This article is about the tallest buildings in the United States in 2025. All of these buildings are completed. First, I will list the 10 tallest buildings in the U.S., and then I'll give you details about all of the buildings listed below.
Here's the updated version with the number sections in bold and the headings in a larger format for clarity:
Top 10 Tallest Buildings in the United States
Number 10: Bank of America Tower
Height: 366 meters
The Bank of America Tower is a 55-story skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. With a height of 1,200 feet, the Bank of America Tower is the 8th tallest building in New York City and the 10th tallest building in the United States. The Bank of America Tower has 2.1 million square feet of office space, much of which is occupied by Bank of America. The building consists of a seven-story base that occupies the entire plot, above which rises the tower. Its facade is largely composed of a curtain wall made of insulated glass panels. Despite several incidents during construction, the building was completed in 2009 at a cost of 1 billion.
Number 9: Empire State Building
Height: 381 meters
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from Empire State, the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of 380 meters and stands a total of 443 meters tall, including its antenna. The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building until the construction of the World Trade Center in 1970. Following the latter's collapse in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the city's tallest skyscraper until 2012. As of 2021, the building is the seventh tallest building in New York City, the ninth tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the fourth tallest in the world, and the sixth tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
Number 8: 30 Hudson Yards
Height: 387 meters
30 Hudson Yards, also known as the North Tower, is a super-tall skyscraper in the West Side area of Manhattan, located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and the Penn Station area. The building is part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment project, a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's West Side Yard. It is the sixth tallest building in New York City. The building has a triangular observation deck jutting out from the 100th floor with a bar and event space on the 101st floor. This observation deck at 1,100 feet opened in March 2020 and is the second-highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere. It offers new skyline views to the south and east of Manhattan, the surrounding boroughs, and New Jersey.
Number 7: Trump International Hotel and Tower
Height: 423 meters
The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 98-story structure, which reaches a height of 423.2 meters, including its spire, with its roof topping out at 357 meters. It is next to the main branch of the Chicago River with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of the Apprentice reality television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower over managing a Rancho Palo's Birds and Trump National Golf Course and Resort in Los Angeles.
Number 6: 432 Park Avenue
Height: 426 meters
432 Park Avenue is a residential skyscraper at 57th Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, overlooking Central Park. The 426-meter tower was developed by the Seirong Group and Harry B. Macklowe and designed by Raphael Viñoly. A part of Billionaires Row, 432 Park Avenue has some of the most expensive residences in the city, with the median unit selling for tens of millions of dollars. At the time of its completion, 432 Park Avenue was the third tallest building in the United States and the tallest residential building in the world. As of 2021, it is the sixth tallest building in the United States, the fifth tallest building in New York City, and the third tallest residential building in the world.
Number 5: One Vanderbilt
Height: 427 meters
One Vanderbilt is a 93-story super-tall skyscraper at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the building was proposed by developer SL Green Realty as part of a planned Midtown East rezoning in the early 2010s. The skyscraper's roof is 397 meters high, and its spire reaches 427 meters above ground, making it the city's fourth tallest building.
Number 4: 111 West 57th Street
Height: 435 meters
111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower, is a super-tall residential skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group, it is situated along Billionaires Row on the north side of 57th Street near 6th Avenue. The main portion of the skyscraper is an 8-4 story, 435-meter tower designed by SHoP Architects and erected in the 2010s.
Number 3: Willis Tower
Height: 442 meters
Formerly known as and commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, the Willis Tower is a 108-story, 442-meter skyscraper in Chicago. The tower has 108 stories as counted by standard methods, though the building's owners count the main roof as 109 and the mechanical penthouse roof as 110. At completion in 1974, it surpassed the World Trade Center in New York City to become the tallest building in the world—a title it held for nearly 25 years. It was also the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere for 41 years until the new One World Trade Center surpassed it in 2013.
Number 2: Central Park Tower
Height: 472 meters
Central Park Tower, also known as the Nordstrom Tower, is a residential super-tall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City along Billionaires Row. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises 472 meters with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories. Central Park Tower is the second tallest building in New York City, the United States, and the Western Hemisphere, the 14th tallest building in the world, the tallest primarily residential building in the world, and the tallest building outside Asia by roof height.
Number 1: One World Trade Center
Height: 541 meters
One World Trade Center is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. One WTC is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh tallest in the world. The super-tall structure has the same name as the north tower of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the 60-acre World Trade Center site on the site of the original Six World Trade Center. Thanks for reading, and see you in the next article.
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