Sky Tower

Just to change things up I ran up Aukland's unimaginatively named "Sky Tower" early this morning. At 328 metres (or 61 stair cycles) it is the tallest tower in New Zealand and, surprisingly, the entire Southern Hemisphere, eclipsing Australia's Q1 by just a few metres.
This was an even more fake and abstract climb than usual as it that in reality one can only get up this thing by elevator and that the quoted height is to the point of the tower, about a hundred metres higher than the observation deck. There is a hilarious amount of hair-splitting in the tall buildings ranking world as various towers and buildings vie for titles using an array of contradictory criteria: tallest building, tallest structure, tallest tower, tallest freestanding structure, highest occupied floor, highest roof, highest architectural feature and so forth. You get the idea. There is even a "Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat" (www.ctbuh.org) that "officially" determines which is the tallest building. Not the tallest tower or structure mind you. Don't make that mistake.