped rather than 3 WFC's solid pyramid design. It is notably similar in design to One Canada Square in London's Canary Wharf development. Canary Wharf was, like the World Financial Center, a project by Canadian developers Olympia and York, and One Canada Square was designed by the same architects.
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One Canada Square One Canada Square, sometimes called Canary Wharf Tower or simply Canary Wharf, is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It was the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2010, standing at 770 ft above ground level and containing 50 storeys. In late 2010, it was surpassed by the Shard (completed in July 2012).
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20 Fenchurch Street 20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed 'The walkie-talkie' because of its distinctive shape. Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the top-floor 'sky garden' was opened in January 2015. The 34-storey building is 160 m tall, making it the sixth-tallest building in the City of London and the 12th tallest in London.
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Hilton Niagara Falls Tower 2 The Hilton Hotel and Suites Niagara Falls/Fallsview's North Tower is a skyscraper-style hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. It was originally slated to rise 58 floors to a height of 177 m , but the building was subsequently reduced to 53 (claimed) floors and the new height has never been publicly released. It has however clearly surpassed the Embassy Suites as tallest building in Niagara Falls and still has more than 500 rooms. It is also the tallest hotel in Canada. The Emporis web site lists the building as having 58 structural stories while Skyscraperpage lists the building as having 47 floors. The Hilton website states the building to be a 53-story tall suite tower, but it is unknown if this takes into account mechanical levels or skipped floors. A visual floor count of the building yields only a total of 49 or 50 stories.
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Riverpoint Riverpoint is a two-tower mixed-use building complex located in Limerick, Ireland. Standing at 58.52 m it is currently the fourth-tallest storeyed building in the nation, the ninth-tallest on the island of Ireland and the third-tallest in Munster after the Cork County Hall and The Elysian both in Cork. The Riverpoint tower is 5.52 m taller than the nearby Clarion Hotel Limerick, which at 53.0 m is the tallest hotel in Ireland. The Riverpoint development as a whole forms most of the block surrounded by Henry Street (N20), Lower Mallow Street, Russell's Quay and Mill Lane. The only other buildings on the site are an apartment building on the corner of Lower Mallow Street and Henry Street, and the Eircom building on Henry Street (which may be redeveloped also).
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1 Leadenhall Street 1 Leadenhall Street is an approved 36-storey, 183-metre skyscraper to be built adjacent to Leadenhall Market in London. It will replace the existing building located at 1 Leadenhall Street known as Leadenhall Court.
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Montevideo (Rotterdam) Montevideo is a 43-storey, 139.5 m residential skyscraper on the river Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Montevideo logo on the roof is an 8 by letter "M" which brings the tower's total height to 152.3 m . The logo is also designed to be a giant wind vane. Designed by the Mecanoo architecture firm, the tower was opened 19 December 2005, featuring 192 apartment units, 6050 m² of office space, and 1933 m² of retail space. The building is named after the Uruguay capital city, Montevideo.
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Chapter Spitalfields Chapter Spitalfields, originally known as Nido Spitalfields, is the 3rd tallest student accommodation building in the world, in comparison to the 2nd tallest, the Sky Plaza in Leeds, and the tallest, 17 New Wakefield Street in Manchester. It is located at 100 Middlesex Street in Spitalfields, London.
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Britam Tower Britam Tower is a Commercial Building in Nairobi owned by Britam. The building once complete will stand 200 m (660 ft) and it will have 32 Floors. The building was designed by GAPP Architects and Urban Designers and its Principal architect is Chris Kroese. It was set to be completed in 2016 at which point it will be the tallest building in Kenya and the second tallest building in Africa. The building features a unique prismic shape that starts as an equal four sided square footprint and ends with a two sided roof with a 60m mast containing three helical wind turbines.
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Babillon Tower Babillon Tower (Georgian: ბაბილონის კოშკი ) is a skyscraper currently under construction in Batumi, Georgia. It will be 170 Meters high (47 storeys). Once complete it will be highest skyscraper in Batumi. The tower will join the many new buildings constructed in Batumi in recent years, leading to renewal of the tourist industry.
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Metropolitan Tower (Youngstown) Metropolitan Tower is a skyscraper in Youngstown, Ohio. Designed by Morris Scheibel, the building rises to a height of 224 feet. It has been the tallest building in the city since its completion in 1929, surpassing the Wick Building. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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Nelson Tower Nelson Tower is a 46 story 171 meter (560 feet) tall building located at 450 7th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
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Aurora Tower Aurora Tower is a skyscraper in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is 207 metres tall and was the tallest building in Brisbane from 2006 until being surpassed by Soleil in 2011. Aurora has 69 storeys comprising four floors of 18 penthouses, 54 skyhomes (two-storey luxury apartments) and 408 apartments. It features a heated pool, entertainment area and cinema for residents. Aurora Tower opened to the public on 5 May 2006.
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City Square House City Square House is a 60 m tower block, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Radio City Tower Radio City Tower (also known as St. John's Beacon) is a radio and observation tower in Liverpool, England, built in 1969 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II. It was designed by James A. Roberts Associates in Birmingham. It is 138 metres (452 ft) tall, and is the second tallest free-standing building in Liverpool and the 32nd tallest in the United Kingdom.
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List of tallest buildings in Houston Houston, the largest city in the U.S. state of Texas, is the site of 48 completed high-rises over 427 ft , 35 of which stand taller than 492 ft . The tallest building in the city is the JPMorgan Chase Tower, which rises 1002 ft in Downtown Houston and was completed in 1982. It also stands as the tallest building in Texas and the 16th-tallest building in the United States. The second-tallest skyscraper in the city is the Wells Fargo Plaza, which rises 992 ft and was completed in 1983. The Williams Tower, completed in 1982 and rising 901 ft , is the third-tallest building in Houston. Seven of the ten tallest buildings in Texas are located in Houston.