Thursday, December 15, 2011

CN Tower

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Canada is one of the developed countries in the world, with high per capita incomes, and members of international organizations such as the G8, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth of Nations, APEC, and the United Nations. Canada's booming high-tech industry, and has an international reputation in a variety of industry sectors. One of the buildings that demonstrate the power industry in Canada is the CN Tower.

CN Tower is one of the wonders of technology in the world located in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Building elevation 553.33 meters (including antenna). CN Tower is visited by more than two million people every year. Besides enjoying the views of the city of Toronto, they also can enjoy a glass floor that allows to see the road underneath, eating at an altitude of 350 meters, there are 360 revolving restaurant, and saw the movie about the construction of this building. In this tower there are also transmitting equipment, night club and observation deck.

CN is the official abbreviation of the Canadian National Railway, but after the company decided to withdraw its investment in rail assets item, which is not a core business in the steps that led to the privatization of the company in 1995, the CN Tower was transferred to Canada Lands Company (CLC ), a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Because the citizens of the city of Toronto wanted to retain the name CN Tower, the abbreviation CN now changed it means to be Canada's National and not the original name, Canadian National.

CN Tower consists of several structures. Its main part is occupied by a concrete pillar elevators, stairways, as well as electricity and water connections. At the top there is a mental antenna as high as 102 meters, which transmit signals of television and radio. In addition, there are two areas for visitors, seven floors at a height of 330 meters, and at an altitude of 447 meters Sky Pod, just below the antenna. Sky Pod is a small enclosed space that is located far above the main floor. Sky Pod located at an altitude of 447 meters, making it the highest public observation deck in the world. From Sky Pod, visibility can reach 100-120 kilometer, on a sunny day may even be able to see a little of the city of Rochester, New York in the United States is located across Lake Ontario.

CN Tower in Toronto, Canada is a communication towers as well as the observation tower. The building was completed in 1976, and when it became the tallest building in the world. CN Tower was built by Canadian National Railway. The architect of this tower is John Andrews, Webb Zerafa, Menkes Housden, ER Baldwin. Construction began on February 6, 1973. CN Tower was built for 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 40 months, by 1537 workers. The idea of development in the CN tower began in 1968, at the time the Canadian Railway companies have the desire to build a platform Radio and TV communications to serve the Toronto area, as well as to demonstrate the strength of Canadian industry.

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