List of tallest buildings in Pennsylvania


This list of the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania includes all skyscrapers or taller, ranked by height. The tallest building in Pennsylvania is currently the 60-story Comcast Technology Center which topped out at in Center City, Philadelphia on November 27, 2017 and opened in 2018. It is currently the 9th-tallest building in the United States. All of the buildings over are in either Philadelphia or Pittsburgh.

Tallest buildings

All the buildings listed here are in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; the only other cities with a building over are Harrisburg with the building at 333 Market Street and Bethlehem with the Martin Tower. The PPL Building is Allentown's tallest building at, and the Renaissance Centre is the tallest in Erie at. The tallest building in Reading is the Berks County Courthouse, rising.
RankNameImageHeight
ft / 		FloorsYearCityNotes
1Comcast Technology Center1,121 / 341602018PhiladelphiaTallest building in Pennsylvania; 11th-tallest building in the United States; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 2010s.
2Comcast Center975 / 297582008Philadelphia28th-tallest building in the country; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 2000s
3One Liberty Place945 / 288611987Philadelphia33rd-tallest building in the country; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1980s
4Two Liberty Place848 / 258581990Philadelphia58th-tallest building in the country; tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1990s
5U.S. Steel Tower841 / 256641971Pittsburgh63rd-tallest building in the country; tallest building in Pittsburgh since 1970; tallest building in the state from 1970 until the 1987 completion of One Liberty Place in Philadelphia; tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1970s; formerly known as USX Tower
6BNY Mellon Center792 / 241541990Philadelphia76th-tallest building in the country; also known as Nine Penn Center
7Three Logan Square739 / 225551991Philadelphia128th-tallest building in the country; formerly known as Bell Atlantic Tower and Verizon Tower
8FMC Tower at Cira Centre South730 / 223492016Philadelphia138th-tallest building in the country; the tallest building in Philadelphia outside Center City
9BNY Mellon Center725 / 221541984Pittsburgh143rd-tallest building in the country; tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1980s; formerly known as One Mellon Center
10One PPG Place635 / 194401984Pittsburgh
11G. Fred DiBona Jr. Building625 / 191451990PhiladelphiaFormerly known as the Blue Cross–Blue Shield Tower and the IBX Tower
12Fifth Avenue Place616 / 188311988PittsburghAlso known as Highmark Place
13One Oxford Centre615 / 187451983Pittsburgh
14Gulf Tower582 / 177441932PittsburghTallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1930s
15=One Commerce Square565 / 172411987Philadelphia
15=Two Commerce Square565 / 172411992Philadelphia
17Philadelphia City Hall548 / 16791901Philadelphia1901 is the official year of completion and the transfer of ownership to the city government; however, the tower had been topped out in 1894 and the building had been partially occupied by then, making it the tallest habitable building in the United States and the world from 1894 until the completion of the Singer Building in 1908
18Tower at PNC Plaza545 / 166332015PittsburghTallest building constructed in Pittsburgh and tallest completed in Pennsylvania in the 2010s
19Cathedral of Learning535 / 163421936PittsburghSecond-tallest educational building in the world, behind the main building of Moscow State University; tallest building in the city located outside of Downtown
20525 William Penn Place520 / 158411951PittsburghTallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1950s
21The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton518 / 158482009Philadelphia
22K&L Gates Center511 / 156391968PittsburghTallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1960s
231818 Market Street500 / 152401974PhiladelphiaTallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1970s
24The St. James498 / 152452004PhiladelphiaTallest building located east of Broad Street
25Loews Philadelphia Hotel492 / 150361932PhiladelphiaKnown commonly as the PSFS Building; tallest hotel in the city until the Four Seasons opens in the Comcast Technology Center
26PNC Bank Building491 / 150401983Philadelphia
27=Centre Square II490 / 149401973Philadelphia
27=Five Penn Center490 / 149361970Philadelphia
29Grant Building485 / 148401930Pittsburgh
30=Koppers Tower475 / 145341929PittsburghTallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1920s
30=Murano475 / 145432008Philadelphia
32One South Broad472 / 144281932PhiladelphiaFormerly known as the PNB Building
33Two PNC Plaza445 / 136341975Pittsburgh
34=2000 Market Street435 / 133291973Philadelphia
34=Two Logan Square435 / 133351987Philadelphia
36Cira Centre434 / 133282005Philadelphia
37=1700 Market430 / 131321968PhiladelphiaTallest building completed in the 1960s
37=EQT Plaza430 / 131321987Pittsburgh
37=Evo at Cira Centre South430 / 131332014Philadelphia
401835 Market Street425 / 130291986PhiladelphiaName was changed from Eleven Penn Center in 2003
41One PNC Plaza424 / 129301972Pittsburgh
42Centre Square I417 / 127321973Philadelphia
43Aramark Tower412 / 126321984PhiladelphiaFormerly known as One Reading Center
44Regional Enterprise Tower410 / 125301953Pittsburgh
45Wells Fargo Building405 / 123291927PhiladelphiaOriginally the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building
461706 Rittenhouse401 / 122332011Philadelphia
47One Logan Square400 / 122311983Philadelphia

Timeline of tallest buildings

NameImageHeightFloorsYears tallestCity
Philadelphia City Hall548 / 16791901-1932 31 yearsPhiladelphia
Gulf Tower582 / 177441932-1971 39 yearsPittsburgh
U.S. Steel Tower841 / 256641971-1984 13 yearsPittsburgh
One Liberty Place945 / 288611987-2008 21 yearsPhiladelphia
Comcast Center975 / 297582008-2018 10 yearsPhiladelphia
Comcast Technology Center1121 / 341602018–present 1 yearPhiladelphia