towers
- Term Type
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Preferred Term
towers
- Details
Usually refers to detached or isolated buildings or other structures high in proportion to their lateral dimensions. For parts of buildings with walls rising with vertical proportions considerably above the rest, use "towers (building divisions)." For modern high-rise buildings with a towerlike main mass rising from a larger low base, use "tower buildings."
- Variations
Triangulation signal towers
towers (single built works)
tower
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