World’s Tallest Tower - CN Tower - Toronto, Ontario - Guinness World Records on Waymarking.com

This website demonstrates that the tower was recertified as the tallest in 2010 (visit link) however, it lost that spot to "the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China, which stands at 600 m tall, as the world's tallest tower, in 2010. The tower, as of 2012, stands as the fifth-tallest free-standing structure on land in the world and the third-tallest free-standing tower." (visit link)



Wikipedia (visit link) further informs us:

"Guinness World Records has called the CN Tower "the world's tallest self-supporting tower" and "the world's tallest free-standing tower".[32][33] Although Guinness did list this description of the CN Tower under the heading "tallest building" at least once,[33] it has also listed it under "tallest tower", omitting it from its list of "tallest buildings."[32] In 1996, Guinness changed the tower's classification to "World's Tallest Building and Freestanding Structure". Emporis and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat both listed the CN Tower as the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, and specifically state that the CN Tower is not a true building, thereby awarding the title of world's tallest building to Taipei 101, which is 44 metres (144 ft) shorter than the CN Tower.[34][35] The issue of what was tallest became moot with the completion of Burj Khalifa in 2007 (see below).

Although the CN Tower contains a restaurant, a gift shop, and multiple observation levels, it does not have floors continuously from the ground, and therefore it is not considered a building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) or Emporis. CTBUH defines a building as "a structure that is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing purposes. An essential characteristic of a building is that it has floors."[35] The CN Tower and other similar structures – such as the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia; the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China; the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada; and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France — are categorized as "towers", which are free-standing structures that may have observation decks and a few other habitable levels, but do not have floors from the ground up. The CN Tower was the tallest tower by this definition, until 2010..."

The Guinness website also informs us that the CN Tower currently holds the World Record for Highest wine cellar (visit link) (Since November 2006)

and Fastest time to pogo stick jump up the CN (visit link) in July 1999.

Date the Record Happened: 6/26/1976 Where did this record happen: Toronto, Ontario Who Broke this record: Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China Is there something to see here?: Yes What is there to see here: Tower is still wonderful... there are historical placards on the observation deck referencing the Tower's previous World Record status Website that Shows record happening or area now: [Web Link]

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