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2015 05 27 204228 London LR
John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse. A major step forward in lighthouse design, Smeaton's structure was in use from 1759 to 1877, until erosion of the ledge it was built upon forced new construction. The tower was largely dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, Devon, where it stands today.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, with the financial sector, La Défense, behind. This was shot last year when I visited Paris for the day, and shot from the roof of Tour Montparnasse, where they allow tripods!
Tokyo Tower bisects Rainbow Bridge in this twilight cityscape view.
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4ever Green Tower is a skyscraper located in the centre of Tirana. Designed by Archea Associati, the building is 90 metres tall.
With everyone home in the evenings, the local condominium tower is lit up like a spaceship, ready to launch.
ION Orchard Tower at Orchard Turn.
*Note: More pics of Architectural, Interior and Exterior Designs in my Architectural, Interior and Exterior Designs Album.
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
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.
The red tower, Vadstena, Östergötland, Sweden
In 1460, Sankt Pers Church was built with the current tower in German-Baltic brick Gothic after a city fire in 1423. This church was demolished in 1829–1831 due to severe settlements in the choir.
The red tower was retained because the monastery church, which had been given the function of city church in 1829, lacked a bell tower and still does today. The red tower was built together with the new secondary school that was built on the site of the demolished church.
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.
The Torres Del Paine provide a superb backdrop to the Cascada Paine as it flows downstream with a thunderous roar.
These three Granite Needles of the "Towers of Paine" give this National Park its name and provide the ultimate challenge for the Regions Climbers. I will post a wider view of this waterfall at some point sowing its impressive scale.
The wildlife in the Park was pretty abundant too, we saw Condors, Guanacos, and lots of interesting birds and not long after this we had a close encounter with a large Puma.
Torre Eiffel (2)
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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 :-)
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!
Horton Tower Dorset. At 140 feet high (43 metres), as a folly it doesn't come much taller.
A folly is a building built mainly for decoration - an eye-catcher for the rich to admire from their property. They were hugely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This one was built in 1750 by architect and Lord of Horton Manor, Humphrey Sturt, who was also an MP for Dorset (1745 - 1786).
Also known as Sturt's folly, the reasons for its original construction remain unclear, but one theory suggests its owner planned to use the tower as an observatory, stargazing in the night sky. #HortonTower
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.
www.towerbridge.org.uk/discover/history
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100x: The 2024 Edition
95/100 London landmarks by night
The Prime Tower, also named Maag Tower in an earlier stage of planning, is a skyscraper in Zurich, Switzerland. At a height of 126 metres, it was the highest skyscraper in Switzerland from 2011 until 2015, when the Roche Tower in Basel (standing at 178 metres) was finished. The tower and its two companion buildings, Cubus and Diagonal, are used primarily as office buildings.
Have long been meaning to shoot this, so glad to get it ticked off.
For anyone remotely interested, I've launched my Wild Surrey project on Kickstarter so do please take a look here.