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Wooden buildings which have exceptional heights are in this article listed, starting with the highest wooden structures. The tallest ever wooden structure was the tower of
Mühlacker radio transmitter The Mühlacker Broadcasting Transmission Facility is a radio transmission facility near Mühlacker, Germany, first put into service on November 21, 1930. It uses two guyed steel tube masts as aerials and one guyed steel framework mast, which are ...
(, destroyed in 1945). The tallest standing wooden structure is
Gliwice Radio Tower The Gliwice Radio Tower is a transmission tower in the Szobiszowice district of Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland. Structure The Gliwice Radio Tower is 111 m tall, with a wooden framework of impregnated siberian larch linked by brass connectors. It ...
(). In a narrower sense these structures are not buildings. The tallest building has been the Sanctuary of Truth, a temple in
Pattaya Pattaya ( th, พัทยา, , ) is a city in Thailand. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about southeast of Bangkok, within, but not part of, Bang Lamung district in the province of Chonburi. Pattaya City ( th, เมือà ...
,
Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
. The previous record holder, the
Pagoda of Fogong Temple The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple () of Ying County, Shanxi province, China, is a wooden Chinese pagoda built in 1056, during the Khitan-led Liao dynasty. The pagoda was built by Emperor Daozong of Liao (Hongji) at the site of his grandmoth ...
, was built 900 years ago.


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List of tallest buildings and structures The world's tallest human-made structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (of the United Arab Emirates). The building gained the official title of "tallest building in the world" and the tallest self-supported structure at its opening on January ...
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List of tallest structures The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity ...
* List of tallest church buildings *
List of tallest Orthodox churches This is a list of tallest Orthodox church buildings in the world, all those higher than 70 metres. Traditionally, an Orthodox church building is crowned by one or several domes with Orthodox crosses on the top of each. The overall height of the ...
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List of tallest domes This is a list of the tallest domes in the world. The dome can be measured by various criteria. There are different types of domes. Many of the tallest domes have a Roof lantern, lantern. Strictly speaking, the lantern is not part of the dome, b ...
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List of tallest mosques A list of the tallest mosques in the world. The height value gives the height of the tallest element of the mosque (usually a minaret). List See also * List of tallest minarets References {{TBSW Mosques A mosque (; from ar, Ù ...
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List of tallest crosses List of tallest crosses in the world (minimum height 20 metres). List Planned projects * Monterrey cross, Monterrey, Mexico, 160 m, announced in 2022 * Cross of Blaszki, Poland, 100 m, announced in 2018 * Kraljevo Cross, Kraljevo, Serbia, ...


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Wooden Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin tha ...
Wooden buildings and structures