High-rise buildings from the 1960s and 1970s in European cities are testimony to a certain era of high-rise development on the Old Continent, the strength of which seems to depend on three factors: the architectural quality of the buildings, the number of high-rises that will stand the test of time, and the method of renovation of these structures. The analysis aims to demonstrate the scale of liquidation and renovation of tall buildings construct-ed in the period from 1960 to 1979 in thirteen large European cities. The study covered 207 buildings over 80 m high. Nineteen of them were demolished, i.e. 9.17%, and 73 buildings, i.e. 35.26%, were renovated. This indicates the significant scale of the phenomenon. Examples of tall buildings show various degrees of changes made to the external image: from renovation with faithful recreation of the original design solutions and architectural details to major transformations of the original form and replacing it with a new one with a different shape.