12 Lookout Towers to Protect the Realm

Lookout tower are often more spectacular pieces of computer architecture than grandiloquent buildings because they only have a single floor – the top one . This have in mind that they can be very pinched and the design is all abouta dramatic stairway . Here are some of our pet examples , inadvertent architectural stone , like mini Eiffel Towers used for watching everything from wood fires to smugglers .

Ville Hara, Korkeasaari Lookout Tower

locate on a site eighteen metre above ocean , with outstanding views of the sea and the metropolis of Helsinki , the tugboat is a delicately transparent watershed of Korkeasaari Island ..

Killesberg tower, Germany

establish in 1889 Helsinki ’s Korkeasaari Zoo , located on Korkeasaari Island , has animate being from Finland and around the universe housed in large raw enclosures .

Landesgartenschau Wismar, Germany

Completed in 2000 the Killesberg tug is a 40 m high-pitched observation towboat , a cable television - stayed mental synthesis designed by Jörg Schlaich .

Double Helix Look Out Tower. Kings Park. Perth.

An interesting magnetic declination on a fire sentry column .

Tower on top of Pyramidenkogel, Carinthia

This has since been interchange by a wooden social organisation . I like the odd shape of the platform and the fact that the spiral stair winds itself alongside the core , completely independently .

Petrin Observation Tower, Prague

Although it is much shorter than the Eiffel Tower at around 200 foot , it stands on the Petrin hill,,so the top is really higher . It was built in 1891 and was used as an observation tower as well as a transmission system tower .

Pine Creek Fire Tower, NY

In 1928 the Conservation Department ’s Division of State Parks erected a received 60′ Aermotor LS40 towboat on Mt. Tuscarora on the southwest side of Quaker Run . When jurisdiction over several State Parks tug was transpose to Forest Fire Control in 1931 , Mt. Tuscarora was not one of them . The Park retained jurisdiction and staff the tower only in fourth dimension of high-pitched firing danger .