The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

A new design was unveiled, combining a large square glass-enclosed atrium with a triangular tower and a circular walkway.

With an eye toward the Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British in 1997, authorities in China sought Pei's aid on a new tower for the local branch of the Bank of China.

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.

* 1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.

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.

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.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

) Other projects in development include the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange and a lush residential tower and residential masterplan in Singapore.

* July 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral.

However photographs of the Erwin water tower revealed the new tower to be a water spheroid. The water tower in Braman, Oklahoma, built by the Kaw Nation and completed in 2010, is tall and can hold.

Based on the ideas of Le Corbusier and using new skyscraper-building techniques, the modernist city stood for the elimination of disorder, congestion, and the small scale, replacing them with preplanned and widely spaced freeways and tower blocks set within gardens.

A number of new public buildings were also added including ; the Arsenal ( 1610 – 19 ), the town hall with its north staircase tower ( 1632 – 34 ) and its eastern facade ( Archive tower 1624, completed 1703-14 ), the Jesuit church ( 1680 – 89 ), the new Ambassadorenhof ( 1717 – 24 ), the Holy Spirit Hospital in a suburb ( 1735 – 1800 ) and the new classicist Church of St. Ursus ( 1763 – 90 ).

A two story addition was added to the front in 1905 with a new four story tower giving the courthouse a whole new appearance.

The second phase of the passenger terminal expansion project was completed in 2005 and a new control tower was built, storage and processing facilities for the cargo terminal expanded, and the passenger terminal was entirely revamped.

`` There's a tower and a steeple on the church a million feet high.

Quickening his steps, John entered the vast church and climbed the tower steps to the bells.

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.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The church originally had a central tower and ( probably ) a spire.

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.

" An hour later Tallard, the Elector, and Marsin climbed Blenheim's church tower to finalise their plans.

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.

Traditional church buildings are often in the shape of a cross and frequently have a tower or dome.

Another common feature is the spire, a tall tower on the " west " end of the church or over the crossing.

The crusaders began to refurnish the church in a Romanesque style and added a bell tower.

The eastern parts of the town surrendered at midday of 13 April ; a white flag was raised in the tower of the Kallio church.

In 1240 a church and tower was reconstructed on the site of the Church of St. Mobhi in the monastery.

Stone from the cove was also used to construct the nearby church of St Buryan, whose 92 foot granite tower is an imposing local landmark often used as a line of sight by fishermen coming into port.

The church tower is that of Saint Peter's Church.

The church is built with a nave, two aisles, a transept and a tower.

The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the " Vow of Louis XIII ", one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques ( 14th and 15th centuries ), dedicated to Saint James of Compostela, the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal tower, the base of which is in Romanesque style, while the upper levels, built later, are in Gothic style.

Liberation in 1945 brought back the Protestant bishop and the church bells, and the Nazi style eagle was taken down from the tower.

The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.

In 1846, St James church was considerably repaired, a steeple replacing the old tower.

* When combined with a zoom, a tracking shot can become a dolly zoom, famously used to create a sense of vertigo in the church tower scenes in Hitchcock's Vertigo ( 1958 ).

Molde Cathedral ( orange roof on far right ) with its freestanding bell tower replaces the church that was destroyed during World War II The town gained formal trading rights in 1614.

Until then the church had escaped undamaged, but in the final sortie a firebomb got stuck high up in the tower, and beautiful wooden church was obliterated by fire.

The tower, which rises to, contains a bell dating from 1759 made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.

That is, The Great Train Robbery contains scenes shot on sets of a telegraph station, a railroad car interior, and a dance hall, with outdoor scenes at a railroad water tower, on the train itself, at a point along the track, and in the woods.

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.

It was built by Emilio Alemagna, and contains a Napoleonic Arena, the Milan City Aquarium, a tower, an art exhibition centre, some ponds and a library.

The circular tower at the north-west corner contains the octagonal dining room with a Minton tile floor, two fireplaces, and a vault of eight radial ribs running to a central boss.

The north-west tower contains Great Peter ( 216 cwt or 10. 8 tons ) and the six clock bells ( the largest weighing just over 60 cwt or 3 tons ).

Southwold tower contains a ring of eight bells hung for change ringing.

It contains a clock tower and lake, which may seem contrived.

There is a lantern at the top of the tower, which also contains a spiral staircase.

The circle contains a depiction of the tower complex of St. Francis Hospital, and bears the name of the city, the year " 1906 " and the motto " Where Tradition Welcomes Progress.

The bell tower contains one of the oldest rings of ten bells, which is rung by the Oxford Society of Change Ringers and the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers.

The three-story hip roofed building contains a pyramidal roof tower with an open belfry.

A bell tower was added to the abbey church in 2007 which contains eight bells, one of which is the largest swinging bell in the Pacific Northwest.

The cathedral contains the oldest ring of ten bells in the United Kingdom, with the 15th century tenor being older than the tower itself.

Her tower is huge and confusing and contains many enemies willing to stop anyone from finding her.

Selwyn College's Main Gate in Old Court, with the Greek quotation from 1 Corinthians 16: 13 which contains the College motto above. Selwyn College's gatehouse and tower is the main entrance to Old Court, shown here flying the College flag.

The higher the fuel vapor rises in the tower, the lower its weight and the less energy it contains.

The north tower was added in 1678 and the south tower in 1768. The shape of the cathedral is a Latin cross and contains five naves.

The tower contains four bells dating from 1763 and made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.

The tower contains two bells.

The church tower contains more bells than probably any other parish church in the land: a fine peal of 12 bells and a chime of 9 bells which ring the hours and chime tunes at frequent intervals.

A plaque at the base of the water tower contains the following legend: