Tallest residential buildings in the USA by City

LivingIn622 · #1 Posted **Dec 20, 2007, 6:28 AM**

what city has the average tallest residential buildings.

bobdreamz · #2 Posted **Dec 20, 2007, 6:43 AM**

I would imagine it would be New York, Chicago. Miami and Honolulu.

MiamiJR · #3 Posted **Dec 20, 2007, 8:19 AM**

Well ... here's my downtown Miami list
This includes complete & under construction only

Name Height Floors
Met 3 817 74
Capital at Brickell 2 756 52
900 Biscayne Bay 712 65
Marquis 679 63
Capital at Brickell 1 649 56
Mint at Riverfront 631 55
Infinity at Brickell 630 52
Marina Blue 615 57
Plaza on Brickell Tower I 610 56
Platinum on the Bay 589 56
Icon Brickell North Tower 586 58
Icon Brickell South Tower 586 58
Ten Museum Park 585 50
50 Biscayne 554 55
Quantum on the Bay South Tower 554 51
Opera Tower 543 56
Everglades on the Bay North Tower 538 49
Everglades on the Bay South Tower 538 49
Quantum on the Bay North Tower 536 44
Jade at Brickell Bay 528 49
Plaza on Brickell Tower II 525 48
Santa Maria 520 53
The Ivy 512 45
Epic 500 48
Paramount Bay 496 47
Asia 483 36
Brickell on The River South Tower 482 42
Avenue Brickell 480 47
Three Tequesta Point 480 46
Latitude on the River 476 42
One Miami East Tower 460 44
One Miami West Tower 449 45
Met 1 440 40
The Loft 2 433 35
Blue 425 36
500 Brickell I 423 42
500 Brickell II 423 42
Brickell on the River South Tower 423 46
The 1800 Club 423 40
Vue at Brickell 423 36
The Mark on Brickell 420 36
Axis on Brickell Village South 418 40
Axis on Brickell Village North 418 40
One Broadway at Brickell 413 40
The Club at Brickell Bay 411 42
Two Tequesta Point 410 40
The Palace 400 42
Neo Lofts 391 33
Yacht Club at Brickell 380 36
Oakwood Miami 380 36
Skyline at Mary Brickell Village 376 34
Skyline on Brickell 376 34
Bristol Tower 371 41
NeoVertika 369 36
Bay Parc Plaza 368 39
Avenue SE First 365 35
Midtown Miami 4 350 33
Grovernor House 341 33
The Venetian 332 33
Plaza Venetia 332 33
Rosabella Lofts 321 27
Midtown Miami 2 320 30
Midtown Miami 3 309 29
Onyx on the Bay 308 27
Fortune House 306 29
The Imperial 306 31
Brickell Bay Club 285 29
Star Lofts on the Bay 280 26
Palm Bay Club 279 27
The Loft 274 23
Emerald at Brickell 270 27
Terrazas River Tower 270 27
Brickell Townhouse 253 21
Courts Brickell Key 34
One Tequesta Point 30
The Carbonell 39

tackledspoon · #4 Posted **Dec 20, 2007, 7:19 PM**

If we're only talking highrises, then it's definitely New York, but if we're talking all residential buildings, then I'm really not sure.

Aleks · #5 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 2:01 AM**

Seattle has short buildings due to height restrictions. Next year a new building will open called Olive 8 and it would be the tallest at 460 feet along with AVA.

There is a proposal for s 550 foot tower called "The Heron" which would become the cities tallest and the tallest West of Chicago, outside of L.A. and San Francisco.

ItsConanOBrien · #6 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 3:49 AM**

I would assume NY also.

Interesting fact...according to wikipedia, Maine is the only state whose tallest building is only residential in use.

Alliance · #7 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 5:19 AM**

Illinois will be joining that list shortly. I don't know what livingin really wants. If he's looking for average height of residnetial buildings, most residential buildings, or what?

Chicago's stats will be very skewed considering that our 3 garunteed new supertalls are all residential or residental hotel...and the 1-2 others proposed are as well.

KevinFromTexas · #8 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 8:43 AM**

Here's the list for Austin. All of these are either under construction or proposed. The Austonian, which will be our new tallest building in 2010, will be the tallest building in the state outside of Houston and Dallas. It'll also be the tallest building in Texas to have any residential usage. The building is all residential. By 2011 Austin's 4 tallest buildings will contain at least some residential, the tallest and 3rd tallest being all residential, the other two will also contain hotel rooms. And the Frost Bank Tower will slip to 5th tallest building in the city.

Under construction

The ones under construction below are all residential except for the W Hotel & Residences obviously.

The Austonian - 683 feet - 56 floors - 2010
360 Condominiums - 563 feet - 44 floors - 2008
Spring - 434 feet - 42 floors - 2009
W Austin Hotel & Residences - 433 feet - 35 floors - 2010
Altavida - 412 feet - 36 floors - 2009
Legacy @ Town Lake - 328 feet - 31 floors - 2009
The Monarch - 323 feet - 29 floors - 2008

Approved

7Rio - 400 feet - 32 floors - 2010
Four Seasons Residences - 400 feet - 38 floors - 2010
Hotel Van Zandt - ~340 feet - 29 floors - 2010

Proposed

21C Austin Hotel & Residences - 580 feet - 44 floors - 2010
401-499 West 5th Street - 550 feet - 40 floors - 2011
501-599 West 5th Street - 450 feet - 35 floors - 2010

Also for the first time we have something relatively big outside of downtown. TWELVE Domain being developed by Novare will be 28 floors. The hotel and condo tower will be at least 320 feet tall making it twice as tall as anything currently outside of downtown.

LivingIn622 · #9 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 3:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

Illinois will be joining that list shortly. I don't know what livingin really wants. If he's looking for average height of residnetial buildings, most residential buildings, or what?

Chicago's stats will be very skewed considering that our 3 garunteed new supertalls are all residential or residental hotel...and the 1-2 others proposed are as well.

Cities with the average tallest all -residential use buildings. Say New York has 10 200 footers. and Chicago has 5 300 footers. Although Chicago's are taller, but have less therefore making NYC average taller. That's what I'm looking for except with real numbers. I couldn't find anything online about this.

Alliance · #10 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 5:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by LivingIn622

Cities with the average tallest all -residential use buildings. Say New York has 10 200 footers. and Chicago has 5 300 footers. Although Chicago's are taller, but have less therefore making NYC average taller. That's what I'm looking for except with real numbers. I couldn't find anything online about this.

See, if NYC had 10 200 footers, the average height of a residential building in NYC would be 200'. Chicago's 5 300'ers would give it an average of 300'.

Therefore, Chicago's residential buildings would be on average, taller.

The problems with this kind of measurement, and the reasons why no one has done it are the following:

Until recently, tall residential buildings just weren't built. Some tall buildings, like JHC, were mixed use and had residencies, but buildings like the Spire that were tall and exclusively residential just weren't around (to my knowledge). Secondly, Where do you draw your bottom line. If New York has 12 billion residential buildings that are 100'-200' tall and Chicago has one 500'er, then Chicago's have a taller average height. You need to establish a minimum height that you consider significant. However, regardless of that height, there will always be numerical bias because of the variation in sample size.

LivingIn622 · #11 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 10:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

See, if NYC had 10 200 footers, the average height of a residential building in NYC would be 200'. Chicago's 5 300'ers would give it an average of 300'.

Therefore, Chicago's residential buildings would be on average, taller.

The problems with this kind of measurement, and the reasons why no one has done it are the following:

Until recently, tall residential buildings just weren't built. Some tall buildings, like JHC, were mixed use and had residencies, but buildings like the Spire that were tall and exclusively residential just weren't around (to my knowledge). Secondly, Where do you draw your bottom line. If New York has 12 billion residential buildings that are 100'-200' tall and Chicago has one 500'er, then Chicago's have a taller average height. You need to establish a minimum height that you consider significant. However, regardless of that height, there will always be numerical bias because of the variation in sample size.

No if Chicago had a 500 footer and New York had a billion 200 footers. NYC's average height is taller. plus a billion 200 footers and divide by a billion gives you an average larger than 500 ft divided by 1. I don't really care if the buildings where built a billion years ago or today. I was just wandering the average tallest residential buildings in the us since 1776. Not just in the past decade, or if there weren't any a decade ago. Just overall what city has the average tallest.

Steely Dan · #12 Posted **Dec 21, 2007, 10:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by LivingIn622

No if Chicago had a 500 footer and New York had a billion 200 footers. NYC's average height is taller.

no, that is incorrect. check your math.

1 x 500 / 1 = 500

1,000,000,000 x 200 / 1,000,000,000 = 200

in your hypothetical example, chicago's average height would still be taller.

LivingIn622 · #13 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 5:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

no, that is incorrect. check your math.

1 x 500 / 1 = 500

1,000,000,000 x 200 / 1,000,000,000 = 200

in your hypothetical example, chicago's average height would still be taller.

I know, but I/m not really going by the average. What I'm trying to say is what city has the most residential buildings not which city has the tallest. I guess it's not really an average thing. Say NYC has 5 300 footers and Chicago has a 1000 footer, I know chicago has a taller one, but I'm saying which one has the most . And say with a height over 100 feet. Or maybe a city with the densest Residential buildings.

Lecom · #14 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 7:05 AM**

I think what you're asking for is which city in the US has the most impressive assemblage of residential highrises.

Phil McAvity · #15 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 12:25 PM**

ooops, sorry! Disregard.

LivingIn622 · #16 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 5:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lecom

I think what you're asking for is which city in the US has the most impressive assemblage of residential highrises.

Yes, That is. Does anybody know which city? I just wish the sentence was more fact than opinion. Cause you can't really discern which has the best assemblage of buildings, unless through opinions .

Austinlee · #17 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 6:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

no, that is incorrect. check your math.

1 x 500 / 1 = 500

1,000,000,000 x 200 / 1,000,000,000 = 200

in your hypothetical example, chicago's average height would still be taller.

Yeah, but what if NY had 200, Billion-footers?

Tom In Chicago · #18 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 7:04 PM**

^That's just what I was thinking. . . hehe. . . someone's gonna shut this one down I'm certain of it. . .

francely57 · #19 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 7:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by PA Pride

Yeah, but what if NY had 200, Billion-footers?

Then those 200 buildings would nearly touch the Moon (good reason to have astronomically high prices for upper residences?)

FrancoRey · #20 Posted **Dec 22, 2007, 9:24 PM**

Well, it's not Denver! Here's our sample for buildings in the top ten:

Four Seasonss Hotel/Residences - 635' 45 floors; construction
Great Gulf- 587' 51 floors; pre-construction
Spire- 525' 41 floors; construction
Brooks Tower- 420' 42 floors; built 1968
The Ritz Carlton Hotel/Residences- 390' 38 floors; construction
The Curtis Hotel/Residences- 350' 30 floors; construction
Larimer Place- 325' 32 floors; built 1981
Pinnacle at City Park- 318' 27 floors; built 2007
The Barclay- 314' 30 floors; built 1981
Penterra Plaza- 286' 23 floors; built 2003

As you can see, take away the residences being built and Denver has hardly any residential buildings over 250 feet at all; only 5. Denver does have a fair number of residential buildings between 200-250 feet built in the surrounding inner city, but there are probably only about 15-20 of them. Not the hundreds there are in Chicago or NYC!

If we are only going by one top height however, Currently it would be the Brooks Tower at 420 feet/42floors (1968).

In two years, the height title will change hands a few times, starting with Spire and then passing to Great Gulf/Four Seasons (it depends who tops out first!)

On a side note, Great Gulf Tower will be the tallest ALL residential building between San Fran and Dallas when it is built, 587 feet and 51 stories. Sorry Seattle and Sac-town! Even Las Vegas has nothing without cheating with mixed use.