Towers - TV, Radio and Observation Towers
When we speak of the "world's tallest structures," we're usually describing telecommunications and observation towers.
Tower
A circular, square, or octagonal vertical structure higher than the surrounding structures that is usually part of an existing building and is created either for extra defense or for another specific purpose such as a clock tower or a bell ...
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Tower
A building or part of a building that is exceptionally high in proportion to its width and length ...
tower
a building or structure, usually round or square in plan and characteristically taller than its diameter.
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TOWER A tall structure,either square or round in shape, rising higher than the rest of the building.
TRACERY WINDOW A pointed arch window filled with curving stone mullions often seen on Gothic Revival style buildings.
Tower-house. A tall, fortified house which was quite common from the 11th to the 13th century. It provided protection and defense for the head of important families and his supporters against enemies.
Bell Tower
A tower where the church bells were installed. This could be separate from the church, or, more usually, attached. Sometimes called a campanile.
Drum Tower - A large, circular, low, squat tower built into a wall.
Drystone - Unmortared masonry.
Dungeon - The jail, usually found in one of the towers.
drum-tower : A large, circular tower, usually low and squat.
drystone : Unmortared masonry.
eave : the edge of a roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building.
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Towers were an important feature of Romanesque churches and a great number of them are still standing.
Lantern tower - A tall lantern, often over the crossing af a church, e.g. Canterbury Cathedral.
Latin cross - A cross with three short arms and long arm.
Towers and other projections above the roofline enhance the vertical emphasis of this style, which was popularized by Hollywood movies of the 1930s.
tower - a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
steeple
noun spire, tower, belfry The church had a steeple, a bell tower and a clock.
Towers : This is a feature that is found on many churches, they are usually found on the top of a building and they go up higher than the roof, they may be small rooms, or just open balconys to look out from.
tower, turret or other construction that projects out from a wall length or commonly found projecting from the corner junction of two walls, that allows defenders to both see and fire upon the ground in front of the walls
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Towers
belvedere - A tower or turret built for the purpose of giving a view.
campanile - bell tower ...
Tower: A tall structure constructed of either timber or stone and used for the purpose of defence, which varied in design depending on the defensive system used, the available materials and skilled labour.
A tower, primarily ornamental, that also functions in Gothic architecture to give additional weight to a buttress or a pier.
Tomb towers were generally reserved for rulers or prominent local princes and were probably a continuation of pre-Islamic Iranian practices.
Peel tower
- a name given to a defensive tower in and around the Scottish borders (pile).
Drum Tower: a round tower built into a wall
Dungeon: the jail, usually found in one of the towers
Enceinte: an enclosing wall, usually exterior, of a fortified place ...
BELL TOWER
A tall vertical structure which contains bells; a bell tower is a variety of campanario (see below).
Mission San Gabriel ...
Gabled Towers, in architecture, are those towers which are finished with gables instead of parapets, as at Sompting, Sussex. Many of the German Romanesque towers are gabled.
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E-plan tower house - tower house with a main block and at least two wings at right angles, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Earthwork - fortification made of earth mounds, banks and ditches.
Eaves - the overhanging edge of a roof.
Lantern tower : An extended tower or watch house illuminated in its uppermost windows.
Net vault : A vault constructed of intersecting ribs which give the impression of a web or net.
Oculus : A circular or eye shaped window.
A small tower, usually projecting out from the corner of a structure. Used extensively in Victorian and Chateauesque style homes.
Vaulted/Cathedral Ceiling ...
circular tower usually offset with candle-snuffer peaked roof
often includes prominent projecting or eyebrow dormers
shaped verandah ...
corbeled towers:
a tower that is stepped outward and upward from a vertical wall
cornice:
a horizontal molded projection that crowns or competes a building or wall ...
keep: the tower or innermost stronghold of a medieval castle.
key: the central voussoir, sometimes decorated, at the crown of an arch.
lancet: a narrow pointed window, much used in 13th-century Gothic.
cupola - small tower raised above the roof, also called a belvedere
dentils - small, oblong blocks spaced in a band to decorate a cornice ...
turret A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
volute A carved spiral form in classical architecture; often used in pairs as in the capitals of Ionic columns.
voussoir A wedge-shaped component of an arch.
DONJON: A great tower in a castle; a keep.
DRAWBRIDGE: A movable bridge. Early drawbridges were removed horizontally like a gangway.
FOSSE: A ditch.
Turret
A small tower, usually starting at some distance from the ground, attached to a building such as a castle or fortress.
Tuscan Order
A Roman order resembling the Doric, but with a base and an unfluted shaft.
Fire Tower - An enclosed staircase which can only be approached from the various floor through landing or lobbies separated from both the floor areas and the staircase by fire resistance doors, and open to the outer air.
a tall, slender tower attached to a mosque, from which the muezzin calls the Muslim faithful to prayer.
Minbar
a pulpit from which a Muslim (Islamic) imam addresses a congregation in a ja—mi' mosque.
Turret - A small tower, often at the corner of a building. Common in Queen Anne Styles among others. A turret is a smaller structure while a tower begins at ground level.
Building: Eiffel Tower
Architect: Gustave Eiffel
Date: 1887-89
Exterior view #1 from beneath
Exterior view #2 from beneath
Exterior view #3 from beneath
Exterior view near base ...
belvedere - a tower or turret with an open porch, built either for the sake of the view or that of its appearance.
blind arch - an arch that does not contain an opening for a window or door but is set against or indented within a wall.
clocher A belltower on a church (from the French cloche, or bell).
coffer A recessed decorative panel in a ceiling, vault, or dome. Such a boring word, really. see lacunar ...
CAMPANILE Bell tower originating in Italy and favoured in Canadian villas in the mid 19th century.
(Illustration from A.J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, 1850, showing a villa in the Italian style incorporating a campanile) ...
Bastion: A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable. Batter: A sloping part of a curtain wall.
Access Tower - a portable scaffold that allows quick and cheap access to high areas.
Aggregate - broken stone, gravel or sand used with cement to form concrete. Aggregates may be coarse or fine and are often used in the construction of "soakaways".
Typically it takes the form of large louvers which direct the sound of church bells from a bell tower toward the ground. abacus Rectangular strip running along the top of a capital, sometimes decoratively carved.
in which walls, posts, columns, or arcades support the weight of the ceilings and upper floors METOPE: the square space between two triglyphs in the frieze of a Doric order; it may be carved or be left plain MINARET: a tall, usually slender tower or ...
Photo taken of two "tube" buildings, or modern "glass box" office towers, of the same genre as the late World Trade Center towers.
13. Fresno, CA. County Courthouse.
14. Riverside, CA. Downtown area.
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The cathedral of Paris was begun in 1163 with the choir, and completed in 1235 with the raising of the western towers.
campanile A bell tower usually not actually attached to a church; also, lofty towers that form parts of buildings. cantilever A horizontal projection, such as a balcony or beam, supported at one end only.
round (sometimes square) towers
decorated verge boards
trusses in gables
metal roof cresting
broken pediment on windows
window: large pane surrounded by smaller panes or blank lower pane with patterned pane above
dominant decorative chimney ...
A pitched roof used on a tower.Sail domeA square dome or vault of one continuous curve with the same diameter as the diagonal of the square, so that it rises from pendentives between arches.
In Belgium the series of grand civic halls, some with tall belfried towers, ...
As for the architecture, these temples can take the form of a storied tower, or, more rarely, a upturned bowl. As the centuries passed, however, the shape of these temples took new forms.
1134: In this same year, primarily at Chartres, men began, with their own shoulders, to drag the wagons loaded with stone, wood, grain, and other materials to the workshop of the churchm whose towers were then rising.
With the exception of the western facade, the exterior of the Gothic cathedral, with its towering buttresses and batteries of winglike fliers, is essentially an exoskeleton designed for the support of the vaults.
Chamber or stage in a tower where bells are hung.
BOND
The way in which brick courses are laid:
Header: brick laid so that the end only appears on the face of the wall. Stretcher: brick laid so that the side only appears on the face of the wall.
In the hands of its most gifted exponents, such as Mies, the International Style was particularly well suited to large metropolitan apartment and office towers.
Italian Villa: The Italian Villa house differs from other Italianate houses by having a tower, typically of square cross-section, as the tallest part of the house.
These picturesque country cottages are distinguished by pointed arched windows which are combined with towers, steep gable roofs, lacy bargeboard, verandas, and bay and oriel windows.
Towers (round, square, polygonal), balconies, angled bay windows
Spindle work
Oriel windows
Monumental chimneys
Gabled roofs
Pedimented entrances
Varied and ornate applied detailing
Multiple paint colors
Front gardens with wooden fences ...
Second story recessed porches were sometimes placed in gables or towers. Towers were round, square or polygonal and most often situated at one front corner.
Example 1: The New Building in Vienna, Austria miradorA Mirador, from the Spanish mirar=to look, is room or tower, usually on the edge of a garden, from which there is a good view ( a mirador is similar to a Belvedere).
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