It’s a easy decision for me as I’m from Blackpool so it’s something that I’ve grown up with from a young age. Opened on 14 May 1894 the tower was based on the Eiffel Tower. Standing at 158m (518ft 9 inches) the tower can be seen from most areas of Lancashire and even on a clear day from Liverpool and Manchester.

As well as the tower the building below is a large building with many areas including a circus, aquairum, resturants, At the top of the tower there is a walk of faith installed in 1998 which is a glass walkway that is 2 inches thick.

The start of work is underway on the construction of the soon to be tallest tower in Lebanon. The name of the building will be Sama-Beirut and at compleition will be 200 metres tall.

The building will be in the Sodeco area near to the airport, the central district of the city and the marina. The tower is gong to also have a height boosting spire on top to increase the overall hight of the tower. It’s a mixed use tower with retail, offices and residentail from the tenth floor all the way to the top. The prices are expensive for an apartment starting at $1.5 million getting more expensive the further up the tower.

The aim is to finish the project by 2014.

We all know that the tallest structure in France is the Eiffel Tower located in paris. At 324 meters tall the tower that was build in 1889 and there are no plans for any new builders to be constructed taller than the tower.

So what is the Tallest buildings in France well that’s the Tour Maine-Montparnasse at 210-metre (689 ft) it’s the second tallest structure in France. Constructed in 1969 to 1972 it’s also the 9th largest building in the E U.

In 1995 the building had the honour of being climbed by Tour Alain Robert a French free climber known as spider man. But the building isn’t the most pleasent of lookers and was voted by Virtualtourist as the second ugliest building in the world.

Work on the Shard Skyscraper London started this month which will become one of the tallest buildings in eastern Europe. The building located at 32 London Bridge Street London will break the 1000 ft mark with the roof reaching 1,004 ft and the antenna 1,017 ft. The building will have 87 floors.

The building is due to be finishing in 2012 after architects Renzo Piano had to go through a gruelling planning application. The building will contain a hotel and offices to be let, London transport have agreed to be one of the many occupants. 5 cranes will be used to make the huge tower over it’s 2 and half year building process.

When constructing large towers there are millions of points to take into consideration one of them is how to deal with lighting strikes. When lighting strikes a building the bold of electricity needs to get to the ground, using a lighting conductor (in the US the call it a lighting rod) you can get the electric down to the ground.

The lighting conductor is generally made out of copper or aluminium and will be the highest point on a building. From there the conductor will be connecting to many wires taking the electricity down to the ground. Those wires need to be not connected to other electrical wires otherwise a strike could break the electrics.

The Beetham Tower the largest building in Manchester, England was recently hit by a lighting strike 9:20am 30th July 2009. The event was captured by the local University.