Rising 195. 2 metres above the mountain summit, it is not only a landmark in Canberra but also offers panoramic views of the city and its surrounding countryside from an indoor observation deck, two outdoor viewing platforms and the tower's revolving restaurant.

The base of the tower has a structure similar to a tripod ; from a height of about and above, the tower's structure is cylindrical to offer panoramic views of the river and the city.

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

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.

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.

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 ).

The street address of the tower is " Shabolovskaya Street, 37 ", hence the tower's informal name " Shabolovka, 37 ".

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Each of the tower's 800 windows were covered with vinyl, while 16 powerful projectors on the other side of the river beamed images onto it.

As part of the investigation, a one-meter wide trench was dug from the tower's exterior through the interior.

Although official criticism during the time of its construction was impossible, unofficially the tower was lambasted for its ' megalomania ', its ' jarring ' effect on the Prague skyline, and for destroying part of a centuries-old Jewish cemetery situated near the tower's foundations.

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.

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.

The floor of the new tower's control cab is above ground level ; the tower's overall height including antennas is.

The tower's ground floor was one meter lower than today's street level.

* 54 / F: The hotel lobby and Grand café, served by an express elevator from the tower's ground floor.

Although visibly nervous, he leapt from the tower's edge, plummeting more than 1, 200 feet ( 366 m ) tied to only a 1 / 8 " ( 3 mm ) steel cable, stopping only a short distance above the ground.

The tower is tall, from the ground to the tower's cast iron spiral staircase.

There are 217 steps from the ground to the top, with 199 steps in the tower's cast iron spiral staircase.

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