Bitexco Financial Tower is a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City‚ Vietnam‚ owned by Bitexco Group‚ a Vietnamese company. With 68 floors above ground and three basements‚ the building has a height of 262.5 metres (861 ft)‚ making it the 124th tallest building in the world. The tower was made by the French company AREP and architects J.M. Duthilleul‚ E. Tricaud and Carlos Zapata. World renowned Ecuadorian architect Carlos Zapata‚ the creative mastermind behind Bitexco Financial Tower‚ drew inspiration for
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Task one Alton towers key customer market segments: Alton towers target a wide range of customers as they have a lot to offer for different people‚ gender doesn’t come into this I don’t think as boys and girls both enjoy rides. They target families as they cant just target children as children cant get all the way to Alton towers and pay for it as well‚ they try and draw the parents in as they will be paying for the children. Also Alton towers have a big target market on ‘thrill seekers’ that’s
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Of the Great Plains in Wyoming‚ Devils Tower is an “upstanding” feature. It is located on the northwestern part of the Black Hills-Bear Lodge uplift‚ which is a mountainous region. During the Laramide Orogeny‚ about 60 million years ago‚ this region formed. The process of the formation of mountains is called an orogeny. Rocky Mountain ranges‚ such as the Bighorn Mountains and Uinta Mountains were formed by the Laramide Orogeny. Devil Tower stands 867 feet from base to summit‚ and above sea level
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braking news Construction of Beowulf Tower As the last wish of our late beloved lord Beowulf‚ construction of the Beowulf tower has began. The tower will built in the place as the dragon’s tower‚ that was demolished last month. One of Beowulf’s famous last words were “ ... build it here‚ at the waters edge‚high on this spit of land so sailors can see this tower‚ and remember my name and call it Beowulf’s tower.”(lines 1027-103) So to honor this request the tower will be built high until it touches
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LEANING TOWER OF PISA The tower in Pisa‚ Italy‚ is famous simply because it leans. Although the tower is famous because it leans‚ it is an outstanding example of Romanesque architecture‚ and would probably be famous‚ even if it didn’t lean. The height of the tower is 55.86 m (183.27 ft) from the ground on the lowest side and 56.70 m (186.02 ft) on the highest side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 m (13.42 ft) and at the top 2.48 m (8.14 ft). Its weight is estimated at 14‚500 metric
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Bialystok Viewing Tower Europe - Poland - Bialystok Designer(s): Krzysztof Butrym Bialystok Technical University Bialystok is one of the few cities which will allow you to travel the distance from the outskirts of the town to its centre and being on its ‘green’ areas at the same time. The square surrounding the tower‚ thanks to its reconstruction and re-function will link the separate parks (pleasure grounds) together. In a consequence of this link‚ the traffic will get moved towards the bypasses
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When the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11‚ 2001‚ they made a sound heard around New York as a roar‚ or distant thunder. The South Tower was the first to go. Its upper floors tilted briefly before dropping‚ and driving the building straight down to the ground. Many people died‚ and many others were lucky enough to make it out alive. Twenty-nine minutes later the North Tower collapsed with much the same result as the first. The two symbols of America’s economy were gone‚ and not even the
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Tower Crane Introduction and function of Tower Crane Cranes are the commonly used in the construction industry and in the manufacturing of heavy equipments. Construction cranes are either fixed to the ground or mounted on a purpose-built vehicle. On the basis of their structure and functions cranes are divided into a tower or a derrick which is equipped with cables and pulleys that are used to lift or lower materials. Tower cranes are fixed to the ground‚ which helps to them to attain height
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Blaise Main Leaning Tower of Pisa Mrs. Carlson The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a freestanding bell tower located at the Cathedral Square in Pisa‚ Italy. It was built in three different stages over 177 year period. There has been controversy about the real identity of the architect for many years. Construction on the first floor began in August of 1173. Five years later‚ while building the third floor
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the Twin Towers” was written in 2002 by Jean Baudrillard‚ a French twentieth century philosopher and sociologist and published in the French newspaper Le Monde on the one-year anniversary of 9/11. Baudrillard delves into many separate subjects in this essay such as‚ the underlying symbolism of events in contrast to non-events‚ the breakdown of a singular dominant world player (the West‚ especially the US)‚ and the effect of media imagery in the reporting of world events. The Twin Towers attack‚ taken
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