Written by admin on 18 May 2012
Broadcasting Tower
Image by Vaidas M
Broadcasting tower is a new high-rise student accommodation building in Leeds city centre. One of its most interesting features is the COR-TEN cladding, which, upon exposure to weather, develops a rust-like layer, protecting it from any more corrosion.
Most of the people I know are not very fond of how the tower looks, but it’s hard to deny that its interesting facade and unusual angular shapes make it a very suitable object for photography 
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Written by admin on 17 May 2012
Trellick Tower
Image by Mark Ramsay
Trellick Tower is a 31-storey block of flats in North Kensington, London, England.It was designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ernő Goldfinger, after a commission from the Greater London Council in 1966, and completed in 1972. It is a Grade II* listed building and is 98 metres (322 ft) tall (120 metres (394 ft) including the communications mast). Read on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellick_Tower
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Written by admin on 17 May 2012
Tinsley towers twilight
Image by phill.d
Tinsley cooling towers Sheffield, captured in the early hours of the night before demolition. Tinsley towers were part of the Blackburn Meadows power station and were built in 1938, they are the oldest surviving hyperbolic Cooling Towers in the U.K. The towers are well known landmarks and known as the salt and pepper pot.
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Tags: Tinsley, Towers, twilight.
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Written by admin on 16 May 2012
Broadway Tower, Broadway, Worcestershire, UK.
Image by Mike Cattell
Broadway Tower was the brainchild of the great 18th Century landscape designer, Capability Brown. His vision was carried out for George William 6th Earl of Coventry with the help of renowned architect James Wyatt and completed in 1798.
The location for the Tower was wisely chosen, a dramatic outlook on a pre-medieval trading route and beacon hill.
Wyatt designed his "Saxon Tower" as an eccentric amalgamation of architectural components ranging from turrets, battlements and gargoyles to balconies.
Throughout the centuries, Broadway Tower has always inspired and with this inspiration came a large number of uses, such as home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, perhaps the greatest collector of manuscripts and books in history.
Members of the Arts and Crafts movement used Broadway Tower as a holiday retreat. Pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones were frequent visitors. Indeed, it was Broadway and the Tower that sparked Morris’ campaign for the preservation of historic monuments.
The Royal Observer Corps used the unique vantage point to track enemy planes over England during the world wars of the 20th Century and later constructed a nuclear bunker to report nuclear attacks during the "Cold War".
The uses of Broadway Tower over the years were so varied and numerous that graphic displays on three floors have been dedicated to the colourful past of the building.
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Written by admin on 15 May 2012
Broadcasting Tower
Image by Vaidas M
Broadcasting tower is a new high-rise student accommodation building in Leeds city centre. One of its most interesting features is the COR-TEN cladding, which, upon exposure to weather, develops a rust-like layer, protecting it from any more corrosion.
Most of the people I know are not very fond of how the tower looks, but it’s hard to deny that its interesting facade and unusual angular shapes make it a very suitable object for photography
Tags: Broadcasting, Tower
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Written by admin on 15 May 2012
The Rosenkrantz Tower. Bergen.
Image by Peer.Gynt
The Rosenkrantz Tower (Norwegian:Rosenkrantztårnet) is one of the most prominent buildings of Bergenhus fortress. The tower derives its name from governor Erik Rosenkrantz. It was during his reign (1559–1568) that the tower received its present shape and structure. The oldest part of the building, however, is made up of a medieval tower, known as the "Keep by the Sea", built by king Magnus the Lawmender in the 1270s as part of the royal castle in Bergen. The keep was slightly modified c. 1520, then extensively modified and expanded in the 1560s by Scottish stonemasons and architects in the service of Erik Rosenkrantz to attain its present form. Rosenkrantz’ building contained dungeons on the ground floor, residential rooms for the governor higher up, and positions for cannons on the top floor. In the 1740s, the tower was converted to a magazine for gunpowder, a function it served until the 1930s. The whole building has been open to the general public since 1966. Today, the tower serves primarily as a tourist attraction.
Wikipedia
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Written by admin on 14 May 2012
Clock Tower
Image by mischiru
The Clock Tower is a landmark in Hong Kong. It is located on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon Station on the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Officially named Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower, it is usually referred to as the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower for its location.
Built out of red bricks and granite, the Clock Tower peaks at 44 metres, and is topped by a 7-metre lightning rod. The top of the tower can be reached by a wooden staircase located within. The interior of Clock Tower had previously been open for visit, but is currently closed for maintenance. The clock tower is located near Victoria Harbour at the foot of Salisbury Road. Another landmark, the Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier, is located nearby.
The tower has been listed as a declared monument in Hong Kong since 1990.
(via wikipedia.org)
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Written by admin on 13 May 2012
The Tower lit up at Castle Hill, Huddersfield
Image by Adrian S Jones
Victoria Tower at Castle Hill, Huddersfield. Taken while the tower was lit up as part of the Kirklees Festival of Light.
This is actually three separate exposures taken on a tripod stood in the car park and merged in GIMP followed by quite a bit of editing. The result is a bit rough around the edges but not too bad as long as you don’t look too closely.
I spent a while waiting for them to turn the lights on as I wanted to catch it before it was totally dark. By the time they turned them on my hands were numb with the cold and I struggled pressing the shutter release!
If anyone is interested, the original photos used to produce this are:
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This first one was the most difficult to add in as it’s a different size and orientation but it’s the only shot I got showing the detail of the lit up face with the same colour lighting.
Tags: Castle, Hill, Huddersfield, Tower
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Written by admin on 11 May 2012
Buffalo Tower 1337-14 hellgrau pic1
Image by worldwind0
Buffalo Tower 1337-14 hellgrau
(11cm hoch)
Tags: 133714, Buffalo, hellgrau, pic1, Tower
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Written by admin on 10 May 2012
Citrus Tower and Meadow – Clermont Florida
Image by Stacy Young
The Citrus Tower has been an icon and landmark since it was built in the 1950′s, when Citrus was the main industry here instead of tourism, decades before Disney was even a dream.
Here’s an article about the history of the Citrus Tower.
www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/sfl-citrustower,0, 584167.story
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