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#	Building	Height
1	Rhodes State Office Tower	192 m
2	LeVeque Tower	169 m
3	William Green Building	162 m
4	Huntington Center	156 m
5	Vern Riffe State Office Tower	153 m

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#	Building	Height
1	Burj Khalifa	828 m
2	Makkah Clock Royal Tower	601 m
3	One World Trade Center	541 m
4	Taipei 101	509 m
5	Shanghai World Financial Center	492 m

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Vern Riffe State Office Tower

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Identification

Name

Vern Riffe State Office Tower

Alternative name

Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts

EBN

119078

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Structure in general

Building type

skyscraper

Building status

existing [completed]

Architectural style

postmodern

Usage

Main usage

theater/opera governmental office

Facts

Named for Vernal G. Riffe, Jr. who served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1975 to 1994.
The complex includes the 854-seat Capitol Theatre, one of Columbus' premier performance venues.
An earlier scheme for this site, by the same architects, would have included the a site to the west of the current location, effectively closing South Wall Street north of West State Street.

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Location

Main Address

69 South High Street

Virtual Address

70 South Wall Street,
2 West State Street

Address as text

77 South High Street

ZIP

43215

City

State

Country

Technical Data

Height (tip)

153.47 m

Height (architectural)

153.47 m

Height (roof)

153.47 m

Floors (above ground)

32

Construction end

1988

Building costs

$130,000,000

Involved Companies

Architect:

NBBJ

Also recorded for this building:

General contractor, Elevator supplier, Owner, Construction company, Facade supplier, Electrical engineering, Lightning protection, Parking management

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