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  • Thumbnail for Lattice tower
    A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high-voltage...
    277 KB (9,624 words) - 23:49, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Devils Tower
    (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level. Devils Tower National Monument was the first United States national monument...
    33 KB (3,168 words) - 19:21, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brihadisvara Temple
    that were added after the 16th century. Built using granite, the vimana tower above the shrine is one of the tallest in South India. The temple has a massive...
    68 KB (6,678 words) - 05:56, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shiv Mandir, Ambarnath
    the mandapa, and is open to the sky as the shikhara tower above stops abruptly at a little above the height of the mandapa, and was apparently never completed...
    4 KB (410 words) - 14:23, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Central Park Tower
    feet (472.4 m) with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories, although the top story is numbered 136. Central Park Tower is the second-tallest...
    150 KB (13,107 words) - 05:58, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ostankino Tower
    Television Tower A visit to the Ostankino Television Tower at redpenguin.net BBC: Moscow's TV tower saved Ostankino Tower at Structurae Ostankino Tower Above the...
    35 KB (3,808 words) - 19:45, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johnson Wax Headquarters
    Research Tower (built 1944–1950), also by Wright, were designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 as Administration Building and Research Tower, S.C...
    12 KB (1,379 words) - 01:25, 11 September 2024
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    Singer Building (redirect from Singer Tower)
    Singer and Bourne buildings were about 200 feet (61 m) tall. The 41-story tower above the northwest corner of the base was square in plan, with floor dimensions...
    107 KB (10,931 words) - 04:02, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cathedral of St. John the Divine
    square tower above the crossing; the tower would replace the dome, which did not conform to the Gothic style. With sides of 60 feet (18 m), the tower would...
    197 KB (20,792 words) - 08:17, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sydney Tower
    colloquially as Flower Tower, Glower Tower, and Big Poke. The tower stands 309 m (1,014 ft) above the Sydney central business district (CBD), located on Market...
    21 KB (1,955 words) - 07:22, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Batten (theater)
    hung. Battens that are located above a stage can usually be lowered to the stage (flown in) or raised into a fly tower above the stage (flown out) by a fly...
    3 KB (395 words) - 19:12, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Olympic Tower
    Tower dates to the late 1960s, when Best & Co. sought to build an office tower above their store at Fifth Avenue and 51st Street. Morris Lapidus was initially...
    81 KB (7,858 words) - 17:46, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wilshire Grand Center
    Grand surpasses L.A.'s U.S. Bank Tower by 82 ft (25 m), the roof of the U.S. Bank Tower is still 90 ft (27.4 m) above the Wilshire Grand's. The Skyscraper...
    26 KB (2,389 words) - 06:09, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Clock Towers
    highest in the world at over 400 m (1,300 ft) above the ground, surpassing the Allen-Bradley clock tower in Milwaukee. The clock faces are the largest...
    20 KB (1,838 words) - 05:31, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cooling tower
    A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature...
    69 KB (8,313 words) - 14:39, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Westminster Abbey
    shrine like the Confessor. A view of the abbey dated 1532 shows a lantern tower above the crossing, but this is not shown in any later depiction. It is unlikely...
    127 KB (13,180 words) - 08:44, 18 November 2024
  • frontage on all sides. The tower rises an additional 30 stories above the eastern side of the base, abutting Broadway. Above the 30th floor are setbacks...
    176 KB (17,370 words) - 03:52, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
    The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (colloquially known as the Met Life Tower and also as the South Building) is a skyscraper occupying a full...
    104 KB (10,239 words) - 04:00, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eiffel Tower
    The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl/ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named...
    87 KB (9,452 words) - 09:53, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tower of London
    The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames...
    105 KB (13,295 words) - 09:30, 25 November 2024
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