Latest highrise statistics from emporis.com, starting from North. Only those cities included who have at least one 20+ floorer approved.

Country statistics, 20+ floorers:
Estonia has got 6 completed, 3 u/c, 2 approved
Latvia has got 8 completed, 9 u/c, 17 approved
Lithuania has got 10 completed, 6 u/c, 2 approved

Estonia
Tallinn
81 highrises (12+ floors) completed
3 under construction
2 approved

6 20+ floorers completed
2 under construction
2 approved

Tartu
2 completed
1 under construction

1 20+floorer under construction

Latvia
Riga
178 completed
20 under construction
22 approved (edited)

8 20+ floorers are completed.
9 20+ floorers are under construction.
12 20+ floorers are approved (edited)

Daugavpils
1 completed
2 approved

2 20+ floorers approved

Lithuania
Vilnius
197 completed
17 under construction
2 approved
1 on hold

8 20+ floorers completed
4 20+ floorers under construction
none approved

Klaipeda
19 completed
5 under construction
2 approved

2 20+ floorers completed
2 20+ floorers under construction
2 20+ floorers approved

Kaunas
10 completed
2 under construction
1 approved

1 20+ floorer approved

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Correct me, if any mistakes there.

If there would be the proposed 20+ floorers listed - OMG!!! :runaway:

Talk talk talk but no action ;)
booring :P
A picture tells a thousand words(by Oberleutnant)
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/9057/pict0290ss4.jpg

But heck, its really apparent that Gatis, your doing a hellofajob as a Emporis Riga editor! =) :cheers:, and the amount of construction is truely great! But i hope that in the Long run these new tall (not so citylike) buildings dont suckup potential from real nice glassy downtown highrises (that you are also getting, but less!)

Gatis, i think you forgot those 5 round 20 floor Gandrališkės towers approved in Klaipėda ;)

about Vilnius - highrise era is over, only in NCC and a teritory behing Press house is where highrise buildings are from now on allowed to be built, in rest of the city, buildings over 12 floors are banned, also according to our municipality, in NCC, highiest architectural quality will be required for project to get approved, which was not really done before, all of this i think will only speed up the development in NCC, which wount be the highiest (Tallinn, Riga and Klaipėda will be highier), but certainly will be the fatest, which i think is not that bad

In Emporis Gandraliskes towers aren't shown as "approved" - just "proposed". I suppose that they haven't got formal approval from city officials.
Klaipeda sounds like the new highrise king in Lithuania.

But if frankly - I don't give too much for highrises. Our capital cities got other qualities :D

@ch1le - Kipsala highrise district will get the top-class highrises. Unfortunately other highrise districts in Riga would be less interesting. One more hope is for Krasta Street - so far proposals there look interesting.
Btw. "Z-towers" in Riga are on- hold. But according to Emporis buildings are considered to be on hold, if they are silent for three months at least. Z-towers are silent for one month.
And you can't say that there is no action in Riga :) currently we are most active regarding highrise construction.

Just a minute - will publish listings.

Listing of 20+ floor buildings in Baltics:

Estonia

Tallinn
Completed
1. Radisson SAS Hotel - 25 fl, 103 m (2001)
2. Eesti Uhispank - 24 fl, 94 m (1999)
3. Hotel Olympia - 28 fl, 84 m (1980)
4. City Plaza - 23 fl, 78 m (2004)
5. Sokos Hotel Viru - 23 fl, 74 m (1972)
6. Maakri Maja - 20 fl, 72 m (2003)

Under construction
1. Swissotel - 28 fl, 117 m (2007)
2. Tornimae - 31 fl, 113 m (2006)

Approved
1. Pilvelohkuja - 30 fl, 114 m
2. Maakri 28/30 - 24 fl

Tartu
Under construction
1. Tigutorn - 23 fl, 83 m (2007)

Latvia

Riga
Completed
1. Hansabanka Central Office - 27fl, 121 m (2004)
2. Academy of Science - 21 fl, 108 m (1955)
3. Reval Hotel Latvia - 27 fl, 95 m (1976)
4. Ministry of Agriculture - 26 fl, 92 m (1976)
5. Latvian TV - 22 fl, 83 m (1987)
6. Preses nams - 22 fl, 77 m (1977)
7. Solaris I - 25 fl (2005)
8. Solaris II - 25 fl (2005)

Under construction
1. Z-tornis I - 32 fl, 130 m (2008)
2. Panorama Plaza II - 32 fl, 114 m (2007)
3. Panorama Plaza I - 27 fl, 99 m (2006)
4. Da Vinci - 27 fl, 95 m (2007)
5. Z-tornis II - 28 fl (2008)
6. AstraLux - 24 fl (2007)
7. Skanstes virsotnes I - 24 fl (2007)
8. Skanstes virsotnes II - 24 fl (2007)
9. Rietumu Capital Centre - 20 fl (2007)

Approved
1. Panorama Plaza III - 32 fl, 114 m (2009)
2. Panorama Plaza IV - 27 fl, 99 m (2009)
3. Balasta dambis 11 - 24 fl, 96 m (2008) - no formal approval from city, but included in all renders of city, financing attracted.
4. Akropolis I - 30 fl (2009) - similar situation
5. Akropolis II - 30 fl (2009) - similar situation
6. Remtes Str. Offices - 26 fl (2008) - approved in principle by city, ongoing redesign of facade
7. Mezaparks Plaza I - 24 fl (2008) - all three fully approved yesterday
8. Mezaparks Plaza II - 24 fl (2008)
9. Mezaparks Plaza III - 24 fl (2008)
10. Skanstes virsotnes III - 24 fl (2008)
11. Skanstes virsotnes IV - 24 fl (2008)
12. Lucavsala residential I - 24 fl (2008) - approved, on-going redesign of facade.
(three Solaris buldings moved to "proposed" - they don't appear on project lists anymore)

Daugavpils
Approved
1. Skyline I - 20 fl (2008)
2. Skyline II - 20 fl (2008)
A bit weird that exact floorcount isn't known. Developers say - 25 floors both, city says - not more than 20 floors. They will start in few months - then I hope to get more exact data.

Lithuania
Vilnius
Completed
1. Europa Tower - 33 fl, 129 m (2004)
2. Helios City Tower A - 27 fl, 96 m (2006)
3. Europa Square Apartments - 27 fl, 95 m (2004)
4. Reval Hotel Lietuva - 23 fl, 85 m (1983)
5. Municipality building - 21 fl, 77 m (2004)
6. Victoria Tower - 21 fl, 76 m (2005) (all technical floors have been included now)
7. YIT Kausta Apartments 1 - 24 fl (2006)
8. Zirgo Apartments - 20 fl (2004)

Under construction
1. Vilnius Gate Apartments - 20 fl, 69 m (2006)
2. YIT Kausta Apartments 2 - 24 fl (2006)
3. Centre of Registers Tower 1 - 24 fl
4. Vyrokas Apartments - 23 fl

Klaipeda
Constructed
1. K-tower - 21 fl, 72 m (2006)
2. D-tower - 21 fl, 72 m (2006)

Under construction
1. Gandraliskes tower I - 34 fl, 112 m (2007)
2. Minijos Banga Apartments - 20 fl (2007)

Approved
1. Taikos prospektas 32A - 21 fl (2007)
2. Metva apartments, 20 floors

Kaunas
Approved
1. Bustuva Apartment Tower - 23 fl, 75 m (2006)

you forgot two approved for Klaipėda:

Gandrališkės tower, ~40 floors, 147 meters
Metva apartments, 20 floors

Emporis forgot ;) - not me. You should contact @John on this issue - he is editor for Lithuanian data in Emporis (find him in tinkle.miestai.net)

Klaipeda is fantastic!

is 147m APPROVED? is it rock solid? are you sure? That is ALOT! :)

That Gandraliskes tower isn`t approved yet.
Although, two 30+ "Helios" towers should be approved soon ;)

Thank you for this list Gatis, very interesting!

Some comments about Tallinn.

I would list Swissotel and Tornimäe as one building, not separate. They are twin towers and the lower floors are connected. Ie Petronas Towers or former WTC in NY usually are referred as one building.

The current state of two "approved" highrises in Tallinn may be quite confusing. 114m "pilvelõhkuja" at Liivalaia/Juhkentali street (just over Liivalaia street from Hotel Olümpia) has long been discussed, but the plots there belong to different owners. They used to belong to Tallinn city and one company named KC Grupp. KC Grupp (http://www.kcgrupp.ee/?page=27) wanted to develop the plots jointly with the city, but city did not agree. Last year city sold their part to a local Russian businessman Viktor Levada. Price was 600 mio EEK (ca € 38 mio). KC Grupp then sold their part to the biggest real estate developer in Estonia, Arco Vara. So for this project to become reality, Levada and Arco should work together. So far there has been no announcement about this. But I'm fairly optimistic. Nobody buys a central Tallinn plot for €38mio and leaves it an open field like it's right now. The plot is not even used for parking. It might be the next Tallinn skyscraper project we see @2007.

There is a architecture competition going on for the whole Maakri district, not only for 28/30. The results should be announced in november or december 2006. The current detailplan for Maakri 28/30 may stay in force or not. The organizers of the competition are Estonian Architects Union together with Tallinn City and one of the landowners. Architects Union has protested against plan for 24floor highrise at 28/30 - hence all the trouble about the competition.

I have no good feelings about this whole mess. The most probable course of events will be that the quarrel about development of this district will go on indefinitely, and any projects will stay frozen for years. Fortunately, some old wooden buildings beside Maakri Maja have been already demolished. But lets wait and see what the result of the competition is.

I am sure that Tornimae can be considered as two separate towers. Petronas towers and Twin towers in New York are considered to be separate towers in highrise statistics. I think that Emporis states that if less than one third of the height of buildings is joint part, those are two separate towers.
Earlier i considered that AstraLux will be two separate towers - 24 and 22 floors. But they will have common elevator part uniting them throughout whole building. Thus - this is one tower. But both Z-towers and also Astana towers will have airbridges - high rised floors uniting al towers. This does not turn them into single tower.

Regarding planning and replanning - this is more than common issue in Riga too.

Gatis, regarding Astana towers - you're talking about details already, have you seen any renders?

No, I found some descriptions in Kazakh mass media. Some say that towers would be 25 floors high.

That Gandraliskes tower isn`t approved yet.
Although, two 30+ "Helios" towers should be approved soon ;)

sorry then, my mistake, from what i've read in miestai.net i thought it was already appooved :) anyway, i see no reason why it shouldnt be approved

btw, i thought Helios towers (117 meters) gonna get approved in february next year

What about that 44-floor scraper that was supposed to be built in Tallinn (currently there is nightclub Parlament)? Any info on that?

Taibu, AFAIK there has been no new info about this building. It was mentioned on June 10 in Eesti Päevaleht newspaper that the owner of Tartu maantee 17 ("Parliament" nightclub) OÜ Viis Veeringut wants to demolish the building and build a 44-floor scraper instead. But there is an ongoing dispute whether the current soviet-time building should be protected.

Personally, I very much doubt that there will be a scraper on this plot, and an approval for 44 floors seems unfortunately unrealistic anyway. More interesting is what happens at next plot, Tartu maantee 15. But I don't know about any new development there either.