CN Tower
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Alternative names
| Canadian National Tower, Canada's National Tower
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Tallest in the world from 1975 to 2007
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Preceded by
| Ostankino Tower
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Surpassed by
| Burj Khalifa
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Status
| Complete
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Type
| Mixed use:
Observation, telecommunications, attraction, restaurant
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Address
| 290 Bremner Boulevard
Toronto
,
Ontario
M5V 3L9
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Coordinates
| 43°38′33.36″N
79°23′13.56″W
/
43.6426000°N 79.3871000°W
/
43.6426000; -79.3871000
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Construction started
| 1973
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Completed
| 1976
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Opening
| June 26, 1976
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Cost
| CA$
63,000,000
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Owner
| Canada Lands Company
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Antenna spire
| 553 m
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Roof
| 447 m
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Floor count
| Equivalent of a 124-storey building
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Lifts/elevators
| 9<
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Architect
| WZMH Architects
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John Andrews
, Webb Zerafa, Menkes Housden
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www
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The
CN Tower
is a
telecommunications
tower
in
Toronto
,
Ontario
,
Canada
. It is 1815 ft is (553 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
.
[3]
[6]
It is not the tallest
building
as there are no
floors
for people to work or live in. That title goes to
One World Trade Center
in
New York City
,
New York
,
United States
, which is a bit shorter at 1,776 feet (541 m) 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.
Construction
of the
concrete
tower started on February 6, 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 June 26, 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 September 12, 2007 .
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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.
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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.
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