At the conception of the project, one of the planned rides was to be a giant ape that would carry riders up and down on one of the tower's columns.

John Steell was commissioned to design a monumental statue of Scott to rest in the space between the tower's four columns.

The frame was constructed from poured-in-place reinforced concrete and employed post-tensioned girders to distribute the weight of each floor to the tower's exterior columns and central core, allowing for a column-free interior.

The tower's smooth aluminum and glass surface and crisp unadorned geometric form demonstrate Pei's adherence to the mainstream of 20th-century modern design.

This was done on the proposal and the draught of Christopher Galloway from England, who was summoned to design the new tower's clock ( clock watch it there with the 1585 ) and suggested the arrangement of the tent roof over the clock.

The final design preserved the Gibson banking hall and the tower's height was reduced to 183 m ( 600 ft ).

The tower's step pyramidal cap reflects the design of the Indiana War Memorial, three blocks due north.

There is a theatre which provides a video, produced shortly after the tower opened, on the tower's design and construction.

Famous for its cylindrical design, the central hotel tower's diameter is 188 feet ( 57 m ).

The new control tower's modular design is speculated to be because the airport's licence expires in 2010 and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority planning document for Pickering Airport assumes its closure by 2011 when GTAA funding of Buttonville ( which replaced a Provincial subsidy ) ceases.

The tower's design came from architect Ragıp Buluç and construction lasted from 1987 to 1989.

His signature Mesiniaga Tower ( for the IBM franchise ) is regarded as his most didactic bioclimatic and prototype climate-responsive tower, where all his earlier experimental ideas from the previous tower projects are bought together here in one single built form, such as the positioning of the elevator core as a solar buffer at the tower's hot side, the critical placement of toilets and stairwells to have natural ventilation opportunities ( low energy ), solar-path guided sun-shade design ( climate-responsive facade design ), the use of evaporative-cooling at the uppermost roof level which has an overhead louvered canopy that provides a framework for future PV cells, vegetated and stepped facade-recessed sky-terraces as interstitial semi-enclosed spaces for office users.

In a tower, players can be assigned any combination of these robots, depending on the tower's design.

The tower's design features what appears to be two connected towers.

Although the design was largely identical to the previous scheme, the tower's crown and southern façades were refined.

The clock on the courthouse still remains at 10: 04 although despite the damage the Doc did to the tower's platform in 1955, for whatever reason, it now seems to have disappeared.

Despite there being no archaeological artifacts nor documents which would date the Tower to the pre-Colonial period, several writers have advanced ideas about the tower's origin apart from the now mainstream windmill theory.

The tower now broadcasts Free-to-air terrestrial television and radio stations that use the tower's antenna include:

" and his likeness now graces the wall around the tower's base.

The tower is owned by Sutro Tower, Inc., which in turn is owned by a consortium of the four major television broadcasters in San Francisco: KTVU ( owned by Cox Enterprises ), KRON-TV ( owned by the San Francisco Chronicle at the time of the tower's completion, now owned by Young Broadcasting ), KPIX ( a former Group W property, now owned by CBS Corporation ) and KGO-TV ( an ABC-owned station ).

The tower's window entrance 5 metres above ground level can now be accessed by a rope that hangs down from the window.

The functions traditionally done in the church basement are now performed in a space reserved for the church on the third floor of the tower's east side.

The tower's topmost panoramic dome, known as the " lens ", recalls the iconic glass dome which covered part of the ground floor of the Baltic Exchange.

Its large circular tower is known as the Tour de Velfaux after the tower's owner, Guillaume de Velfaux, who sold it to Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, the father of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle.

Local villagers paid for the towers and watchmen, known as torregiani, who would signal the approach of unexpected ships by lighting a beacon fire on the tower's roof.

The tower's bell is known amongst the students as the cabra ( she-goat ).

Two German churches have challenged the tower's status as the world's most lop-sided building: the 15th-century square Leaning Tower of Suurhusen and the 14th century bell tower in the town of Bad Frankenhausen.

Their concern led them to redesign the tower's plans, as there was a public outcry when it was revealed that the Hancock Tower would cast its shadow on the church.

Sydney Tower Buffet ( STB ) is located on the tower's second level.

The first tower's official name is Eric Williams Financial Tower and the second tower's official name is the Central Bank Tower.

During their last semester, seniors climb the spiral staircase of Cullen Tower to sign the tower's walls, adding their signatures to those of former students from over 100 years ago.

On April 4, 2007, an elevator system in Mori Tower produced a fire that destroyed part of the tower's lift-motor room and forced hundreds of people to evacuate the building.

While running back into the South Tower with NYFD personnel to save more people, Welles died in the tower's collapse.

In 1892 the original Grimsby tower's function was replaced by a smaller weighted accumulator on an adjacent dock, although the tower remains to this day as a well-known landmark.

The tower of the parish church of Lindlar was built in the 12th century and remains till today, although the tower's roof was built in the 18th century.

Accompanied by a 40-year-old civilian named Allen Crum — whom the trio encountered as they ran towards the tower — McCoy, Ramirez and Day were the first individuals to reach the tower's observation deck.

Though the FAA was originally worried about the tower's height encroaching the airspace, they deemed the addition of the antennas not problematic.

Felix and Isaac's two traveling parties join forces to form one unified group that sets out north to activate Mars Lighthouse ; however, when they reach the tower's top, the Wise One, the entity responsible for originally tasking Isaac to prevent the breaking of Alchemy's seal, confronts them.

According to one of the tower's developers, the Shard and its neighbouring building, the Place, may together be worth up to £ 2. 5 billion when they are fully leased.

Prosecutors argued that the Mori Building officials did not implement safety measures proposed after previous incidents because they would detract from the tower's entrance appearance.

There, they ate through the tower's doors and crawled up to the top floor, where they found Hatto and ate him alive.