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concrete in Kuwait City. The main tower is 187 metres high and serves as a restaurant and water tower. It also has a Viewing Sphere which rises to 123 meters above sea level and completes a full turn every 30 minutes. The second tower is 145.8 metres high and serves as a water tower. The third tower houses equipment to control the flow of electricity and illuminates the two larger towers. The towers hold 4,500 cubic meters of water.
had to be renovated several times due to damages from foreign occupations in the country. The towers are mushroom water towers, an optimal design to capture water, which originated in Sweden.
Peachoid Tower
Gaffney, South Carolina, United States, that resembles a peach.The water tower holds one million gallons of water.The Peachoid was built in 1981 by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, of steel and concrete.
southern Espoo, Finland. The water tower was built in 1968 and owned by the Espoo waterworks. The diameter of the tower is 45.3 m and its volume is 4000 m. The height of the tower is 45.3 m and from sea level 76.3 m.
Varginha spacecraft) is a 20 metres tall water tower with a disc-shaped water reservoir in Varginha, Brazil, which was built in 2001. Nave Espacial de Varginha is reminiscent of the Varginha incident, an alleged UFO landing, which took place on January 20, 1996.It`s volume is 100 mil lt.
Hyllie water-tower is 62m and it was built 1973.It is built in Malmo, Sweden.Tower of Hyllie is the biggest of four watertower in Malmo. It contains 10 millions litre water.
reinforced concrete water tower in Mhlacker, Germany . The tower was built in 1972/73 and has a container for 600 m of water.
The Ciechanow Water Tower in Poland is a hyperboloid structure, using hyperboloid geometry which maximizes structural strength with a minimum of material. The Ciechanow Water Tower was built in 1972 by Jerzy Michal Boguslawsk.
The Roihuvuori Water Tower is of the mushroom type and consists of an approx. 28 m high cylindrical shaft of 15.00 m outer diameter which supports a conical tank of 66.70 m diameter. The storage capacity of the tower was fixed at 12.600 m3.It is placed in Helsinki
Suffolk, UK. It was built in 1923 to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill[1] and was designed to improve the looks of the water tower, disguising its tank with the appearance of a weatherboarded building more in keeping with Thorpeness's mock-Tudor and Jacobean style, except seeming to float above the trees.[2] The original capacity of the water tank was 50,000 imperial gallons (230,000 l) but during the Second World War, the House in the Clouds was hit by gunfire from anti-aircraft guns based at Thorpeness. The water tank was repaired using its own steel, which resulted in a reduced capacity of 30,000 imperial gallons (140,000 l).It has 21 m height.