List of tallest buildings in Edmonton

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Manulife Place (left) is currently the tallest building in Edmonton. Commerce Place, (right) is the 4th tallest.

This is a list of the tallest buildings in Edmonton, the capital city of the province of Alberta in Canada.

None of Edmonton's tallest buildings are among the tallest in Canada, and are generally much shorter than the tallest buildings in the rival city of Calgary. This is not because of insufficient economic activity in Edmonton, however. Because of the presence of low-flying aircraft taking off and landing at the Edmonton City Centre Airport, the Canadian government (Transport Canada) limits the height of towers in the city to under 150 m.

What it lacks in height, Edmonton compensates for with numbers. As of 2008, Edmonton had 235 completed high-rise buildings, with 8 more under construction, 1 under reconstruction, another 6 approved for construction and 43 more proposed.^[1]

[edit] Buildings

The top 12 tallest buildings in Edmonton (all buildings over 100m).

Buildings completed as of April, 2008

Rank	Building	Address	Height	Storeys	Completed	Image
1	Manulife Place	10180 101 St NW	146 m	36	1983
2	Telus Plaza South	10020 100 St NW	134 m	34	1971
3	Bell Tower	10104 103 Ave NW	130 m	31	1982
4	Commerce Place	10155 102 St NW	123 m	27	1990
5	Coast Edmonton House	10205 100 Ave NW	121 m	45	1971
6	Canadian Western Bank Place	10303 Jasper Ave NW	121 m	31	1980
7	Oxford Tower	10235 101 St NW	118 m	29	1978
8	TD Tower, Edmonton	10088 102 Ave NW	117 m	29	1976
9	Scotia Place - 1	10060 Jasper Ave NW	113 m	28	1982
10	CN Tower, Edmonton	10004 104 Ave NW	111 m	26	1966
11	Sun Life Place	10123 99 St NW	108 m	27	1978
12	City Centre Place	10025 102A Ave NW	103 m	24	1974

[edit] Projects

Current tower projects over 60 m

Rank	Building	Height	Floors	Use	Status	Image
1	Station Lands - Tower B	149 m	37	Mixed Use	Approved
2	The Edmontonian	139 m	41	Residential	Proposal
3	EPCOR Tower	137 m	28	Office	Construction
4	Residence On Bellamy Hill	119 m	36	Residential	Proposal
5	Icon II	112 m	35	Residential	Construction
6	Wasnea Tower	97 m	30	Residential	Proposal
7	Icon I	92 m	30	Residential	Construction
8	Aurora Building D & E	92 m	28	Residential	Approved
9	The Tango	85 m	29	Residential	Proposal
10	Aurora Building F	82 m	25	Residential	Approved
11	Founders Ridge	84 m	28	Residential	Proposal
12	Q	73 m	22	Residential	Construction
13	The Arlington	68 m	20	Residential	Proposal
14	Ironwood Building	65 m	16	Residential	Proposal
15	The Mark on Jasper	65 m	17	Residential	Proposal
16	Urbia Tower	?	28	Residential	Proposal

[edit] Tallest building history

Edmonton has always been a city of low-rise construction. Edmonton was settled much later than other Canadian cities and was very much a frontier town of rustic buildings until 1909 when two transcontinetial railways arrived, and moreso after 1912 when the sale of the Hudson's Bay Company Reserve in what is now the western half of downtown prompted a building boom. This boom went bust during the Great War, and Edmonton saw very little new construction until after the discovery of oil nearby in 1947. Nevertheless, being surrounded by flat plains on all sides, there has never been been much incentive for Edmonton to build up, as in, for example, Vancouver which is sandwiched between the sea and a mountain range. The first true skyscrapper was not built until the construction of the CN Tower in 1966. Another building boom did not really begin until the oil shocks of the 1970s and 80s when most of the city's current tall buildings were constructed. Highrise construction was virtually non-existent between the mid 1980s and the early 2000s due to low oil prices, which Edmonton's economy depends on. The rapid oil price increases since 2003 have created a new boom in Alberta, and prompted new construction again. The current crop of proposed buildings will leave Edmonton looking very different in 2010 compared to how it did in 2000 (see proposals above).

Years	Building	Address	Height	Storeys	Image
1983-present	Manulife Place	10180 101 St NW	146 m (479 ft)	36
1971-1983	Telus Plaza South	10020 100 St NW	134 m (440 ft)	34
1971	Coast Edmonton House	10205 100 Ave NW	121 m (397 ft)	45
1966-1971	CN Tower, Edmonton	10004 104 Ave NW	111 m (364 ft)	26
1958-196?	Milner Building	10030 104 St NW	53 m (174 ft)	12
1915-1958	McLeod Building[2]	10134 100 St NW	35 m (115 ft)	9
19??-1915	Tegler Building ??	10189 101 St NW	??	8

[edit] See also

• List of tallest buildings in Canada
• Heritage buildings in Edmonton

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Edmonton High-Rise Buildings