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  2. ArcelorMittal Orbit - Wikipedia

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    ArcelorMittal Orbit. The ArcelorMittal Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or its original name, Orbit) is a 114.5-metre (376-foot) sculpture and observation tower in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, [3] and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of ...

  3. Trylon and Perisphere - Wikipedia

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    The Trylon and Perisphere were two monumental modernistic structures designed by architects Wallace Harrison and J. Andre Fouilhoux that were together known as the Theme Center of the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Perisphere was a tremendous sphere, 180 feet (55 m) in diameter, connected to the 610-foot (190 m) spire-shaped Trylon by what was ...

  4. Times Square (Neuhaus) - Wikipedia

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    Times Square, often referred to as the hum[ 1] or the Times Square Hum, [ 2] is a permanent sound art installation created by Max Neuhaus in Times Square in New York City. Originally installed in 1977, it was removed in 1992 and reinstalled in 2002. It is maintained by the Dia Art Foundation, who consider it one of the twelve locations and ...

  5. Watts Towers - Wikipedia

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    The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo[ 5] ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States.

  6. Aspire (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Aspire is a type of hyperboloid structure, designed by Ken Shuttleworth and Make Architects. [5] It consists of an 8 m (26 ft) high concrete foundation and 52 m (171 ft) high red and orange steel tower. The sculpture weighs 854 tonnes, and cost £800,000, [6] which was donated by an anonymous benefactor. [7]

  7. Seattle Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Seattle Tower, originally known as the Northern Life Tower, is a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. The building is located on 1218 Third Avenue and is known as Seattle's first art-deco tower. [4] Its distinctive, ziggurat exterior is clad in 33 shades of brick designed to effect a gradient which lightens from the bottom ...

  8. Fazlur Rahman Khan - Wikipedia

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    A sculpture honoring Fazlur Khan at the Willis Tower. In 1955, employed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), he began working in Chicago. He was made a partner in 1966. He worked the rest of his life side by side with fellow architect Bruce Graham. [18]

  9. Netherlands Carillon - Wikipedia

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    The Netherlands Carillon is a 127-foot (39-m) tall campanile housing a 53-bell carillon located in Arlington County, Virginia.The instrument and tower were given in the 1950s "From the People of the Netherlands to the People of the United States of America" to thank the United States for its contributions to the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and for its economic aid in the years after.

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