Ještěd Tower

Ještěd Tower

Ještěd Tower is a 94 metre-tall tower used to transmit television signal built on the top of Ještěd mountain near Liberec in the Czech Republic.

Ještěd Tower is a reinforced concrete construction with a shape called "hyperboloid of revolution" (the shape intends to resemble a cosmic ship), built between 1963 and 1968. Its architect was Karel Hubáček. In the Tower's lowest sections it contains a hotel and a tower restaurant. It serves as a dominant attraction in the city and as a place to oversee much of Bohemia and parts of Poland and Germany.

ee also

* List of towers
* Hyperboloid structure
* List of Hyperboloid structures
* Heinle, Erwin; "Türme aller Zeiten - aller Kulturen", Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3-421-02931-8, 1997.

External links

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* [http://www.jested-ski.cz/index.php?lang=3 Hotel on Jested]
* [http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=12685402 Photos of Jested Tower]
* [http://www.jested.cz/web2005/hot-2-5-en.php History and architecture of the Ještěd Tower]


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