Tower Bridge is different example of a double-decker bridge, with the central section consisting of a low level bascule span and a high level footbridge.

The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

* Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed by Gustave Eiffel in motif as twin to the Eiffel Bridge, re-dubbed Maria Pia Bridge, previously built in Porto, Portugal

* Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, Portugal, designed and build by Gustave Eiffel-Preceding fraternal twin of Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

These technological advances led to the building of later structures like the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ) and the Eiffel Tower ( 1889 ).

The British noticed that, during the V-1 flying bomb attacks of 1944, the weapons were falling 2 – 3 miles short of Trafalgar Square — the actual Luftwaffe aiming points such as Tower Bridge were unknown to the British.

* June 30 – The Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic.

" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.

The GLA is based at City Hall, a new building on the south bank of the River Thames, next to Tower Bridge.

Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.

A few places in Lisbon's Parque das Nações are named after the explorer, such as the Vasco da Gama Bridge, Vasco da Gama Tower and the Centro Comercial Vasco da Gama shopping centre.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

During the following years, Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures ( including the Eiffel Tower ), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world's first permanent commercial bungee site ; the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.

Heading next into Surrey Quays in the Docklands, and out towards Bermondsey, competitors race along Jamaica Road before reaching the half-way point as they cross the Tower Bridge.

In the first race, the course took a diversion around Southwark Park before re-joining Jamaica Road on the way to Tower Bridge and was routed through St Katherine Docks past the Tower Hotel, en-route to the Tower of London and the famous cobblestoned stretch of road that in later years was carpeted, to help runners prevent injury on the uneven surface.

Pool of London looking west, from the high-level walkway on Tower Bridge.

Several central London road bridges were built in the 19th century, most conspicuously Tower Bridge, the only Bascule bridge on the river, designed to allow ocean going ships to pass beneath it.

View from Tower Bridge towards Southwark district: City Hall ( London ) | City Hall and the rest of More London development in the foreground, Shard London Bridge skyscraper ( under construction at time of photo ) in the background.

The massive supertall skyscraper, London Bridge Tower, nicknamed ' The Shard ' is next to London Bridge Station.

Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende in Jerusalem, and when Baldwin invaded the south, Amalric was besieged in the Tower of David with his mother.

Puck's former colleague, Jeremiah Tower became synonymous with California Cuisine and the overall American culinary revolution.

:* Milwaukee's four-day street festival begins with a " Storming of the Bastille " with a 43-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower.

* 1995: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre was held at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Presently, the four tallest buildings in the city are Willis Tower ( formerly the Sears Tower, also a building with its own zip code ), Trump International Hotel and Tower, the Aon Center ( previously the Standard Oil Building ), and the John Hancock Center.

In addition, new technologies and tactics were developed, making most defences obsolete ; this led to the construction of star forts, specifically designed to withstand artillery bombardment though these too ( along with the Martello Tower ) would find themselves rendered obsolete when explosive and armour piercing rounds made even these types of fortifications vulnerable.

In 1963, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracted with Sib Tower 12 to have Jones and his staff produce new Tom and Jerry cartoons as well as a Television adaptation of all Tom and Jerry theatricals produced to that date.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

Captain Fisher of the Marines with 17 of his men successfully defended the Round Tower against their assault.

His first aerodynamic experiments, an investigation of the air resistance of surfaces, was carried out by dropping the surface to be investigated together with a measuring apparatus down a vertical cable stretched between the second level of the Eiffel Tower and the ground.

Likewise, Hebrew is considered to be the one language spoken by the united mankind before the dispersion connected with the Tower of Babel.

Hobart Control Tower may be renovated and fitted with new radar equipment, and the airport's carpark may be extended further.

The famous story in which Galileo is said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa is apocryphal, but he did find that the path of a projectile is a parabola, and he is credited with conclusions foreshadowing Newton's laws of motion ( such as discovering the property of inertia ).

The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai is one of India's most famous and historic hotels because of its association with the Indian independence movement.

Greater London has over 600, 000 Muslims, ( most of South Asian origins and concentrated in the East London boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest ), and among them are some Muslims with a strong Islamist outlook.

These and other problems led to media comparisons with the disastrous Hancock Tower.

Armed conflict broke out between John and Longchamp, and by October 1191 Longchamp was isolated in the Tower of London with John in control of the city of London, thanks to promises John had made to the citizens in return for recognition as Richard's heir presumptive.

It was kept at Windsor Castle rather than with the rest of the crown jewels at the Tower of London.

Moving clockwise around the outer bailey from Mortimer's Tower, the defences include a west-facing watergate, which would originally have led onto the Great Mere ; the King's gate, a late 17th century agricultural addition ; the Swan Tower, a late 13th century tower with 16th century additions named after the swans that lived on the Great Mere ; the early 13th century Lunn's Tower ; and the 14th century Water Tower, so named because it overlooked the Lower Pool.

The Eiffel Tower is a historical achievement of structural engineering.

Fazlur Khan, another engineer at SOM, is considered " the greatest structural engineer of the second half of the 20th century "; he is best known for his design and construction of the Willis Tower ( formerly the Sears Tower ), and John Hancock Center and for his designs of structural systems that remain fundamental to all high-rise skyscrapers.

Commerzbank Tower was designed by Foster & Partners, with Arup and Krebs & Kiefer ( structural engineering ), J. Roger Preston with P & A Petterson Ahrens ( mechanical engineering ), Schad & Hölzel ( electrical engineering ).

It is the fourth-tallest building in the Greater China region and the eighth-tallest office building in the world, based on structural heights ; by roof height, only the Taipei 101, Shanghai World Financial Center, Willis Tower, International Commerce Centre and Burj Khalifa exceed it.

He has since been structural engineer on numerous other projects, including the Shanghai World Financial Center and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.

Willis Tower, completed in 1973, introduced the bundled tube structural system and was the world's tallest building until 1998

At and with a roof height of, Q1 qualifies as the world's third tallest all-residential building when measured to the top of its structural point ( spire ), but is ranked lower behind buildings including The Torch at 348 metres in Dubai and Melbourne's Eureka Tower ( roof height of ) when measured to its roof height and highest inhabitable floor.

It is in the top 50 tallest buildings in the world when measured to its structural point, dwarfing the Gold Coast skyline with the closest buildings to Q1's height being the North Tower of Circle on Cavill and the under construction Soul building.

Newton Heath was a major engineering supplier and the home of many companies such as Mather & Platt, Avro ( who manufactured the World War II bomber, the Avro Lancaster ) and Heenan & Froude ( who designed and manufactured the structural steelwork for Blackpool Tower )

* Strut Tower Brace-a structural bar designed to increase chassis rigidity in vehicles.

* A page discussing the structural engineering of the Johnson Wax Research Tower.

PBCom Tower was designed by local architectural firm GF & Partners Architects, in cooperation with international architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP ; and structural design was provided by local engineering company Aromin & Sy + Associates.

With the architectural spire included, the structural height of the Bank of America Tower is, making it the second tallest building in New York City ( after the Empire State Building ).

Tower International LLC is a global designer and producer of structural components and assemblies used by virtually every major automotive vehicle manufacturer.

Though Wright acknowledged this problem in his original proposal, he claimed the tripod design of this tower ( similar to that of the CN Tower, which was not designed until a decade after Wright's death ) combined with its tensioned steel frame and the integral character of its structural components would counteract any oscillation.