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list of tall buildings in 1927



this collection includes buildings of least 40 meters tall that were completed before 1945. Buildings that are shorter than 40 meters but possess skyscraperesque features are included in this list, though they are not ranked

giraffes
during this period, a significant number of 'giraffe' buildings were constructed. A giraffe is defined as a low-rise building with a tower integrated into its design. To qualify for inclusion in this collection, the tower section must have habitable floors occupying more than fifty percent of its total height

color codes
  later reconstructed      later demolished

# name city height usage year
1 Royal Liver Building Liverpool 104 office 1911
2 Victoria Tower London 99 storage 1860
3 Ullsteinhaus Berlin 83 office 1927
4 Siemensturm Berlin 71 office 1918
5 Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid 67 cultural 1926
6 Hansahochhaus Cologne 65 office 1925
7 Ginzburg House   Kyiv 63 residential 1912
8 Södra Kungstornet Stockholm 61 office 1924
9 Behrensbau Berlin 60 office 1917
10 Borsigturm Berlin 60 office 1924
10 Norra Kungstornet Stockholm 60 office 1924
12 Sankt Erikspalatset Stockholm 58 residential / office 1910
13 De Inktpot Utrecht 58 office 1921
14 Rathaus Augsburg 57 city hall 1624
15 Midland Grand Hotel London 57 hotel 1873
16 Balmoral Hotel Edinburgh 56 hotel 1902
17 Wilhelm-Marx-Haus Düsseldorf 56 office 1924
18 Polska Akcyjna Spółka Telefoniczna Warsaw 52 office 1910
19 68 King William Street London 51 office 1922
20 Ballinhaus Hamburg 51 office 1924
21 Mathematische Turm Kremsmünster 49 observatory / museum 1758
22 Queen Anne's Mansions   London 49 residential 1890
23 Philips Lichttoren Eindhoven 48 office 1921
24 Ernemann-Turm Dresden 48 office 1923
25 Strand Hotel Stockholm 47 hotel 1912
26 Sjömansinstitutet Stockholm 47 office 1914
27 Bau 15 Jena 47 office 1915
28 Tower Building Liverpool 46 office 1908
29 Yusuf Ziya Pasha Mansion Istanbul 46 residential 1911
30 Fairy-Tale House   Saint Petersburg 45 residential 1909
31 Edificio Metrópolis Madrid 45 office 1911
32 The Langham London 44 hotel 1865
33 Grattacieli Gemelli 1 Milan 43 residential 1923
33 Grattacieli Gemelli 2 Milan 43 residential 1923
35 Adelaide House London 43 office 1925
36 Kraftwerk Klingenberg Berlin 43 office 1926
37 Grattacielo di via Vittorio Veneto La Spezia 43 residential 1927
38 City Chambers Edinburgh 42 office 1760
39 Witte Huis Rotterdam 42 office 1898
40 Stummhaus Düsseldorf 42 office 1925
41 Wasserturm des Dortmunder Südbahnhofs Dortmund 42 water tower / residential 1927
42 Nirnsee House Moscow 41 residential 1915
43 Edificio del Banco Pastor en La Coruña La Coruña 41 office 1925
44 Narva-Turm Berlin 40 office 1909
45 Beyer-Bau Dresden 40 observatorium 1913
46 Cammann-Hochhaus Chemnitz 40 office 1925
46 Mosselprom House Moscow 40 residential 1925
48 Knorr-Bremse Gebäude Berlin 40 office 1927
- Gebouw Astoria Amsterdam 37 office 1905
- Hotel Savoy Łódź 37 hotel 1911
- Lietuvos geležinkeliai Vilnius 36 office 1903
- Market Street storehouse Dublin 36 storage 1904
- Afremov House Moscow 35 residential 1905
- De Utrecht Amsterdam 35 office 1906
- The Yellow Building Sofia 35 office 1914
- Galeries Lafayette Lyon 35 retail 1925
- Hotel Admiralspalast Zabrze 33 hotel 1927
- Immeuble Cateland Lyon 31 residential 1911
- Hochhaus Glückauf Hanover 31 residential 1927
- Trinity Compound on Ilyinka Moscow 30 residential 1876
- Casa Lancia   Milan 30 office 1907
- Tour Chicago Paris 30 storage 1912
- Industriehaus Düsseldorf 30 office 1923
- Prinz-Georg-Straße 100 Düsseldorf 29 residential 1925
- 48 Rue de Valois Paris 26 hotel / residential 1781
- Oriel Chambers Liverpool 21 office 1864
- Ditherington Flax Mill Shrewsbury 17 factory 1797