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Towers: Modern

Thumbnail Image Image-GoddenF13 Landmark Tower. Typical modern tower, similar in height to the Pisa Campanile. The chief feature of the tower is the revolving restaurant on top. (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Thumbnail Image Image-GoddenF14 Space Needle. Built for the Seattle World Fair in 1962, the tower is 600 ft. high. Looking up from the base of the tower, this image shows two of the three curved legs, the minimum width of the tower at two-thirds height, and the revolving restaurant on top. Each leg is made of two 3-sided tubes, each tube consisting of three 36-in. deep wide-flange steel beams welded flange-to-flange. (Seattle, Washington)
Thumbnail Image Image-GoddenF15 Television tower constructed in prestressed concrete, has a height of 217 m. and a revolving restaurant on top. The diameter of the tower at the base is 10.8 m. with a concrete wall thickness of 60 cm. (Stuttgart, Germany)

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