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hotel including a restaurant and at the same time would serve as a TV signal transmitter. An architectural competition for the building design was announced. It took place in
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of 4.4 and 12.5 metres (and wall thickness of 30 centimetres each); the narrower is 42.4 metres high, the wider (external) is 22.5 metres high. Individual floors are suspended on these columns on steel structures, starting with the second floor. The columns were constructed by Průmstav
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representing the eternal movement. Instead, they decided to drill eight glass emblems into the concrete transmitter shaft. According to the artists, the shaft and its modification suggested the tower was growing up from the rock. On the other hand, for Karel Hubáček the glass emblems embodied fallen
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After the existing Ještěd lodge burned down in
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shell with a length of 44 metres of a variable diameter (from 10.50 m to 1.62 m) is attached to the inner column. The laminate support cylinder (diameter of 1.90 m and a wall thickness of 16 to 12 mm) attached to it originally had a length of 17.52 m which was extended another 3 metres during the
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landscape. The gallery on the ground floor and the restaurant on the first offers views as far as Poland and
Germany. The tower has been on the list of Czech cultural monuments since 1998, becoming a national cultural monument in 2006. In 2007, it was entered on the Tentative List of UNESCO World
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the lowest sections of the tower. Before construction of the hotel, two huts stood near the mountain summit: one was built in the middle of the 19th century, and the other was added in the early 20th century. Both buildings had a wooden structure, and both burned to the ground in the 1960s.
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technology. There is a specially developed laminated cladding in the shape of a revolving hyperboloid shielding against extreme weather conditions. On the eighth and ninth floors the architect placed drinking water tanks and a backup battery
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it was extended by another 3 meters. The extension is there to protect the TV broadcast antennas against the elements. On top of the extension there is a steel lid, on which an annular pendulum weighing 800 kg is suspended by means of
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September 1973, broadcasting of the second Czechoslovak Television program was added.
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awarded the Ještěd Tower design on its annual
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supporting steel structures for the floors and for the tower structure were manufactured in the Mostárna plant in the then state-owned company Vítkovice Iron Works of
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