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**Khurram Wadee** @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk · Apr 6

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

The lowest observation level of the #SpinnakerTower features a #GlassFloor for those who dare to stand on it and see how high up they’re standing. I must confess to having fear of heights but I did manage to stand in the middle of the glass deck and look down.

Looking vertically down from the transparent floor.

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**Khurram Wadee** @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk · Apr 6

Apr 6

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

From this vantage point, the back of the #SpinnakerTower can be seen.

And here are a few more views of it from a a bit closer.

The tower is 170 m tall with three #ObservationDecks, the lowest of which is 100 m hight. I have to say that my wife was a little underwhelmed by the structure until, that is, we got up to the first #ObservationPlatform. A clue is that dark rectangle you can see on the underside.

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**Khurram Wadee** @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk · Apr 6

Apr 6

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

As #spring is here, it’s time to resume our own form of #EthicalTourism or #EcoToruism (day trips involving travel only by #bike and #PublicTransport – #Trains, in this case). As I’m a #StructuralEngineer, I like seeing interesting #structures and so I picked #Portsmouth. Quite recently, it had a #tower built called the #SpinnakerTower as it resembles a #spinnaker #sail. It is by no means unique, nor is it the tallest, but it’s comfortably within a day trip’s distance of us.

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**Mark H** @neonbubble@mstdn.social · Mar 16

Mar 16

Mark H @neonbubble@mstdn.social

Local law prohibits visitors to Gunwharf from not taking a photo of the Spinnaker Tower and posting it online. Technically, I obeyed this law when I posted it on an Instagram story yesterday but I see no reason not to share it here too.

We're standing at the base of a tall tower looking up at it so that its main shaft starts at the bottom right of view and its peak is about two thirds up the image. It's a bright, sunny day with most of the sky a deep blue and just a few puffy clouds at the bottom as we look. The tower is gleaming white. The main part of it appears as a tapering spike but crossing over themselves are two great curves of metal connected to the main tower and each other by struts that almost look like a great rib cage. It's actually supposed to represent the billowing sails of a spinnaker ship.

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**Mark H** @neonbubble@mstdn.social · Dec 27, 2024

Dec 27, 2024

Mark H @neonbubble@mstdn.social

For #FensterFreitag an iconic sight in the #Portsmouth skyline: the Spinnaker Tower. You can't fail to miss it if you're anywhere near our city. The tower is 170 metres high and it has viewing platforms within with the lowest you can see here at 100 metres up.

This was taken in 2007, a couple of years after it opened to the public, and significantly later than planned.

A zoom lens view of part of a tall structure; a white tower with a tapered main column from which two curving white beams emerge at the bottom, flow out and up, then join at the top. The whole thing resembles a billowing sail. Our view is of a close crop near the top so we can see upper levels fit into this curving sail structure, both behind tinted glass, and both packed with people pressed against the window looking out and down. It's obviously very high up. To the right we can see the main core of the tower with an external elevator track running up its length. The sky is perfectly blue, filling the area to the left of the curve as we're looking, and the tower is gleaming white in the sunshine.

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**Mark H** @neonbubble@mstdn.social · Apr 25, 2024

Apr 25, 2024

Mark H @neonbubble@mstdn.social

I quite enjoy engaging in the "Add Yours" story photos on #Instagram these days and one I've just posted there was for "Where are you from?" so I thought I'd share the photo here too.

This is the Spinnaker Tower in our home city of #Portsmouth; a lovely piece of distinctive #architecture with a maritime feel on the city waterfront near the naval base. This was taken in 2010 and to the left you can see masts of HMS Warrior and HMS Victory.