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 ; ;

There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;

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.

A large tower was added, the " Frankopyrgos " ( Tower of the Franks ), demolished in the 19th century.

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

A Carillon was installed in the tower in the middle of the 20th century, the bells for which were provided by the centuries-old bell manufacturers of Aarau.

It was unclear how the Sultan got hold of scissors in his tower prison cell and how he managed to cut two wrists at once, since no autopsy was allowed afterwards.

The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.

* Ansbach was home of the astronomer Simon Marius, who observed Jupiter's moons from the castle's tower.

It was set up in the mansion's water tower and given the code name " Station X ", a term now sometimes applied to the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley as a whole.

* The Cardinalis tower was constructed in the 14th century as a bell tower for the Dominican convent, which was founded on the bequest of Hugh of Saint-Cher.

A tower house was built on the estate by the Gordons.

By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.

Yet there is now little doubt that the hollow-walled broch tower was purely an invention from what is now Scotland, or that even the kinds of pottery found inside them that most resembled south British styles were local hybrid forms.

The south tower was completed in the 16th century but the cathedral was only completed in the 19th century with the north tower.

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.

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.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

Two blocks west of the Old Town is the Kuchlbauer Brewery and beer garden featuring the Kuchlbauer Tower, a colorful and unconventional observation tower designed by Viennese architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

* First Christian Church was designed by Eliel Saarinen with a 160-ft ( 49m ) tower and was dedicated in 1942.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

At this stage a small " creeper " crane was installed in each leg, designed to move up the tower as construction progressed and making use of the guides for the elevators which were to be fitted in each leg.

Ewing also designed the apex sculptures of Truth, Riches, and Honour, and the statues of The Four Seasons on the Chamber's tower.

One of the buildings was a bell tower, designed to resemble the bachi used when playing traditional instruments like the shamisen.

* 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.

There was an early attempt at symmetry in the external appearance of the great hall – the Strong and Saintlowe Towers architecturally act as near symmetrical " wings " to the hall itself, while the plinth of the hall is designed to mirror that of the great tower opposite it.

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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

They were designed and used to test spacecraft recovery systems, and escape tower and rocket motors.

It was in 1978 that Yamasaki also designed the Federal Reserve Bank tower in Richmond, Virginia.

The traffic lights, again from Siemens, were mounted on a five-sided 8. 5 m high tower designed by Jean Kramer, shipped over from the United States, and actually modelled on a similar one erected on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1922, although towers like this had been a feature of the city since 1918.

Vienna's Narrenturm ( hospital ) | Narrenturm — German for " lunatics ' tower " — was one of the earliest buildings specifically designed as a " madhouse.

On the fifth floor of the circular tower is a room designed for playing rackets, which is approached by a stone spiral staircase.

The fan vaulting above is contemporary with tower, and may have been designed by William Swayne, a master mason of King's College Chapel.

Han van Meegeren designed this boat-house ( the building left, adjoining an old tower in the town wall ) for his Rowing Club D. D. S.

For example, it was perceived to be ideal to have families with children reside in dwellings, at or close to ground level in order for the children to have better access to the outdoors and to parks, whilst a tower block with one-room flats was designed to accommodate childless couples.

At Wheeling, the National Road crossed the Ohio River on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designed by Charles Ellet Jr. and completed in 1849, then the world's longest bridge span at from tower to tower.

He also promoted groundbreaking science and technological innovations by supporting such works as the astronomical clock tower designed and built by the engineer Zhang Sixun.

The tower was designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym de Marien and built by Campenon Bernard,

The design of the tower predates architectural trends of more modern skyscrapers today that are often designed to provide a window for every office.

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White using the shape of the Giralda tower of Seville's Cathedral combined with French Renaissance details.