Sometimes, reading about Paris in newspapers, magazines and on Web sites devoted to tourism, I feel the clichés piling high enough to touch the Eiffel Tower — or even the still-hideous Tour Montparnasse, which for decades has given skyscrapers a bad name here.
Anyone who can touch the rim without jumping should tower over the game, right?
It is the apartment we wake up in everyday and it is also the way that that apartment tower touches the street and shapes the skyline.
In the 17th-century artist's famous "Seaport with Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba" painted in 1648, sunlight should lightly touch a tower in the distance, but it does not.
Spies were employed to find out, and one day, just as the stranger was putting the finishing touches on the tower, men from the town crowded around the church and began to shout: "Be careful Olav, the cross is not straight" – whereupon the man, shocked at hearing his name, fell from the tower, hit the ground and died.
For many of the original investors, some of whom bought more than one share, the Empire State Building embodies romance, a treasured investment and an echo of an era when New York's rising middle class nervously put all their meager savings into a tower that touched the sky.
My pilot flew so low that we were almost touching the tips of the rock towers – it was definitely one of the coolest rides I've taken.
Covered elevated walkways allow workers to move from the train station to any one of several office towers without ever touching the street.
The tower must be tall enough to keep the blades of the windmill from touching the ground as they spin.
What visitors remember after leaving are the classic touches -- like the towering old beams of Douglas fir salvaged from a lumber mill, then sanded and rubbed to a satiny finish and braced across the ceilings with iron bands.
