Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another building. Some other buildings also have clock faces on their exterior but these structures serve other main functions.
22-630: Times Building may refer to: Los Angeles Times Building , one of five buildings housing the Los Angeles Times but usually building at 1st and Spring Streets in Los Angeles, California that housed The Los Angeles Times (1935–2018) One Times Square , the building at One Times Square in New York City that housed The New York Times from 1904 to 1913 The New York Times Building ,
44-463: A church or municipal building such as a town hall . Not all clocks on buildings therefore make the building into a clock tower. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock . It often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes , sometimes playing simple musical phrases or tunes. Some clock towers were previously built as Bell towers and then had clocks added to them. As these structures fulfil
66-481: A mannequin , every hour. It was possible to re-program the length of day and night daily in order to account for the changing lengths of day and night throughout the year, and it also featured five robotic musicians who automatically play music when moved by levers operated by a hidden camshaft attached to a water wheel . Line (mains) synchronous tower clocks were introduced in the United States in
88-788: A clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben , at Westminster , in 1288; and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral . The oldest surviving turret clock formerly part of a clock tower in Europe is the Salisbury Cathedral clock , completed in 130. A clock put up at St. Albans , in 1326, 'showed various astronomical phenomena'. Al-Jazari of the Artuqid dynasty in Upper Mesopotamia constructed an elaborate clock called
110-607: A common sight in many parts of the world with some being iconic buildings. One example is the Elizabeth Tower in London (usually called " Big Ben ", although strictly this name belongs only to the bell inside the tower). There are many structures that may have clocks or clock faces attached to them and some structures have had clocks added to an existing structure. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
132-848: A mid-century eight-story building on Imperial Highway in El Segundo , located near the Los Angeles International Airport Gallery [ edit ] [REDACTED] The 1886 Times building, northeast corner 1st/Broadway [REDACTED] Times 1886 building after bombing on October 1, 1910 [REDACTED] 1912 Times building, demolished in 1938 [REDACTED] Los Angeles Times Building, corner of 1st and Spring [REDACTED] 1948 Crawford Addition (or Mirror Building ), NW corner 2nd/Spring, 2020 [REDACTED] 1973 Pereira Addition , southeast corner 1st and Broadway [REDACTED] Newspaper banner in 1923 featured
154-418: A structure is defined as a building if at least fifty percent of its height is made up of floor plates containing habitable floor area. Structures that do not meet this criterion, are defined as towers . A clock tower historically fits this definition of a tower and therefore can be defined as any tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces and that can be either freestanding or part of
176-445: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Los Angeles Times Building (Redirected from Los Angeles Times Building ) Five sites housing regional newspaper [REDACTED] Los Angeles Times building (1912–1934), street view prior to demolition in 1938 The Los Angeles Times building refers to five buildings that have housed
198-492: The Los Angeles Times newspaper offices since 1881. The fourth site, Times Mirror Square , is currently composed of four structures but in the absence of other specifics " Los Angeles Times building" usually refers to the 1935 building there. Mirror Building , home of Mirror Printing Office and Book Bindery (1881–1887), located near Spring and Temple Los Angeles Times building (1887–1910), located on
220-844: The Parliament of Canada in Ottawa , and the Zytglogge clock tower in the Old City of Bern , Switzerland . The tallest freestanding clock tower in the world is the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower (Old Joe) at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham , United Kingdom. The tower stands at 100 metres (330 feet) tall and was completed in 1908. The clock tower of Philadelphia City Hall
242-437: The "castle clock" and described it in his Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices in 1206. It was about 3.3 metres (11 feet) high, and had multiple functions alongside timekeeping . It included a display of the zodiac and the solar and lunar paths, and a pointer in the shape of the crescent moon that travelled across the top of a gateway , moved by a hidden cart and causing automatic doors to open, each revealing
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#1732772546190264-988: The 1920s. Some clock towers have become famous landmarks. Prominent examples include Elizabeth Tower built in 1859, which houses the Great Bell (generally known as Big Ben ) in London , the tower of Philadelphia City Hall , the Rajabai Tower in Mumbai , the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin , the Torre dell'Orologio in the Piazza San Marco in Venice , Italy , the Peace Tower of
286-754: The NRHP as that The Old Times Building , the building at 228 East Holmes Avenue in Huntsville, Alabama, that's listed on the NRHP Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Times Building . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Times_Building&oldid=1148365448 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
308-499: The building at 620 Eighth Avenue in New York City that currently houses The New York Times The New York Times Building (former) , the building at 229 West 43rd Street in New York City that housed The New York Times from 1913 to 2007 Times Building-Lodge Hall , in Canal Winchester, Ohio, which housed The Winchester Times Times Square Building , Seattle, Washington, formerly known as Times Building and listed on
330-1057: The clock-tower building [REDACTED] Fifth Los Angeles Times building, adjacent to LAX in El Segundo, California References [ edit ] ^ Elebee, Lorena Iñiguez; Simani, Ellis; Curwen, Thomas; Owens, Charles Hamilton (2018-07-20). "Inside the historic buildings that have defined the Los Angeles Times" . www.latimes.com . Retrieved 2023-04-05 . ^ Los Angeles Times Building, Water and Power Associates ^ "Times Mirror Square | Los Angeles Conservancy" . www.laconservancy.org . Retrieved 2023-04-05 . ^ "LA Times Building (Downtown Los Angeles Walking Tour)" . USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences . Retrieved 2023-04-05 . ^ "PCAD - Times-Mirror Company, Los Angeles Times Building #4, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA" . pcad.lib.washington.edu . Retrieved 2023-04-05 . External links [ edit ] A tour of
352-416: The definition of a tower they can be considered to be clock towers. Although clock towers are today mostly admired for their aesthetics, they once served an important purpose. Before the middle of the twentieth century, most people did not have watches, and prior to the 18th century even home clocks were rare. The first clocks did not have faces, but were solely striking clocks , which sounded bells to call
374-546: The historic downtown L.A. Times building Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles_Times_building&oldid=1252401131 " Categories : Buildings and structures in Downtown Los Angeles Buildings and structures in El Segundo, California Civic Center, Los Angeles Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Clock tower Clock towers are
396-414: The northwest corner of 1st and Broadway ; this is the building that was destroyed in the Los Angeles Times bombing of 1910, killing 21 people Los Angeles Times building (1912–1934), new construction on the same site as previous, rebuilt as a four-story building with "castle-like" clock tower Los Angeles Times building (1935–2018), street address 202 W. First Street, original structure on
418-468: The southwest corner of 1st and Spring designed by Gordon Kaufmann . Construction began 1931. Eventually the Times expanded to fill the whole block as Times Mirror Square , bounded by 1st, 2nd , Spring and Broadway. Later Times Mirror Square additions included the 1948 Rowland H. Crawford expansion, the 1973 William Pereira addition, and a parking structure. Los Angeles Times building (2018— ),
440-477: The surrounding community to work or to prayer. They were therefore placed in towers so the bells would be audible for a long distance. Clock towers were placed near the centres of towns and were often the tallest structures there. As clock towers became more common, the designers realized that a dial on the outside of the tower would allow the townspeople to read the time whenever they wanted. The use of clock towers dates back to antiquity . The earliest clock tower
462-620: Was part of the tallest building in the world from 1894, when the tower was topped out and the building partially occupied, until 1908. Taller buildings have had clock faces added to their existing structure such as the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw , with a clock added in 2000. The building has a roof height of 187.68 m (615.7 ft), and an antenna height of 237 m (778 ft). The NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building in Tokyo , with
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#1732772546190484-649: Was the Tower of the Winds in Athens , which featured eight sundials and was created in the 1st century BC during the period of Roman Greece . In its interior, there was also a water clock (or clepsydra), driven by water coming down from the Acropolis . In Song dynasty China , an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. In England,
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