[combusean]

With the boom over, I take stock of what's left.

Phoenix has 3, soon to be a 4th. Don't laugh--I'm happy there's at least one.

3 for CityScape (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=117961)

http://nitnelav.com/DTJune72009/7.jpg
courtesy HX_Guy/gymratmanaz

The 2 at either ends of the picture are building a below-grade garage right now and will soon be working on a 300'-ish tower.

and 2 more will be installed soon to build this fat beast of a courthouse (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=169733), but not before one of the above cranes comes down likely.

http://emvis.net/~sean/ssp/projects/criminal_court_tower/gallery_hmpg.jpg

The suburb of Tempe has one left over.

How many are in your city? Include ones expected in the next couple months if financing is solid and construction is already underway.

[Shantytown Architect]

0. There are no buildings over 3 stories in my home town--and those are rare. In Fayetteville, where I go to school, there's one for the Garland Parking Garage but they took the one down for the Renaissance Tower about a year ago.

A shame, I'd love to see the Renaissance Tower on our meager skyline.
http://amaregi.com/images/Renaissance_1206.jpg

[muppet]

London's got loads as always - the city seems to be perpetually unfinished:

Thanx to Wjfox, www.skyscrapercity.com


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/3502400590_fdf3bdfdb6_b.jpg
www.flickr.com

Holborn looking toward The City
http://www.vusus.com/a_city_compressed.jpg
www.vusus.com

The City
http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv295/nihildicit2/24Apr2009178.jpg
Nihil Dicit, www.photobucket.com

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc360/londonfire/Picture139_134.jpg
GazKinz, www.photobucket.com
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3330335843_580623a2e7_b.jpg
::Wendy::, www.flickr.com


North Bank
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3297/3601136453_413286b6b3_b.jpg
www.flickr.com

south

City fringe
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3582708788_186f14ea1e_b.jpg

City fringe and East End
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3580722389_b033e6b00a_o.jpg

Hyde Park
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3592587043_79416d9b1a_b.jpg
www.flickr.com

Regent's Park looking toward West End
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3194/mypix.jpg
Jimbo, www.skyscrapercity.com

West End
http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc360/londonfire/Picture139_084.jpg
GazKinz, www.skyscrapercity.com

Docklands
http://homepage.mac.com/benveasey/.Public/P1080364d.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com

Hackney looking into suburbs
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6001/img2635c.jpg

Olympic site :

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3761178959_7b1448323f_b.jpg http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/sp/afpji/20090521/newsmlmmd.dd28859c5c51705e31cd6ea1c380a86e.a11b.jpg
wjfox, www.flickr.com, http://d.yimg.com

new CBD, Stratford City:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3476/3790068848_6e0d5ccd34_b.jpg

Great West Quarter, Brentford:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2414150656_870e12b3b5.jpg?v=0 http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3509/3315633293_14c637959a.jpg
Mark Hillary, Phill4, www.flickr.com


North Greenwich

http://i43.tinypic.com/65u5no.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3368239794_f9f5ee70f9_o.jpg
henry, www.flickr.com

Kings Cross, new quarter

http://www.bbcel.co.uk/documents/1904/1904-full.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/200302487_5134e35049.jpg?v=0
www.bbcel.co.uk

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/437618352_bfca289de0.jpg?v=0 http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/pi/ctrl/coll_theregenerationbenefitsofth/dft_railways_035483-1.jpg
picslikethis, www.flickr.com, www.dft.gov.uk

[combusean]

Holy jebus. It didn't occur to me that "uncountable" might be a possible answer. Glad I didn't add a poll. :)

[photolitherland]

Houston has at least 14 or so still under construction with cranes. Might be more than that. Most are located in the medical center though.

[The Chemist]

Shanghai has an uncountable number. The pace of construction here continues unabated.

[edmontonenthusiast]

2 - EPCOR "Capital Power" Tower
1 - ICON II
1 - CCIS
1 - Quest

So 5 for towers, but there are more for low rises and mid rises, especially for the Edmonton Clinic. Many of the project's are wrapping up, and although we have a lot approved, not many will start until at least 10, because of the economy.

[ColDayMan]

1 for Columbus (Franklin County Courthouse Expansion Tower)
2 for Cincinnati (Queen City Square and Banks building)

[Buckeye Native 001]

I kinda like the Maricopa County Criminal Courts Tower, fat beast that it is. It'll make for a nice strip of density along Central with the Cityscape complex when all are finished.

[mhays]

Based on a recent trip up the Space Needle, Downtown Seattle (using a larger geographic description) has about 20-22, mostly for buildings shorter than 160' and many in the five-story range. The metro is probably down to 40 but that's a wild guess.

[Lear]

A New Berlin International Airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_International_Airport) is going to be opened in Oct. 2011.

The construction work for this 3 billion$ mega project is under full throttle...

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/Terminal92_alternative.jpg

[tdawg]

About 250 in New York, according to the Dept. of Buildings.

[initiald]

Cranes in downtown Charlotte:

2 - 50 floor Duke Energy
2 - 50 floor Vue
2 - 30 floor 1 Bank of America
1 - 12 floor Center City Green

Nascar, 440 S. Church, Catalyst, Garrison Lofts, and Ritz-Carlton all topped out within the last year so those cranes are down now, and Duke Energy is now topping out and 1 of their cranes is scheduled to come down this weekend.

[KevinFromTexas]

It's been a while since I've done a count, but off the top of my head I can think of at least 13 in downtown and the central area of the city. We lost one last week when they took down the crane for Spring, a condo tower in downtown. There's at least 2, maybe even 3 or 4 tower cranes on the UT Campus.

The tallest right now is the one for The Austonian. Shanny, one our Austin forumers measured the tower crane with a range finder. He came up with 676 feet tall, which is just 7 feet short of the building's final height. In the next couple of weeks the building will reach the 50th floor. Once it reaches the 51st floor, we'll officially have a new tallest building. It already has the highest roof in town.

1 - The Austonian
2 - W Austin Hotel & Residences
1 - Four Seasons Residences
1 - Fondren (residential building)
2 or 3 on the UT Campus.
1 - A church parking garage downtown
1 - Austin Community College parking garage in downtown.
2 - BartonPlace Condos
1 - Star Riverside

[dave8721]

Dont know the actual number of cranes but the buildings still under construction would be the 2-tower Met 2 complex featuring a 600+ foot office tower and a 40 story hotel, 1450 Brickell which is a 500 foot office tower, and a 15 story government office building is going up downtown as is a 12 story office/parking structure downtown. The cranes just came down this month on a 450 foot office tower.

[Strange Meat]

I think Denver has 5 or 6 at the moment. The one for Spire came down recently. Last year, though, there might have been 10-12.

[arkhitektor]

Salt Lake has quite a few right now:

I've never counted them all, but there are around 8 or 9 at City Creek Center:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3388/3541910752_f433c4136e_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3373/3606720721_647dbe1766_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3372/3498968301_b434db6532_b.jpg

1 at 222 S. Main:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2480/3560458016_6a9671c133_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3545195486_2c02c04fd7_b.jpg

1 at Broadway Park Lofts:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3560465058_7b7b8ecba7_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3545188156_4ae3038260_b.jpg

It's by no means Dubai, but for a medium sized city in a crappy economy, SLC is holding her own.

(All pics via tmac @ flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmac97slc/))

[fleonzo]

About 250 in New York, according to the Dept. of Buildings.

It's funny how you put 250 and no one even blinks....and that doesn't include the metro region... where some people will surely do for other cities!:haha:

[AustinSkyscrapers]

Does anybody know how many cranes are in Dubai? According to the picture below, 15% of the world's cranes in use are currently in Dubai! Nice caption!
Just a picture showing just how active Dubai's cranes are:
http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/CranesDubai1.jpg
Image: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/CranesDubai1.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/Cranes3.jpg
Image: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/Cranes3.jpg
Site For The Pictures: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/BurjDubai.html

[Riise]

Calgary
68 Fully Erect
2 Bases

Calgary SSP Count Thread (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141536)

[WhipperSnapper]

Toronto

100-130

[philadelphiathrives]

It's funny how you put 250 and no one even blinks....and that doesn't include the metro region... where some people will surely do for other cities!:haha:

It should be noted that the Outer Boroughs of New York City are mostly like suburban counties. The statistics for a lot of things in NYC are similar to what you would find for other cities plus some of their immediate suburban counties.

[JDRCRASH]

Very few are left in my area.:(

Don't know the exact number, though.

[PA Pride]

Jesus muppet, give somebody else a turn.

[1ajs]

i think theres 3 on the south edge of town for the water treatment plant otherwise none will be seeing 2 go up in the next 12 months downtown though

[Rusty van Reddick]

It's funny how you put 250 and no one even blinks....and that doesn't include the metro region... where some people will surely do for other cities!:haha:

NYC would need 560 to have as many as Calgary has, proportionally.

[urbanactivistTX]

Houston inner loop rough count...

2- Main Place
2- YMCA
1- Hess Tower

Embassy Suites downtown just started construction (they've been fenced off, with construction equipment ready, and have moved in some dirt) so there will be a crane there in a few months.

14 at last count-- Texas Medical Center (I'm not going to even try and list the specific projects) with a couple more to start construction this summer.

University of Houston is about to start construction on two high-rise dorms... should be starting in a couple of weeks.

1- Venue Museum District
1- West Gray at Waugh (office midrise)
4- Galleria inner loop side

So that's 24-ish cranes that are inside the loop. Plenty more outside at Memorial City, Westchase, Chinatown, etc. but I'm too lazy to count those.

[Bigtime]

Calgary got another tower crane yesterday, putting us at 69 right now.

Link to the Calgary crane thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141536

12 cranes visible (some just barely) in this picture of our downtown core I took on Saturday:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3622554656_c2502d1a11_b.jpg

...and 6 more in a shot of our Beltline community, directly south of the CBD:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3383/3621729613_db1d1028ec_b.jpg

[Roaming]

NYC would need 560 to have as many as Calgary has, proportionally.

Well still impressive for NYC. The city has few prime sites left and sometimes they need to demolished older buildings to built new ones. It is a very compilicated city to built, getting log-waited permits, lots of NIMBYs in the way, some lawsuits, different zonings, expensive union workers required, stop orders etc. I say probably way more complicated to built than any city in North America. Calgary has so much cheap land still and not too many annoying obstacles. Besides Calgary still has a way to go before it reaches so much of the office space or residential dwellings that NYC already has built in this recent boom. Did I say, how expensive it is to be in Manhattan. There are limits to how many businesses and people can afford to live or do business in that city. NYC will still be king of new construction, no matter how many cranes each city has right now. It started this recent development boom way before Calgary started to catch up. :cool:

[J. Will]

Toronto has about 115 highrises u/c, some of which probably have more than one crane. There are maybe a couple dozen highrises u/c in the suburbs as well. Then there are non-highrise projects with tower cranes. Credit Valley Hospital has about 4 or 5 at the moment for example.

[mdiederi]

A year in a half ago I counted over 40 tower cranes in Vegas. Now, with projects done and no new ones starting, I think there are 19, at least nine of which are not doing anything because the projects were halted in mid-construction, leaving the cranes in place.

[Zerton]

wow london looks insane! Is this mostly build up for the olympics or does the city truly need that many new buildings?

[muppet]

^London's been like that since I can remember it, a good ten years. The number of projects has actually decreased significantly due to the financial crisis. It's just ALOT of old postwar buildings need to be replaced and the huge property bubble and land values have ensured construction has grown for the past ten years, to the point its the city's 2nd or 3rd largest industry after services. London is one of the fastest growing city's in the West, so its always building, and needs to accomodate an extra million people.

The Olympics is just the tip of the iceberg, even despite the credit crunch. Much of South London is undergoing rebuilding as $27 billion is poured into replacing massive postwar estates this year, $15 billion for East London, another $30 billion has just started on a new high speed train network through the centre, and $60 billion slated for the ongoing Thames Gateway project, as the city spreads East. The skyscrapers should start to go up again from 2010 (about 20 on the cards). There's also a new CBD going up in Stratford, and the entire tube is being rebuilt to accommodate the increased capacity by 1/3.

The future after that is a new island airport possibly ($70 billion), and a new runway for Heathrow ($17 billion).

[Rusty van Reddick]

Well still impressive for NYC. The city has few prime sites left and sometimes they need to demolished older buildings to built new ones. It is a very compilicated city to built, getting log-waited permits, lots of NIMBYs in the way, some lawsuits, different zonings, expensive union workers required, stop orders etc. I say probably way more complicated to built than any city in North America. Calgary has so much cheap land still and not too many annoying obstacles. Besides Calgary still has a way to go before it reaches so much of the office space or residential dwellings that NYC already has built in this recent boom. Did I say, how expensive it is to be in Manhattan. There are limits to how many businesses and people can afford to live or do business in that city. NYC will still be king of new construction, no matter how many cranes each city has right now. It started this recent development boom way before Calgary started to catch up. :cool:


Agreed, and I didn't want to disrespect NYC for what are much, much greater challenges for cranes. I was just pointing that, on this measure, Calgary bests most cities.

[WhipperSnapper]

You often see six tower cranes in London doing the job of one in North America. May have to do with load carrying restrictions.

[mrskyline]

Richmond has a crane on the skyline for Williams Mullen Center.

[muppet]

For London in more detail


Current regeneration projects:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=35855816&postcount=12


Skyscrapers planned

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=35767430&postcount=1


What's under construction now:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=941


Whats planned:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=729


Olympics

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1586

[GO_UAE]

Does anybody know how many cranes are in Dubai? According to the picture below, 15% of the world's cranes in use are currently in Dubai! Nice caption!
Just a picture showing just how active Dubai's cranes are:
http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/CranesDubai1.jpg
Image: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/CranesDubai1.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/Cranes3.jpg
Image: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/Cranes3.jpg
Site For The Pictures: http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro/070129BurjDubai/BurjDubai.html

Alot and i wish i had some credible sources with some sort of count. Abu Dhabi has alot aswell , atleast 500+ and thats not counting the whole of Abu Dhabi Emirate

[JMH_Architecture]

WOW @ LONDON will that be Chicago if we are lucky enough to get the Olympics

[muppet]

its not coz of the Olympics, London has been like that for a decade at least^

Since the 1990s its become one of the fastest growing cities in the West (if not THE). Its actually quite a headache for the planners and authorities, with the city proper growing by 80-90,000 a year, the metro far more. About 45 million sq. feet were added to the two main financial districts in the last 8 years, much more outside those districts, and much more planned. Its weird, even though millions of sq. feet are vacant thanx to the credit crunch, they're still building.

[Antares41]

It should be noted that the Outer Boroughs of New York City are mostly like suburban counties.

Have you seen downtown Brooklyn or Long Island City in Queens. Maybe its your term "outer boroughs" that throwing me off, but they hardly look suburban.

[tdawg]

Good point. For reference:
Downtown Brooklyn
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/2106739299_756efd3e95_b.jpg

Recent growth in Long Island City
http://www.brokertales.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/queens-plaza-condo-buildings-picture-broker-tales2.jpg

[AustinSkyscrapers]

In Downtown Austin:

Austonian: 1
W Austin Hotel and Residences: 2
Four Seasons Hotel and Residences: 1


And I think that's pretty much it.

[Uptowngirl]

I count 3 from downtown New Orleans.

Which is 3 more than we had 10 years ago.

[()_T]

Houston inner loop rough count...

2- Main Place
2- YMCA
1- Hess Tower

Embassy Suites downtown just started construction (they've been fenced off, with construction equipment ready, and have moved in some dirt) so there will be a crane there in a few months.

14 at last count-- Texas Medical Center (I'm not going to even try and list the specific projects) with a couple more to start construction this summer.

University of Houston is about to start construction on two high-rise dorms... should be starting in a couple of weeks.

1- Venue Museum District
1- West Gray at Waugh (office midrise)
4- Galleria inner loop side

So that's 24-ish cranes that are inside the loop. Plenty more outside at Memorial City, Westchase, Chinatown, etc. but I'm too lazy to count those.

Actually, MainPlace and Hess Tower both have 3 Cranes. So its 27-ish, Inside the loop.

[AustinSkyscrapers]

Four Seasons Residences crane to be taken down in the coming months.