Now BrightSource (and others) use huge arrays of mirrors to direct sunlight to a single spot high on a tower.
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She staged the evening of tapas in her apartment high up in a residential tower near City Hall.
That turned out to be a high water mark for the tower apartment.
Then it all came into focus: a single tower, 9m high, topped with a massive magnificent carved face, surrounded by the jungle, with no one else around for miles.
In the category of homes that are guaranteed to make you drool, we took a peek at an eight-story 19th-century water tower that a London couple transformed into a high-flying single-family home.
It seems the contract tower program is taking a high, disproportionate cut.
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The IT hub would be made up of six towers, including a 75-storey, 270m-high tower, "the highest in Africa", RLG Communications says on its website.
At least 21 London tower blocks rated as a high fire risk by local councils were not visited by firefighters last year - despite flawed visits being a factor in the fatal Lakanal House fire.
Together, the 17 franchises on our best seller list account for more than 867 million games sold worldwide over the last 25 years--enough that if you stacked them on top of each other, it would make a tower 13, 683 miles high.
If you were there, you might have caught a glimpse of some of the amazing displays at the GE Works Centre, including a hologram projection display about the energy-efficient relamping of the Tower Bridge, or a two-floor-high lighting installation powered by social-media chatter.
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This 73-meter-high sandstone tower was built as a symbol of victory in the 13th century.
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The BBC does not have a list of which tower blocks the LFB itself rates as high risk.
In the central Missouri town of Columbia, TV station KOMU was briefly evacuated Sunday morning because of high winds and a heavy buildup of snow on the broadcast tower next to the building.
When we saw the Corsair 900D at CES we knew we had the enclosure we needed to make the original Hailstorm look like a small mid-tower system and not the bad ass high performance system it really was.
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The store will span seven floors in a mixed-use, retail, hotel and high-rise residential tower.
Mr Justice Males concluded Tower Hamlets council's payment policies were discriminatory, following a High Court hearing last month.
The weathered, silvery stone ruins scattered across the grassy, 158m-high Hill of Slane today include a foundational outline of a church, a round tower and a monastery associated with St Erc, and a later Norman motte and bailey on the hill's western side, built by Archembald Fleming, who came to Ireland with Henry II in 1171.
Instead of a single lattice tower, the cables are supported by two elegant steel poles up to 65 metres high.
While Prudential is betting that it can fill the tower with high-paying tenants that have thus far gone elsewhere, it faces a Manhattan office market that is starting to wobble.
Cheng has high hopes for New York's Riverside South, which will have 16 waterfront residential buildings and a commercial tower.
McLaughlin stood trial at the High Court in Glasgow accused of murdering Mr Brown, formerly of Draffen Tower, Motherwell, at a house in the town's Lindum Crescent on 13 May 2012.
Supporters argue the tower is a necessary evil, bringing opportunities for employment in a country where unemployment levels reached a record high of 25% in the second quarter of 2012.
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