[1] At the time of completion, it was officially the world's tallest wooden building,[2] at 85.4 m (280 ft) tall, before being surpassed by Ascent MKE in August 2022.
The building offers a hotel, apartments, offices, a restaurant and common areas, as well as a swimming pool in the adjacent first-floor extension.
In Mjøstårnet, concrete slabs were used on the top seven floors in order to handle comfort criteria and acoustics.
The next tallest wooden building is the 84 m (276 ft), 24-storey high HoHo Tower in Vienna, Austria.
[5] The Japanese wood products company Sumitomo Forestry is proposing to build the W350 Project a 350 m (1,150 ft), 70-floor tower to commemorate its 350th anniversary in 2041.