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Rialto Tower is situated in the heart of Melbourne city. It offers fantastic views across the city and surrounding landscape, and is a must do when visiting Melbourne.The building was officially opened in October 1986 and has retained an equally appealing status with more-recently completed landmark buildings. Rialto Tower is the tallest office building in the Southern Hemisphere, and also boasts numerous other amazing facts:
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This Pyongyang building is not actually a government ministry or a place of terror, but the Yu-kyung hotel. In a strange coincidence, it is the same height as the building in 1984 and contains the same number of rooms. Construction of the building began in 1987 and was abandoned four years later. Some people say that faulty engineering has left it structurally unsound, and visitors are not allowed to approach it up close.

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The Eiffel Tower, an immense stucture of exposed latticework supports made
of iron, was erected for the Paris Exposition of 1889. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of England) officiated at the ceremonial opening. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design competition, one was unanimously chosen, a radical creation from the French structural engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (b. Dec. 15, 1832, d. Dec. 28, 1923), who was assisted in the design by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, and architect Stephen Sauvestre.
However, the controversial tower elicited some strong reactions, and a petition of 300 names — including those of Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier (architect of the Opéra Garnier), and Dumas the Younger — was presented to the city government, protesting its construction. The petition read, “We, the writers, painters, sculptors, architects and lovers of the beauty of Paris, do protest with all our vigour and all our indignation, in the name of French taste and endangered French art and history, against the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.”
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While the pride of Malmoe city currently is the high-rise named Turning Tower designed by Santiago Calatrava Barcelona has got its Torre Agbar possessing even more artistic values for an architectural landmark. As the name indicates torre meaning tower and agbar being composed of agua for water and bar for Bar(celona) Torre Agbar is the new headquarter of Aguas de Barcelona, the water supply of this proud Catalan metropolis.
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