• Thumbnail for BIS-Tower
    The BIS-Tower, more commonly known as the BIS-high rise, is a 69.5-meter-high administrative tower and headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements...
    28 KB (3,398 words) - 00:38, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bank for International Settlements
    The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution which is owned by member central banks. Its primary goal is to...
    61 KB (7,115 words) - 20:02, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tower of Babel
    The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures. According...
    65 KB (8,273 words) - 17:35, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basel SBB railway station
    along with the Centralbahnplatz in front of the station (including the BIS Tower), are attributed to the St. Alban quarter [de]. The Elisabethenanlage...
    32 KB (3,212 words) - 15:27, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Innichen
    Abteilung: Die Urkunden zur Geschichte des Inn-, Eisack- und Pustertals. Vol. 1: Bis zum Jahr 1140. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner. pp. 30–1 no. 50....
    6 KB (473 words) - 06:48, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maiden's Tower
    The Maiden's Tower (Turkish: Kız Kulesi), also known as Leander's Tower (Tower of Leandros) since the Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at...
    12 KB (1,081 words) - 20:48, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martin Burckhardt (architect)
    inter-faculty institute at the University of Basel from 1967 to 1970, the BIS-Tower of the Bank for International Settlements from 1972 to 1976 and the Nestlé...
    9 KB (938 words) - 01:56, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of hyperboloid structures
    Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939). Shukhov built his first example as a water tower (hyperbolic shell) for the 1896 All-Russian Exposition. Subsequently, more...
    33 KB (1,055 words) - 16:51, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chinese Tower
    The Chinese Tower (German: Chinesischer Turm) is a 25-metre wooden building resembling a pagoda at the Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany. The building...
    18 KB (2,064 words) - 16:57, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Skyscraper
    Skyscraper (redirect from Office tower)
    "dtv-Atlas Baukunst I. Allgemeiner Teil: Baugeschichte von Mesopotamien bis Byzanz", 14th ed., 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-03020-5, p.345 Behrens-Abouseif,...
    108 KB (12,066 words) - 15:00, 9 September 2024