Using a weather tower built from salvaged materials, Weather Center for the Apocalypse creates a narrative based on climate change, social issues, and the future of media.
Starting as a basic L-shaped tower built from tooled ashlar dressed rubble, the castle was extended in a southerly direction by the addition of a circular tower during the first alterations in the late 16th century.
The tower, built from red sandstone, is believed to date to the late 18th century.
An hour's climb through idyllic beech forest pops me out on a summit with spectacular panoramas of the Adriatic from a tower built by the Austro-Hungarians, who held the area until the second world war, when the Italians took it.
A tower built, in Mallarmé's terms, from words not ideas.
The Continuum towers, built from 1999 to 2008 and exceeding 40 stories in height, were among the last oceanfront buildings to go up in Miami Beach before zoning laws were changed.
He said the 1,640 units in the four other towers, built from 1997, were occupied, as are 1,947 other mostly rental units at Newport.
(Their own apartment is in Turner Towers, built from 1922 to 1926; local legend says that its owner/builder, the Turner from whom the building took its name, leapt from the roof when the crash came in 1929).
There were 250 feet and 34 feet towers built from which prospective airborne troops would jump off of to simulate landing by parachute, lengthy forced marches and practice jumps from transport aircraft; to pause in the doorway of an aircraft during a practice jump resulted in an automatic failure for the candidate.
Putman subsequently received other important commissions, including interiors for the circular Wasserturm Hotel in Cologne, Germany (1990), which was converted from a water tower built in 1868, and for the Orchid Club House in Kōbe, Japan (1992).
