[PA Pride]

I thought it might be interesting to add up the total number of floors in the ten tallest completed skyscrapers of different cities to get a different kind of feel for the scale of assorted skylines. For example:

Pittsburgh ten tallest have a total of 440 floors.



I'll do a couple other cities I pick at random for starters:


Toronto, not counting the CN Tower of course, has 543 floors.


Kansas City has 344 floors.


London, UK not counting the BT Tower has 388 floors.


Columbus, Ohio has 349 floors.


Cincinnati, Ohio has 326 floors.




Anyone want to try my game?

[Boris2k7]

Calgary existing 10 tallest add up to:

437 storeys
1 762.6 meters
Average age around 1988

[Exodus]

Detroit - 426 stories

Some might argue that, but the two Ren. Cen. office towers that face the river have 40 levels. 39 stories plus garage. The Madden building has 1 more floor on top that isn't counted on the diagrams list here on SSP.

[blade_bltz]

I think Boston is also 425

[Exodus]

^ Boston has to have more than that. It has about 4 more buildings in the 500 ft. + range than Detroit. So if Detroit has 426, that leaves me to believe that Boston has more.

[bobdreamz]

some Florida cities:

Miami's ten tallest: 444 floors
*Miami Beach : 409 floors
*Sunny Isles Beach : 383 floors
Tampa : 320 floors
Jacksonville : 283 floors
*Aventura : 261 floors
Ft. Lauderdale : 264 floors
Hallandale Beach : 254 floors
W. Palm Beach : 245 floors
Hollywood : 239 floors
Orlando : 223 floors
Daytona Beach Shores : 209 floors
Daytona Beach : 206 floors
St. Petersburg : 203 floors

* denotes a suburb of Miami

[PHX602]

Phoenix- 277

Phoenix 2009- anywhere from 308-369 if not more.

[Metropolitan]

Well, I guess that kind of exercice doesn't have more than a mere trivia value. Anyway, there's a big difference between the sum of floors of the ten tallest buildings, and the sum of floors of the ten buildings having most floors.

Here's an example with Paris, France: ten tallest buildings: 429 floors.
ten buildings having most floors: 444 floors

And another for Frankfurt, Germany: ten tallest buildings: 466 floors.
ten buildings having most floors: 477 floors

It should be told though that in France, the ground floor isn't counted as a story. The ground floor is called "rez-de-chaussée" and then the second floor is actually the first story. As I don't know the way they are counted on SSP, it's possible that we need to add 10 floors more to the sum but I haven't done it.

Anyway, here's a funny list ranking European cities according to the number of highrise buildings over 30 floors : Paris, France: 92 buildings over 30 floors.
Moscow, Russia: 40
London, UK: 23
Frankfurt, Germany: 21
Istanbul, Turkey: 20
Benidorm, Spain: 20
Rotterdam, Netherlands: 12
Warsaw, Poland: 11
Brussels, Belgium: 10The way Paris outclasses all other cities in this ranking may be surprising, but actually, it can be easily explained by the insane amount of residential towers which has been built in the city. Those towers aren't that tall (between 90m and 120m), but they indeed have more than 30 floors.

[MattSal]

I win! Augusta has 136, if even that much.

I'm of course going by what Emporis lists.

[grollo]

Melbourne: 570 :-)
Sydney: 505
Gold Coast:497
Brisbane: 452


And just for fun...

Dubai (including towers U/C): 937!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Navin]

Minneapolis: 443
St. Paul: 295
Cincinnati: 326
Indianapolis: 308
St. Louis: 294
Des Moines: 258
Cleveland: 367
Milwaukee: 259
Columbus: 349

[Sauganash]

Chicago: 721
New York: 692
although I basically added the floors from the diagram page, so not sure if its 100% correct.

[WesternGulf]

Houtson: 576

[cactuspunk]

Atlanta: 521

[arkhitektor]

Salt Lake City - 228:(

[theWatusi]

ok I'll bite:

Philadelphia
as per emporis:

Total floors of completed top ten buildings according to height:

449

1. One Liberty Place [Liberty Place] 288 m 61 floors
2. Two Liberty Place [Liberty Place] 258 m 58 floors
3. Mellon Bank Center [Penn Center] 241 m 54 floors
4. Bell Atlantic Tower 225 m 55 floors
5. G. Fred DiBona, Jr. Building [IBX Building] 191 m 45 floors
6. Two Commerce Square [Commerce Square] 172 m 41 floors
7. One Commerce Square [Commerce Square] 172 m 41 floors
8. City Hall 167 m 9 floors
9. 1818 Market Street 152 m 40 floors
10. The St. James 152 m 45 floors

[SacTownAndy]

Denver: 437

San Diego: 368

Sacramento: 238 (kinda impressive jump in 2008: 333)

[alps]

Halifax - 221

[bnk]

Minneapolis: 443
St. Paul: 295
Cincinnati: 326
Indianapolis: 308
St. Louis: 294
Des Moines: 258
Cleveland: 367
Milwaukee: 259
Columbus: 349


Curious why you would not include Chicago in the rest of the midwest towns you spent the time to add up. I have an I idea why though.;)

[fflint]

San Francisco - 481

[Capsule F]

City hall will really drop the amount of floors in Philadelphia. I wonder what the comcast center will add to that?

[phillyskyline]

City hall will really drop the amount of floors in Philadelphia. I wonder what the comcast center will add to that?

Well, the St. James Building will be knocked off that list w/ 45 floors. Comcast Center will have 57 floors. So you can add 12 floors to the exisiting 449. So a total of 461 at the end of this year. You are correct about City Hall dropping the total count for Philly in this category.

[mhays]

Seattle: 516

Bellevue: Ask when the current projects are done! It'll be around 310. Until then in the 200 range.

[Derek]

San Diego-368 (not sure how you got 354 up there...)

[vid]

Thunder Bay - 105! :D

[SacTownAndy]

San Diego-368 (not sure how you got 354 up there...)

My bad- I inadvertently left off one of the Harbor Club towers. Just redid it and came up with the same thing: 368

[shane453]

Interesting statistic to look into.

Tulsa has almost 100 floors more than OKC.

okc 275
tulsa 356

[raggedy13]

Vancouver according to Emporis...

Currently:

Top 10 tallest buildings: 351
Top 10 buildings with most floors: 383

In 2010:

Top 10 tallest buildings: 439
Top 10 buildings with most floors: 468

[Texan101]

San Antonio = 241

[Shadow11P]

London, Ontario: 229 floors for top 10 currently built.

[nobody]

Boise: 123

You know you're jealous.

If a couple developments break ground here soon we're looking at closer to 150. It's like an urban jungle!!

[Derek]

My bad- I inadvertently left off one of the Harbor Club towers. Just redid it and came up with the same thing: 368

its all good:)

[Navin]

Curious why you would not include Chicago in the rest of the midwest towns you spent the time to add up. I have an I idea why though.;)

Teehee ;)

Actually I thought someone from Chicago should do Chicago since I figured Chicagoans would bitch about me using the "maligned" emporis data and I don't know enough to correct any inaccuracies. (You can picture that happening can't you?) I figured emporis was good enough for the other cities.