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=== Lattice towers with observation decks === {{Color box|#D3D3D3|border=darkgray}} indicates a structure that is no longer standing.<br /> {{see also|Observation tower}} {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- !Tower !! Year !! Country !! Town !! Height m !! Height ft !! class=unsortable|Remarks |- |[[Tokyo Skytree]] ||2012 ||Japan || [[Sumida, Tokyo]] ||634 m || 2080 ft || Tallest Lattice tower in the world |- |[[Tashkent Tower]] ||1985 ||Uzbekistan ||Tashkent ||374.9 m || 1230 ft || |- |[[Dragon Tower]] ||2000 ||China ||Harbin ||336 m || 1102 ft || |- |[[Tokyo Tower]] ||1957 ||Japan ||Tokyo ||333 m || 1093 ft || |- |[[Eiffel Tower]] ||1889 ||France ||Paris ||330 m || 1083 ft || |- |[[Zhuzhou Television Tower]] ||1999 ||China ||Zhuzhou ||293 m || 961 ft || |- |[[Shijiazhuang TV-tower]] ||1998 ||China ||Shijiazhuang ||280 m || 919 ft || |- |[[Kaifeng TV Tower]] || 1995 ||China ||Kaifeng ||268 m || 879 ft || |- |[[Daqing Radio and Television Tower]] ||1989 ||China ||Daqing ||260 m || 853 ft || |- | Foshan TV Tower<ref name=":17">{{cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/133807/tv-tower-foshan-china |title=TV-Tower, Foshan | 133807 |publisher=Emporis |date= |accessdate=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2021-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411080431/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/133807/tv-tower-foshan-china |url-status=usurped }}</ref> || ? || China || Foshan || 238 m || 781 ft || |- |[[Qingdao TV Tower]] ||1994 ||China ||Qingdao ||232 m || 761 ft || |- |Hongguangshan TV Tower || ? || China || Ürümqi || 230 m<ref name=":18">{{Cite web |url=http://worldradiomap.com/cn/urumqi |title=乌鲁木齐广播电台 / Radio stations in Ürümqi, China — World Radio Map |access-date=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2021-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026041056/https://worldradiomap.com/cn/urumqi |url-status=live }}</ref> || 754 ft || |- |[[Brasília TV Tower]] ||1967 ||Brazil ||Brasília ||224 m<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/119903/torre-de-tv-de-brasilia-brasilia-brazil |title=Torre de TV de Brasília, Brasília | 119903 |publisher=Emporis |date= |accessdate=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2020-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702202833/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/119903/torre-de-tv-de-brasilia-brasilia-brazil |url-status=usurped }}</ref> || 735 ft || formerly the tallest structure in Brazil 1967-2004 |- |Changchun Radio and Television Tower || 1997 || China || Qingdao || 218 m<ref name=":19">{{Cite web |url=http://worldradiomap.com/cn/changchun |title=长春广播电台 / Radio stations in Changchun, China — World Radio Map |access-date=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2021-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422134135/https://worldradiomap.com/cn/changchun |url-status=live }}</ref> || 715 ft || |- |[[Guangzhou TV Tower]] ||1991 ||China ||Guangzhou ||217 m || 712 ft || |- |Guangdong TV Tower<ref name=":20">{{cite web |url=https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=21996 |title=Guangdong TV Tower, Guangzhou |publisher=SkyscraperPage.com |date= |accessdate=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2020-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711071154/https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=21996 |url-status=live }}</ref> ||1965 ||China ||Guangdong ||200 m || 656 ft || |- |Dalian Radio & TV Tower<ref>{{cite web |url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7556 |title=Dalian Radio & TV Tower, Dalian |publisher=SkyscraperPage.com |date= |accessdate=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305202532/http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7556 |url-status=live }}</ref> ||1990 ||China ||Dalian ||191 m || 627 ft || Has a thick solid concrete core with an exterior steel lattice, it is unknown which provides most of the structural support but the steel lattice is a very prominent feature of the tower |- |[[Nagoya TV Tower]] ||1954 ||Japan ||Nagoya ||180 m || 590 ft || |- style="background:#d3d3d3;" || [[Odinstårnet]] || 1935 || Denmark || Odense || 175 m || 574 ft|| demolished on December 14, 1944 |- style="background:#d3d3d3;" || [[New Brighton Tower]] || 1900 || UK || Liverpool || 172.8 m || 567 ft || dismantled from 1919 to 1921 |- |[[Las Vegas Eiffel Tower]] ||1999 ||United States||Las Vegas || 165 m || 541 ft || 1:2 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- style="background:#d3d3d3;" || [[Osaka ABC Tower]] || 1966 || Japan || Osaka || 160 m || 525 ft || demolished in September 2009<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/about/news/2012/m1001_03.html |title=News Release | TAKENAKA CORPORATION |access-date=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2021-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010035129/https://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/about/news/2012/m1001_03.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |[[The Parisian Macao]] ||2016 ||China||Macau || 160 m || 525 ft || 1:2 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- |[[Blackpool Tower]] ||1894 ||United Kingdom ||Blackpool || 158 m || 518 ft || |- |[[Funkturm Berlin]] ||1926 ||Germany ||Berlin || 150 m || 492 ft || Only observation tower standing on insulators |- |[[Sapporo TV Tower]] ||1957 ||Japan ||Sapporo || 147.2 m || 483 ft || |- |[[Vasco-da-Gama-Tower]] ||1998 ||Portugal ||Lisbon || 145 m || 476 ft || |- |[[Alphabetic Tower]] ||2012 ||Georgia ||Batumi || 130 m || 427 ft || |- style="background:#d3d3d3;" || [[Gettysburg National Tower]] || 1974 || United States || [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]] || 120 m || 394 ft || demolished on July 3, 2000 [[Hyperboloid structure]] |- |[[Observation tower of la Cité de l'Énergie]] ||1997 ||Canada ||Shawinigan, Quebec || 115 m || 377 ft || |- |[[Torre Branca]] ||1933 ||Italy ||Milan || 108.6 m || 356 ft || |- |[[Kobe Port Tower]] ||1963 ||Japan ||Kobe || 108 m || 354 ft || |- |[[Window of the World|Eiffel Tower of Window of the World]] ||1993 ||China||Shenzhen || 108 m || 354 ft || 1:3 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- |[[Tianducheng|Eiffel Tower of Tiandu City Community]] ||2007 ||China||Macau || 108 m || 354 ft || 1:3 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- |[[Marine Tower Yokohama]] ||1961 ||Japan ||Yokohama ||106 m || 348 ft || |- |[[Tsutenkaku]] ||1956 ||Japan ||Osaka ||103 m || 338 ft || |- |[[Hakata Port Tower]] ||1964 ||Japan ||Fukuoka ||103 m || 338 ft || |- |[[Tour métallique de Fourvière]] ||1894 ||France ||Lyon ||101 m || 331 ft ||Not used as observation tower since 1953 |- |[[Elitch Gardens Theme Park|Total Tower]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/220420/elitch-gardens-observation-tower-denver-co-usa |title=Elitch Gardens Observation Tower, Denver | 220420 |publisher=Emporis |date= |accessdate=2022-03-07 |archive-date=2021-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107174732/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/220420/elitch-gardens-observation-tower-denver-co-usa |url-status=usurped }}</ref> ||1994 ||United States ||Denver ||100.6 m || 330 ft || |- |[[Beppu Tower]] ||1957 ||Japan ||Beppu ||100 m || 328 ft || |- |[[Eiffel Tower (Cedar Fair)|Eiffel Tower of Kings Island]] ||1972 ||United States||Mason, Ohio ||96 m || 315 ft ||1:3.5 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- |[[Eiffel Tower (Cedar Fair)|Eiffel Tower of Kings Dominion]] ||1975 ||United States||Doswell, Virginia ||96 m || 315 ft ||1:3.5 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- |[[Cholfirst Radio Tower]] ||1973 ||Switzerland ||Flurlingen ||96 m || 315 ft || |- |[[Sunsphere]] ||1982 ||United States ||Knoxville ||81.07 m || 266 ft || |- |Eiffel Tower replica in Bahria Town ||2014 ||Pakistan||Bahria ||80 m || 262 ft ||1:4 scale replica of [[Eiffel Tower]] |- |[[Torre Sant Sebastia]] ||1931 ||Spain ||Barcelona ||78 m || 256 ft ||Harbour terminal [[aerial tramway]] |- |[[Hiratsuka TV Tower]] ||1972 ||Japan ||Hiratsuka ||70 m || 256 ft || |- |[[Hürth#Facility 4101, Tower 93 - only electricity pylon ever equipped with an observation deck|Facility 4101, Tower 93]] || 1975 || Germany || Hürth ||74.84 m || 246 ft ||[[Electricity pylon]], which carried from 1977 to 2010 in a height of 27 metres (89 ft) an observation deck |- || Morecambe Tower || 1898 || UK || Morecambe || 71 m || 232 ft || dismantled during the first world war,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/da37042d-b8f6-3a2b-8098-8e3e3a08bc78#:~:text=During%20the%20First%20World%20War,and%20finally%20demolished%20in%201961.|title=Architectural plans of Morecambe Tower - Archives Hub|access-date=2022-03-07|archive-date=2021-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601224112/https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/da37042d-b8f6-3a2b-8098-8e3e3a08bc78#:~:text=During%20the%20First%20World%20War,and%20finally%20demolished%20in%201961.|url-status=live}}</ref> built on top of a theatre |- |[[Hot Springs Mountain Tower]] ||1983 ||United States||Hot Springs Mountain ||65.8 m || 216 ft || |- |[[Petřínská rozhledna]] ||1891 ||Czech ||Prague ||60 m || 197 ft || |- |[[Bachtel Tower]] ||1986 ||Switzerland ||Hinwil ||60 m || 197 ft || |- |[[Green Tower]] ||1998 ||Japan ||Sanbu ||60 m || 197 ft || |- |[[Gross Reken Melchenberg Radio Tower]] ||2002 ||Germany ||Reken ||60 m || 197 ft || |- |[[Schomberg Observation Tower]] ||2006 ||Germany ||[[Sundern]] ||60 m || 197 ft || |- |[[Aalborgtårnet]] ||1933 ||Denmark ||Aalborg ||54.9 m || 180 ft || dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up in 2005 |- |[[Observation Tower Ahlbeck]] ||1998 ||Germany ||Ahlbeck || 50 m || 164 ft || |- style="background:#d3d3d3;" || [[Watkins' Tower]] || 1891 || UK || London || 47 m || 154 ft || never completed & dismantled in 1907 was to be 358 m / 1175 ft in height |- |Morsbach Observation Tower ||1962 ||Germany ||Morsbach ||45 m || 148 ft || |- |[[Joseph's Cross]] ||1896 ||Germany ||Stolberg ||38 m || 124 ft || |- |[[Poppenberg Observation Tower]] ||1897 ||Germany ||Ilfeld ||33 m || 108 ft || |- |[[Lemberg Tower]] ||1899 ||Germany ||Lemberg Mountain ||33 m || 108 ft || |- |[[Wanne Observation Tower]] ||1888 ||Germany ||Villingen-Schwenningen ||30 m || 98 ft || |- |[[Gehrenberg Tower]] ||1903 ||Germany ||[[Markdorf]] ||30 m || 98 ft || |- |[[Tower of Unity]] ||1962 ||Germany ||Heldrastein ||30 m || 98 ft ||Former additionally guyed lattice tower, which was transformed into observation tower |- style="background:#d3d3d3;" |[[Gustav-Vietor-Tower]] ||1882 ||Germany || Hohe Wurzel (Taunus) ||25 m || 82 ft ||demolished in 2006 |- |[[Observation Tower at Goetzinger's Height]] ||1883 ||Germany ||Neustadt/Saxony ||25 m || 82 ft || |- |[[Hochfirst Tower]] ||1890 ||Germany ||Titisee-Neustadt ||25 m || 82 ft || Additionally guyed |- |[[Büchenbronn Observation Tower]] ||1883 ||Germany ||Büchenbronn ||24.75 m || 81 ft || Additionally guyed |- |[[Tour du Belvédère]] ||1898 ||France ||Mulhouse-Belvédère ||20 m || 65 ft || |- |[[Salzgitter Bismarck Tower]] ||1900 ||Germany ||Salzgitter ||17 m || 56 ft || |- |[[Gillerberg Observation Tower]] ||1892 ||Germany ||Hilchenbach ||15 m || 49 ft || |}
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