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Top 10 world's tallest steel buildings

on Sep 27, 2010

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The US Bank Tower, Los Angeles. Photo: Getty.

10. US Bank Tower

California’s tallest building was designed to resist earthquakes of up to 8.3 on the Richter scale.

At 73 storeys high, it is one of the most recognisable buildings in LA, and is often used in television shows and films to establish scenes depicting the city.

The building’s architects were Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, and Turner Construction, the company behind the Aon Centre in Chicago, built the structure.

Statistics
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Height: 310m
Year completed: 1990
Made of: steel
Use: office

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Feels like they are only interested in the iconic buildings?

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Marcellus Ramone Kelley (Aug 31, 2011)
Buffalo N.Y
USA

infra structure
Feels like they are only interested in the iconic buildings?

Tom (Sep 7, 2010)
Duibai
United Arab Emirates

Tallest Steel Buildings
Willis Tower is not the tallest. Taipei 101 is 509.2m is the world's tallest steel building. Ed Note: Not according to the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat on which the feature was based. The CTBUH defines its listed buildings as such: A steel tall building is defined as one where the main vertical and lateral structural elements and floor systems are constructed from steel. A concrete tall building is defined as one where the main vertical and lateral structural elements and floor systems are constructed from concrete. A composite tall building utilises a combination of both steel and concrete acting compositely in the main structural elements, thus including a steel building with a concrete core. The CTBUH states the Taipei 101 tower as of composite design, so is excluded from this list.

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