"It's a pretty awesome feeling, " Juan Estevez said from a temporary platform on the roof of the tower where he and other workers watched the milestone.

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But just a year later, the discovery of human remains on a bank tower roof and then in a manhole near ground zero outraged families who said the search for their loved ones had been rushed initially.

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Dress up for the Sky Lounge bar, which perches on the roof of the medieval Consorti Tower, overlooking the Ponte Vecchio to the Tuscan hills.

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During the storm, on 22 January, blocks of up to half a tonne smashed through the church's roof and lodged in the bell tower.

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To the north, a new 202-room Four Seasons hotel opened in 2008, offering the familiar luxury surroundings that the chain is known for, plus the spectacular Aer bar on the roof of the 34-storey tower with commanding views of the entire region.

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Viewing network shows in eye-popping high def may mean bolting an antenna to your roof and aiming it at the nearest TV tower.

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The hotel -- with a tower topped by a sharply pitched pyramidal roof -- became the Art Deco trendsetter for Shanghai as soon as it opened its doors in 1929.

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From the top of the tower you look down on to a web of canals, on to the little roof terraces that the people of the city are so fond of cultivating, and out across the flat landscape towards distant wind farms.

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