Sentence examples for core of the tower from inspiring English sources

Notably, one piece is one of the huge steel columns that formed the core of the tower, which housed the elevator shafts and the stairwells.

They lashed it around three tons of iron rods that had been used to hold the concrete forms for the central core of the tower.

Keil watches as the dragon continues on to the core of the tower, then a blinding light is seen and the tower explodes.

The core of the towers housed the elevator and utility shafts, restrooms, three stairwells, and other support spaces.

The core of the north tower, hit dead center by the first plane, held out the longest, because the undamaged columns on its outer edges acted like the four legs of a table.

Such care has been given to structural subtleties that extra steel bracing, added to two crucial columns in the core of the south tower to help support an enormous bank vault on the 97th floor, have been included in the model.

Some contractors working at the site have said it will take months for heavy machinery to rip through the fields of debris that rippled out from the center core of the collapsed towers.

The concrete core of the Petronas Towers may have remained intact under a similar crash and provided a better escape route than the gypsum-walled stairwells of the World Trade Center.

One corner of the tower is sliced away to reveal a cylindrical core of shingled zinc that evokes the image of a turret or silo.

Before carrying out the basement construction using a top-down method, the first major work below ground was to construct the central core of the main building tower, the foundation of which rested on bedrock about -28m from ground level.

The core of each tower was a rectangular area 87 by 135 feet (27 by 41 m), and contained 47 steel columns running from the bedrock to the top of the tower.