This will be the tallest building in Alabama topping out around 750 ft.

http://www.rsa.state.al.us/MobileTower.html

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6402

Not bad, top looks like the Chrysler building.

Wow, I had no idea that they were already this far in construction. Should be a nice building. :okay:

hello skywade i live in navarre, florida.

It's coming along nicely! When is it due for completion?

whoa a 750ft office tower in mobile,didn't know there was a demand for that much.

looking good mobile

When you said RSA I thought you meant Royal Sun Alliance!

Good to see a big tower going up in a lower profile American city. This deserves more attention.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/610/28mobile-rsabattlehousetower01.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/610/28mobile-rsabattlehouse1.jpg

There's a construction webcam (http://www.rsa.state.al.us/MobileTower.html) for this tower. Here's one of the latest shots.

http://www.rsa.state.al.us/mobilecam/MOB_WebCam_051029_153448.jpg

Photo from August by ExpatBaman (Urban Planet), inlcuding Mobile's previous tallest AmSouth Bank Building (129m)

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7532/mobskyline11lu.jpg

Wow, Mobile is moving on up! Thats a stunner right there.

Yeah, what hurricane?? Go Mobile, lookin' good!!

very nice looking tower :okay:

Cool looking - really cool looking but what's up with the name ???
I mean, in fact the name sounds real cool too... But... Why 'battle' ?? Are they going to war or something ? :-)

I like the top part of the building.

Cool looking - really cool looking but what's up with the name ???
I mean, in fact the name sounds real cool too... But... Why 'battle' ?? Are they going to war or something ? :-) I can't find anything about the origin of the name Battle House. But here's some information about it from the Wikipedia page on Mobile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile,_Alabama)

Since 1852, the Battle House hotel has been a fixture of the Mobile landscape. Although the original hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1905, it was rebuilt and has remained a Mobile area landmark. It was the location of President Woodrow Wilson's famous speech in 1913 where he declared that the United States would never again fight in a foreign war of aggression. In 1974, the hotel went vacant, as much of downtown was doing at the time.

In 2001, the Mobile City Council approved a deal with the Retirement Systems of Alabama for a complete restoration of the historic hotel, as well as construction of the Battle House Tower, a 35 Story, 745 foot (227 m) tall skyscraper that will not only be the tallest building in Alabama, but also one of the ten tallest buildings on the Gulf Coast.

The Battle House Project is the crowning achievement of the "String of Pearls" initiative undertaken by the Dow administration, which has seen the construction of the Arthur Outlaw Convention Center, the Cruise Ship Terminal, the Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, and the complete rebirth of Dauphin Street, Mobile's historic commercial corridor.

Other projects in the works include a proposed high-rise condominium tower on Water Street in the heart of the downtown waterfront, as well as the construction of a historic Mardi Gras themed city park in downtown to celebrate the city's heritage as the original city of American Mardi Gras, the Mother of All Mystics, as well as a brand new state of the art federal courthouse. Mobile is rapidly developing into one of the South's hottest cities, and locals believe that the future will only be bright, based on the old Mobile saying of "As goes the Battle House, so goes Mobile"

Thanks :-) As it is named after a local landmark, I suppose the name is indeed very meaningful to locals :-)

nice! looks like they're finished with constrcting the level right beneath the start of the crown. won't be long until they start the crown now!

i love the building's facade, especially how it looks high-tech and classical at the same time. the crown looks like what would happen if you merge chrysler's crown and an onion together, but it still looks cool. at least it looks much better than that cheap-looking am south building that's just plain screaming for a recladding.

the battle house got its name because it was built on the site of a battle that took place during the war of 1812. it is a strange name, i've never really thought about it before...

progressing fast...will be a landmark for Mobile.

waste of money

^^???Can you elaborate on that a bit?

Somethings wrong with the webcam. It isn't showing any images after Oct 30th 2005. I was looking forward to watching the crown take shape :(

waste of money
Not really its a skyscraper for a growing southerncity and i assume your an sprawl hater like so many people on this site would you rather have that. Anyway its a great tower for a nice city gonna help put mobile on the map.

I like the top of the building, it's like a modern interpretation of the chrysler building. but the proportions seem to be wrong. with this top the tower should be more slender and taller.

The webcam is working again. Here's a recent photo - looks like the facade on the lower floors is complete and work has begun on the crown section.

http://www.rsa.state.al.us/mobilecam/MOB_WebCam_060102_114145.jpg

The main structure looks shorter than I expected, Hope fully the crown will add some lot heights to it afterall.

Well I've been waiting for the webcam (http://www.rsa.state.al.us/MobileTower.html) to be fixed, but looks like they aren't going to bother. Looks like we wont get to see the finished product, which really pisses me off. Here's the last shot the webcam took:

http://www.rsa.state.al.us/mobilecam/MOB_WebCam_060119_133859.jpg

You can see the core has topped out since the corebox has been removed.

i dont like it

Good to see a big tower going up in a lower profile American city. This deserves more attention.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/610/28mobile-rsabattlehousetower01.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/610/28mobile-rsabattlehouse1.jpg




That's such a beautiful looking building. I know it will look better in real life.

Funny that a small city like Mobile will be getting a 750ft skyscraper while the city I live in, Austin which is much bigger only has a 515ft skyscraper gracing its skyline.

Anyways, good to see this going up in Mobile. The United States needs a skyscraper boom.

...but the proportions seem to be wrong. with this top the tower should be more slender and taller.I agree, due to the main tower component it doesn't seem it will be its full height. Too stumpy.

Oh, is this the Rate Out talls section? ;)

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Roof top looks good. Classic american design ;)

The crown is beginning. Found this in the Southeast US section of the forums.

http://static.flickr.com/24/98107750_766e19d414_o.jpg

Is the height of 228.7 m to the spire? It appears so.

I'm highly expecting the crown for this one, a nice one.

looks shorter than i thought it would be...anyway it looks great.

Hello.

Sorry to bring back a rather old topic but I live in Mobile, Alabama and I was just doing some searches and I came across these forums and this topic. This is the tower at today July 4th, 2007, http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6808/00004532gd.jpg this is a view facing west. The "Crown" will be one of the last things to be put on the tower, aside from the antennas, but i do not know where it will go.. Anyways this picture was taking while I was waiting for several 4th of July Fireworks shows. Btw someone asked when it is supposed to be completed. Well to my knowing it should be done in spring of 2008 if we don't get hit be a hurricane and it damages it.

June 22, 2006 :

http://static.flickr.com/66/175858714_eef9fdf40f_o.jpg

June 25, 2006 :

http://static.flickr.com/71/175585524_c5aaf6ea4c_o.jpg

Wow!!!! One of the most interesting crowns I've ever seen.

It looks perfect in that skyline perspective.

waste of money

So is Dubai

Cool to see it topped out. This development had shown that smaller cities - hopefully Providence will follow- can have landmark highrises too.

decent looking building! wats the use..residential or commercial?

Commercial.

Excellent, they're nearing completion. I wondered if this building was getting close.

You go Mobile!! I had no idea about this, B-ham, eat your heart out! I have a new respect for Mobile, this is so cool....Looks kind of like one of those talls in Midtown Atlanta.....you've got us (Orlando) beat on tallest, I am envious! :scouserd:

They have the battleship the USS ALabama here right, the place looks like iv been there.

I love this tower, can't wait to the day my deployment is over in Kuwait and I get to go home and look at it everyday. Thanks to all for the updates