List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford

The City of Salford in North West England is a local government district of Greater Manchester, with a population of 248,700 (mid-2016 est.). At its core is the former factory town and inland port of Salford, which has a wealth of Victorian industrial heritage. Many of the city's tallest buildings are residential tower blocks, constructed during the mid-20th century in the Brutalist architectural style. Since the 1996 Manchester bombing, which initiated a redevelopment programme for Greater Manchester, the city has witnessed a boom in the construction of high-rise apartments, particularly at Salford Quays, a former dockland.

Geographically, commercially, and culturally, Salford is dominated by its immediate neighbour, the City of Manchester, which lies across the River Irwell. Although Salford and Manchester followed a similar pattern of urbanisation during the Industrial Revolution, Salford did not evolve as a commercial centre in the same way. In contrast to the vast majority of Manchester's tallest buildings, many of Salford's high-rises were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s as part of a regeneration project to alleviate chronic social deprivation and urban decay. Thirty towers at Pendleton once comprised the highest density housing estate in Europe. Some of the early high-rise buildings have been demolished, as they provided unsatisfactory accommodation for families and caused as many social problems as they were meant to alleviate. Others have become accommodation for students at the University of Salford. A study by the university's Christopher Collier suggested that Manchester's drizzly climate is largely due to the number of high-rise blocks in Salford. Collier has proposed that they have a "dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", and may contribute to the 8 °C (14 °F) temperature difference between Salford and its surrounding countryside.

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