A lattice towers is often designed as either a space frame or a hyperboloid structure.
The tallest free-standing lattice tower is the Tokyo Skytree, with a height of 634 metres (2,080 ft).
The majority of the tallest steel lattice towers in the world are actually built in water and used as oil platforms.
These structures are usually built in large pieces on land, most commonly in Texas or Louisiana, and then moved by barge to their final resting place.
Since a large portion of these towers is underwater, the official height of such structures is often held in dispute.
The steel lattice truss for these structures, known as jackets in the oil industry, are typically far more robust and reinforced than their land-based counterparts, sometimes weighing more than 50,000 tons as is the case for the Bullwinkle and Baldpate platforms, whereas tall (above 1,000 feet) land-based lattice towers range from a high of 10,000 tons as is the case in the Eiffel Tower to as low as a few hundred tons.
Tall wind turbines supported by lattice tallest have been built almost exclusively in Germany, one of the first countries in the world to build wide spread renewable power resources.
List of amusement park rides that make use of a steel lattice tower above 100 m / 328 ft in height.
List of the tallest lattice towers by common(min 5) design types.
The
Eiffel Tower
, measuring 1,083 ft (330 m) from base to tip, is perhaps the most famous example of a lattice tower. It was built in 1889, and was the tallest man-made structure in the world until 1930.
Tokyo Skytree
, the tallest lattice tower in the world since its completion in 2012
The
Tokyo Tower
was the tallest lattice tower in the world for 16 years, from 1957 to 1973, and remains the tallest four-sided lattice tower.
The
WITI TV Tower
is the tallest lattice tower in the United States and the tallest three-sided lattice tower in the world.
Dragon Tower
, the tallest observation and radio lattice tower in China, features a solid core, the most common design for tall lattice towers built in China.
An 800-foot-long fixed steel jacket (lattice) oil platform
A 250 m (820 ft)-long section of the Benguela-Belize Lobito-Tomboco Platform, which accounts for only about half the overall height of the structure
Zhuzhou Television Tower
, example of a lattice tower with a solid core, nearly a dozen of which were built in China throughout the 90's
Sutro Tower
, a well-known San Francisco landmark featuring an uncommon 3-legged design
Wavre Transmitter
features an unusual design that uses a guyed upper section to hold the transmitter in place
example of a
3803 KM
tower, a very common 4-sided lattice tower design developed in the Soviet Union. About 80 of these were built in nearly every large city from 1956 to 1967
example of a
Annapolis type
military-use lattice tower, the US Navy built over 40 of these from 1914 to 1922 and 1936-1938
example of a typical commercial-use 3-sided lattice tower, thousands of which have been built throughout North America, over 100 of which are on the list. Many different truss patterns are used but the general design is largely similar
View of one of the Jiangyin lattice towers, the third tallest set of Electrical pylons in the world
Pylons of Messina
formerly connected Europe to Africa, an underwater cable is used today
