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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 winter sunshine shining through the clouds at Tower Bridge London. An amazing piece of engineering and architecture.
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.
A scene from the Thames ,with the Tower bridge and a River cruiser just out from underneath it ..
I had such an enjoyable cruise on the river myself ,down to Greenwich and back in al a lovley day in the capital :-)
Opened in 1780, the Parc du Champ-de-Mars extends from the École Militaire to the Eiffel Tower. A hotspot for national events, it can be accessed freely and offers the most beautiful view of the capital’s landmark monument. Parisians and tourists gather on its lawns to picnic, play music, and watch the Eiffel Tower’s twinkling lights at nightfall.*
*https://en.parisinfo.com/paris-museum-monument/71152/Parc-du-Champ-de-Mars
Torre Eiffel (2)
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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.
This beautiful tower has just been finished in the centre of a large forest. The tower is 45 meters and there is a 800 meter walk to the top on the spiral walkway.
From a photo walk around the Bavaria Towers. This is the Sky Tower, which is 83,6 meters high and has 20 floors.
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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