The spire was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, who sought an " Elegant and dynamic simplicity bridging art and technology ".

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.

In Edinburgh, the 61. 1 metre tall Victorian Gothic spire of the Scott Monument was designed by George Meikle Kemp.

The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally if impractically designed to serve as a dirigible terminal for Zeppelins and other airships to dock.

St Michael and All Angels Church, designed by local architect George Smith and completed in 1830, was dubbed the Needle of Kent in honour of its tall, thin spire ( it is also nicknamed the Devil's Pick or the Devil's Toothpick ).

The " Phoenix appeal " raised money to build a new church and the replacement structure, designed by Larry Malcic with an all-glass spire, was opened in 1996.

Barnet has two Grade I Listed buildings, both designed by Edwin Lutyens: the Church of St Jude, the parish church of Hampstead Garden Suburb with a Gothic spire and on opposite side of Central Square, the Free Church, of similar design but with a concrete dome.

St Mary's of Charity in Faversham, which was restored ( and transformed, with an unusual spire and unexpected interior ) by Scott in 1874, and Dundee Parish Church ( St Mary's ), and designed the chapels of Exeter College, Oxford, St John's College, Cambridge and King's College London.

After the church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church Henry Aldrich designed a new church ; it is thought, however, that on some of the later features of the church, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of Britain's great Baroque architects, is to be found, namely on the tower and spire.

Despite being one of the newest and smallest of the colleges, its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout, and its modernist spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.

Some of the buildings designed by the Sugdens are as follows: the Congregational Church with its 130 ’ spire, ( now Trinity Church ), built in the Victorian Gothic Revival style ( 1863 ), Myatt ’ s Mill in Earl Street ( 1864 ), Mill Street Methodist Chapel and Ragged School ( 1870 ), the Cottage Hospital, in memory of silk manufacturer James Allsop ( 1871 ), their own houses in Queen Street, complete with monograms for William, Larner and for Larner ’ s French wife ( 1877 ), West Street School ( extended in 1881 ), the District Bank, which exhibits a strong Richard Norman Shaw influence ( 1882 ) and the Leonard Street Police Station in Scottish Baronial style ( 1891 ).

The spire was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, who sought an " Elegant and dynamic simplicity bridging art and technology ".

With advances in technology, steel production, and building techniques the spire enjoyed an unprecedented surge through architecture, Cologne Cathedral's famous spires, designed centuries earlier, were finally completed in this era.

In 1762 one of the main features of the cathedral, the Madonnina's spire, was erected at the dizzying height of 108. 5 m. The spire was designed by Francesco Croce and sports at the top a famous polychrome Madonnina statue, designed by Giuseppe Perego that befits the original stature of the cathedral.

In 1907 / 08 a new tower and spire were built from the foundations, designed by John Oldrid Scott.

Hansom designed around 200 buildings, including Birmingham Town Hall ; Arundel Cathedral ; Oxford Oratory ; Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth ; St George's Catholic Church in York ; Mount St Mary's Catholic Church, the ' Famine Church ' in Leeds ; St Walburge's Church in Preston ( with the tallest church spire in England ); St Beuno's Jesuit Theologate in North Wales ( 1848 ); St Edward King and Confessor Catholic Church, Clifford ; the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester ( 1871 ); The Roman Catholic Plymouth Cathedral ( built 1856 — 1858 ); and St Mary's Priory, Fulham Road ( 1876 ).

Inside the same shell as the atrium is the BMW Edge theatre, a 450 seat space designed to have views of the Yarra River and across to the spire of The Arts Centre.

Two important shopping arcades are located on the 100 block: Galerías Boston and the landmark Galería Güemes, designed by Francisco Gianotti and opened in 1914 ; distinguishable by the illuminated beacon atop its spire, it was one of the tallest buildings in Buenos Aires st the time.

St. John's Anglican Church, an 1862 Gothic Revival bluestone church, designed by William Wardell, dominates the skyline of Toorak, with its sandstone spire and is one of the most popular churches for weddings in Melbourne.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

In part the inscription reads: " The spire symbolises the rise to world recognition of a boy who was born in Jeparit and who rose by his own efforts to become Australia's Prime Minister and a statesman recognised and honoured throughout the world.

Its-tall spire makes it ( briefly, and by 5m ) the world's tallest building ( a title held since 1647 by Strasbourg Cathedral ).

* June 4 – Old St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London is badly damaged by fire and the spire is destroyed after being struck by lightning.

Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world's largest collection of marble statues and has a widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina ( the little Madonna ), that became one of the symbols of the city.

From that position, they could actually see the roofs of the city of Verdun and the spire of its cathedral but, being decimated by hand grenades and by a 75 mm artillery barrage, they had to retreat to their starting lines or chose to surrender.

The Cross rises in three main stages on an octagonal plan, surmounted by a spire and cross.

There is nearly always a tower at the crossing and it may be very large and surmounted by a spire.

Among several places of worship the chief is the Church of St Mary ; this has a north porch and windows dating from the 14th century, besides a slender spire ; but it has been much altered by restoration.

* The novel The Spire by William Golding tells the story of the building of the spire on Salisbury Cathedral.

The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly, while the west end is dominated by two contrasting spires – a 105-metre ( 349 ft ) plain pyramid dating from the 1140s and a 113-metre ( 377 ft ) early 16th century Flamboyant spire on top of an older tower.

The stained glass in the three lancets over the portals date from some time between 1145 and 1155, while the south spire, some 103 metres high, was also completed by 1155 or later.

In 1506, lightning destroyed the north spire, which was rebuilt in the ' Flamboyant ' style by local mason Jehan de Beauce ( who also worked on the abbey church in Vendôme ).

Most often the shells of large sea snails are used, as trumpets, by cutting a hole in the spire of the shell or cutting off the tip of the spire altogether.

The tower was topped by a spire until World War II

She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

The pyramid remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3, 800 years, unsurpassed until the 160-metre-tall spire of Lincoln Cathedral was completed c. 1300.

When Union forces retook Nashville the following year, Driver was able to bring out his flag and hoist it from the state capitol spire, the last time it flew from a flagpole.

Due to structural weakness, the spire of St James church was demolished in 1980.

A weather vane, the figure of an old warrior called Old Thomas, was put on top of the spire of the Tallinn Town Hall in 1530 that became the symbol for the city.

At the end of the 15th century a new high Gothic spire was built for St. Olaf's Church.

Smaller churches usually have just one tower, but this may also be the case at larger buildings, such as Salisbury Cathedral or Ulm Minster, which has the tallest spire in the world, slightly exceeding that of Lincoln Cathedral, the tallest which was actually completed during the medieval period, at.

* Eastgate Chapel is a very different building ; a neo Norman design of 1843 in dark flint, it originally had a pepper pot dome but this was removed in favour of a traditional spire in case traffic vibrations below made it fall off.

The tall spire was built later and is the tallest spire in the UK.

A substantial central tower was also completed, with a wooden spire.

The central stone tower was originally topped with a wooden spire, which collapsed in 1559 and was never rebuilt.

The original Norman northwest tower, which had a lead spire until 1705, was demolished in 1834, due to structural concerns.

The low Norman tower roof was demolished and a new, much higher, broached spire was raised, sheathed in lead.

The spire was reduced to a ' Hertfordshire spike ', the roof pitch greatly reduced and battlements liberally added.