The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great " Treasury of Atreus " had borne silent witness for ages before Heinrich Schliemann's time ; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or, at farthest, a rude Heroic beginning of purely Hellenic civilization.

They had a circumference of about ten kilometres, and were fortified with towers at regular intervals.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

Good examples are the temple towers of Preah Ko, Lolei and Bakong at Hariharalaya.

* New skyscrapers to be built at Canary Wharf including the Riverside South towers, the Heron Quays West double-skyscraper development and the North Quay project, consisting of three towers.

One of the guard towers at Guantanamo Bay, 1991

Insulating supports called insulators are required at the points at which they are supported by utility poles or transmission towers.

The external design, with its symbolic towers and, originally, battlements, echoes a style popular a century or more before, closely resembling Kirby Muxloe and the Beauchamp gatehouse at Warwick Castle.

His significant projects in the U. S. include in Chicago and the area: the residential towers of 860 – 880 Lake Shore Dr, the Chicago Federal Center complex, the Farnsworth House, Crown Hall and other structures at IIT ; and the Seagram Building in New York.

This configuration created a feeling of light, openness, and freedom of movement at the ground level that became the prototype for countless new towers designed both by Mies's office and his followers.

The architecture of his towers appears to be similar, but each project represents new ideas about the formation of highly sophisticated urban space at ground level.

It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light towers at any sporting venue.

In 1985, light towers were installed at the ground, allowing for night football and day-night cricket games.

" This designation was chosen because the bridge would not be the world's longest using another way of measuring suspension bridges, the length of the center span between the towers ; at the time that title belonged to the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a longer center span.

Warships resembled floating fortresses, with towers in the bows and at the stern ( respectively, the forecastle and aftcastle ).

* An Interactive VR Panorama of the cooling towers at Temelin Nuclear Power Plant, Czech Republic

When Richard arrived at the city, he was stunned to see it abandoned and the towers demolished.

Lamentable to behold, in the midst of the streets lay the tops of lofty towers, tumbled to the ground, stones of high walls, holy altars, fragments of human bodies, covered with livid clots of coagulated blood, looking as if they had been squeezed together in a press ; and with no chance of being buried, save in the ruins of the houses, or in the ravening bellies of wild beasts and birds ; with reverence be it spoken for their blessed souls, if, indeed, there were many found who were carried, at that time, into the high heaven by the holy angels ...

The firefighters in charge did not want anyone going through the front doors at first due to falling debris, and then because of falling people who had jumped from the towers.

It shows the WTC at the moment power cut off to the WPIX transmitter, prior to the towers ' collapse.

It is a square structure with circular towers at each of the four corners.

In some rare circumstances, such towers were mounted on ships to assault the coastal wall of a city: at the siege of Cyzicus during the Third Mithridatic War, for example, towers were used in conjunction with more conventional siege weapons.

However, following the theme of unparalleled luxury at Waddesdon, the windows of the towers at Waddesdon were glazed, unlike those of the staircase at Chambord.

In 1820 the city wall was torn down, with the exception of the individual towers and gates, and the defensive ditches were filled in.

Meanwhile, the increasing number ( albeit still pitifully few ) of radiocarbon dates for the primary use of brochs ( as opposed to their later, secondary use ) still suggests that most of the towers were built in the 1st centuries BC and AD.

Antony's fleet numbered 500, of which 230 were large war galleys furnished with towers full of armed men.

The contagion spread fast ; everywhere sails were seen unfurling, and towers and other heavy fighting gear going by the board.

The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned, and cannons were placed along its length.

The Coke bottles, installed in 1997, were also removed to return the light towers to their original state.

Two of the four towers, Knapp and Storms Halls, were imploded in 2005 ; however, Wallace and Wilson Halls still stand.

: With walls and towers were girdled round:

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.

These towers, with façades of steel and glass, were radical departures from the typical residential brick apartment buildings of the time.

The towers were simple rectangular boxes with a non-hierarchical wall enclosure, raised on stilts above a glass-enclosed lobby.

" When the flags over the many peat-constructed towers were raised, farmers would go to others ' towers and attempt to " level them to the ground.

However, people were allowed to defend their towers, and so everyone was provided with a " tooting-horn " to alert nearby country folk of the impending attack and the battle would turn into a " brawl.

Soon most forms of media content were introduced on mobile phones, and today the total value of media consumed on mobile towers over that of internet content, and was worth over 31 billion dollars in 2007 ( source Informa ).

The first minaret was constructed in 665 in Basra during the reign of the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I. Muawiyah encouraged the construction of minarets, as they were supposed to bring mosques on par with Christian churches with their bell towers.

The towers were finished within six years, in 1972.

Stone towers were found in natural mounds, as artificial ones were not strong enough to support stone towers.

These towers decreased the vessel's stability, and in the 15th century, the caravel, designed by the Portuguese, based on the Arabic qarib which could sail closer to the wind, became more widely used.

* Semaphore line, a system of long-distance communication based on towers with moving arms

Some cooling towers operate on this principle ; similarly the solar updraft tower is a proposed device to generate electricity based on the stack effect.

The Roman town's plan was based on their common scheme of the cardo and decumanus, occupying some 11 ha, with a line of walls measuring 413x261 m and having large defensive towers.

Another Islamic influence on the design is that the cross section of the towers is based on a Rub el Hizb, albeit with circular sectors added to meet office space requirements.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen ( 2012 ) celebrated the work of innovative architecture firms such as WOHA ( based in Singapore ), Mass Studies ( based in Seoul ), Amateur Architecture Studio ( based in Hangzhou ), and the New York City-based Steven Holl in the transformation of residential towers into " vertical communities " or " vertical cities in the sky " providing aesthetic, unusually-designed silhouettes on the skyline, comfortable private spaces and attractive public spaces.

The towers on a 2002 German stamp, based on a painting by Lyonel Feininger

Treated wastewater can be reused as drinking water, in industry ( cooling towers ), in artificial recharge of aquifers, in agriculture ( 70 % of Israel's irrigated agriculture is based on highly purified wastewater ) and in the rehabilitation of natural ecosystems ( Florida's Everglades ).

Tourism is based on the city ’ s history, with the main tourist attractions are the Great Pyramid, topped by the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios church, the San Gabriel monastery and colored towers of the total of thirty seven churches in the city.

The number of towers is engineered based on the length and strength of the rope, worst case environmental conditions, and the type of terrain traversed.

Between 1804 and 1812 the British authorities built a chain of towers based on the original Mortella tower to defend the south and east coast of England, Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey to guard against possible invasion from France, then under the rule of the Emperor Napoleon.

For a time in the 20th century, Warburg used a coat of arms based on the old greater seal, showing the walls, towers and gateway, but not the bishop.

John L. Sorenson has listed 15 cultural criteria for the hill Cumorah which are based on contextual clues from the text of the Book of Mormon: cities, towers, agriculture, metallurgy, formal political states, organized religion, idolatry, crafts, trade, writing, weaponry, astronomy, calendar systems, cement, and wheels.

The height of each of Mies's two towers is proportioned to its width and depth, though they, as well as those based on his style, are of different heights.

The elite Army of the Southern Cross was based here as well, with a headquarters consisting of a massive complex, with several large circular towers, located at the centre of the city, and by far the most important structure in North America.

KIRO ( 710 AM ) is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington on the shores of Lake Union with 2 towers on Maury Island, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum.

The complex consist mainly of two and three bed apartments within several towers and has been designed by Singapore based DP architects and also includes a full length swimming pool, an amphitheatre, a skating rink, green lawns, a club house housing a gym, sauna, jacuzzi and a squash court, amongst other facilities.

William had been with King Richard I during the building of Château Gaillard in Normandy and it would seem that the distinctive circular towers William built to defend the new keep at Clun were based on those at Gaillard.

The size of the Army forts made them ideal antenna platforms, since a large antenna could be based on the central tower and guyed from the surrounding towers.

In 2012, Scotiabank sold the tower to two Toronto based companies ( Dundee REIT and H & R REIT ), thus becoming the last of Canada's Big Banks to divest ownership of their head office towers in Toronto.

It exhibits three typical Italianate features: a prominently bracketed cornice, towers based on Italian campanile | campanili and belvedere ( structure ) | belvederi, and adjoining arched windows.