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Situated opposite the Cathedral is the extant tower of the defence wall of Vilnius in Lithuania.
Torre sineira localizada no lado oposto da Catedral, fez parte do muro que defendia a cidade de Vilnius, na Lituânia.
The tower is just north of Battery 234. This is a reinforced concrete coastal defense battery completed in 1943 to guard the entrance to Pensacola Bay. This included a central magazine and control facilities, two armored gun shields, and a fire control tower. However, the two 6-inch (152 mm) guns to be installed were never delivered. The two guns we see now were mounted for display here in 1976. The battery is located about 800 yards (720 meters) Southeast of the old Fort Pickens. Abandoned in 1945, it's now a historical relic. Near Pensacola, Florida.
Located a short drive from Dalbeattie, Galloway, this is the only round towerhouse in Scotland. It was built in the mid 15th century for John Carnys (or Cairns). None of the upper floors remain, but there is a spiral staircase within the thickness of the wall that leads up to the parapet and is covered by a small gabled cap-house. There are also the remains of courtyard buildings.
A diagram showing the detail of the building's unique two wall structure or "double-skin." Shanghai Tower will be the only double-skin, super-tall building (300 meters and taller) in the world.
Photo credit: Gensler
The Cairo Tower (Arabic: برج القاهرة, burj al-qāhira, colloquially burg al-qāhira) is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. It stands in the Zamalek district on Gezira Island in the River Nile, close to the city centre. At 187 m (614 ft), it is 43 metres (141 ft) higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which stands some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the southwest. It is one of Cairo's most famous and well-known landmarks.
A morning shot of Coit Tower at the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
- Robert Schlie
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Sacramento. In color this year. The only cooler place was the Alhambra, which is long gone. So many movies :)
This famous Plymouth landmark allows visitors to look out over the Plymouth Sound leading to the English Channel.
more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeaton's_Tower
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On our recent trip to London, courtesy of our daughter, we had Day Rover tickets on the mbna clipper service. We embarked here and sailed all the way to the O2 arena.
Home of the "Control Operator" and one time operations center for the LS&I. The south side of the tower basks in the October sun. The venerable tower has since been replaced.
SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH- The Outlook Tower is a building in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the Castlehill section of the Royal Mile next to Edinburgh Castle. Its origins began on Calton Hill where Maria Theresa Short formed an exhibition observatory some time before 1851. This moved to Castlehill in 1853 and was known as "Short's Observatory, Museum of Science and Art" from 1853 to 1892. The structure added two storeys to the pre-existing tenement to create this. The tenement is thought to be the original mansion of the Ramsays of Dalhousie (the "Lairds of Cockpen"), turned into small flats in the 18th century. The main attraction in "Short's" was the camera obscura occupying the topmost room.
It was purchased and refurbished by Patrick Geddes in 1892, who transformed it into a "place of outlook and a type-museum as a key to a better understanding of Edinburgh and its region, but also to help people get a clear idea of its relation to the world at large". The building is now known as "Camera Obscura & World of Illusions".
Part of the Old Edinburgh School of Art in Ramsay Lane, on the corner of Castlehill, Geddes renamed Short's Observatory as the Outlook Tower, incorporating Maria Short's camera obscura and mounted his Civic Survey of Edinburgh exhibition. Patrick Geddes was a committed believer in the exhibition as a vehicle of education. The exhibition though constructed and opened to the public, was relatively short-lived and never completed.
The camera room was expanded and remodelled in 1945
The Church of St Peter & St Paul is located in the village of Ospringe, with its main street forming part of the A2 (Roman Watling Street) running just south of Faversham town centre. The parish church, big and imposing, reflects this. Though rather oddly placed on the fringe of the built-up area, it looks more like a town church than a village one.
Its site is no accident, though: beside the Victorian bier-house on the opposite of Water Lane, a spring used to rise.
Ospringe church dates from early Norman times and has two Norman doorways and 13th century arches; the tower is modern. The massive font is also Norman.
Note the bird!
Trump tower!
Vertical 5 shot HDR using 16-35mm f/4 on D800 at 24mm and f/8
But now we aren't looking backward
We won't try raising the dead
We only see what's in front of us
We only see straight ahead
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Tower detail, Bowden area
About 10pm
I'm not usually one to go in for 'detail zooms' but this caught my eye sufficiently to warrant a break from the norm. And it was still done with the 17-40 without a hefty crop.
Budapest church towers at night.
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A Potain tower crane boom flip backwards and crash on the under construction building after a heavy downpour happen on December 11, 2010 in singapore.
This tree grows on/in the roof of the Greensburg, Indiana courthouse. In the 1870's a small sprig was noticed growing on the tower. As time went on a total of five(5) sprouts continued to grow. In 1888 three of these small trees were removed for fear of damage to the roof. Of the remaining two one grew to a height of 15 feet with a diameter of 5 inches at the base. When it finally died , it was removed and taken to the Decatur County Historical Museum.
The final tree, seen in this photo, continues to thrive. The Smithsonian Institute of Washington, DC has classified the tree as a large tooth aspen.