what is the tallest tower in the uk
List of tallest buildings in the United Kingdom The Shard in Southwark, London, is currently the tallest completed building in both the UK and the European Union; it was topped out at a height of 310 metres (1,020Â ft) in March 2012, inaugurated in July 2012 and opened to the public in February 2013.
List of tallest buildings and structures The world's tallest artificial structure is the 829.8-metre-tall (2,722Â ft) 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 9, 2010. The second-tallest self-supporting structure and the tallest tower is the Tokyo Skytree. The tallest guyed structure is the KVLY-TV mast.