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Far above the maddening crowds, AMP Tower (or Centre point, as it is called by locals) has 360 degrees of Sydney’s best views. It takes just 40 seconds for the double-decker lifts to reach the 304-metre summit, where you can take advantage of free guided tours. Or, for a real treat, dine out on the view, in the a la carte or buffet-style revolving restaurants. The Sydney AMP Tower, often referred to as the Sydney Centre point, is located in Sydney’s Central Business District and is one of Sydney’s most spectacular landmarks, featuring a popular observation deck.

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If you go to Kuwait don’t miss to visit the Kuwait Towers. The Towers are located on Arabian Guilf. They are one of tha most famous attractions in the State of Kuwait.The Monuments were designed by a Swedish group and were built in 1975.
On the inside things are less retro-futuristic, the tallest of the three contains a restaurant and a cafeteria alongside a revolving observation deck. The remaining sphere has a more practical use, acting as a water reservoir which supplies the businesses and residences of the city below. The other sphere-less spike, the minor tower, helps to illuminate its taller siblings.
The highest point is 120 meters.Full rotation every half an hour.From on the top you can view the great area surrounding the towers.
Working Time if from 9:00 a.m. to 23:30 p.m.

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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One of New Zealand’s most exhilarating and spectacular tourist attractions.
The Auckland City Sky Tower is the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere at 328 metres. Located in the heart of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. With picturesque views from the tower, come in and enjoy one of SKY CITY’s restaurants and bars. There’s something to suit everyone’s taste.

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The “105 Building” is one of the boldest buildings in Pyongyang. From a distance, it is a dreadful, if awe-inspiring piece of architecture. It reminds one of the following passage from George Orwell’s book, 1984:The Ministry of Trutha Minitrue, in Newspeakwas startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air…The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

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.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the world’s most famous construction mistake. The architect, Bonanno Pisano,
found his bell tower starting to lean almost immediately after he began to build it. And the lean kept increasing through the centuries, a tourist bonanza for Pisa, that would end if the tower leaned too far and fell.
This picture was taken in 1994, prior to a major engineering effort to stabilize the tower and reduce the lean by 10%. The tower was also closed to visitors. I had climbed it back in 1986, great fun, but disorienting.

Why the lean?

The tower is built on unsuitable ground for such a heavy and tall building. It is only about 6 feet above sea level and built on a riverbed. The underlying ground is made up of layers of sand and clay. The layers are not even and the weight of the building has compressed them. Because the layers are not even, as the ground has compressed, it has sunk more in some places than others.

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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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