I'm an Emley Moor fan myself, but as a transmitter station isn't it a civil engineering structure rather than a building per se?
I don't really know when one morphs into the other. A guyed mast clearly doesn't qualify as a building (does it?), but does something with a much higher degree of design and construction but fulfilling the same function? Are there rules on these things?
For the record, I'm aware of the distinctions between various types of structure (let's not forget the 'height' of underwater platforms), but the point being made here is simply that presenting the Shard as remarkable for its height - even within the UK - is pretty damn futile.
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but thats a tower, not a building...
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I'm an Emley Moor fan myself, but as a transmitter station isn't it a civil engineering structure rather than a building per se?
I don't really know when one morphs into the other. A guyed mast clearly doesn't qualify as a building (does it?), but does something with a much higher degree of design and construction but fulfilling the same function? Are there rules on these things?
For the record, I'm aware of the distinctions between various types of structure (let's not forget the 'height' of underwater platforms), but the point being made here is simply that presenting the Shard as remarkable for its height - even within the UK - is pretty damn futile.
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