This charming church was worked on by Johann Balthasar Neumann, an important German Baroque architect who created over seventy churches as well as numerous other buildings. The thin, 172 foot (52.60 meter) high tower of this church seems to grow organically from the building's nave. This would certainly make a beautiful church tile.

This fanciful church was completed in 1749 by Peter Thumb. The entrance to the church is through the Priesterhaus, which is connected directly to the building. The extremely sculptural spire stands above the entrance to the church, whose roof can be seen in the background. This complex would make an excellent 3x3 or 4x4 tile, though some interpolating will have to be done for the parts of the building not shown in the picture.

Built in 1727, this church is a masterpiece by Dominikus Zimmermann, another important German Baroque architect. The large oval worship space, a favorite form in Baroque design, delights the visitor. The tower grows out of the facade, which is kept flat, and is arranged with curved molding and crowned with a double cap. This would make a lovely church tile, or maybe a 3x3 to show all the decoration.

Begun in 1165, this charming church shows a blending Byzantine and Russian design. In Russia, the cruciform domed basilica with a high crossing or middle tower was the standard church design up to the 1917 revolution. There haven't been very many Eastern Orthodox tiles, and this would certainly make a nice church.

This 1901 architectural drawing shows a brick and steel circular water tower with a capacity of 528,346,000 gallons (2,000 cubic meters). Elaborately decorated by the city architect Osterloh, this 191 foot (58.70 meter) tower was one of the most impressive structures in the city at that time. The tower survived bombings during World War II undamaged and is now protected as a monunent.

With a height of 164 feet (60 meters), this popular city landmark has a water holding capacity of 607,597,000 gallons (2,300 cubic meters) in its lower container and 211,338,400 gallons (800 cubic meters) in its upper storage sphere. Completed in 1909, it stands on the highest elevation in the city and features Art Nouveau decoration.

Built in 1903 by the engineers of Wayss und Freytag AG, this tower holds 264,173,000 gallons (1,000 cubic meters) of water. Its ten surrounding supports help reduce the impact of the protruding head. In one of the cleaning operations done in the 1980s, the concrete load-bearing members were painted in an attractive manner.

This type of thin concrete transmission tower with a revolving restaurant first appeared in Germany and had its origins in the work of engineer Fritz Leonhardt beginning in the mid-1950s. His successful designs would trigger a construction frenzy of similar concrete towers all over the world. The Mannheim tower, built in 1973 for the German Post Office, stands at 670 feet (204.90 meters) by the Neckar River and offers a view as far as the Rhine. This image has the tower in almost perfect aerial perspective for importing into SCURK.

One of the largest transmission towers in Germany, the elegant Frankfurt tower was completed in 1979 and stands at 1,086 feet (331 meters). Its great height was needed to provide clear views for its mirror antennae past the the city's many skyscrapers. The requisite revolving restaurant is located within the lower cone of the head.

The wealth from oil in the Arab countries led to the creation of several imaginative towers, known as fancy towers, which recall the magnificence of ancient Islamic architecture. The 557 foot (170 meter) white marble television tower of the TV headquarters in Riyadh has a black glass head created by a space frame in the shape of a cut diamond. Notice how the interior restaurant lights sparkle through the black glass diamond at night. The tower was designed by the French corporation ADETE and completed in 1981.