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This list of tallest buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove ranks skyscrapers and other structures by height in Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom, that are at least 40 metres tall.
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This list of tallest buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove ranks skyscrapers and other structures by height in Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom, that are at least 40 metres tall.
This lists buildings in Brighton and Hove that are at least 40 m (130 ft) tall.
An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings.
| Rank | Name | Image | Height m (ft) | Floors | Year completed | Primary use | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brighton i360 |  | 162 (531) | N/A | 2016 | Observation | The tallest structure in all of Sussex, which it became in 2015, more than a year before it opened. [1] |
| 2 | Rampion Wind Farm |  | 140 (460) | N/A | 2017 | Wind farm | The first wind farm off the south coast of England. [2] [3] |
| 3 | Sussex Heights |  | 102 (335) | 24 | 1968 | Residential | The tallest building in all of Sussex. When completed in 1968 it "replaced the steeple of St Paul's, West Street as the most significant landmark of Brighton". [4] |
| 4 | Chartwell Court |  | 66 (217) | 18 | 1968 | Residential | Built on top of a car park (not included in floor count). |
| =5 | Longley Place |  | 63 (207) | 18 | 2023 | Residential | |
| =5 | Goldstone Hall |  | 63 (207) | 18 | 2023 | Residential | The tallest of five towers which are part of Brighton University's 'Big Build' project. [5] |
| =5 | Theobald House |  | 63 (207) | 18 | 1966 | Residential | Built on top of a car park (not included in floor count). An 18-storey block with 110 flats; described in 1987 as "a gaunt tower out of sympathy and scale with its surroundings". [6] |
| 8 | Thomas Kemp Tower |  | 59 (193) | 15 | ~1968 | Hospital | [7] [8] [9] |
| 9 | Hove Gardens | 58 (190) | 18 | 2023 | Residential | [10] | |
| 10 | Whitehawk Hill transmitting station |  | 55 (182) | N/A | 1959 | Communication | |
| =11 | Bedford Towers |  | 51 (168) | 17 | 1967 | Hotel/Residential | |
| =11 | Essex Place |  | 51 (168) | 17 | 1967 | Residential | [11] |
| =13 | Moda, Hove Central | 49 (160) | 18 | 2024 | Residential | [12] | |
| =13 | Wiltshire House |  | 49 (160) | 17 | 1969 | Residential | |
| =13 | Hereford Court |  | 49 (160) | 17 | 1969 | Residential | |
| =13 | St John the Baptist's Church |  | 49 (160) | N/A | 1854 | Religion | [13] |
| =17 | Nettleton Court |  | 46 (151) | 15 | 1966 | Residential | [14] |
| =17 | Dudeney Lodge | 46 (151) | 15 | 1966 | Residential | [15] | |
| =19 | Pelham Tower |  | 44 (144) | 11 | 1971 | Education | [16] [17] |
| =19 | St Bartholomew's Church |  | 44 (144) | N/A | 1874 | Religion | |
| 21 | American Express Brighton |  | 42 (137) | 12 | 2012 | Office | [18] [19] |
| 22 | Cavendish House |  | 41 (135) | 14 | 1967 | Residential | |
| 23 | The Booster |  | 40 (130) | N/A | 2006 | Ride | [20] |
This lists proposed buildings in Brighton and Hove that are at least 40 m (130 ft) tall.
An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings.
| Rank | Name | Height m (ft) | Floors | Primary use | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brighton Marina Tower | 127 (418) | 40 | Residential | [21] |
| 2 | Aldrington Wharf (central tower) | 74 (243) | 20 | Residential | [22] |
| =3 | Aldrington Wharf (eastern tower) | 44 (144) | 10 | Residential | [22] |
| =3 | Aldrington Wharf (western tower) | 44 (144) | 10 | Residential | [22] |
This lists buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove that were at least 40 m (130 ft) tall and have since been demolished.
| Rank | Name | Image | Height m (ft) | Floors | Year completed | Year demolished | Primary use | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amex House |  | 46 (151) | 9 | 1977 | 2017 | Office | [23] |
| 2 | Brighton Wheel |  | 45 (148) | N/A | 2011 | 2016 | Ferris wheel |
The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital in Brighton, England. Together with the Princess Royal Hospital, it is administered by the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. The services provided at the hospital include an emergency department, cancer services at the Sussex Cancer Centre, cardiac surgery, maternity services, and both adult and neonatal intensive care units.
Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022.
Embassy Court is an 11-storey block of flats on the seafront in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It has been listed at Grade II* by English Heritage. Wells Coates' "extremely controversial" piece of Modernist architecture has "divided opinion across the city" since its completion in 1935, and continues to generate strong feelings among residents, architectural historians and conservationists.
Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry Wilds in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort of Brighton, on the East Sussex coast, in 1815. After 1822, when the father-and-son partnership met and joined up with Charles Busby, they were commissioned—separately or jointly—to design a wide range of buildings in the town, which was experiencing an unprecedented demand for residential development and other facilities. Wilds senior also carried out much work on his own, but the description "Wilds and Busby" was often used on designs, making individual attribution difficult. Wilds senior and his partners are remembered most for his work in post-Regency Brighton, where most of their houses, churches and hotels built in a bold Regency style remain—in particular, the distinctive and visionary Kemp Town and Brunswick estates on the edges of Brighton, whose constituent parts are Grade I listed buildings.
Sussex Heights is a residential tower block in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built between 1966 and 1968 on the site of a historic church, it rises to 102 m (335 ft) and has 116 flats. As of August 2022, the tower is the 125th tallest building in the UK, and until 2005 it was the tallest residential tower in the UK outside of London. Until 2015, it was the tallest structure in Brighton, however it has now been exceeded by the i360 Tower, which stands at 162 metres.
Brighton and Hove, a city on the English Channel coast in southeast England, has a large and diverse stock of buildings "unrivalled architecturally" among the country's seaside resorts. The urban area, designated a city in 2000, is made up of the formerly separate towns of Brighton and Hove, nearby villages such as Portslade, Patcham and Rottingdean, and 20th-century estates such as Moulsecoomb and Mile Oak. The conurbation was first united in 1997 as a unitary authority and has a population of about 253,000. About half of the 20,430-acre (8,270 ha) geographical area is classed as built up.
Thomas Lainson, FRIBA was a British architect. He is best known for his work in the East Sussex coastal towns of Brighton and Hove, where several of his eclectic range of residential, commercial and religious buildings have been awarded listed status by English Heritage. Working alone or in partnership with two sons as Lainson & Sons, he designed buildings in a wide range of styles, from Neo-Byzantine to High Victorian Gothic; his work is described as having a "solid style, typical of the time".
Amex House, popularly nicknamed The Wedding Cake, was the former European headquarters of American Express, a multinational financial services company. Its site is located in the Carlton Hill area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The nine-floor building, designed by British architecture firm Gollins, Melvin, Ward & Partners, was commissioned by the company in 1977 to consolidate their operations in Brighton, which had been spread over several sites. The white and blue structure, a landmark on the city skyline, received both praise and criticism for its distinctive style.
John Leopold DenmanFRIBA was an architect from the English seaside resort of Brighton, now part of the city of Brighton and Hove. He had a prolific career in the area during the 20th century, both on his own and as part of the Denman & Son firm in partnership with his son John Bluet Denman. Described as "the master of ... mid-century Neo-Georgian", Denman was responsible for a range of commercial, civic and religious buildings in Brighton, and pubs and hotels there and elsewhere on the south coast of England on behalf of Brighton's Kemp Town Brewery. He used other architectural styles as well, and was responsible for at least one mansion, several smaller houses, various buildings in cemeteries and crematoria, and alterations to many churches. His work on church restorations has been praised, and he has been called "the leading church architect of his time in Sussex"; he also wrote a book on the ecclesiastical architecture of the county.
The building at 20–22 Marlborough Place in the seaside resort of Brighton, part of the city of Brighton and Hove, is a 1930s office building originally erected for the Citizens' Permanent Building Society. The "elegant" Neo-Georgian premises were later occupied by a branch of the Allied Irish Bank, which opened in the 1980s; and in 2022 it was announced that the premises would be converted into a restaurant. Designed by John Leopold Denman, "master of this sort of mid-century Neo-Georgian", the three-storey offices contrast strikingly with their contemporary neighbour, the elaborate King and Queen pub. The building features a series of carved reliefs by Joseph Cribb depicting workers in the building trade—including one showing Denman himself. It is a Grade II Listed building.
Montpelier Crescent is a mid 19th-century crescent of 38 houses in the Montpelier suburb of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in five parts as a set-piece residential development in the rapidly growing seaside resort, the main part of the crescent was designed between 1843 and 1847 by prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds and is one of his most distinctive compositions. Extra houses were added at both ends of the crescent in the mid-1850s. Unlike most other squares, terraces and crescents in Brighton, it does not face the sea—and the view it originally had towards the South Downs was blocked within a few years by a tall terrace of houses opposite. Montpelier was an exclusive and "salubrious" area of Brighton, and Montpelier Crescent has been called its "great showpiece". Wilds's central section has been protected as Grade II* listed, with the later additions listed separately at the lower Grade II. The crescent is in one of the city's 34 conservation areas, and forms one of several "outstanding examples of late Regency architecture" within it.
The building at 163 North Street in Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove, was erected in 1904 for an insurance company and has since been used as a branch by several banks and building societies. It now houses a bookmaker's shop. The distinctive pink granite Edwardian Baroque-style office, embellished with towers, decorative carvings and a landmark cupola, has been called "the most impressive building" on Brighton's main commercial thoroughfare. One of many works by prolific local architecture firm Clayton & Black, it has been described as their chef d'œuvre. English Heritage has listed it at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
to the top of the fifteen-storey Thomas Kemp Tower.
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