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You've seen it a thousand times, in hundreds of different weather conditions and ways. On some days you come over the hill and say, "Heck, let's try another one..."
And you get this.
www.mimoa.eu/projects/United%20Kingdom/London/Tower%20Place
The reflected cranes are on the top of Walkie-talkie Tower (recently dubbed Walkie-scorchy Tower after melting a car and burning a cafe door mat like a giant magnifying glass).
Coit Tower is a 210-foot, Art Deco, concrete column on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, CA. The tower was built in 1933.
...a heavenly "Tribute in Light", shot taken from the WTC site in commemoration of September 11 2001
...view 'the Towers of Light' On Black
The tallest Canadian thing in the world! (Actually, the world's tallest freestanding structure.)
Here are some facts I made up about the tower:
* The observation turret was made to resemble a curling stone.
* The tower was originally to have been one end of a suspension bridge across Lake Ontario - but despite many polite inquiries, the U.S. forgot to build the corresponding tower in Buffalo.
* The weight of the concrete in the tower will, within 100 years, cause downtown Toronto to sink into the lake.
Tower 42, previously known as the NatWest Tower, was completed in 1980. With its 47 floors and 183 metres it is the seventh tallest building (the eight tallest structure) in London. It remained the tallest building for 30 years. It was extensively damaged by the 1993 Bishopsgate truck bomb performed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Demolition was considered, but would have been too expensive and difficult. Instead, the tower was entirely reclad and internally refurbished (Wikipedia). – i London, United Kingdom.
Pronunciation: 'tau(-&)r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tour, tor, from Old English torr & Old French tor, tur, both from Latin turris, from Greek tyrris, tyrsis
1 : a building or structure typically higher than its diameter and high relative to its surroundings that may stand apart (as a campanile), or be attached (as a church belfry) to a larger structure, and that may be fully walled in or of skeleton framework (as an observation or transmission tower)
2 : a towering citadel : FORTRESS
3 : one that provides support or protection : BULWARK
Stintino, Le Saline (SS), agosto 2005
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower. The tower is officially known as Elizabeth Tower, renamed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2012; previously it was known simply as the Clock Tower. The tower holds the second largest four-faced chiming clock in the world (after Minneapolis City Hall). The tower was completed in 1859 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009, during which celebratory events took place. The tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of the United Kingdom and is often in the establishing shot of films set in London.
This was the tallest building in Manchester for 40 years, and is nearly 400 feet tall. In 2005 the front of the tower was coated in solar panels, which generate enough electricity to power over 7000 homes.
Saffron Tower - An outdoor sculpture of blown glass and neon by Dale Chihuly at the de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California.
Sea Towers - Gdynia
Architect: Andrzej Kapuścik
Hotel Courtyard by Marriott / Gdynia Waterfront I (under construction)
Architect: FORT
© Piotr Krajewski
Kuwait Tower is like Monas in Jakarta, Indonesia. I mean, not the architecture. It's totally different.
The control tower at the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta was recently replaced with a newer one. The old one is now a memory as it was imploded today at 9:00 am eastern time on Saturday, August 5th, 2006. In this image, if you look closely, you can see an aluminum step ladder falling through the air (just above the second utility pole from the left).
This image is part of my ATL Tower Implostion set. It is best viewed in the flickr slideshow. Set the slideshow to 1 sec or use the arrow keys on your keyboard (Click on the image, and then click on the image again. This activates the arrow keys, allowing you to scroll through the images.)
To view the slide show click HERE. (Opens in separate window.)