Largest wooden building
- Who
- Woolloomooloo Bay Wharf
- Where
- Australia (Sydney,)
- When
- 1912
The largest wooden building in the world is the Woolloomooloo Bay Wharf, Sydney, Australia. Built in 1912, the wharf itself is 400 m (1,312 ft) long and 63 m (206 ft) wide and stands on 3600 piles. The building on the wharf is five storeys high and 350.5 m (1,150 ft) long and 43 m (141 ft) wide with a total floor area of 64,000 m² (688,890 ft²) and has been converted into hotel apartments and marina complex.
Between 1942 and 1943, 16 wooden blimp hangars for Navy airships were built at various locations throughout the USA. They are 317 m (1040 ft) long, 51.91 m (170 ft 4 in) high at the crown and 90.37 m (296 ft 6 in) wide at the base.
There are only eight remaining, one each at Tillamook, Oregon and Elizabeth City, North Carolina; and two each at Moffett Field and Santa Ana, California, and Lakehurst, New Jersey.
There are only eight remaining, one each at Tillamook, Oregon and Elizabeth City, North Carolina; and two each at Moffett Field and Santa Ana, California, and Lakehurst, New Jersey.