Ziggurats, Towers and Spires

Zündhütle (translates to something like "little firing hat") was a tower for shot production. It was built in 1952/53 for the amunition factory Gustav Genschow & Co. AG. In 1973, the shot production was stopped there and the whole factory except the shot tower was demolished. Since 1973, the tower is used by Karlruhe University for meteorological and geodetics science.

The Leaning Tower of Suurhusen (German: Schiefer Turm von Suurhusen) is a late medieval steeple in Suurhusen, a village in the East Frisian region of northwestern Germany. According to the Guinness World Records it was the most tilted tower in the world, though in 2010 the newly erected Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi claimed this record. Source:wikipedia

Almourols castle - Portugal

Beautiful

Storkyrkan The grand church in Stockholm, where today th 8th of June is a royal wedding

CATEDRAL DE LAS LAJAS, COLOMBIA

Ice Architecture, China’s annual ice festival.

Malaysia

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

One place more beautiful than the other.
What a pleasure,

Rex's Malaysian temple reminded me of this, from a recent Library of Congress exhibition of color photographs (yes, color) of Czarist Russia, taken around 1910 and recently rediscovered. A monastery

I had a dream once I was standing in front of this huge white church and the steeple was so high I could not see the top. It was quite unsettling actually.

I had another dream that I went inside this other church with a steeple and there was so much red (red drapes, red pews, red rugs) inside the church it scared the daylights out of me.

Freud would have a hay-day on these dreams.. haha

Forget about Freud.....
Read an article in Die Zeit - a German serious magazine - about gender.
There are now 173 professors in gender -female professors of course - in Germany , but 21 professors less in climate research.
These gender professors say that everything which is straight up is a symbol for MALE.
That of course has to do with ziggurats, towers, spires, lamps and even trees.
Male and female is not an idea created by nature but a kind of konvention.
To get things evened out towers should not be straight but curved etc etc etc....
Do you realize that you who started this means you are a male chauvonist and we women following this thread support you in your male role instaed of fighting for our rights as women.
Let us have some pictures of curved church towers and lighthouses.
How about a curved Christmastree?????

In Dubai these future towers the apartments will be able to turn individually.

The church tower of the St. Clemens church in Mayen (Eifel region, Germany), built around 1400.



The town's people wanted to build a church but had no money to do so. So they ask the devil to help them finance a new town hall. When they were finished and placing the cross weather vane on top, the devil saw it was a church and became so infuriated that he took the steeple in his hands and twisted it.

okay, here's your curved feminine building, Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center

This is the tower of the towngate - "Westerntor" - in Duderstadt, Germany, built around 1450. The devil was engaged here as well: he helped the builder to built it up quick. But since the good man didn't want to give his soul to the devil, as promised before, the devil twisted the roof.

Lovely building, but I think the professsors meant something else than lovely curves- more where you take away the male symbol.

I llove to hear a story behind the picture.
With the help of the devil it got to be a beautiful tower.

Mont Saint-Michel, France