A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

To simulate fluid flow, many experiments involved immersing objects in streams of water or simply dropping them off the top of a tall building.

Beacons can also be combined with semaphoric or other indicators to provide important information, such as the status of an airport, by the colour and rotational pattern of its airport beacon, or of pending weather as indicated on a weather beacon mounted at the top of a tall building or similar site.

In architecture, a cupola () is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building.

Macro cells can be regarded as cells where the base station antenna is installed on a mast or a building above average roof top level.

Hopewell Holdings Limited's headquarters are in the building and its Chief executive officer, Gordon Wu, has his office on the top floor.

Working with his associate Theodore Musho, Pei developed a design centered on a building with a top much wider than the bottom ; the facade leans at an angle of 34 degrees.

At the top, he designed the roofs at sloping angles to match the rising aesthetic of the building.

Brabham soon " seemed to merge into Cooper Cars ": he was not an employee, but he started working at Cooper on a daily basis from the midpoint of the 1955 season building a Bobtail mid-engined sports car, intended for Formula One, the top category of single seater racing.

Port Grand project is a 13-acre world-class facility that has been designed and built in collaboration with top international architects / designers who employed the latest technology and building techniques to deliver a state-of-the-art facility.

The emergency stairs at Covent Garden station have 193 steps to reach the exit ( equivalent to climbing to the top of a 15-floor building ), so passengers are advised to use the lifts as climbing the steps can be dangerous.

Developer Eyde Co. announced plans on April 6, 2010, to renovate the historical and prominent Knapp's building in downtown Lansing for first floor retail, office space and apartments / condos on the top floor ( 5th ) in a $ 22 – 24 million project.

A not political, but social related mural covers a wall in an old building, once a prison, at the top of a cliff in Bardiyah, in Libya.

Sap is often boiled in a " sugar house " ( also known as a " sugar shack ," " sugar shanty ," or cabane à sucre ), a building louvered at the top to vent the steam from the boiling sap.

As a microkernel must allow building arbitrary operating system services on top, it must provide some core functionality.

Techniques of surface mining include ; Open-pit mining which consists of recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying or gathering building materials from an open pit mine, strip mining which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore / seams underneath, and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth.

Every time an MTA receives an email message, it adds a < tt > Received </ tt > trace header field to the top of the header of the message, thereby building a sequential record of MTAs handling the message.

In this phobia, the CS is heights such as the top floors of a high rise building or a roller coaster.

The UCS can be said to originate from an aversive or traumatizing event in the person's life such as being trapped on a roller coaster as a child or in an elevator at the top floor of a building.

In the recent example, an impairment of occupation could result from not taking on a job solely because its location happens to be at the top floor of a building, or socially not participating in a social event at a theme park.

They instead recorded the song at RCA's Nashville studio with Porter trying a completely new strategy: building the mix from the top down rather than from the bottom up, beginning with the close-miked background vocals in the foreground and ending with the rhythm section soft in the background.

In a building with more than one floor, the term spandrel is also used to indicate the space between the top of the window in one story and the sill of the window in the story above.

With a triple-extension bellows 4 " × 5 " camera such as the Linhof SuperTechnika V, the photographer can correct certain distortions such as ' keystoning ', where the image ' lines ' converge ( i. e., photographing a building by pointing a typical camera upward to include the top of the building ).

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

He is the first top administration officer to see the bottom of the slump.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.

Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

The single-barrel Stevens 940Y ( under $35 ) is made with a side lever rather than a top-tang lever because many youngsters aren't strong enough to operate a top tang to open a gun -- and the side lever does indeed open very easily.

After trimming off the excess on the frames and transom which was used to fasten them to the jig at a working height, the top of the side planking is installed.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

In honor of this event, the Colonna family was granted the privilege of using the imperial pointed crown on top of their coat of arms.

If a compression test does give a low figure, and it has been determined it is not due to intake valve closure / camshaft characteristics, then one can differentiate between the cause being valve / seat seal issues and ring seal by squirting engine oil into the spark plug orifice, in a quantity sufficient to disperse across the piston crown and the circumference of the top ring land, and thereby effect the mentioned seal.

A low rumbling sound came from underground, and then, with a force that shot 6 tons of 4-inch ( 100 mm ) diameter pipe out over the top of the derrick, knocking off the crown block, the Lucas Gusher roared in and the Spindletop oil field was born.

The progress of kundalini through the different chakras leads to different levels of awakening and mystical experience, until the kundalini finally reaches the top of the head, Sahasrara or crown chakra, producing an extremely profound mystical experience.

The individual ’ s sternum had been split open from top to bottom and around the skull there was a crude lead crown.

Instead, he used a diadem, or crown, to top its head.

A blue canton in the top left of the arms depicted the Palace of Scone ensigned by an imperial crown.

The root crown is a fibrous knob of tissue that sits on top of the root ( rhizome ).

During the epoch of the Ruling Stewards, the banner at the top of Minas Tirith was replaced by a plain white flag, although the armour of the Tower Guard of Gondor still bore devices of tree, crown and stars.

Elements of slab avalanches include the following: a crown fracture at the top of the start zone, flank fractures on the sides of the start zones, and a fracture at the bottom called the stauchwall.

In its essential form it followed the pattern of crown associated with a sovereign in European heraldry and had four arches which intersected at the top of the crown, while the circlet was made of openwork and set with precious stones and from the circlet between the arches were triangular leaf-like ornaments which also were set with precious stones ( pearls ?).

The second distinctive feature is the representation of a falcon at the very top of the crown in the same position a cross would occupy on the top of an orb in the traditional crown of a Christian sovereign.

A globe surmounted by a cross rested on the top of the crown.

These include Edward the Confessor's Sapphire, which is set in a Maltese cross at the top of the crown.

It bears a prominent whorl of downward facing flowers at the top of the stem, topped by a ' crown ' of small leaves, hence the name.

The flag of Liechtenstein () consists of two equal horizontal bands of blue ( top ) and red with a gold ducal crown on the hoist side of the blue band.

From 1931 to 1936, during the Spanish Second Republic, the badge consisted of a circular shield and had the royal crown in the top replaced by a mural crown.

A crown in the top symbolizes the royal patronage.

The crown often passed over Criollos for the top military, administrative, and religious offices in the colonies in favor of the Spanish-born Peninsulares ( literally " born in the Iberian Peninsula ").