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list of tall buildings in 1929



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 Edificio Telefónica Madrid 89 office 1929
4 Ullsteinhaus Berlin 83 office 1927
5 Siemensturm Berlin 71 office 1918
6 Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid 67 cultural 1926
7 Hansahochhaus Cologne 65 office 1925
8 Ginzburg House   Kyiv 63 residential 1912
9 Derzhprom Kharkiv 63 office 1928
10 Södra Kungstornet Stockholm 61 office 1924
11 Tagblatt-Turm Stuttgart 61 office 1928
12 Behrensbau Berlin 60 office 1917
13 Borsigturm Berlin 60 office 1924
13 Norra Kungstornet Stockholm 60 office 1924
15 Palacio de la Prensa Madrid 60 office 1929
16 Sankt Erikspalatset Stockholm 58 residential / office 1910
17 De Inktpot Utrecht 58 office 1921
18 Opelturm Rüsselsheim 58 office 1929
19 Rathaus Augsburg 57 city hall 1624
20 Midland Grand Hotel London 57 hotel 1873
21 Balmoral Hotel Edinburgh 56 hotel 1902
22 Wilhelm-Marx-Haus Düsseldorf 56 office 1924
23 Europahaus Leipzig 56 office 1929
23 Otterhall Gothenburg 56 office 1929
25 55 Broadway London 54 office 1929
26 Polska Akcyjna Spółka Telefoniczna Warsaw 52 office 1910
27 68 King William Street London 51 office 1922
28 Ballinhaus Hamburg 51 office 1924
29 Anzeiger-Hochhaus Hanover 51 office 1928
30 Mathematische Turm Kremsmünster 49 observatory / museum 1758
31 Queen Anne's Mansions   London 49 residential 1890
32 Philips Lichttoren Eindhoven 48 office 1921
33 Ernemann-Turm Dresden 48 office 1923
34 Strand Hotel Stockholm 47 hotel 1912
35 Sjömansinstitutet Stockholm 47 office 1914
36 Bau 15 Jena 47 office 1915
37 Siemens Schaltwerk-Hochhaus Berlin 47 factory 1928
38 Tower Building Liverpool 46 office 1908
39 Yusuf Ziya Pasha Mansion Istanbul 46 residential 1911
40 Städtisches Hochhaus Munich 46 office 1929
41 Fairy-Tale House   Saint Petersburg 45 residential 1909
42 Edificio Metrópolis Madrid 45 office 1911
43 Postscheckamt Breslau 45 office 1929
44 The Langham London 44 hotel 1865
45 Grattacieli Gemelli 1 Milan 43 residential 1923
45 Grattacieli Gemelli 2 Milan 43 residential 1923
47 Adelaide House London 43 office 1925
48 Kraftwerk Klingenberg Berlin 43 office 1926
49 Grattacielo di via Vittorio Veneto La Spezia 43 residential 1927
50 Krochhochhaus Leipzig 43 office 1929
51 City Chambers Edinburgh 42 office 1760
52 Witte Huis Rotterdam 42 office 1898
53 Stummhaus Düsseldorf 42 office 1925
54 Wasserturm des Dortmunder Südbahnhofs Dortmund 42 water tower / residential 1927
55 Westfalenhaus Dortmund 42 office 1928
56 Nirnsee House Moscow 41 residential 1915
57 Edificio del Banco Pastor en La Coruña La Coruña 41 office 1925
58 Narva-Turm Berlin 40 office 1909
59 Beyer-Bau Dresden 40 observatorium 1913
60 Cammann-Hochhaus Chemnitz 40 office 1925
60 Mosselprom House Moscow 40 residential 1925
62 Knorr-Bremse Gebäude Berlin 40 office 1927
63 Haus Grenzwacht Aachen 40 office 1929
63 Otto-Moericke-Turm Konstanz 40 hotel 1929
- Deutschlandhaus Essen 39 office 1929
- Palazzo Aedes Trieste 38 office 1928
- Haus Rheinpark 1 Düsseldorf 38 residential 1929
- Haus Rheinpark 2 Düsseldorf 38 residential 1929
- Gebouw Astoria Amsterdam 37 office 1905
- Hotel Savoy Łódź 37 hotel 1911
- Hochhaus am Albertplatz Dresden 37 office 1929
- Lietuvos geležinkeliai Vilnius 36 office 1903
- Market Street storehouse Dublin 36 storage 1904
- Handelshof Gera 36 office 1929
- 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
- Mittnachtbau Stuttgart 35 office 1928
- 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
- Mathenesserplein Rotterdam 28 residential 1929
- 48 Rue de Valois Paris 26 hotel / residential 1781
- Nirwanaflat The Hague 25 residential 1929
- Oriel Chambers Liverpool 21 office 1864
- Ditherington Flax Mill Shrewsbury 17 factory 1797