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Sky Tower (Wroclaw)
Sky Tower, SkyTower, Skytower, or Sky Towers may refer to: Buildings In Asia * Higashiyama Sky Tower, Nagoya, Japan * Sky Tower (Abu Dhabi) in Abu Dhabi, UAE * Sky Tower 41 in Kaminoyama, Japan * Tiger Sky Tower (formerly Carlsberg Sky Tower) in Singapore * Tuntex Sky Tower in Kaohsiung, Taiwan * Tokyo Skytree, Sumida, Tokyo, Japan In Europe * The Seat of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany * Sky Tower (Wrocław) in Wrocław, Poland * Sky Towers (Cluj Napoca) in Romania * Sky Towers (Kyiv) in Ukraine * Sky Tower (București), part of the Floreasca City Center complex in Bucharest, Romania * Sky Office Tower, Zagreb In North America * SeaWorld SkyTower, Orlando, Florida, USA * Pinnacle One Yonge (under construction), Toronto, Ontario, Canada In Oceania * Brisbane Skytower in Brisbane, Australia * Sky Tower (Auckland) in Auckland, New Zealand Engineering * Space tower, a static support compression structure, a tower into space * Space elevator, a static suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higashiyama Sky Tower
The Higashiyama Sky Tower is located in the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in the city of Nagoya, central Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... It contains observation decks and a restaurant 100 metres above ground and is a landmark of the area. External links Chikusa-ku, Nagoya Skyscrapers in Nagoya {{japan-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Office Tower
Sky Office Tower is a dual business tower, elliptically shaped, located in Zagreb, Croatia, north of the Zagrebačka Avenue, near the intersection with Zagrebačka cesta. The office tower was completed in 2012. It is one of the few high-rise construction projects in Zagreb that persisted throughout the economic crisis in 2010. The tower has 22 floors above ground and four underground floors. In 2007, the whole project was estimated to cost 76 million euros. The tower was originally planned to have a total of 26 floors, three of them underground. After the construction started, a change of plan to 29 above-ground floors was announced. This would have made the tower 108 meters high, matching Zagreb Cathedral, the tallest building in the city. The construction was halted for 6 months in 2009 due to funding problems caused by the ongoing global financial crisis. Eventually, the number of floors above ground was reduced to 22. It has a total of 706 parking space A parking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carowinds
Carowinds is a amusement park located adjacent to Interstate 77 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The park straddles the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, with a portion of the park located in Fort Mill, South Carolina. However, it has an official Charlotte address, and its business offices are located on the Charlotte side of the park. The park opened on March 31, 1973, at a cost of $70 million. It is the result of a four-year planning period spearheaded by Charlotte businessman Earl Patterson Hall. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair, Carowinds also features a water park, Carolina Harbor, which is included with park admission. The park has a Halloween event called SCarowinds and a winter event called WinterFest. History Early history Carowinds was announced on October 10, 1969, and originally planned on being a large resort which would include a Amusement park, theme park, Hotel, hotels, a shopping center, a golf course, and an National Football League, NFL stadium. The nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Fountain
A space fountain is a proposed form of an extremely tall tower extending into space. As known materials cannot support a static tower with this height, a space fountain has to be an active structure: A stream of pellets is accelerated upwards from a ground station. At the top it is deflected downwards. The necessary force for this deflection supports the station at the top and payloads going up the structure. A spacecraft could launch from the top without having to deal with the atmosphere. This could reduce the cost of placing payloads into orbit. Its largest downside is that the tower will re-enter the atmosphere if the accelerator fails and the stream stops. This risk could be reduced by several redundant streams. The lower part of a pellet stream has to be in a vacuum tube to avoid excessive drag in the atmosphere. Similar to the top station, this tube can be supported by its own system of transferring momentum from a space-bound stream to a surface-bound stream. If the tub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Elevator
A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often depicted in science fiction. The main component would be a cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. The design would permit vehicles to travel up the cable from a planetary surface, such as the Earth's, directly into orbit, without the use of large rockets. An Earth-based space elevator could not feasibly be simply a tall tower supported from below, due to the immense weight - instead it would consist of a cable with one end attached to the surface near the equator and the other end attached to a counterweight in space beyond geostationary orbit (35,786 km altitude). The competing forces of gravity, which is stronger at the lower end, and the upward centrifugal force, which is stronger at the upper end, would result in the cable being held up, under tension, and stationary over a singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Tower
Non-rocket spacelaunch refers to theoretical concepts for launch into space where much of the speed and altitude needed to achieve orbit is provided by a propulsion technique that is not subject to the limits of the rocket equation. Although all space lauches to date have been rockets, a number of alternatives to rockets have been proposed. In some systems, such as a combination launch system, skyhook, rocket sled launch, rockoon, or air launch, a portion of the total delta-v may be provided, either directly or indirectly, by using rocket propulsion. Present-day launch costs are very high – $2,500 to $25,000 per kilogram from Earth to low Earth orbit (LEO). As a result, launch costs are a large percentage of the cost of all space endeavors. If launch can be made cheaper, the total cost of space missions will be reduced. Due to the exponential nature of the rocket equation, providing even a small amount of the velocity to LEO by other means has the potential of greatly reduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Tower (Auckland)
The Sky Tower is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets within the city's CBD, it is tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast,Sky Tower Official page ''-'' making it the second tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere, surpassed by Luminary Tower in Jakarta, Indonesia. and the 28th tallest tower in the world. Since its completion in 1997 the Sky Tower has become an iconic landmark in Auckland's skyline, due to its height and design. The tower is part of the |
Brisbane Skytower
Brisbane Skytower is a skyscraper at 222 Margaret Street in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The 90-storey residential tower is Brisbane's tallest building, and the sixth tallest building in Australia. It is also the largest residential building in the southern hemisphere. Brisbane Skytower is one of two buildings in the 111+222 development; the other being a 42-storey, five-star Westin hotel at 111 Mary Street which was sold in September 2015 to the Felicity Hotel Group and now known as Mary Lane. The residential tower includes 1,138 one, two and three-bedroom apartments as well as sub-penthouse and penthouse apartments. A recreation deck, on the 89th floor, features Australia's highest infinity-edge swimming pool. An eight-level basement car park is included in the project, containing a total of 980 spaces. The project was developed by Billbergia and AMP Capital with US funds giant Invesco providing debt funding. History Two skyscrapers proposed for the site by the Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinnacle One Yonge
Pinnacle One Yonge is a mixed-use development currently under construction in Toronto, Ontario Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ..., Canada. It will consist of six skyscrapers ranging in height from 22 to 95 storeys tall. The building known as the SkyTower will be Canada's tallest building. On October 25, 2022, the developer Pinnacle International submitted an application to the City of Toronto to increase the height of the two tallest towers. The proposal will add 10 stories to SkyTower, an increase from 95 to 105 stories, increasing its height from 312 meters to 346 meters, making it the tallest building in Toronto, as well as potentially the tallest residential building in the world by floor count. The 80-story third tower would see 12 stories added, becoming 92 st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SeaWorld SkyTower
The SeaWorld SkyTower is an observation tower located in the SeaWorld Orlando theme park complex constructed in 1973 and opened in 1974. The tower is the tallest observation tower in Florida and contains a double decker rotating pod. SkyTower is lit with an array of Electronic Theater Control's LEDs as of February 2013. However the height of the tower is 400 feet (122 m) tall from the base to the top of the structure, including topping flagpole) Incidents On December 22, 2015, at the height of the Christmas travel season, the SkyTower became stuck, 200 feet up. There were about 50 people on the ride at the time, and it took two hours to get all passengers down. This was the first known incident on the ride. See also *List of tallest buildings in Orlando This list of tallest building in Orlando ranks skyscrapers in Orlando, Florida, by height. The heights of buildings includes architectural details (permanent parts) but excludes antennas. The tallest building in the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floreasca City Center
Floreasca City Center is a multi-functional center with a shopping and entertainment complex as well as two office buildings in Bucharest. Floreasca City Center consists of a center for shopping, entertainment and business. The gross area amounts to approx. with rentable area of approximately and more than 2,000 parking places. It is the tallest building in Romania, with shopping-mall, entertainment, retail and offices. Located in Floreasca, an urban district and residential area in the northeast of Bucharest, SkyTower is close to another Raiffeisen evolution project, the Oracle Tower. Construction works Funding obtained from Raiffeisen Bank International was about €95.5-million. The project was constructed in stages. Stage I : SkyTower Located between two of Bucharest's arterial roads, Calea Floreasca and Barbu Văcărescu street, SkyTower is the second office building is designed as a high-rise building with a height of . With 37 upper floors and 5 basement floors (gross flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Tower (Abu Dhabi)
Sky Tower Abu Dhabi is a 292-metre tall skyscraper with 74 floors in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is located on Al Reem Island and includes office and residential space. Construction was completed in 2010 when it was the city's largest building but has been overtaken by The Landmark since, see also Abu Dhabi skyscrapers. The tower is twinned with the neighboring Sun Tower and part of the Shams Abu Dhabi development project. The building, designed by the US firm Architectonica, ''Arquitectonica.com'' has 474 residential units. The Arabian Construction Company (ACC) was commissioned to build the tower. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
