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Svaneke water tower

Denmark

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

The Svaneke water tower, in the small town of Svaneke on the Danish island of Bornholm, was designed by award-winning architect Jørn Utzon and completed in 1952. It was the first successful project of the architect who would later design the Sydney Opera House.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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