Cairo television tower
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Cairo television tower
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| Place: | Cairo | ||||
| Governorate: | al-Qahira | ||||
| Country: | Egypt | ||||
| Altitude : | 28 m | ||||
| Coordinates: 30 ° 2 ′ 45.6 ″ N , 31 ° 13 ′ 27.4 ″ E | |||||
| Use: | Television tower | ||||
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| Construction time : | 1956-1961 | ||||
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| Total height : | 187 m | ||||
| Viewing platform: | 160 m | ||||
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| Construction: | Solid construction | ||||
| Opening: | 1961 | ||||
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The Cairo TV Tower ( Arabic برج القاهرة Burj al-Qāhira , Egyptian-Arabic Castle el-Qāhira ) is an 187-meter-high television tower in solid construction , the construction of which is reminiscent of lotus flowers . The Cairo television towerwas completed in 1961 by 500 workers on the Nile island of Gezira and has an observation platform open to the public on three levels, a café and a revolving restaurant . The diameter of the tower shaft is 14 meters. The specialty of the Cairo television tower is that it is made of pure concrete without a steel frame, making it the tallest structure made of pure concrete.
literature
- Friedrich von Borries , Matthias Böttger, Florian Heilmeyer: TV Towers. 8559 meters politics and architecture. = Television towers. 8559 meters of politics and architecture. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-024-1 , pp. 34–43 (exhibition catalog, Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), October 3, 2009 - March 14, 2010).
Web links
Commons : Cairo TV Tower - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
