Sentence examples for tower standing from inspiring English sources

Back in 2000, you could still glimpse Canary Wharf's original tower, standing in solitary state.

Now a new design is conceived as a stoical nine-story tower standing alongside the existing landmark.

It was noon on July 1 when we entered the clearing of Mushara water hole, the tower standing as a grand fortress against a glistening pan.

"It is no more or no less than building a small city," said Ralf Kunkel, spokesman for Berlin airports, the skeleton of the 236-foot-high control tower standing in the background.

And in a particularly perverse gesture of "facadism" — a favorite tactic of bureaucrats and developers in which a few architectural elements are preserved while the rest of a structure is bulldozed — it would leave the station's main hall and tower standing like some architectural amputee.

"As the waves and weather continue their indiscriminate assault on the Cornish coast, every effort is being made to keep the clock tower standing".

KELLY & GRUZEN (1965) These apartment towers, standing on the edge of Chinatown, are classic b?n brut.

It will crown the planned "cluster" of towers, standing right between the Cheesegrater and the Gherkin.

Its two gothic towers standing as gateways at either end, the Brooklyn Bridge stretches almost 487m across the East River.

As the ISIS invaders approached, they could make out the dam's four towers, standing over a wide, squat structure that looks like a brutalist mausoleum.

Officials initially planned to leave the towers standing and reconfigure the apartments, by eliminating some units to create bigger living rooms and bathrooms, but those plans were scrapped by the authority's new leadership because demolition made better financial sense.