The Leaning Tower of Pisa
When choosing a design in my discipline, architecture, I looked at finding a building that not only amazed myself about a building that also had some interesting history and features. I researched buildings such as the Sydney Opera House, the Roman coliseum, and many Gothic church’s, until I finalized in my decision with the choice of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. For some reason I have always had a love for Towers. Architects began building this medieval campaniles in 1173, however work stopped five years later when they first noticed the towering leaning to the north. The tower had only the first three floors built when the work stopped. The stoppage was due to the tower starting to lean which was caused by an underground river making soil damp on one side of the tower. Work resumed and in 1250 architects started trying different ways to adjust the lean. The tower began leaning toward the south in 1272. Before the construction of the bell tower in 1350, the architects tried to angle the top of the tower back to north by only building four steps on the north side as opposed to the six steps on the south side.1 This spectacular irregularity has tended to obscure the . . .
84 meters (1817) (Crasy & Taylor, 12 feet and 7 thumbs) 4. The structure has been closed to the public since 1990 due to safety and conservation concerns. 79 meters (1787 and 1812) (By Morrona, six arms and half) 3. 1999 “The tower leans less now, but we didn’t want to straighten it completely, otherwise we wouldn’t have had any more tourists. 04 meters (1911) (Pizzetti) (+ 20 cm Crasy & Taylor) For centuries, many have offered solutions to how to right the tower. There is a peerless Romanesque cathedral, two museums and a cemetery all enclosed within a wall with a walk way. As a precaution a truss was attached to the tower and anchored into the ground. Occupying the interior is a 294-step spiral staircase that leads to the bell chamber.
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