Tower Map is here
You can now explore towers on a full interactive map at tower.is/map.
Set your location — via GPS or by searching any city — and the map shows you the nearest towers, with distances. Every tower has a Directions link that opens Google Maps, so you can plan your visit.
Heading to Vienna? Tokyo? Reykjavík? Search your destination and see what's nearby.
Guess the Nearest
From the map, hit 🎯 Guess nearest and you'll get four tower options. Only one is the closest to your location. Think you know your towers?
It uses real distances (haversine formula — the Earth is round, after all), and after guessing you'll see how far each option actually is. Hit Play again to keep going.
17 future towers added
We've added towers that are currently under construction or proposed — from ambitious skyscrapers to concepts that push the limits of engineering.
Under construction:
- Jeddah Tower (1,000m) — the first building to reach one kilometre
- The Line, NEOM (500m × 170km) — a mirrored linear city in the Saudi desert
- Mukaab (400m) — a 400-metre cube in Riyadh
- Tall House Copenhagen (320m) — Scandinavia's tallest, timber hybrid
- Africa Tower, Nairobi (385m) — the tallest on the African continent
Proposed concepts:
- Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid (2,004m) — a 2km pyramid for 750,000 people in Tokyo Bay
- Sky Mile Tower (1,700m) — a vertical city
- Dubai Creek Tower (1,345m) — Calatrava's lily flower
Filter them on the main page by searching "building" or "proposed", or visit /tags/building and /tags/proposed directly.
Milan collection
Heading to Milan? We've added five towers for you:
- Duomo di Milano Spire (108m) — 600 years of Gothic construction, topped with the golden Madonnina
- Bosco Verticale (116m) — 900 trees on a building, the original vertical forest
- Torre Velasca (106m) — the brutalist mushroom that Milan loves to hate
- Torre Branca (108m) — Gio Ponti's art deco observation tower in Parco Sempione
- Nuvola Verticale (250m, proposed) — the next evolution of the vertical forest concept
World Trade Center Twin Towers
The original Twin Towers (1973–2001) are now in the collection alongside One World Trade Center. Two towers that defined the New York skyline for nearly 30 years.
New towers from the community
Thanks to feedback from users, we've added some great finds:
- Altes Rathaus Tower, Passau — a medieval town hall with flood marks and a red clock face, contributed with a photo from our community
- Valberg Tower, Stavanger — where Tobias the watchman inspired Kardemommeby
- Hall Tower, Mechanicsburg — a 16-storey concrete oddity beside I-81
- Surbiton Coronation Clock Tower — built for the Queen's coronation in 1953
- Crystal Palace Transmitting Station — broadcasting to 12 million Londoners
- Höfði, Reykjavík — where the Cold War began to end
- Hús Verslunarinnar, Reykjavík — the half-finished tower at Kringlan
160+ towers and counting
The collection now has over 160 towers across 6 continents, from ancient lighthouses to buildings that haven't been built yet. Real towers have coordinates and appear on the map.
Got a tower we're missing? Send us a photo — like our community member did for the Passau town hall tower — and we'll add it.