Spire of Lloyd in Kells, Ireland

“Ireland’s only inland lighthouse” is not actually a lighthouse at all.#follies #lighthouses #towers #section-Atlas
Spire of Lloyd

I've just been discussing a radio site with a 50m tower with the civil engineer on my team.

He has just returned from a site visit where the supplier is starting tower footings 9 metres from a energised 33KV overhead power line! He issued an immediate stop-work. The supplier is responsible for site selection, acquisition and all paperwork.

I'm trying to comprehend the sheer fuckwittery and lack of any intelligence from the supplier selecting this location.

#towers #powerlines #safety

Tallest state office buildings in the USA

Listed below are the tallest state office buildings, not including the capitol buildings themselves, in the United States. While most are located in the capital city, a number of them are located in cities with larger populations within the same state. Peace!

NOTES: * Not originally a state office building. # Not located in the capital city.

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2. Empire State Plaza/Erastus Corning Tower (1973): Albany, NY = 589 feet/44 stories

3. *State of Georgia Building (1966): Atlanta, GA = 566 feet/44 stories

4. Vern Riffe State Office Tower (1988): Columbus, OH = 503 feet/32 stories

5. *#William Donald Schaefer Building (1986): Baltimore, MD = 493 feet/37 stories (state occupies 29 stories)

6. *William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower (1970: Nashville, TN = 452 feet/31 stories

7. James Monroe State Office Building (1981): Richmond, VA = 449 feet/29 stories – may be demolished in the not-too-distant future

8. James K. Polk State Office Building (1981): Nashville, TN = 392 feet/24 stories

9. California EPA Building (2000): Sacramento, CA = 372 feet/25 stories

10. #State Office Building (1958): Philadelphia, PA = 351 feet/18 stories

11. Natural Resources Tower (2021): Sacramento, CA = 344 feet/22 stories

12. #Elihu M Harris State Office Building (1998): Oakland, CA = 328 feet/23 stories

13. Executive Office Building (1977): Tallahassee, FL = 322 feet/22 stories

14-17. Empire State Plaza/Four Agency Towers (1976): Albany, NY = 310 feet/23 stories

18. John W. McCormack State Office Building (1975): Boston, MA = 302 feet/22 stories

19. Andrew Jackson State Office Building (1969): Nashville, TN = 286 feet/17 stories

20. General Services Building (1999): Sacramento, CA = 279 feet/19 stories

21. #Ronald Reagan State Building (1990): Los Angeles, CA = 269 feet/18 stories

22. #State of Illinois/555 W. Monroe (2002): Chicago, IL = 260 feet/17 stories

23. Walter Sillers State Office Building (1972): Jackson, MS = 250 feet/20 stories

24. #Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building (1973): New York City, NY ~ 247 feet/19 stories

25. John Tyler State Office Building (1992): Richmond, VA = 229 feet/11 stories

26. Rachel Carson State Office Building (1990): Harrisburg, PA = 230 feet/17 stories

27. State Resources Building (1964): Sacramento, CA = 230 feet/16 stories

28-29. Department of Justice Building (1995): Sacramento, CA = 227 feet/18 stories and William P. Clements Jr. State Office Building (1986): Austin , TX = 227 feet/15 stories

30. #Maryland State Office Building (1957): Baltimore, MD = 224 feet/15 stories

31. George H.W. Bush State Office Building (2022): Austin, TX = 222 feet/14 stories

32. *#Cadillac Place (1922): Detroit, MI = 220 feet/15 stories

33. General Assembly Building (2023): Richmond, VA = 215 feet/14 stories

34. Indiana Government Center North (1960): Indianapolis, IN = 214 feet/14 stories

35. Barbara Jordan State Office Building (2022): Austin, TX = 211 feet/12 stories

36. Department of Labor Building (1962): Trenton, NJ = 203 feet/14 stories

37-38. James Madison State Office Building (1964): Richmond, VA and Thomas Jefferson State Office Building (1956): Richmond, VA = 200 feet/15 stories

39. Kentucky State Office Building: Frankfort, KY = 187 feet/13 stories

40. Docking State Office Building (1957): Topeka, KS = 182 feet/13 stories

41-42. Wisconsin State Office Building (1939): Madison, WI = 177 feet/11 stories – may be sold soon by the state and *William P. Hobby, Jr. State Office Building (1986): Austin, TX = 177 feet/13 stories

43. Woolfolk State Office Building (1949): Jackson, MS = 169 feet/16 stories

44. Jefferson State Office Building (1951): Jefferson City, MO ~ 167 feet/13 stories

45. George Washington State Office Building (1923): Richmond, VA ~ 165 feet/12 stories

46. State Department of Health: Oklahoma City, OK = 164 feet/12 stories

47. Louisiana State Office Building (1927): Baton Rouge, LA = 160 feet/12 stories

48. *George W. Romney Building (1926): Lansing, MI = 158 feet/13 stories

49. Landon State Office Building (1910): Topeka, KA = 140 feet/10 stories

50. *#Wainwright State Office Building (1891): St. Louis, MO – 135 feet/10 stories

51. State Transportation Building (1958): St. Paul MN = 131 feet/10 stories

52. Rachel Jackson State Office Building (1985): Nashville, TN = 116 feet/8 stories

53. Lucas State Office Building (1950): Des Moines, IA = 108 feet/6 stories

More information needed:

• Eisenhower State Office Building (1965): Topeka, KS = ?/14 stories
• Galvez State Office Building (2003): Baton Rouge, LA = ?/13 stories
• California Tower: Riverside, CA = /11 stories
• State of Arizona Executive Tower: Phoenix, AZ = ?/10 stories
• Bienville State Office Building (2006): Baton Rouge, LA = ?/9 stories
• Iberville State Office Building (2006): Baton Rouge, LA = ?/9 stories
• State Office Tower: Honolulu, HI

SOURCES:

• https://exploringmontgomery.com/lurleen-wallace-office-building/
• https://www.dms.myflorida.com/business_operations/real_estate_development_and_management/bureau_of_operations_and_maintenance/building_information/capitol_complex_information
• skyscraperpage.com
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Georgia_Building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Riffe_State_Office_Tower
• https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/555-west-monroe-street/40202
• https://www.in.gov/core/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Stratton_Building
• https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=108723
• https://admin.ks.gov/offices/facilities-property-management/docking-state-office-building-reconstruction/building-history
• https://klrd.gov/publications/status-of-the-docking-state-office-building/
• https://www.skydb.net/city/730969187/topeka/
• https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/kentucky-state-office-building/32751
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_State_Office_Tower
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_Corning_Tower#Observation_deck
• https://www.whlcarchitecture.com/projects/bienville-state-office-building
• https://www.skydb.net/building/9107145/bienville-office-building-baton-rouge/
• https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=30294
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150221074259/http://www.emporis.com/statistics/tallest-buildings/city/102363/baton-rouge-la-usa
• https://www.hollyandsmith.com/portfolioproject/w-c-c-claiborne-building
• https://downtownbatonrouge.org/about-ddd/building-inventory/iberville-building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Donald_Schaefer_Building#:~:text=The%20William%20Donald%20Schaefer%20Building,employees%20in%2014%20state%20agencies.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCormack_Building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott-Larsen_Building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney_Building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Place
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolfolk_State_Office_Building
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160324105050/http://www.emporis.com/statistics/tallest-buildings/city/101810/jackson-ms-usa
• https://oa.mo.gov/content/jefferson-state-office-building
• https://oa.mo.gov/content/wainwright-state-office-building-st-louis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainwright_Building
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rachel_Carson_Building,_Market_Street,_Harrisburg,_PA.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rachel_Carson_Building,_Market_Street,_Harrisburg,_PA.jpg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sacramento
• https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160312133218/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/123014/andrew-jackson-state-office-building-nashville-tn-usa
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180414010819/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/236470/rachel-jackson-building-nashville-tn-usa
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Nashville
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Hobby,_Jr._State_Office_Building
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara_Jordan_State_Office_Building.png
• https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/william-p-clements-jr-state-office-bldg/10793
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_HW_Bush_State_Office_Building.png
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Building
• https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2025/01/27/downtown-richmond-new-state-office-building
• https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=84
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Office_Building_(Madison,_Wisconsin)
• https://www.skydb.net/building/433070740/docking-state-office-building-topeka/
• https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/ronald-reagan-state-building-south-tower/39277
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_M._Harris_State_Office_Building

#Adam #agencies #architecture #buildings #capitals #cities #design #Elihu #geography #government #highrises #history #landUse #Maryland #Not #planning #Ronald #skylines #skyscrapers #State #states #tourism #towers #travel

Keelung Tower in Keelung City, Taiwan

The bright-orange, crane-shaped tower offers panoramic views and showcases the city’s maritime identity.#towers #section-Atlas
Keelung Tower

dream towers

#Dream #Towers #Ocean #WatercolorStyle #Surreal #Landscape #Sea #Horizon #Pool #Cliffs #Stone #Blue #White #Beige #Copper
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

in real life: https://aieris.art/featured/dream-towers-eris-and-ai.html

American city skylines dominated by a single tower

Listed below are cities across the United States whose skyline is dominated by a single skyscraper that is head and shoulders above its neighbors in the central business district. Even cities with a number of skyscrapers like Oklahoma City and Albany, NY can have one tower that is significantly taller than all the others. Furthermore, if the 1,907 foot tall Legends Tower ends up being built as proposed in Oklahoma City, it will be 2.26 times taller that the current tallest building in the city, the Devon Energy Center which stands at 844 feet.

More than a third of the cities represented (5 of 14) are from the Great Plains – a region more often associated with sprawl than towering skyscrapers. If any other examples of cities in the USA with a dominating were overlooked, please feel free to pass them along. Peace!

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Albany, New York

Amarillo, Texas

Ann Arbor, Michigan – added 4/4/25

Aurora, Illinois – added 4/4/25

Camden, New Jersey

Florence, South Carolina

Hampton, Virginia

McAllen, Texas

Odessa, Texas

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Springfield, Illinois

Tallahassee, Florida

Waco, Texas

#cities #fun #geography #highrises #history #landUse #planning #skylines #skyscrapers #towers #travel

Saint-Augustin Church
Paris

#churches #architecture #paris #parisian #towers #eglisesaintaugustin #saintaugustinchurch
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #architecturephotography #monochromephotography #photos
#jlbouzou

Tour Saint-Jacques
Paris

#churches #toursaintjacques #paris #architecture #churches #belltower #tower #towers #gothic #sculptures
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochromephotography #photos
#jlbouzou

"This tower is the only remnant of a church, the original Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, owing its name and function to the foundation of a chapel in the 12th century. The main body of the church disappeared towards the end of the 18th century."

https://a-fab-journey.com/tour-saint-jacques-paris-secret-stairway-to-heaven/