The tower's main selling point was that building it would be financed by private money, as opposed to tax-payer money.

In 2011, work began on replacement of the main tower's copper roof, at the cost of $ 7. 5 million.

The tower's purpose was to defend the Ferry Reach Channel and so impede any attack on St. George's Island from the main island of Bermuda, and attacking vessels from slipping through Castle Harbour and the channel between Ferry Reach and Coney Island.

Bellagio completed a $ 70 million upgrade in December 2011, remodeling all of the main tower's 2, 500 rooms.

In late 2009, it was announced that Brookfield Properties, the owners of First Canadian Place would follow the example of Aon Center and replace, over the course of three years, the tower's 45, 000 marble panels with new ones in glass ( not granite like Aon Center ), those on the main expanses with a white ceramic frit and the corners in a bronze tint.

The tower's upper storey has a crenellated parapet which was added as part of the main fifteenth-century development.

Bay Lake Tower's 5th floor is connected by a skyway from the main tower's 4th floor.

The main tower's bank vault is still in use as a teacher work area and occasionally as an octagonal theater.

The Torre Colpatria's complex includes a separate ten-floor building, built to give contrast to the main tower's height.

The tower's south angle is splayed to accommodate the main staircase and only the corbels of its parapet survive.

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.

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.

Its form becomes more complete the closer it gets to the terrace at the tower's top.

According to school publicity the tower's form is laden with Christian symbolism.

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.

However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an " original visual creation " protected by copyright.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

Ambrosius was rumoured to be such a child, but when brought before the king, he revealed the real reason for the tower's collapse: below the foundation was a lake containing two dragons who destroyed the tower by fighting.

A primary reason for OEM's inability to coordinate communications and information-sharing in the early hours of the WTC response was the loss of its emergency operations center, located on the twenty third floor of 7 World Trade Center which had been evacuated after debris from tower's collapse struck the building, igniting several fires.

The tower's namesake was the priest, mountaineer and patriot Jakob Aljaž, who around 1900 purchased the Kredarica waypoint and the summit for the sum of five Austro-Hungarian florins.

The tower's staircase was assembled inside a studio.

The tower's simple architecture, large proportions and monolithic appearance have been often criticised for being out of place in Paris's urban landscape and, as a result, two years after its completion, the construction of skyscrapers in the city centre was banned.

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 intent was to change it back when the mall was built, but the local residents liked the tower's new proclamation, so the city decided to leave it as it was.

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

Saruman was then locked in Orthanc and guarded by Treebeard, but was set free a short time later, turning the tower's keys over to Treebeard before leaving and taking Gríma with him.

Their task was for teams ( Ken & Tina in particular ) to use tower's maintenance ladders to climb from the sky deck to red light at the top to get a friend, the Travelocity gnome.

The tower's image was adopted by the Yale Herald, a weekly student newspaper, for its masthead.

To protect the foundation and manage settlement in the sub-soil, a series of long steel tubes was installed horizontally around and beneath the clock tower's thick foundation.

The tubes were provided with a control system through which grout was injected into the ground to compensate for settlement detected from detailed measurements of the clock tower's position.

A 1994 plan to increase the tower's height to 561 metres by adding an antenna was not implemented for lack of funding.

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

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.

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 restaurant, which rotates once every 30 minutes, is a few metres above the visitors platform ( originally it turned once per hour ; the speed was later doubled following the tower's late 1990s renovation ).

The tower's height is roughly equal to that of the Eiffel tower in Paris, which stands approximately 300 metres tall, less its 24-metre television antenna.

In 1998, the addition of a lightning rod to the top of spire extended the tower's overall height to, which is above sea level.

The tower's location, which is south-west of Brussels, was chosen in order to minimize hindrance to the airport located just outside the opposite end ( north-east ) of the city.

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

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 ).

Since the Shard's construction was financed by Sharia-compliant investment, which forbids earning money through interest payments, the tower's tenants are subject to certain conditions.

The 36-story tower's busy footprint rises and culminates in an open frame dome and crown which is illuminated at night.

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 core stiffening method minimises the sway of the building in winds, which even after the core stiffening is around at the tower's top.

It is believed that considerable efforts were made to reduce the cost of the tower's construction, which took place during a time when rising oil prices ended the development boom of the 1960s making an increasingly hostile economic climate.

To ensure that the tower is a continuous conductor, the tower's structural sections are electrically bonded at the joints by short copper jumpers which are soldered to each side.

At its base, the mast is usually mounted on a thick ceramic insulator, which has the compressive strength to support the tower's weight and the dielectric strength to withstand the high RF voltage applied by the transmitter.

Because of the tower's orientation, it works also as a giant sundial, which uses the Europa square to indicate the hour.

This method was necessary due to the tower's proximity to the Scioto River which meant ground water was only a few yards below the surface.

The building received its name from St. Paul's Chapel which is located directly across Broadway from the tower's site in lower Manhattan.