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Tower list
List started by
brendan
for the Architecture domain
"Tower" should be co-typed "Structure." It imparts no additional properties, it just indicates that the topic is a tower.
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| Coit Tower |
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Filming location |
Coit Tower was built atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco. Lillie bequeathed one-third of her estate to the City of San Francisco "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the...
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| Tower |
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Towers are tall human-made structure that are always taller than they are wide, usually by a significant margin. Towers are generally built to take advantage of their height, and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure.
Towers have been...
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| CN Tower |
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Structure |
The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and tourist tower standing tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the tallest free-standing structure on...
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| Ostankino Tower |
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Structure |
Ostankino Tower is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia. Standing 540 metres (1772 ft) in height and located at , Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers.
The tower...
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| Oriental Pearl Tower |
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Structure |
The Oriental Pearl Tower (, Official Name: 东方明珠电视塔) is a TV tower in Shanghai, China. The Oriental Pearl Tower is located at the tip of Lujiazui in the Pudong district, by the side of Huangpu River, opposite The Bund of Shanghai.
It was designed...
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| Tower of the Americas |
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Structure |
Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot (229 m) observation tower with a restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. Tower of the Americas, designed by San Antonio architect O'Neil Ford, was built as the theme structure of the 1968 World's Fair, HemisFair '68.
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| Donauturm |
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Restaurant |
The Vienna Donauturm (English: Danube Tower) is the tallest free-standing structure in Austria, second tallest structure in Austria, and the 66th tallest tower in the world. It was constructed in 1964 by architect Hannes Lintl in the course of the...
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| Macau Tower |
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Structure |
Macau Tower , also known as Macau Sky Tower, is a tower located in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The tower measures 338 m (1,109 ft) in height from ground level to the...
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| Tokyo Tower |
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Structure |
is a communications tower located in Shiba Park, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The 332.6-meter-tall (1,091 ft) orange and white lattice tower is the tallest self-supporting steel structure in the world, the tallest artificial structure in Japan, and was the...
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| Space Needle |
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Location |
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly...
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| Sutro Tower |
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Structure |
Sutro Tower is a three-pronged antenna tower on Mount Sutro in the western part of San Francisco, California. It is a dominant part of the city skyline, and a useful landmark for locals. However, strong local opposition and criticism was directed...
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| Euromast |
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Location |
The Euromast is a tower in Rotterdam constructed between 1958 and 1960, designed by H.A. Maaskant. It was specially built for the 1960 Floriade. It is a concrete building with an internal diameter of and a wall thickness of 30 centimetres (1 ft)....
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