Cottingham recommended new beams throughout the roof and a new steeper pitch, removal of the spire and new timbers in the tower, new paving, ironwork to hold the west transept wall up, a new stone south transept window, new buttresses, a new drainage system for the roof, new ironwork on almost all the windows, and on and on.

Before construction resumed on the roof, tower height was scheduled to be so the building would hold the title of the world's tallest building ( structural top ) over the Taipei 101, but a height limit was imposed, allowing the roof to reach a maximum height of 492 m. Architect William Pedersen and developer Minoru Mori have resisted suggestions to add a spire that would surpass that of Taipei 101 and perhaps One World Trade Center, calling the Shanghai WFC a " broad-shouldered building ".

The main tower boasts a 175-foot spire that was originally designed to hold a clock and a set of bells.

Each pinnacle is composed of 50 unique parts making up the main components: the spire, mast ball and ring ball.

A A $ 4. 5 million 88-metre symbolic tower for the Expo was constructed, called The Night Companion, which featured a gold and copper dome black spire top, with a xenon laser beam eye that scanned the Brisbane horizons each Expo evening up to 60 km away.

The building reaches 57 stories or to the top of its spire, and it can be visible for up to twenty miles ( 32 km ) away.

** Description: found in sand from lowtide line to depths up to 50 m ; evenly elleptical shell with alternating darker brown and grayish-brown bands ; outer lip and columellar folds are whitish ; large spire ; ovate columella strongly twisted, with a pointed posterior notch and a rounded base.

** Description: found at depths up to 183 m ; small ovate white shell, narrowing toward the apex ; sunken spire ; body whorl has spiral grooves at the edges ; narrow aperture

The spire, at, can be seen for many miles in every direction and is invariably a mystery to passersby ; the narrow entrance to the circular staircase within the tower has been sealed up to deter vandals.

* Mess hall: A large hall located halfway up the central spire, where Atlantis personnel can eat or socialize.

Looking up the spire from the sanctuary of the temple.

Looking up the spire from the sanctuary, original photo by John Hamer.

" Fuming, on the drive back on Highway 23, Jordan pointed to a spire of rock and told Boyum: " I'm going to put up a Japanese house on one of those pinnacle rocks and advertise it.

In addition to preserving the exterior, bringing the building up to code, and altering the floor plan, the eastern spire of the temple was elongated to make it taller than the spire of the neighboring stake center.

The 132-metre high Baroque spire totally covered with copper is a prominent feature of Hamburg ’ s skyline and has always been a landfall mark for ships sailing up the river Elbe.

It has stepped terraces and flights of stairs which ascend to a number of courtyards and brick gateways that in turn lead up to the main spire or Meru structure, which is called Pura Penataran Agung.

* Broach spire, a spire that starts on a square base and is carried up to a tapering octagonal spire by means of triangular faces

Situated on the Doncaster-bound ( up ) platform, it was constructed of rock-faced stone, with hipped roofs and a spire which was part of the living quarters.

The ceiling is high and has a spire that reaches into the sky.

The crowning feature of the scheme, Sir George Gilbert Scott's white limestone All Souls ' Church ( 1856-8 ) still dominates the area, its lofty spire reaching 236 feet into the Yorkshire sky: the second tallest in the county ( Wakefield Cathedral has the highest spire ).

A skyscraper, as the term itself suggests, suggests the connection of earth and sky, as do spire structures of all sorts.

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.

Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown, beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop, and along the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and northward to Brooklyn, below Point Peter, he could see the church spire wherever he looked back.

The great spire shone as if the lightning had polished it.

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 church originally had a central tower and ( probably ) a spire.

That same day Marlborough and Eugene carried out their own reconnaissance of the French position from the church spire at Tapfheim, and moved their combined forces to Münster – five miles ( 8 km ) from the French camp.

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 prang is the tall finger-like spire, usually richly carved, common to much Khmer religious architecture.

In other cases they may crown a tower, spire, or turret.

Another common feature is the spire, a tall tower on the " west " end of the church or over the crossing.

The hexagonal shaped building includes a 192-ft ( 59m ) spire and houses a Holtkamp organ.

It is a conical spire made of stainless steel and is located on O ' Connell Street.

An antenna attached to the spire of the building fired radio waves at receivers about 80 miles away.

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.

It now lacks the small lead spire which once topped the tower.

During one such battle, an energy salvo from Luthor's battlesuit accidentally overloads the " Neutrarod "— a spire Luthor had built to counter Lexor's geological instability — resulting in the annihilation of Lexor's inhabitants, including his wife and son.

Its spire, without the copper top, is behind the church.

The mountain is inaccurately depicted as a tall, narrow spire.

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.

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.

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.

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

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