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.

On September 13, 2008, many of the tower's windows were blown out as Hurricane Ike moved through the area leaving desks exposed, metal blinds hanging in a twisted heap and smoky black glass covering the streets below.

The tower's window glass panels are layered in 24-karat gold dust and cut to seven different shapes.

A glass floor extension was constructed on the north side of the tower's observation deck and opened on June 24, 2005.

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.

When the stream of high speed projectiles reaches the bottom of the tower it is then bent through 90 degrees by a magnet at the tower's base so that it is traveling parallel to Earth's surface, through a large circular underground tunnel similar to a particle accelerator.

The tower's base requires a foundation capable of supporting the weight of the tower, but this can be constructed with conventional materials available cheaply on Earth's surface.

This problem would surface at First Canadian Place as well, during an intense storm on the evening of 15 May 2007, a, white marble panel fell from the 60th storey of the tower's southern face onto the 3rd floor mezzanine roof below, causing authorities to close surrounding streets as a precaution.

Night comes and Dr. McAlester is called to the surface level for an emergency by the tower's secretary, Brenda.

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.

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.

The tower's main form was a twin helix which spiraled up to 400 m in height, around which visitors would be transported with the aid of various mechanical devices.

* In 1993, Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy fell to his death after attempting to demonstrate the strength of his office tower's windows.

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.

Public opposition not only stemmed from the tower's ¥ 380 million ($ 1. 056 million in 1963 ) price tag, but also from the fact that many believed the needle-shaped spire was too modern looking for the ancient capital.

The tower's kitchen was suspended beneath the restaurant on the first platform and considered to be very modern.

The building features prominently during the ' Temptation of Christ ' scene in the 1989 Denys Arcand film Jesus of Montreal reflecting the tower's status as the most prominent and modern skyscraper built in Montreal during the late 1980s as well as its unique relationship with the church.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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 more reflux that is provided for a given number of theoretical plates, the better the tower's separation of lower boiling materials from higher boiling materials.

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.

As Sears continued to offer optimistic projections for growth, the tower's proposed height soared into the low hundreds of floors and surpassed the height of New York's unfinished World Trade Center to become the world's tallest building.

Since 2007, the building owners have been considering building a hotel on the north side of Jackson, between Wacker and Franklin, at the plaza that is the entrance to the tower's observation deck.

The tower's parking garage is beneath the plaza.

Since the elevator would attain orbital velocity as it rode up the cable, an object released at the tower's top would also have the orbital velocity necessary to remain in geostationary orbit.

The tower's tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure's weight.

These are particularly pronounced due to the tower's age and its exposure to wind and rain.

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.

On the tower's plaza, the first Kabila regime erected a tall statue of Lumumba with a raised hand, greeting people coming from N ' djili Airport.

The tower's architect and engineer is Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

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.

The origins of the name of Comté tower's are unclear ; one theory is that the name refers to the County of Paris.

Sculptures embodying seasons and cardinal points are set above the tower's three tiers.

During the dedication ceremony, with several dignitaries in attendance, public relations chief Dan Bigelow turns on the tower's exterior lights to impress them and the other 294 guests arriving for a party in the Promenade Room on the 135th floor.

The first shots fired from the tower's outer deck came at approximately 11: 48 a. m.