The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.

The bell tower has parts from the 9th / 10th and 14th centuries.

It has with a Baroque portal ( 1667 ), a noteworthy bell tower, presbytery frescoes portraying the Histories of St. Peter and Virgin by Jacopo da Montagnana ( 1495 ) and Palma the Younger's altarpiece depicting Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome.

It is the only observation tower which stands on insulators, and has a restaurant and an observation deck above ground, which is reachable by a windowed elevator.

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

Above the gate there is a tower that rises three stories higher and has a turret-style roof.

The Rotem Industrial Complex outside of the city has dozens of solar mirrors that focus the sun's rays on a tower that in turn heats a water boiler to create steam, turning a turbine to create electricity.

" However, it also potentially has the effect of prohibiting tourist photographs of the tower at night from being published, as well as hindering non-profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the tower.

Her relationship with the tower has been the subject of extensive global publicity.

Although it was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has since lost its standing both as the tallest lattice tower and as the tallest structure in France.

Godzilla smashes a tower that has a self destruct button that makes the island unstable.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

It has been suggested that it consisted of a motte, an earthen mound surmounted by wooden buildings ; however, the stone great tower may have been part of the original design.

In Poland, the rough equivalent of this term is " coffee shop revolutionist " meaning a journalist, poet or any other intellectual who criticizes capitalism and free market mechanisms in his / her publications, but has generally weak understanding of economy because of living in the ivory tower of salon life, so he / she has no idea about the real life of the poor.

Conceived as a kind of minaret alongside the squat, monumental Grande Arche de La Défense, < u > the endless tower has taken on some of the mystique of Mies van der Rohe ’ s unbuilt Friedrichstrasse glass skyscraper of 1921 </ u >.

The traffic light tower in November 1924, operational for just one month so far ( note that the ground around it has still to be cleared and paved ).

The gate itself is disproportionate: the bottom has been cut off to accommodate a rise in street level, which can also be seen in the steps leading down to the foot of L staircase in the gate tower.

Right before boarders arrive, Tyler has Rabbit fire a shot from the deck gun right into the ship's radio tower, preventing the destroyer from reporting that the Enigma code has been compromised, and dives underneath her.

* The Chinese polymath statesman and scientist Su Song has the successful pilot model for his astronomical clock tower constructed in Kaifeng, China.

The typical nuraghe is situated in areas where previous Prehistoric Sardinians Cultures had been distributed, that is not far from alluvial plains ( though few nuraghi appear in plains nowadays, as they were destroyed by human activities such as agriculture, dams and others ) and has the shape of a truncated conical tower resembling a medieval tower ( outside ) or a beehive ( inside ).

The cabin installed at a height of 150-metres on the Blosenbergturm in Beromünster is such a construction, in which a lengthening coil is installed for the supply of the upper tower part ( the Blosenbergturm has in addition a ring-shaped roof capacitor on its top )

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

To them he could have been the broken bell in the church tower which rang before and after Mass, and at noon, and at six each evening -- its tone, repetitive, monotonous, never breaking the boredom of the streets.

The wall follows typical Mycenaean convention in that it followed the natural contour of the terrain and its gate was arranged obliquely, with a parapet and tower overhanging the incomers ' right-hand side, thus facilitating defense.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

Its importance was instead conveyed by the height of the tower ( prasat ) rising above it, by its location at the centre of the temple, and by the greater decoration on its walls.

The shape of the tower is not truly triangular but with its three corners cut off to provide better internal office spaces.

Included in this project have been the western walls of the medina, its skala, or bastion, and its colonial-period clock tower.

" Then a wayward airplane slices the radio tower with its wing, the voiceover goes silent, and the lighted callsign goes dark.

The tower and its representations have long been in the public domain.

The Chinese government was preparing for a new wave of engagement with the outside world, and saw the tower as a chance to demonstrate its economic strength.

Ruined during the slighting, the great tower is notable for its huge corner turrets, essentially hugely exaggerated Norman pilaster buttresses.

The building was intended to appear well-proportioned alongside the ancient great tower, one of the reasons for its considerable height.

The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center ( Bartle Hall ) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place ( the tallest office tower structure in Missouri ), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs ( the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri ), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline.

The tower erected there guided mariners at night, through its fire.

To obscure its lower end, the tower was designed to sit within a crater.

The tower, which fell down twice during the 15th century, got its current look in 1890.

Rundetårn, or round tower, in Copenhagen, on top of which the university had its observatory from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century, when it was moved to new premises.

The tower remained until c. 1936, when it was removed to allow for excavations for the new S-Bahn line ( on 26 September 1997, a replica of the tower was erected, just for show, close to its original location by Siemens, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary.

Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower ( the bell tower of the city's cathedral ), the city of over 88, 332 residents ( around 200, 000 with the metropolitan area ) contains more than 20 other historic churches, several palaces and various bridges across the River Arno.