CN Tower
The CN Tower is a telecommunications tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is 1815.2 ft is (553.30 m) tall and is the tallest free-standing structure (meaning it cannot have wires to keep it standing) in Canada, North America, and the Western Hemisphere.[4][6] It is not the tallest building as there are no floors for people to work or live in. Which is a bit shorter at tall. It is not the tallest structure of any kind in the Americas either, as the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, also in the United States, is taller at 2,063 feet (629 m), but that needs wires to keep it upright.
| CN Tower | |
|---|---|
| Tour CN | |
| Toronto - ON - Toronto Harbourfront7.jpg | |
| Alternative names | Canadian National Tower, Canada's National Tower |
| Record height | |
| Tallest in the world from 1975 to 2007[3][I] | |
| Preceded by | Ostankino Tower |
| Surpassed by | Burj Khalifa |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Observation, telecommunications, attraction, restaurant |
| Address | 290 Bremner Boulevard Toronto, Ontario M5V 3L9 |
| Coordinates | 43°38′33.36″N 79°23′13.56″W / 43.6426000°N 79.3871000°WCoordinates: 43°38′33.36″N 79°23′13.56″W / 43.6426000°N 79.3871000°W |
| Construction started | 1973[4][5] |
| Completed | 1976 |
| Cost | CA$63,000,000[5] |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 553.30 m |
| Roof | 447 m |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | Equivalent of a 124-storey building |
| Elevators | 9< |
| Design and construction | |
| Owner | Canada Lands Company |
| Architect | WZMH Architects: John Andrews, Webb Zerafa, Menkes Housden |
| Website | |
| www | |
| References | |
| [4][5] | |
Construction of the concrete tower started on 6 February 1973. In 1975, while it was still being built, it became taller than the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. When it opened to the public on 26 June 1976, it became the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world. It held this record for more than thirty years, until the Burj Khalifa, while it was still being built, became taller on 12 September 2007 .[7] The CN Tower continued to be the world's tallest tower until the Canton Tower became taller in 2010. It is now the ninth tallest building in the world and the fifth tallest free-standing structure behind both of these, the Shanghai Tower, and the Burj Khalifa.
The "CN" in the tower's name came from the Canadian National Railway, the railway company that built the tower. In 1995, the railway sold the tower to the Canada Lands Company (CLC). Local residents wanted to keep the name CN Tower, though, so the abbreviation is now a shortened form of Canada's National Tower instead of the original Canadian National Tower. Neither of these names are commonly used, though; the tower is usually called the CN Tower.[8]
Today, the CN Tower is an important icon of Toronto and has more than two million tourists and visitors every year.[9] It has been one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World since 1995.
It has a restaurant that spins around every 1 hour & 12 minutes.[10]
CN Tower Media
- Toronto - ON - CN Tower bei Nacht2.jpg
CN Tower from the Toronto Islands
- Ripleys Aquarium Toronto map.png
Map of the area immediately surrounding CN Tower shortly before the opening of Ripley's Aquarium of Canada in 2013
- CN Tower40 construction skycrane March 1975 01c.jpg
Skycrane "Olga" lifting antenna segment
- EdgeWalk on the CN Tower.jpg
EdgeWalk atop the main pod
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Subindo no elevador da Torre CN.
- Restaurante panoramico na Torre CN.ogv
Restaurante panoramico na Torre CN
- CN Tower SkyPod 2023d.jpg
View straight down from the SkyPod to the roof of the Observation Level
- Gardiner Expressway Downtown Toronto.jpg
Looking east at CN Tower from Gardiner Expressway in 2010
- CN Tower lights in-memoriam to Paris attacks.JPG
Illuminated in the colours of the Flag of France following the November 2015 Paris attacks
- CN Tower seen from its base.jpg
CN Tower as seen from its base.
Related pages
References
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- ↑ "CN Tower no longer world's tallest". Toronto Star. 13 September 2007. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/256177--cn-tower-no-longer-world-s-tallest.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 CN Tower at Emporis
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ CBC News Story
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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Other websites
16x16px Media related to CN Tower at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- CBC Archives – CN Tower opens to the public
- Edgewalk
- The Design, Engineering and Construction of the CN Tower – 1972 through to 1976
- A visual construction history of the CN Tower – at 40th year anniversaries
- How the CN Tower was Built—Art of Engineering (YouTube documentary)
| Records | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ostankino Tower |
World's tallest free-standing structure 553.33 m (1,815 ft 5 in) 1975–2007 |
Succeeded by Burj Khalifa |
| World's tallest tower 1975–2010 |
Succeeded by Canton Tower | |
