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Tower 42 is the third tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the eighth tallest in Greater London. Its original name was the NatWest Tower, having been built to house NatWest's international headquarters.
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The Cheese Tower in Cluny dates from the 11th century. It offers a beautiful view of the town and its surroundings after climbing 121 steps. This 30-meter-high (98 feet) tower was part of the abbey grounds. Its current name comes from the fact that a woman used it to dry the cheeses she made in the 19th century.
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La Tour des Fromages
La Tour des fromages à Cluny date du XIe siècle. Elle offre une belle vue sur la ville et ses environs après une ascension de 121 marches. Cette tour de 30 m de haut appartenait à l’enceinte abbatiale. Son nom actuel vient du fait qu’une femme y faisait sécher les fromages qu’elle fabriquait au XIXe siècle.
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Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁ(ɨ) dɨ bɨˈlɐ̃ȷ̃]) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] located in Lisbon that played a key role in Europe’s Age of Discoveries[2], since it served both as a fortress and as a port from where Portuguese explorers departed to establish what would be the first European trade in history with China and India. It also served as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.[2]
The tower was built in the early 16th century, during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance, and is a prominent example of the Portuguese Manueline style,[3] but it also incorporates hints of other architectural styles.[4] The structure was built from Lioz limestone and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre (98.4 ft),[5] four-storey tower. It has incorrectly been stated that the tower was built in the middle of the Tagus and now sits near the shore because the river was redirected after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. In fact, the tower was built on a small island in the Tagus River near the Lisbon shore. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m_Tower
I have just come home from my holiday in London. That is why I have not been commenting on your images. I will try to catch up over the next few days. I hope you will forgive me :)
4ever Green Tower is a skyscraper located in the centre of Tirana. Designed by Archea Associati, the building is 90 metres tall.
the "Eichspitzturm" is the highest, freely accessible, observation tower in Germany. it is 53.2 meters (174,5407 ft) high in total.
The Park Tower Hotel by Richard Seifert, Knightsbridge
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This 20 metre high viewing tower at Tralee Bay wetlands centre & nature reserve gives a superb panoramic view of the various lakes, reed beds & across to Blennerville Windmill, the Dingle peninsula & Atlantic ocean (an iPhone5 image, Flickr seems to have lost the data I think?) Happy Window Wednesday!
This is (believe it or not) right in the middle of the Melbourne Central - a large shopping centre and office hub refurbished in 2005 in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. Underneath the shopping centre's massive glass cone sits the Shot Tower which was built on the site in 1888. After last being used in 1961, the tower was retained to become a focal-point of the centre.
The Shot Tower was built to produce shot balls by freefall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot was used for projectiles in weapons.
The tower is a favourite haunt for photographers when in Melbourne
Water Tower Scheveningen
This water tower was designed in Eclectic style by architect Bert Brouwer and civil engineer Theodor Stang and was built in 1874 by the Hague Duinwaterleidingbedrijf (now called Dunea). The design of the octagonal tower is an example of Eclecticism: the architect used motifs borrowed from Romanesque architecture and the Renaissance. The brick and partly bluestone facades with vertical niches and checkered round-arch friezes have corner pilasters embossed in brick with carved Corinthian capitals.
The water tower is located in the Oostduinen near Scheveningen and was built because they started with the extraction of water in the dunes. The tower has a height of over 48 meters and has two reservoirs (1,000 and 1,200 m3 respectively). Due to this content, this tower can store the most water of all water towers in South Holland.
This water tower is still in use and is listed as a national monument. The tower is the first example in the Netherlands where the water reservoir was 'wrapped' with a brick wall. A copper domed roof rests on top of the tower.
The hood was renovated in 1990 and the exterior was restored in 1994/1995.
Signal Tower Arbroath, built in 1813 it was used to signal to the Keepers on the Bell Rock Light House. It sits at the entrance of Arbroath harbour and was looking good this morning.
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Scolty Tower. Sits at the top of Scolty Hill, near Banchory, Scotland. It's a couple of miles on a nice looped walk though a reasonable incline in places and there is a super panoramic view from the top. Shot taken late afternoon in late October when we had been blessed with very spectacular skies most nights during our stay. The skies were even more remarkable after we had made the descent!
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Ushguli, in Svaneti, Georgia - with its distinctive medieval stone towers - is Europe's highest permanent populated village.
In 1996 the Upper Svaneti valley was added to the Unesco list of world heritage sites.
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The construction of Tower Bridge began on 22 April 1886. It took eight years, five major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers each day to build Tower Bridge under the watchful eye of Sir John Wolfe Barry.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now on display within the Bridge’s Engine Rooms.
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The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Constructed from 1887–89 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015.
The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring 125 metres (410 ft) on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. Due to the addition of a broadcasting aerial at the top of the tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres (17 ft). Excluding transmitters, the Eiffel Tower is the second tallest structure in France after the Millau Viaduct.
The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second levels. The top level's upper platform is 276 m (906 ft) above the ground – the highest observation deck accessible to the public in the European Union. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift (elevator) to the first and second levels. The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the climb from the first level to the second. Although there is a staircase to the top level, it is usually accessible only by lift. [Wikipedia]
Bridges (Travessia) by Milton Nascimento
I have crossed a thousand bridges
In my search for something real
There were great suspension bridges
Made of spiderwebs of steel
There were tiny wooden trestles
And there were bridges made of stone
I have always been a stranger
And I've always been alone
There's a bridge to tomorrow
There's a bridge from the past
There's a bridge made of sorrow
That I pray would not last
There's a bridge made of colors
In the sky high above
And I'm certain there must be
Bridges made out of love
I can see him in a distance
On the rivers of the shore
And his hands reach out in longing
As my own have done before
And I call across to tell him
Where I believe the bridge must lie
And I'll find it, yes I'll find it
If I search until I die
When the bridge is between us
We'll have nothing to fear
We will run through the sunlight
And you'll meet me halfway
There's a bridge made of colors
In the sky high above
And I'm certain there must be
Bridges made out of love
La, la, la...
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At this site in 1834, thousands marched to support the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The clock tower was built in 1855 by the Metropolitan Cattle Market as a centrepiece. The cattle market has since been replaced by Smithfield's Meat Market and is now a recreational park.
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Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge[1] in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the City Bridge Foundation, a charitable trust founded in 1282.
The bridge was constructed to connect the 39 per cent of London's population that lived east of London Bridge, equivalent to the populations of "Manchester on the one side, and Liverpool on the other", while allowing shipping to access the Pool of London between the Tower of London and London Bridge. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales, on 30 June 1894.
The bridge is 940 feet (290 m) in length including the abutments and consists of two 213-foot (65 m) bridge towers connected at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, and a central pair of bascules that can open to allow shipping. Originally hydraulically powered, the operating mechanism was converted to an electro-hydraulic system in 1972. The bridge is part of the London Inner Ring Road and thus the boundary of the London congestion charge zone, and remains an important traffic route with 40,000 crossings every day. The bridge deck is freely accessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge's twin towers, high-level walkways, and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition.
Tower Bridge has become a recognisable London landmark. It is sometimes confused with London Bridge, about 0.5 miles (800 m) upstream, which has led to a persistent urban legend about an American purchasing the wrong bridge.