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Tower of Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

An inclined tower is a tower that was intentionally built at an incline. The world's tallest inclined tower is the tower of Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, which stands at 574 ft (approx. 175 metres). The Puerta de Europa in Madrid is a matching pair of inclined towers. An inclined tower is used to hold the roof of Schwarzwald-Baar-Center, a mall in Villingen-Schwenningen.

Other examples

Sometimes electricity pylons of powerlines running over steep mountains are built as inclined towers. Many of such electricity pylons can be found at Hoover Dam and in Switzerland.

Inclined towers are also used at some aerial tramways as support pillars.

Inclined electricity pylons at the Hoover Dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada.

See also

• leaning tower
• round tower

External links

• Inclined towers as electricity pylons at Hoover Dam
• Inclined Pylon of the Rhine Valley Line at Sargans in the Structurae database