8 Tower Becoming Symbol or Logo

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1.Tower of Eiffel (Paris, FRANCE)

La Tour Eiffel or Eifel Tower is the most prominent building in the city of Paris are the Champ de Mars field in the river Seine and is known as the symbol of France. The Eiffel Tower was built as an entrance l'Exposition Universelle of 1889, a World's Fair to coincide with 100 years of the French Revolution. Construction of the tower began in 1887, was inaugurated March 31, 1889 and opened to the public on May 6. Named after its designer, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
tower has a height of 300 meters with about 7,300 tons of structural steel. The wind can cause the tower was swaying as much as 6-7 cm and the heat can cause the top of the tower up to 18 cm away from the sun. On it there is a television antenna height of 24 m.Eiffel Tower held the record for the tallest building for 40 years.



2.Tower of Pisa (Pisa, ITALY)


Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente at Pisa or abbreviated Torre di Pisa) is the campanile or bell tower of the cathedral in Pisa, Italy. 
Tower of Pisa is actually made ​​to stand vertically like a bell tower in general, but began leaning shortly after construction began in August 1173. It is situated behind the cathedral and is the third building Campo dei Miracoli (Field rainbow) city of Pisa.
height of the tower is 55.86 m from the lowest ground level and 56.70 m above the highest ground. Width of the wall below it reached 4.09 m and 2.48 m at the top. Its weight is estimated at 14,500 tonnes. Tower of Pisa has 294 steps. With the tower, sector revenues due to the economy was growing attraction 



3.Burj Khalifa (Dubai, UAE)


Burj Khalifa (Arabic for "Tower Khalifa '), formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates who inaugurated the opening on January 4, 2010. The height of this skyscraper is 828 meters (2717 feet). [3] The
Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world ever made ​​by man. Starting from passing the height of Taipei 101 as the tallest building in the world on July 21, 2007. On 12 September 2007, the height of the Burj Khalifa made ​​it past the CN Tower as a structure-free (without support), the highest in the world and on 7 April 2008 the tallest structure in the world of the KVLY-TV tower in Blanchard, North Dakota, United States successfully passed . The tallest structure ever built by man, the Warsaw Radio Tower 645.4 m (2120 feet) was made ​​in 1974 (but collapsed during renovations in 1991) successfully passed on 1 September 2008. 



4.CN Tower (Toronto, Canada)


is the CN Tower tallest tower in the world (would be second in the world, if the Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower is completed), the height 553.33 meters. The tower is located in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is regarded as an icon of the city (coordinates: 43 ° 38'33 .24 "N, 79 ° 23'13 .7" BB). CN Tower is visited by over two million people annually.The tower was built in 1973.
CN stands for Canadian National Railway official (Canadian National Railway), but after the company decided to invest in an asset mecabut railway line items that are not a core business in the steps leading to the privatization of the company in 1995, the CN Tower were transferred to the Canada Lands Company (CLC), a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Because the city of Toronto residents want to retain the name CN Tower, the abbreviation CN has now transformed into Canada's National means and not the original name, the Canadian National. 



5.Berliner Fernsehturm (Berlin, Germany)


Fernsehturm Berlin (which in German means Berlin Television Tower) is a tower Television is located in the center of Berlin, Germany. This tower is one of the famous landmarks in Berlin, and is located very close to the Alexanderplatz, the tower was built between 1965 and 1969 by the German Democratic Republic. By GDR officials this tower as a symbol of the city of Berlin, until now, because the tower can be seen from the central district and the suburbs of Berlin.
Altitude tower reaches 365 meters (1198 feet), but increased to 368 meters (1207 feet) after the tower fitted with an antenna. Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest freestanding tower in Europe, after the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, and Kiev TV Tower and TV Tower Riga. 



6.Tower of Petronas (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)


PETRONAS Towers are two twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which was the tallest building in the world is seen from a high main entrance to the structural top.
tower was designed by Adamson Associates Architects, Canada along with Cesar Pelli of Cesar Pelli of Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects United States [1] which is built as high as 88 floors in 1998 with interior design that reflects the deep-rooted culture of Islam in Malaysia. On October 17, 2003, Taipei 101 took the record of the twin towers of the Petronas Twin Towers ini.Tetapi still holds the title of world's tallest twin towers. 



7.Tower of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)


Tokyo Tower (東京タワーTokyo Tower?) is a tower in Shiba Park , Tokyo, Japan. Overall height of 332.6 m and is building the world's tallest steel tower that stood alone on the ground. [1] Based on aviation safety regulations, the tower is painted international orange with white in some places. Lower surrounding buildings, so the Tokyo Tower can be seen from various locations in the city center.
famed Tokyo Tower as a symbol of the city of Tokyo and attraction rather than its function as analog TV transmitter tower antenna (UHF / VHF), local digital TV and FM radio. In addition, the train company East Japan Railway use this tower to put a radio antenna train emergency systems, and a number of measuring instruments installed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Environment.
 

8.  MONAS (Indonesia)


National Monument or popularly abbreviated with Monas monument or memorial is at 132 meters (433 feet), which was established to commemorate the resistance and struggle of the people of Indonesia to win independence from the colonial Dutch East Indies.Construction of the monument began on August 17, 1961 under the direction of President Sukarno, and was opened to the public on July 12, 1975. This monument was crowned flame sheet coated gold symbolizes the fighting spirit burning.