The Tower of Winds

He built a horologion at Athens, the so-called Tower of the Winds, a considerable portion of which still exists.

Greek astronomer Andronicus of Cyrrhus supervised the construction of the Tower of the Winds in Athens in the 1st century B. C.

It was centred around an architecturally appealing 18th century building: the Radcliffe Observatory, which is modelled after the ancient " Tower of the Winds " in Athens.

Frieze of the Tower of the Winds, Athens

In an example of an architectural frieze on the façade of a building, the octagonal Tower of the Winds in the Roman agora at Athens bears relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze.

The octagonal Tower of the Winds in Athens, built by Antigonus of Cyrrhestus, has a flat, monolithic, stone dome.

Varro's book on agriculture, written about the same time, describes an aviary with a wooden dome decorated with the eight winds which is compared by analogy to the eight winds depicted on the Tower of the Winds.

These include the Tower of Winds ( based on one in Greece ), the Chinese House ( a Chinese-style pagoda ), a triumphal arch based on Hadrian's, a Doric Temple, the Cat's Monument, and the Shepherd's Monument.

The tower's columns bore capitals of a design now known as " Tower of the Winds Corinthian ," although they lack the volutes ordinarily found in Corinthian capitals.

The design of the 18th-century Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, England, is based on the Tower of the Winds, as is the mausoleum of the founder of the Greek National Library Panayis Vagliano at West Norwood Cemetery, London.

Another building based on the design of the Tower of the Winds is the Temple of the Winds, which stands in the grounds of Mount Stewart near Newtownards in Northern Ireland.

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Image: Tower of the Winds frieze detail. jpg | The Tower of the Winds, with the frieze showing the wind gods Boreas ( north wind, on the left ) and Skiron ( northwesterly wind, on the right

Image: StuartRevettTower_v2. jpg | 18th-century reconstruction of the Tower of the Winds from The Antiquities of Athens

Image: Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol. jpg | The Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol

Image: Башня ветров Севастополь. jpg | The Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol

He is also referred to in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birth-mark and Herman Melville's The Bell Tower.

Conversion can also be bad, as in The Tower, symbolizing a downfall due to anger.

The term " tower " is also used in some cases such as the Tower of London and Jerusalem's ( misnamed ) Tower of David.

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.

Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).

The design that Pei developed for the Bank of China Tower was not only unique in appearance, but also sound enough to pass the city's rigorous standards for wind-resistance.

There is also a Mewlewī monastery (, dargāh ) in Istanbul near the Galata Tower in which the samāʿ is performed and accessible to the public.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books.

Richard's career is also the subject of the 1939 film Tower of London, in which he is played by Basil Rathbone.

The university also operates a large office building called Wolverine Tower in southern Ann Arbor near Briarwood Mall.

Aircraft which are only passing through the airspace must also contact Tower Control in order to be sure that they remain clear of other traffic.

Edward has also been portrayed by Ronald Sinclair in Tower of London, a 1939 horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III, and by Eugene Martin in the 1962 remake.

Edward also appears in Robin Maxwell's To The Tower Born: A Novel of the Lost Princes a story of what might have happened to the princes while they were in the tower.

The company has also produced a CGI movie, Firebreather, and a non-animated series, Tower Prep.

" 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 building is home to offices and restaurants, as well as about 700 condominiums and contains the third highest residence ( above adjacent ground level ) in the world, after the Trump Tower ( also in Chicago ), and the Burj Khalifa ( in Dubai ).

The Eiffel Tower was also constructed in 1889, epitomising the spirit of progress along with the culturally transgressive cabaret.

Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi (,, also transliterated as Alshehhi ) ( May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001 ) was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks.

Leopard domestication has also been recorded — several leopards were kept in a menagerie established by King John at the Tower of London in the 13th century ; around 1235, three of these animals were given to Henry III by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

** Bissell Tower ( also known as the Red Tower )

Meanwhile, the restaurant that inspired both Puck and Tower became a distinguished establishment, popularizing its so called " mantra " in its book by Paul Bertolli and owner Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Cooking, in 1988.

The three highest buildings in the city are the radio mast of WDR in Bonn-Venusberg ( 180 m ), the headquarters of the Deutsche Post called Post Tower ( 162. 5 m ) and the former building for the German members of parliament Langer Eugen ( 114. 7 m ) now the new location of the UN-Campus.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

The disastrous failure of glass panels on the John Hancock Tower | Hancock Tower demanded the use of huge wood panels ; some called it " the world's tallest wooden building ".

As of August 2008, an 18-story condominium high-rise called Capitol Club Tower is in the design phase with the adjacent parking structure already having been approved by city council and purchased by the developer.

Although Sears ' naming rights expired in 2003, the building continued to be called the Sears Tower for several years.

The facility ( called Roughs Tower or HM Fort Roughs ) was occupied by 150 – 300 Royal Navy personnel throughout World War II ; not until well after the war, in 1956, were the last full-time personnel taken off HM Fort Roughs.

The Tower of London, seen from the River Thames, with a view of the water-gate called " Traitors ' Gate "

The North Campus tower is called Lurie Tower.

On October 9, 2007, Ono dedicated a new memorial called the Imagine Peace Tower, located on the island of Viðey, 1 km outside the Skarfabakki harbour in Reykjavík in Iceland.

* The Huqiu Tower is built in China ( often called the Chinese Leaning Tower of Pisa ).

On 9 August 1239, Henry is reported to have confronted Montfort, called him an excommunicant and threatened to imprison him in the Tower of London.

The reference occurs in the Book of Ether, which is ostensibly a history of a nation of early Americans called the Jaredites who left the Tower of Babel and traveled by barge to the Western Hemisphere.

Along with the Minolta Tower ( formerly the Seagrams Tower and the Konica Minolta Tower, now called the Tower Hotel ), it is one of two towers in Canada with a view of the falls.

The Tower of Hanoi ( also called the Tower of Brahma or Lucas ' Tower, and sometimes pluralised ) is a mathematical game or puzzle.

There also exists a variant of this task called Tower of London for neuropsychological diagnosis and treatment of executive functions.