What is the tallest building you’ve ever been on the top of?

[Still-alive]

I was just on top of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas yesterday. Pretty neat!

[MrOracle]

That's a good question. I'm not sure if I know the answer for sure. It might be 555 Bush Street (the old Bank Of America tower) in San Francisco. I've been to the top of the Empire State building - or at least, the observation platform, but I don't know the height. These days the Salesforce tower is the tallest building in San Francisco, but I haven't been up there yet.

I've been on the roofs of many building in San Francisco, as I used to do commercial satellite TV installations all over Northern California.

Here's the top of the Hyatt Regency, looking at what used to be a rotating restaurant called the Equinox. Lack of expensive maintenance resulted in the rotating section being halted in 2007 and the space converted into a lounge, but just this year they finally did the work and got the thing turning again.

The former Equinox rotating restaurant atop the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco.

You can see this famous hotel and its rotating restaurant in the late 70s movie Time After Time, as a significant portion of the movie was shot inside the hotel.

This photo was taken from the roof of the Grand Hyatt, looking at the Transamerica pyramid and at 555 Bush Street (the root-beer-colored building on the right), which were formerly the two tallest buildings in SF before the construction of the Salesforce Tower. 555 Bush Street, the former Bank Of America tower, is famous, among other things, for being in the beginning of the movie Dirty Harry, where a criminal with a rifle kills a woman in a rooftop swimming pool of another hotel about 10 blocks away. Clint Eastwood goes up to the roof to examine the shooter's location in the first couple minutes of the movie.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera when I got out on the roof of 555 Bush, as that would have made for some great photos.

Last, this is a shot from 230 California, looking up the California Street hill with the cable car tracks. This is a mere 10 stories up, so not impressively high, but it's not an awful picture either.

[abc3643]

Well, this is sort of a mixed question.

On 03 July 1989, I was outside on the top of the World Trade Center in NYC. It was a gorgeous day so the outside observatory deck was open. We stayed so we could LOOK DOWN on fireworks being exploded over the East River.

However, in 2008, I was in the CN Tower in Toronto. That structure is taller than the WTC was, but the observation deck, I believe was lower.

Also, I was in the Sears Tower in Chicago also in 2008. I am not sure how high the observation deck was there but it wasn't on the roof of the building.

[CrazyGirl2]

Yeah I’ve stated in the Strat, it’s kinda out of the way, all the way up at the end of the strip on LV Blvd, but my friends and I had a lot of fun on that trip. We were there for a Gymnastics Meet (competition). But the tallest building I’ve ever been in was the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, in the UAE. I was about 9, maybe 10 at the time. It was hot and uneventful, I don’t remember too much about the trip, but I do remember hating being on the 148th floor, and I kept thinking a plane would hit us and the bldg would collapse. (because we had just talked about 9/11 in elementary school) However it was really nice, and we were waited on hand and foot. The staff kept offering me and my brother and sister sweets. They were seriously nice people! I cannot remember ever visiting another country that was so clean, and where the people were just so genuinely nice, and polite.

Laura 🥰 🤗

[midnightmoon05]

Just went on Taipei 101 2 days ago. I like the love they put in to create a fun/educational environment for visitors.

i have also been on the Empire State Building 2 times.
the twin tower when it was open before they were destroyed.
went on the freedom tower last summer.
not sure which are taller.
i will visit the twin towers in Malaysian next summer or summer after… so I guess I just have been visited more vs trying to compare which is higher.

[midnightmoon05]

www.britannica.com/.../tallest-buildings-in-the-world-2226971

I just checked… didn’t realized I went to another building in Seoul Lotto world smh…but we didn’t go up.
Not sure if I would ever make it to Dubai, just doesn’t appeal to me.

When we visit China hopefully soon… we will visit other buildings.

[Sarah2007]

Merdeka 118 when I was in Malaysia, had pay loooooots of money just to reach the last floor of the building, it was an amazing experience and the view of the whole city is spectacular.

[Caroline91]

I don't go up on tall buildings because I have a compulsion to jump if it's not enclosed and, even if it is enclosed, I end up with an anxiety attack.

[electromagnetic]

Pretty cool photos.
I get vertigo so heights are an absolute no no. I’ve been to the cn tower and Statue of Liberty.

[OfMiceandMen]

The CN Tower in Toronto - 553 m and it has a glass floor. Kind of freaky looking down.

[kellytheman]

Never been on top of a lot of tall buildings because I live the Midwest with high winds but I been on top of a 11 story building that I could see the downtown of by my town.

[LiamJHayden]

I've been to the top floor of several in DTLA, so that would be the Wilshire Grand Center I think. But if you mean the actual roof of, I do not recall any.

[Fireguy17]

95 floors.
It used to be called the John Hancock building in chicago.

[OddBeMe]

Whatever they call the Sears tower I remember being cool.

Honestly the whole architecture tour in Chicago was awesome. Look it up.

[Wiredone]

I've been on top of the empire state building

[CubaPirate]

The same as you unless the empire state is taller

[petitedollbabee]

The sky tower in Auckland.

[goaded]

Probably one of the Twin Towers.

[goaded]

I just checked, the Sears Tower is taller. (The first skyscraper designed with the help of electronic calculators, iirc.) That one.

[paledreams]

I'm a scared cat of heights lol 🐈😺 lol 😆 ♂️

[ariadneR]

Cn tower. 553 m

[iCuddleU]

My house.

[paledreams]

Lol 😆

[paledreams]

Also cause there's like a cat creature lol 😺