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The CN Tower is a 553.3-metre-high communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands. Its name "
The CN Tower as seen from Puente de Luz in 2025
Skycrane "Olga" lifting antenna segment
Constructing the base, July 1973
Brackets being raised, August 1974
Canton Tower
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The Canton Tower, formally Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower, is a 600-metre-tall multipurpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou, China. The tower was topped out in 2
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…32 years, from 1975 until 2007, when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa, and was the world's tallest tower until 2009 when it was surpassed by the Canton Tower. It is currently the tenth-tallest free-standing structure in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure on land in North America, the…
The Canton Tower in 2024
The mascot of the Canton Tower, Xiaomanyao (小蛮腰; 'Slim Waist'), was named after the nickname of the tower.
The tower under construction in November 2007.
View of the Pearl River from Canton Tower