BT Tower ️
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At 189 metres high, the Post Office Tower literally towered over every other building in the capital when the iconic London landmark now known as the BT Tower opened on this day in 1965. The tower was designed by architects Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats, and its cylindrical shape was chosen because it meant that the building would shift no more than 20cm (or one third of a degree) in high winds – a necessity for the aerials it carried. These aerials were originally designed to handle up to 150,000 simultaneous telephone conversations and 40 television channels – and along with these, the tower housed 16 floors of technical and power equipment, six floors of suites, kitchens and more technical equipment, and a rotating restaurant on its 34th floor.
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