Table of Completed Buildings by Height

Capsule F · #1 Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 7:07 AM**

Here is a small table I've made that shows the amount of buildings over a certain height in Philadelphia. I stopped at 400 feet, although I would encourage others to go further. Each lower height mark obviously includes all buildings taller, i.e. 400 ft includes all buildings over 400 feet in Philadelphia.

This can tell some very interesting info about the breadth of building height within a city. Keep in mind this is only buildings completed, not under construction, not proposed.

It would be nice to see a similar table for other cities.

Capsule F · #2 Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 7:16 AM**

Here is Boston.

Capsule F · #3 Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 7:25 AM**

Houston.

Capsule F · #4 Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 7:33 AM**

Atlanta.

Kngkyle · #5 Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 7:41 PM**

Looks like Chicago has more than Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, and Houston combined in each category. I bet New York could say the same thing, except adding in Chicago.

(only includes completed, not u/c)

Wigs · #6 Posted **Apr 20, 2014, 7:51 PM**

revised to OP specs.

city pop. 1.15 Million
CMA (metro) pop. 1.37 Million

If I went over 300ft there would be 70 buildings.

Capsule F · #7 Posted **Apr 21, 2014, 7:56 PM**

Chicago has built approximately 200 buildings over 100 feet from 2000 - 2010, I can't flippin believe how much was built there.

Capsule F · #8 Posted **Apr 21, 2014, 7:58 PM**

One of the interesting stats I was speaking of, Calgary has a monster stock of midrise towers ( I am basically referring to towers under 600 feet). In fact it has more towers over 400 feet than Philly, which is nuts to me, very impressive.

WhipperSnapper · #9 Posted **Apr 21, 2014, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Capsule F

Chicago has built approximately 200 buildings over 100 feet from 2000 - 2010, I can't flippin believe how much was built there.

Have built around 200 high rises since the start of 2010 here.

Perklol · #10 Posted **Apr 22, 2014, 4:21 AM**

Where's New York?

TarHeelJ · #11 Posted **Apr 22, 2014, 10:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Where's New York?

About 200 miles from Somewhere.

pacarlson · #12 Posted **Apr 22, 2014, 11:33 PM**

Cool graphs Capsule F. Thanks for posting.

Capsule F · #13 Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 2:44 AM**

NYC will take a lot of time for me to compile so thats why I haven't done it yet, I will at some point. Easier to start with smaller cities.

nei · #14 Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kngkyle

Looks like Chicago has more than Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, and Houston combined in each category. I bet New York could say the same thing, except adding in Chicago.

(only includes completed, not u/c)

For the tallest buildings, New York would be higher than Chicago but the gap won't be huge. Still might be more than the rest combined, as Chicago plus the rest isn't that many more than Chicago. Wikipedia lists 247 buildings above 500 feet (150 m), 62 above 656 feet.

Capsule F · #15 Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 4:06 AM**

Seattle.

fflint · #16 Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 4:38 AM**

Would love to see a chart for SF!

softee · #17 Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 7:10 PM**

Toronto too!

Wigs · #18 Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 12:17 AM**

Hey SSP geeks, create charts yourselves for your city! it's really not hard

mthd · #19 Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 5:37 AM**

i broke the rules a little and added in different colors construction and proposed.

and i added over 300 feet.

an interesting statistic: when the currently under-construction buildings are complete, about 22% of all the buildings over 300 feet in san francisco will have been constructed since 2000.

Capsule F · #20 Posted **Apr 25, 2014, 1:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by mthd

i broke the rules a little and added in different colors construction and proposed.

and i added over 300 feet.

an interesting statistic: when the currently under-construction buildings are complete, about 22% of all the buildings over 300 feet in san francisco will have been constructed since 2000.

Very cool, I'm glad you put the patience into compiling all types of buildings, I certainly did not have it.

What I did have though was the patience to try in vain to compare the number of Philly buildings to San Fran buildings. The closest it ever got was buildings over 200 feet, where SF had 142, and Philly had 121. Once I went to buildings over 100 feet SF pulled away again.

I will say though I think Philadelphia's recent building boom is slightly larger than San Fran's, so maybe we will close the gap a little!