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Mjøstårnet

Norway

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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Mjøstårnet (Norwegian for the tower of Mjøsa) is an 18-storey mixed-use building in Brumunddal, Norway, completed in March 2019. At the time of completion, it was officially the world's tallest wooden building, at 85.4 m (280 ft) tall, before being surpassed by Ascent MKE in August 2022. The building is named after Norway's biggest lake, which is 100 km away from Oslo. Mjøstårnet has a combined floor area of around 11,300 m2 (122, 000 sq ft). The building offers a hotel, apartments, offices, a restaurant and common areas, as well as a swimming pool in the adjacent first-floor extension. This is about 4,700 m2 (51, 000 sq ft) in size and also built in wood.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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