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list of tall buildings in 1930



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 Sportpalatset Stockholm 58 residential / sports 1930
20 Rathaus Augsburg 57 city hall 1624
21 Midland Grand Hotel London 57 hotel 1873
22 Wernerwerk-Hochhaus Berlin 57 office 1930
23 Balmoral Hotel Edinburgh 56 hotel 1902
24 Wilhelm-Marx-Haus Düsseldorf 56 office 1924
25 Europahaus Leipzig 56 office 1929
25 Otterhall Gothenburg 56 office 1929
27 55 Broadway London 54 office 1929
28 Polska Akcyjna Spółka Telefoniczna Warsaw 52 office 1910
29 68 King William Street London 51 office 1922
30 Ballinhaus Hamburg 51 office 1924
31 Anzeiger-Hochhaus Hanover 51 office 1928
32 Mathematische Turm Kremsmünster 49 observatory / museum 1758
33 Queen Anne's Mansions   London 49 residential 1890
34 Philips Lichttoren Eindhoven 48 office 1921
35 Ernemann-Turm Dresden 48 office 1923
36 Hotel Century Antwerp 48 hotel / retail 1930
36 Kathreiner-Haus Berlin 48 office 1930
38 Strand Hotel Stockholm 47 hotel 1912
39 Sjömansinstitutet Stockholm 47 office 1914
40 Bau 15 Jena 47 office 1915
41 Siemens Schaltwerk-Hochhaus Berlin 47 factory 1928
42 Le Saillant de l'Yser Brussels 47 residential 1930
43 Tower Building Liverpool 46 office 1908
44 Yusuf Ziya Pasha Mansion Istanbul 46 residential 1911
45 Städtisches Hochhaus Munich 46 office 1929
46 Fairy-Tale House   Saint Petersburg 45 residential 1909
47 Edificio Metrópolis Madrid 45 office 1911
48 Postscheckamt Breslau 45 office 1929
49 Residenza Bertola Turin 45 residential 1930
50 The Langham London 44 hotel 1865
51 Správní budova Spolchemie Usti nad Labem 44 office 1930
51 Zentrale der Konsumgenossenschaft Vorwärts-Befreiung Wuppertal 44 office 1930
53 Grattacieli Gemelli 1 Milan 43 residential 1923
53 Grattacieli Gemelli 2 Milan 43 residential 1923
55 Adelaide House London 43 office 1925
56 Kraftwerk Klingenberg Berlin 43 office 1926
57 Grattacielo di via Vittorio Veneto La Spezia 43 residential 1927
58 Krochhochhaus Leipzig 43 office 1929
59 City Chambers Edinburgh 42 office 1760
60 Witte Huis Rotterdam 42 office 1898
61 Stummhaus Düsseldorf 42 office 1925
62 Wasserturm des Dortmunder Südbahnhofs Dortmund 42 water tower / residential 1927
63 Westfalenhaus Dortmund 42 office 1928
64 Nirnsee House Moscow 41 residential 1915
65 Edificio del Banco Pastor en La Coruña La Coruña 41 office 1925
66 Narva-Turm Berlin 40 office 1909
67 Beyer-Bau Dresden 40 observatorium 1913
68 Cammann-Hochhaus Chemnitz 40 office 1925
68 Mosselprom House Moscow 40 residential 1925
70 Knorr-Bremse Gebäude Berlin 40 office 1927
71 Haus Grenzwacht Aachen 40 office 1929
71 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
- Reichsversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte Berlin 37 cultural 1930
- 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
- Capitol-Hochhaus Hanover 35 office 1930
- Hotel Admiralspalast Zabrze 33 hotel 1927
- Ämterhochhaus Würzburg 33 office 1930
- Palais du Congo Brussels 32 residential 1930
- 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
- Karl-Bröger-Haus Nuremberg 27 office 1930
- 48 Rue de Valois Paris 26 hotel / residential 1781
- Nirwanaflat The Hague 25 residential 1929
- Kant-Garagen Berlin 24 car park 1930
- Oriel Chambers Liverpool 21 office 1864
- Ditherington Flax Mill Shrewsbury 17 factory 1797