Old Met Life tower ( from early in the 20th century) is near a new tower that shows how radically architectural concepts have changed...The Met Life tower is based on the St. Mark's campanile in Venice...
The new one has huge solid and heavily insulated containers of water at the top to act as a counterweight to the swaying of the tall, thin tower.
This idea of the water at the top is also supposed to help buildings if they sway because of an earth tremor...
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