List of tallest buildings in Pennsylvania
This list of the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania includes all skyscrapers 400 feet (120 m) or taller, ranked by height. The tallest building in Pennsylvania is currently the 60-story Comcast Technology Center which topped out at 1,121 feet (342 m) in Center City, Philadelphia on November 27, 2017 and opened in 2018.[1][2] It is currently the 9th-tallest building in the United States. All of the buildings over 400 feet (120 m) are in either Philadelphia (31) or Pittsburgh (16).
Tallest buildings
All the buildings listed here are in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; the only other cities with a building over 330 feet (100 m) are Harrisburg with the 341-foot-tall (104 m) building at 333 Market Street[4] and Bethlehem with the 332-foot-tall (101 m) Martin Tower.[5] The PPL Building is Allentown's tallest building at 322 feet (98 m), and the Renaissance Centre is the tallest in Erie at 198 feet (60 m). The tallest building in Reading is the Berks County Courthouse, rising 275 feet (84 m).[6]
Rank | Name | Image | Height ft / (m) |
Floors | Year | City | Notes |
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1 | Comcast Technology Center | 1,121 / 341 | 60 | 2018 | Philadelphia | Tallest building in Pennsylvania; 11th-tallest building in the United States; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 2010s. | |
2 | Comcast Center | 975 / 297 | 58 | 2008 | Philadelphia | 28th-tallest building in the country; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 2000s[7][8][9] | |
3 | One Liberty Place | 945 / 288 | 61 | 1987 | Philadelphia | 33rd-tallest building in the country; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1980s[10][11][12] | |
4 | Two Liberty Place | 848 / 258 | 58 | 1990 | Philadelphia | 58th-tallest building in the country; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1990s[13][14][15] | |
5 | U.S. Steel Tower | 841 / 256 | 64 | 1971 | Pittsburgh | 63rd-tallest building in the country; tallest building in Pittsburgh since 1970; tallest building in the state from 1970 until the 1987 completion of One Liberty Place in Philadelphia; tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1970s; formerly known as USX Tower[16][17] | |
6 | BNY Mellon Center | 792 / 241 | 54 | 1990 | Philadelphia | 76th-tallest building in the country; also known as Nine Penn Center[18][19][20] | |
7 | Three Logan Square | 739 / 225 | 55 | 1991 | Philadelphia | 128th-tallest building in the country; formerly known as Bell Atlantic Tower and Verizon Tower[21][22][23][24] | |
8 | FMC Tower at Cira Centre South | 730 / 223 | 49 | 2016 | Philadelphia | 138th-tallest building in the country; the tallest building in Philadelphia outside Center City[25] | |
9 | BNY Mellon Center | 725 / 221 | 54 | 1984 | Pittsburgh | 143rd-tallest building in the country; tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1980s; formerly known as One Mellon Center[26][27] | |
10 | One PPG Place | 635 / 194 | 40 | 1984 | Pittsburgh | [28][29] | |
11 | G. Fred DiBona Jr. Building | 625 / 191 | 45 | 1990 | Philadelphia | Formerly known as the Blue Cross–Blue Shield Tower and the IBX Tower[30][31][32] | |
12 | Fifth Avenue Place | 616 / 188 | 31 | 1988 | Pittsburgh | Also known as Highmark Place[33][34] | |
13 | One Oxford Centre | 615 / 187 | 45 | 1983 | Pittsburgh | [35][36] | |
14 | Gulf Tower | 582 / 177 | 44 | 1932 | Pittsburgh | Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1930s[37][38] | |
15= | One Commerce Square | 565 / 172 | 41 | 1987 | Philadelphia | [39][40] | |
15= | Two Commerce Square | 565 / 172 | 41 | 1992 | Philadelphia | [40][41] | |
17 | Philadelphia City Hall | 548 / 167 | 9 | 1901 | Philadelphia | 1901 is the official year of completion and the transfer of ownership to the city government; however, the tower had been topped out in 1894[42] and the building had been partially occupied by then,[43][44] making it the tallest habitable building in the United States and the world from 1894 until the completion of the Singer Building in 1908[45][46] | |
18 | Tower at PNC Plaza | 545 / 166 | 33 | 2015 | Pittsburgh | Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh and tallest completed in Pennsylvania in the 2010s[47][48] | |
19 | Cathedral of Learning | 535 / 163 | 42 | 1936 | Pittsburgh | Second-tallest educational building in the world, behind the main building of Moscow State University; tallest building in the city located outside of Downtown[49][50] | |
20 | 525 William Penn Place | 520 / 158 | 41 | 1951 | Pittsburgh | Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1950s[51][52] | |
21 | The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton | 518 / 158 | 48 | 2009 | Philadelphia | [53][54][55] | |
22 | K&L Gates Center | 511 / 156 | 39 | 1968 | Pittsburgh | Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1960s[56][57] | |
23 | 1818 Market Street | 500 / 152 | 40 | 1974 | Philadelphia | Tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1970s[58][59] | |
24 | The St. James | 498 / 152 | 45 | 2004 | Philadelphia | Tallest building located east of Broad Street[60][61] | |
25 | Loews Philadelphia Hotel | 492 / 150 | 36 | 1932 | Philadelphia | Known commonly as the PSFS Building;[62] tallest hotel in the city until the Four Seasons opens in the Comcast Technology Center[63][64][65] | |
26 | PNC Bank Building | 491 / 150 | 40 | 1983 | Philadelphia | [66][67] | |
27= | Centre Square II | 490 / 149 | 40 | 1973 | Philadelphia | [68][69] | |
27= | Five Penn Center | 490 / 149 | 36 | 1970 | Philadelphia | [70][71] | |
29 | Grant Building | 485 / 148 | 40 | 1930 | Pittsburgh | [72][73] | |
30= | Koppers Tower | 475 / 145 | 34 | 1929 | Pittsburgh | Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1920s[74][75] | |
30= | Murano | 475 / 145 | 43 | 2008 | Philadelphia | [76][77][78] | |
32 | One South Broad | 472 / 144 | 28 | 1932 | Philadelphia | Formerly known as the PNB Building[79][80] | |
33 | Two PNC Plaza | 445 / 136 | 34 | 1975 | Pittsburgh | [81][82] | |
34= | 2000 Market Street | 435 / 133 | 29 | 1973 | Philadelphia | [83][84] | |
34= | Two Logan Square | 435 / 133 | 35 | 1987 | Philadelphia | [85][86] | |
36 | Cira Centre | 434 / 133 | 28 | 2005 | Philadelphia | [87][88] | |
37= | 1700 Market | 430 / 131 | 32 | 1968 | Philadelphia | Tallest building completed in the 1960s[89][90] | |
37= | EQT Plaza | 430 / 131 | 32 | 1987 | Pittsburgh | [91][92] | |
37= | Evo at Cira Centre South | 430 / 131 | 33 | 2014 | Philadelphia | [93][94][95] | |
40 | 1835 Market Street | 425 / 130 | 29 | 1986 | Philadelphia | Name was changed from Eleven Penn Center in 2003[96][97] | |
41 | One PNC Plaza | 424 / 129 | 30 | 1972 | Pittsburgh | [98][99] | |
42 | Centre Square I | 417 / 127 | 32 | 1973 | Philadelphia | [100][101] | |
43 | Aramark Tower | 412 / 126 | 32 | 1984 | Philadelphia | Formerly known as One Reading Center[102][103] | |
44 | Regional Enterprise Tower | 410 / 125 | 30 | 1953 | Pittsburgh | [104][105] | |
45 | Wells Fargo Building | 405 / 123 | 29 | 1927 | Philadelphia | Originally the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building[106][107] | |
46 | 1706 Rittenhouse | 401 / 122 | 33 | 2011 | Philadelphia | [108][109] | |
47 | One Logan Square | 400 / 122 | 31 | 1983 | Philadelphia | [110][111] | |
Timeline of tallest buildings
Name | Image | Height | Floors | Years tallest | City |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Philadelphia City Hall | 548 / 167 | 9 | 1901-1932 31 years | Philadelphia | |
Gulf Tower | 582 / 177 | 44 | 1932-1971 39 years | Pittsburgh | |
U.S. Steel Tower | 841 / 256 | 64 | 1971-1984 13 years | Pittsburgh | |
One Liberty Place | 945 / 288 | 61 | 1987-2008 21 years | Philadelphia | |
Comcast Center | 975 / 297 | 58 | 2008-2018 10 years | Philadelphia | |
Comcast Technology Center | 1121 / 341 | 60 | 2018–present 1 year | Philadelphia |
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