List of tallest buildings and structures in Belfast

• The tallest building in Belfast is the Obel Tower at 86 metres (282 feet). It is the tallest building in both Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland.
• The tallest structure in Belfast is the Black Mountain transmission station, servicing TV and Radio, at 228.6 m (750 ft 0 in).
• The tallest free standing and occupied structure is the Harland and Wolf shipbuilding gantry crane Samson at 106 m (348 ft).
• The tallest chimney is the Belfast City Hospital chimney at 95 m (312 ft).
• The tallest church is Belfast (St. Anne's) Cathedral at 80 m (260 ft).
• The tallest clock is the Albert Memorial Clock at 34.4 m (112 ft 10 in).

These lists rank the 8 tallest structures in Belfast by total height.

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Belfast Tallest Structures

Rank	Name	Use	Image	Height (m)	Height (ft)	Floors above ground	Year of completion	Notes
1	Black Mountain transmitting station	TV mast		228.6	750	N/A	1959	[1]
2	Divis transmitting station	TV mast		166	545	N/A	2011	[2]
4	"Samson"	Shipbuilding Gantry Crane		106	348	N/A	1974	[3]
5	Belfast Ship repair Quay crane	Ship repair Crane		104	341	N/A	unknown	[4]
6	"Goliath"	Shipbuilding Gantry Crane		96	316	N/A	1969	[3]
7	Belfast City Hospital Chimney	Chimney		95	312	N/A	1986	[5]
8	Grand Central Hotel	Hotel		93	305	23	1975	[6] [7] [8] The building portion of the hotel is only 80 metres tall, while the structural element reaches a height of 93 metres.
9	Obel	Residential		86	281	28	2010	[9]
10	St Anne's Cathedral (Church of Ireland)	Church		80	262	N/A	2007	[10]

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This list ranks buildings in Belfast that stand at least 200 m (656 ft) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts.

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Belfast tallest Buildings
Rank	Name	Use	Image	Height (m)	Height (ft)	Floors (above ground)	Year of completion	Notes
1	Obel	Residential		86	282	28	2010	[9]
2	Grand Central Hotel	Hotel		80	262	23	1975	[6] [7] [8] The building portion of the hotel is only 80 metres tall, while the structural element reaches a height of 93 metres.
3	Belfast City Hospital Tower	Hospital		76	249	15	1986	[11]
4	City Quays 3	Office		74	243	16	2021 (topped out)	[12][13][14]
5	The Ewart	Office		73[a]	240	17	2021 (topped out)	[15][16] (Nicknamed "R2D2" for the Star Wars droid)[citation needed]
6	Belfast International Hilton Hotel	Hotel		63	207	16	1998	[17]
7	BT Riverside Tower	Office		62	203	14	1998	[18]
8	Divis Tower	Residential		61	200	20	1966	[19]
9=	The Boat	Office/Residential		57	187	15	2010	[20][b]
9=	Royal Victoria Hospital Critical Care Building	Hospital		57	187	12	2012	[21][22][c]
11=	Linum Chambers Bedford Square	Office		55	180	13	2005	[23]
11=	Causeway Tower	Office		55	180	13	2004	[24]
11=	Great Northern Tower	Office		55	180	13	1992	[25]
14	Ulster University Belfast Campus	University		52[d]	171	13	2021	[26]
15	Grainne House	Residential		52	171	17	1968	[27]
16	Europa Hotel	Hotel		51	167	13	1971	[28]
17=	Bruce Street Student accommodation	Student accommodation		51	167	15	2023	[29]
17=	Lanyon Plaza	Office		50	164	12	2014	[30]
19=	Bedford House	Office		49	161	12	1966	[31]
19=	River House	Office		49	161	14	1970 Building reclad in 2018.	[32][33]
19=	Ferndale House Parkdale House Riverdale House	Residential		49	161	15	1965	[34][35][36]
19=	Coolemoyne House Rathmoyne House	Residential		49	161	15	1962	[37][38]
26	Queen's University Medical Biology Centre (MBC)	University		48	158	12	1969	[39]
27	Swanston House 41-49 Queen street	Residential (student)		47	155	14	2016	[40]
28=	14 Great Victoria Street	Office		46	151	11	2003	[41]
28=	Fanum House	Office		46	151	13	1965	[42]
28=	Dundonald house	Office		46	151	12	early 1960s	[43][44]
28=	Ashby Building	University		46	151	11	1965	[45]
28=	101 York Street	Residential (student)		46	151	14	2021 (topped out)	[46]
33=	Kilbroney House	Residential		45	148	15	1967	[47]
33=	Carnet House	Residential		45	148	15	1966	[48]
33=	Bradbury court	Residential		45	148	15	Early 1960s	[49]
33=	FX, 14-18 Montgomery street	Residential		45	148	15	2019	[50]
33=	Maldron hotel	Hotel		45	148	15	2018	[51]
33=	Elms BT2, McClintock Street	Residential (student)		45	148	16	2018	[52]

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List of tallest non Habitable buildings over 45m tall in Belfast. Non-Habitable building refers to a building where most of the height is taken up by an architectural feature which is not habitable such as a spire, or storage space.

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Rank	Name	Use	Image	Height (m)	Height (ft)	Year of Construction	Notes
1	St Anne's Cathedral	Anglican Cathedral (Church of Ireland)		80	262	2007	[10]
2	St Patrick's Church, Belfast	Roman Catholic chapel		55	180	1877	[53]
3	West Twin Silos	Warehouse		54	177	1963	[54]
4	Belfast City Hall	Government Building		53	174	1906	[55]
5	Carlisle Memorial Church	Former Methodist Church now a venue		52	171	1875	[56] [57]
6	St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast	Roman Catholic Cathedral		50	164	1866	[58]

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Tallest buildings and structures in Belfast over 45m to have been demolished.

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Name	Use	Image	Height (m)	Floors	Notes
Divis Transmitting station (old)	TV Masts		Mast A =140.7 and Mast B=139.5	N/A	Built in 1957 Replaced in 2011 [2]
Power station West 3 Chimneys	Power station Chimneys		80	N/A	Was opened in 1962, and closed in 2002 as move towards green energy began. Chimneys were demolished in 2007.[59]
Churchill House	Office		66 (not including mast)	18	When built in 1966 it was Belfast's tallest building. Was occupied by Northern Ireland civil servants. Demolished in 2004. Now Victoria Square Shopping centre is where it once stood.[60]
Greeves' (Cupar street) mill chimney	Chimney		66	N/A	When built it was the tallest chimney in Ireland and was until at least 1923. It had to be felled for safety reasons as it quickly deteriorated.[61]
Belfast Wheel	Observation wheel		60	N/A	Was opened 2007 and closed 2010, due to blocking listed Belfast City hall and titanic memorial. Talks of moving it to the Titanic quarter led to nothing.

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Section covers buildings and structures under construction, had planning permission approved and have been proposed for Belfast. Exact heights stated in this section are taken directly from building plans found at ^[62] and most recent approvals are announced online,^[63] where older ones are found in the previous reference.

Under construction

This lists buildings that are currently under construction.

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Name	Image	Use	Height (m)	Floors	Notes
Royal Victoria children's Hospital	*Add when crane erected any cgi image will likely be removed due to copyright	Hospital	61 (65 structure)	12	Demolition of Bostock House (site location) underway.[22]
Bankmore square		Office and Student Accommodation	58 and 56	14 and 17	Under construction Approved 16/04/24 [64] Construction due Sept 24 with completion in 2026 for office and 2027 for student accommodation. Redesign of previously approved proposal with smaller footprint and similar height.[65] Area now temporary trade market and events space. Two new Pans [66] [67] Full application for office [68] Full application for student accom [69]
Loftlines	add pic when crane up	btr and social housing	57 max also 45	18 max also 14	construction started 26/06/2023 link to planning app Planning ref:LA04/2021/2280/F [70]

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Table of tallest proposed buildings that never came to fruition, either due to planning permission or financial issues.

Table of the history of the tallest building in Belfast by Architectural height

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Name	Years tallest	Height (m)	Image
St. Peter's Cathedral (Roman Catholic)	1866-1875	50
Carlisle Memorial Church (Methodist)	1875-1877	52
St Patrick's Church (Roman Catholic)	1877-1966	55
Churchill House	1966-1975	66
Windsor House (Grand Central Hotel)	1st 1975-2007 Joint 1st 2007-2010	80
Belfast (St. Anne's) Cathedral (Church of Ireland)	Joint 1st 2007-2010	80
Obel Tower	2010-	86

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