A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages, especially in mountainous or limited access areas, in order to command and defend strategic points with reduced forces.At the same time, they were also used as an aristocrat's residence, around which a castle town was …

Tor House and Hawk Tower are buildings in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States.They were the home of poet Robinson Jeffers and family from 1919 to 1999.. The two structures, often referred to jointly as Tor House, are generally believed to have played a crucial role in the development of Robinson Jeffers as a poet, and have inspired many a visitor; for example, …

La Coit Tower est une tour située à San Francisco en Californie.Construite en style Art déco, elle est inaugurée en 1933.Elle a été bâtie selon les vœux de Lillie Hitchcock Coit (en), pour honorer les pompiers de la ville. Elle a été dessinée par les architectes Arthur Brown Jr. et Henry Howard. Peintures murales. Cette tour de 64 mètres a été inaugurée en 1933.

The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is the 16th trump or Major Arcana card in most Italian-suited Tarot decks. It has been used in Tarot cards since the 15th century as well as in divination since the mid-19th century. History. The Belgian …

Lotus Tower (Sinhala: නෙලුම් කුලුන; Tamil: தாமரைக் கோபுரம்), also referred to as Colombo Lotus Tower, is a tower 350 m (1,150 ft) high, located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It has been called a symbolic landmark of Sri Lanka. As of 2019, the tower is the tallest self-supported structure in South Asia; the second tallest structure in South Asia after ...

Tower Bridge is a drawbridge in London.It crosses the River Thames near the Tower of London.It allows ships through the bridge deck when is raised at an angle in the centre. The north side of the bridge is Tower Hill, and the south side of the bridge comes down into Bermondsey, an area in Southwark.Tower Bridge is far more visible than London Bridge, which people often mistake it …

The First Interstate Tower fire was a high-rise fire that occurred on May 4, 1988, at the First Interstate Tower (now Aon Center) in Los Angeles, California, a 62-story, 860 foot (260 m) skyscraper, then the tallest building in the city.The fire destroyed five floors of the building, injured 40 people, and caused the death of a maintenance worker, when the elevator he was riding …

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The Umeda Sky Building (梅田スカイビル, Umeda Sukai Biru) is the nineteenth-tallest building in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center. It is located in Umeda district of Kita-ku, Osaka.

The Gench-Ogluev House (Russian: Дом Генч-Оглуева, tr. Dom Gench-Oglueva) is a historic house in the Leninsky District [] of Rostov-on-Don, Russia.The house is located at 68 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, at the intersection of Bolshaya Sadovaya Street and Semashko Lane [], directly opposite the Rostov-on-Don City hall.The building has the status of an object of cultural …