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[chimericbear]

Meet my OC: Skyline Webb, AKA, Darkskies

Welcome to my introduction series of ocs! I'm going to post one oc of mine a week paired with their backstory and open up the floor for anyone to ask questions about them! (I might even draw the answer!)

Meet Skyline! Enjoy this read and ask any questions! Whether it's her favorite color or her opinion on any Canon crp character or something bizarre, I'll probably have an answer!

Skyline Webb was the only child of Lorelei and Santino Webb. She grew up in a happy home, with plenty of love from both of her parents. She grew up with a lot of love and care for others. Skyline was quite the chaotic and outgoing kid, making friends with kids super easily. She had interests in many hobbies, but one stuck close to her, painting. She loved painting pictures for her parents to hang up. At her age, it was pretty good but not the best compared to her works when she's older. She mostly focused on painting landscapes and life. She was a great student and had made a lot of friends. Her life was generally very good, she couldn't have asked for a better one. 

That was until one day, at the age of 17, she had come home from school to witness the dead body of her mother in the attic, sliced in half through her abdomen. She was mortified, staring down at the body, then to a scythe she had never seen in the house before. She picked up the scythe, her hands shaking with nerves as she followed a bloody footprint trail to the kitchen where her father sat, sobbing in the palms of his hands, covered in her blood. He killed her! Her mother was dead because of him. At the sight of him, a low voice she had not heard before spoke to her, urging her. 

“He killed her. Doesn't that fuel you with anger? You must set this right. Kill him. It's only right.”

Skyline's hands gripped the scythe tighter as the disembodied voice spoke as she stared at her crying father. Her fear and sadness soon replaced that anger she was told to feel about this.

“Kill him. He's a sick man. Kill him, or you might be next.”

The voice continued to urge her, and eventually, she gave in to the urges. She let's out a scream filled with anguish, running up to her father and slicing into her father. First one slice, then another, and another, until her father was nothing but a pile of flesh, bone, and blood. Unrecognizable as the man who raised her. When the job was done, she was given an option.

“I can give you the ability to stop those like your mother from being harmed, or you can leave me for another to find me. Who knows what they'd use me for.”

The offer was laced with the threat of the scythe falling into the wrong hands, like her father's. She couldn't allow it. She very quickly accepted the offer, but of course, it came with a price. She had to kill. She didn't have a choice to leave it to collect dust, or it was going to make her kill. In exchange, she was given abilities that were almost supernatural: a mist like form for quick escape, the ability to collect the blood of her killed and turn it into an average thunderstorm (removing evidence of any body), and lastly, immortality, to an extent of course, if she were to be fatally injured, she could die, especially if she didn't have any stored blood in the scythe to heal herself.

So, with the rules and benefits set, Skyline set off. It was suddenly a very stormy night due to the removal of her parents' bodies. She couldn't stay there, suspicions would rise with the sudden disappearance of her parents, so she had to disappear too.

Skyline finds herself deep in the woods, approaching what appears to be an abandoned cabin to set camp. This soon became her forever home. She was at peace for awhile, nothing bothered her in the forest. That was until a tall, slender figure with no face approached her. He held no aggression towards her. No movements were made toward her. This slender figure was known in many tales to be the Slenderman. He was attempting to make her sick and take her to put her to his own use, given her abilities. Though he tried, Darkskies had no reaction to it, the static. Like something was interfering. This then led to the threats.

“You cannot stay here. Leave now, or I will kill you.”

Skyline immediately refused to leave, expressing that she had nowhere else. He gave her another offer.

“Then you will kill for me. Whoever I choose will die by your hands.”

Again, Skyline refused. She already had her own thing going on killing for something. She wasn't going to add to that list.

“I will kill whomever I choose. You will have no choice in the matter. If one you want dead deserves it, I will kill them for you. If you need me, that is.”

This was the deal they both landed on, but if Skyline refused a job of his, he would find a suitable punishment for it. So far, she hasn't, and they've been on neutral terms, but she very much dislikes the methods of his murders and the people he kills at times.

There, her life began to solidify, an endless life of killing those who deserve it.

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[lboogie1906]

Anthony Jerome “Spud” Webb (July 13, 1963) is a retired basketball player. He, who played in the NBA, is known for winning a Slam Dunk Contest despite being one of the shortest players in NBA history. NBA.com lists him as 5 feet 7 inches tall. Other references list him as 5 feet 6 inches. He is the president of basketball operations for the Texas Legends, the G League team for the Dallas Mavericks in Frisco.

He was born in Dallas. He received his nickname when he was a newborn baby and a visitor remarked to his parents that his round head resembled the Sputnik satellite. By the time he was brought home from the hospital, “Sputnik” had been shortened to “Spud.”

He was told that he was too short to play basketball. He got a chance to play on his junior high team only after two players did not complete the physical exam requirements in time for the first game. He scored 22 points in his first game. He could dunk the ball when he was 5 ft 3 in. At Skyline High School, he made the varsity team, he averaged 26 points per game as a senior.

He was recruited by North Texas Basketball Coach Bill Blakeley (his agent throughout his NBA career) he received his first opportunity to play on a college basketball team at Midland College, where he led the Chaparrals to the junior college national title in 1982.

In 1983, he was named an NJCAA All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association. He played for NC State (1983-85) averaging 10.4 points and 5.7 assists.

His first six seasons were played with the Atlanta Hawks, but he had his best years statistically with the Sacramento Kings, where he played as a starter (1992-95). He posted career highs of 16.0 points and 7.1 assists per game in his first season with the Kings. He led the NBA in free-throw shooting in his last season in Sacramento, shooting 93.4 percent in 1994-95.

He split a season between the Atlanta Hawks and the Minnesota Timberwolves before finishing his career after one season with the Orlando Magic and retiring from professional basketball in 1997. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Fitness Center Near Me of Adventure Fit Dojo

Fitness Center Near Me of Adventure Fit Dojo

Whether you're looking to improve your climbing skills or are simply interested in staying healthy, the fitness center near me of Adventure Fit Dojo can help you achieve your goals. They offer training programs for all levels, including one-on-one coaching sessions with head coach Jimmy Webb and other climbers.

Download the FitOn app to watch live-streaming classes and join multi-workout challenges. You'll find everything from yoga to high-intensity interval training (HIIT), barre, boxing, and Pilates workouts.

Chelsea Piers Fitness

Chelsea Piers Fitness is a state-of-the-art fitness center with an indoor track, 75 ft pool, sports courts, and waterfront sundeck. It's also got some pretty cool perks like an artisanal cafe and shared spaces for working out and socializing.

It's no wonder that Chelsea Piers is a popular destination for celebrities, such as Blake Lively, Emily Blunt and Ryan Reynolds. It's one of the city's most inspiring fitness centers, with a wide array of state-of-the-art equipment and studio-quality classes.

It's also home to some of the city's most lauded sports and entertainment facilities, such as the golf club, the Field House and the Sky Rink. Located on Piers 59, 60 and 61 in Manhattan's Hudson River waterfront, Chelsea Piers is an excellent place to spend some time and work out, especially in the summer.

VITAL Brooklyn

If you're a climber or a fitness junkie, VITAL Brooklyn is the place to go. This massive 45,000-square-foot space in a former warehouse in Williamsburg offers year-round bouldering, classes, and a rooftop cafe with stunning views of the Manhattan skyline.

The West Coast-based company has opened four locations in California and Washington state, so it's not surprising that they're taking on the NYC market with this new spot. Owners Sacher and Nam Phan say Brooklyn's climbing community is well-established and passionate, so they saw it as a great fit for their new venture.

The team at Vital rehabilitated the historic warehouse, which had been a soda factory and metal warehouse, into a gym with colorful plywood-and-steel climbing walls and urban greenspace. The building's century-old brick and plaster were left exposed while bright pops of color and black and white murals add visual interest to the space.

Edge Fitness

Edge Fitness, a gym near me of Adventure Fit Dojo, is a top-notch gym with great equipment and group classes. The best part is that it’s also affordable.

The club’s premium amenities include a premium sauna, state of the art locker rooms, showers, and changing areas, as well as massage chairs. Each location also features a private women’s training room, complete with cardio machines, weights, and benches.

There are a wide variety of group exercise classes at Edge, including strength groups that make use of barbells, dumbbells, and kettlebells to challenge every muscle group in the body. Another popular class is Edge Strong, which is a circuit-based workout taught by Edge personal trainers.

Aside from these group exercise classes, Edge also offers a variety of other amenities such as a state-of-the-art movie theater that screens new releases and classics each month. This is a great way to get in your cardio and have fun at the same time.

Alpine Climbing Adventure Fitness

Alpine Climbing Adventure Fitness is a unique climbing gym that offers personalized fitness training, for mind, body and soul. They offer climbing classes and equipment rentals for climbers of all levels.

They also have a full health center and a yoga studio, which is included in their membership fee. The facility has a large bouldering area, tall walls and a speed wall.

In addition to being a great way to stay fit, climbing can also be a great way to connect with nature. You'll meet other climbers and build relationships that can help you on your climbs, both indoors and out.

You can go climbing with a guide, or take a class to learn the basics. It's a great way to improve your strength and endurance, and prepare for long approaches.

Adventure Fit Dojo

Address : 183 HWY 50, Suite E, Zephyr Cove, Nevada 89448

Phone : (530) 314-3195

Email :zach@adventurefitdojo.com

Website :  zach@adventurefitdojo.com

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Nissan Skyline 2000 GTX

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[4eternal-life]

Todd Webb. From Empire State Building, New York (looking south-east)

1946

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/apr/22/new-york-city-after-the-second-world-war-in-pictures

[theatheistphotographer]

Day 336 — Cranes 

In Port Melbourne in 2016, the largest religious group was Western (Roman) Catholic (21.7% of all people), while 38.6% of people had no religion and 11.4% did not answer the question on religion.

Photo: Webb Dock & Melbourne skyline from Williamstown, 2021

[hardsadness]

Toronto Skyline, Canada Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash

[seelevelsrise]

Day 286 — The World Is Too Much With Us

The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

Photo: Webb Dock and the Melbourne skyline from Williamstown

[biketalkla]

START: No Bikes Allowed: John Elliot, a musician who tours by bike, was denied entrance to Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa Valley, California, because he didn't arrive by car. We got Andrew Brooks, President of the Skyline Park Citizens Association, and Kara Vernor, Executive Director of the Napa County Bicycle Coalition, to discuss what all parties acknowledge is a big mistake.

28:45 Adventures: Adventure Cycling's Bike Overnights program's Events Coordinator Carmen Aiken, with Bike Talk cohost and Pedal People Founder Ruthy Woodring.

Transcript: drive.google.com/file/d/1uA7QpOct…view?usp=sharing Editing by Kevin Burton. Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb. Interstitial music by Don Ward.

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Interview with Joe Pernice — 2005

Sunday Interview with PERNICE. There’s been a bunch of 1998 music chatter lately, but for my money, the Pernice Brothers’ Overcome By Happiness should be dominating all such chatter. Anyway, this talk took place a few years later ...

Over the past decade, Joe Pernice has established himself as one of the most reliably great songwriters of his generation. From his days in the not-so-alt-country collective, the Scud Mountain Boys, to side-trips into the Chappaquiddick Skyline, to his ongoing role as frontman for the Pernice Brothers, Joe's stirring storytelling skills and his distinctive way with a gorgeous melody have remained firmly in place. The Pernice Brothers began life as an orch-pop project, but the band's last two records, 2003's Yours, Mine & Ours and this year's Discover A Lovelier You, see them taking their cues from such '80s luminaries as the Smiths, New Order and Echo & the Bunnymen. Whatever direction Pernice takes his music in, the results are always worth hearing. He chatted with Junkmedia from his hometown of Holbrook, Mass.

At your recent show in Denver, you encored with "Doll On A Music Box," a song from [the semi-obscure mid-60s flying car movie starring Dick Van Dyke] "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." I was curious as to how you chose that song to cover.

On the tour for the last record, we used that soundtrack as opening music, and we decided to work it into our set. We're just fans of it. We actually recorded a version of it in Europe a little while ago. We had been doing these kind of heavier covers -- stuff like New Order and the Pretenders -- and we thought we should do something a little more low-key. James [Walbourne] my piano player, was going through a heavy spell of listening to that soundtrack, as well as the "Willie Wonka" soundtrack. Those records are just unbelievable -- there's no irony there in our covering that song.

I was surprised to see that Thom Monahan (bassist/co-producer) was missing from your touring lineup. Where'd he go?

He's taking a leave. We've been together for 10 years now, but he recently moved out to L.A., got married and has been working on a bunch of different recording projects. He just needed a break. We haven't made any big decisions, it's just that he had been working with some other bands, and it turned out that if he came out on tour with us, he'd have something like a single day off in between.

Like you said, you and Thom have been making records together for ten years. Why is he such a good collaborator for you?

[Pause] I don't know. [Laughs] We just hit it off. We've been working together since the second Scud Mountain Boys record in 1994, I think. We're both pretty headstrong guys, but we've learned how to not let things escalate if there are arguments in the studio. And there are arguments. But all of the guys I work with, we like working long hours. It's just fun for us. [Guitarist] Peyton [Pinkerton] and James, those guys would stay in the studio forever if they could. Time goes by so quick in there -- it'll feel like two hours and it'll actually be nine hours. Even when it's a pain in the ass, it's still fun.

Can you imagine making a record without Thom?

Oh, sure. It would be different, but I think different can be good. There are a lot of good people to record with out there. The more musicians I meet, I find that there are more people who are like us -- people who love to spend a lot of time in the studio. I haven't given it too much thought, but a change could be good. As a songwriter, it might be a good thing to have a little change.

From the liners, it looks as though you recorded the new album all over the place.

Yeah, we did some tracking in New York when Thom and I were both living there and then I did some on my own in Boston and Toronto and then we finished it up in Los Angeles.

Was it challenging to make a record in such a piecemeal fashion?

It wasn't a problem. It's good to get away from it sometimes. I think if we had done it all in one place, I still would've wanted to have the breaks that we had because of moving. Having some time off from a record can give you some space, some perspective on it.

The other mainstay in the band is Peyton Pinkerton, who's played on all the Pernice Brothers records. How'd you originally hook up with him?

We were all living in Northampton at the time. I was in grad school and Peyton had his band the New Radiant Storm Kings. It's really a kind of small town, so everybody sort of knows everybody. When I was putting together the first Pernice Brothers record, I asked him to come along and it's evolved from there.

It seems as though he's taken a more prominent role on the last two records. Do you pretty much give him free reign in the studio, in terms of guitar parts?

Sometimes. It's both. Sometimes there'll be a set idea I have for a guitar part. I'm a hack at best on guitar - no matter how much I practice, I'll just never be that good at guitar. I can hear guitar parts, but I can't play 'em. So I'll hum a part to Peyton, or I'll say "Can you do something like this?" And he can play it and change it a little and make it better. But he'll show up with a lot of ideas, too, so it's both. There's a lot of editing and forming that goes on in the studio.

Is it safe to say that a song on the new record like "Amazing Glow" -- with its mentions of changing cities and lifestyles -- is autobiographical? Or do you shy away from that sort of songwriting?

Oh no. Most everything that I've ever written comes from a real event or thing. But I try to step back from it at some point. I try to see what's the better story I can tell, even if it's not necessarily true. It's fun to see where a song can go, just to step back and let it take a left turn, regardless of what really happened or not.

Personally, I think it'd be pretty boring if I was just up there spouting the truth all the time. But that particular song did come out of something real and true. And it probably is true.

Another song from the new record, "My So-Called Celibate Life" -- is that your commentary on Los Angeles? (Sample lyric: "All the stars out in disguise / Look at all the money that money buys.")

Yeah, it's something I finished while I was out there. It's crazy, you go out to eat at a diner or something there and literally everyone there is working on a script or a project or something. I don't know if I was just going to places that were script workshop places, or what?

Have you caught some of that bug yourself? I was just reading that you're working on a script based on your novella (Meat Is Murder, a fictionalized memoir centered around the titular Smiths album).

Yeah, I've been working on a script for that with someone for about a year. It's getting pretty close to finished. But I'm not interested in selling the script. The plan is to produce it in a real DIY kind of way. It's almost done, and the hope is that early next year, we'll turn up the heat in terms of organizing the whole thing.

So you've got a book of poetry, a novella and now a film script. Can you foresee a time when these concerns might take precedence over music?

If I start to enjoy those things more, sure. I really take the path of least resistance. If sitting around alone in my house writing a book is more fulfilling than making music with people, than that's what I'll do. I just have to go with what I love.

We mentioned the Scud Mountain Boys earlier. It's been a decade since you put out those records. How do you view that band and that era?

I haven't listened to the records in a long time. The last time I did, I remember thinking they sounded pretty good. It was a really brief burst, when I think about it now. We put out three records in about two and a half years, maybe less than that. More like 15 months. But I think we made three good albums, we made our stamp. It was an exciting period. I felt I had hit upon something really good in terms of songwriting. I wrote most of those songs really quickly, in a matter of months, I think, with a few exceptions. I was writing a ton of songs back then, because I had just started really writing and taking time with it. It was just a really inspiring time. And everything started happening really quickly.

What's funny is that back then I was going through a heavy Jimmy Webb thing, and I had just started listening to Nick Drake and Burt Bacharach, too. So even though those early records have some undeniably country elements, that had a little more to do with the set up of the band, with pedal steel and mandolin taking such prominent roles. In fact, I remember the two records I listened to the most around that time might have been Dinosaur Jr's Green Mind and [Guided By Voices'] Bee Thousand.

Yeah, I was listening to Massachusetts recently and though the knee jerk reaction to that record would be to label it "alt-country," there were a lot of songs that didn't really fit into that category at all.

Yeah, I mean, going back to Jimmy Webb -- he's known for his country hits with Glen Campbell, like "Wichita Lineman" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix." But you listen to those songs, and they're not country at all. They just happen to be set in Texas or something. They're insane. They don't really have any of the trappings that we think of as "country." They're so damn complex and a lot of times they don't have any choruses! They just go on and on without choruses. And they're amazing.

[architectnews]

Edward J Ray Hall, Oregon State University

Edward J Ray Hall, Oregon State University Development, Cascades Campus Building, US Architecture Photos

Edward J Ray Hall at Oregon State University

Feb 2, 2021

Edward J Ray Hall

Architects: SRG Partnership, Inc.

Location: Bend, Oregon, United States

Edward J Ray Hall will provide a new learning environment for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math on the Cascades Campus of the Oregon State University while creating a vibrant student hub with active interior and exterior spaces. Its design will elevate the University’s identity in Bend while exemplifying its commitment to sustainability with a Net Zero Energy target and a structure of regionally sourced mass timber.

As the first building to engage a 46-acre reclaimed pumice mine acquired by the University for future campus expansion, the 50,000-square-foot Edward J. Ray Hall will perch atop its steep eastern rim with panoramic views across the future west campus and to the mountains beyond. The building and its adjacent outdoor spaces will step with the topography to create a gateway and link between the existing upper campus and the future development that will occur in and around the bowl of the transformed mine.

The selection of mass timber for the building’s structural system reinforces OSU-Cascades’ robust commitment to sustainability with the use of a locally sourced renewable material and the low-carbon footprint associated with its production. The natural beauty of the timber structure will be expressed in the building’s interior, creating a warm, inviting environment for students and faculty and visually connecting the building with the broader regional landscape.

Edward J. Ray Hall’s east/west orientation and exterior design will contribute to the Net-Zero Energy target established by the University. Primary façades will feature tall windows with a filigree of vertical shading devices tuned to their solar orientation to maximize daylighting and mitigate glare and summer heat gain. A broad horizontal roof plane floating above the mass of the building form will accommodate an array of photovoltaics to provide on-site renewable energy for the project.

The building was conceived through a prototyping process focused on defining a new type of academic environment that would support a variety of educational activities and functions, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and embody social equity and sustainability. The concept utilizes a centralized, flexible technology core paired with a modular grid to organize the multiple activity-based space typologies derived from project goals and objectives. The resultant prototype is a scalable, adaptable concept that will serve as the model for future buildings, with the ability to be tailored to each project’s unique opportunities, conditions and location.

Edward J Ray Hall at Oregon State University – Building Information

Architecture: SRG Partnership, Inc.

SRG Partnership design team: Laurie Canup, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal-in-Charge Carl Hampson, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal Lisa Petterson, AIA, LC, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Project Manager Scott Mooney, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Project Designer David Webb, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, Project Manager Emily Wright, IIDA, Interior Designer Jennah Byrd, LEED GA, Designer Eric Ridenour, LEED AP ND, Campus Planner Tim Evans, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Lab Planner Trevor Lavoie, AIA LEED AP BD+C, Project Architect

Consultant team: Lighting: SRG Partnership, Inc. Interior designer: SRG Partnership, Inc. Contractor: Swinerton Civil Engineer: DOWL Structural Engineer: Catena Consulting Engineers Mechanical Engineer: Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (AEI) Plumbing Engineer: Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (AEI) Electrical Engineer: Samata Consulting Engineers LLC Geotechnical Engineer: Landscape: Swift Company LLC Cost: JMB Consulting Group LLC Code: Code Unlimited LLC Accessibility: Studio Pacifica Ltd. Acoustical Engineer: ABD Engineering and Design Wind Engineer: CPP Geotechnical Engineer: GRI

Materials/Products: Mass Timber sourced from Vaagen Timbers Cascadia Windows Cedar cladding sourced from Sustainable Northwest Jaga sensible fan-coil heat/cooling units

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Location: Bend, Oregon, United States

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Neal Creek House Design: Paul McKean Architecture photograph : Stephen Tamiesie Neal Creek House at Hood River, Oregon

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Skyline Residence, Skyline Boulevard Design: Nathan Good Architects photo : Jeremy Bitterman Photography New Residence in Portland

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‘The Runaways’ Book Cover by Lucy Davey

Liam Diane at Scholastic, commissioned Lucy Davey to create an atmospheric, wraparound book cover for The Runaways – a YA novel by bestselling author Holly Webb. The book is set during WWII and features a group of high-spirited, runaway evacuees. Lucy was asked to illustrate the protagonist Molly and her dog silhouetted amongst piles of rubble in war-ravaged London. The client was keen to use a limited colour palette on the cover, and the published book will also feature teal foil. Lucy initially designed her cover in pencil and then finalised her artwork digitally, using a combination if Procreate and Photoshop.

Despite the challenge of illustrating a 1940s London skyline that was blitzed yet also recognisable, Lucy said that it was “really nice working on a cover for such an atmospheric story”. We think that she has managed to illustrate a desolate scene with an abundance of heart-warming visual narrative, and evoke a convincing sense of time and place.

The Runaways will be published and available to buy from the 3rd of October 2019.

[political-affairs]

The CN Tower

The CN Tower and the Toronto Harbor viewed from the Toronto City Centre Airport. Français : La tour CN et le port de Toronto (Canada) vus depuis l'aéroport du centre-ville.

The CN Tower (French: Tour CN) is a 553.33 m-high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[3][6] It was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada,[7][8] attracting more than two million international visitors annually.[5][9]

Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets, prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Since the name CN Tower became common in daily usage, the abbreviation was eventually expanded to Canadian National Tower or Canada's National Tower. However, neither of these names is commonly used.[10]

 In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It also belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers, where it holds second-place ranking.[11][12][5]

 The idea of the CN Tower originated in 1968 when the Canadian National Railway had a desire to build a large TV and radio communication platform to serve the Toronto area, as well as demonstrate the strength of Canadian industry and CN in particular. These plans evolved over the next few years, and the project became official in 1972. The tower would have been part of Metro Centre (see CityPlace), a large development south of Front Street on the Railway Lands, a large railway switching yard that was being made redundant by newer yards outside the city. Key project team members were NCK Engineering as structural engineer; John Andrews Architects; Webb, Zerafa, Menkes, Housden Architects; Foundation Building Construction; and Canron (Eastern Structural Division).[3][4][6]

 At the time, Toronto was a boom town, and the late 1960s and early 1970s had seen the construction of numerous large skyscrapers in the downtown core, most notably First Canadian Place. This made broadcasting into the downtown area very difficult due to reflections off the buildings. The only solution was to raise the antennas above the buildings, demanding a tower over 300 m (980 ft) tall. Additionally, at the time, most data communications took place over point-to-point microwave links, whose dish antennae covered the roofs of large buildings. As each new skyscraper was added to the downtown, former line-of-sight links were no longer possible. CN intended to rent "hub" space for microwave links, visible from almost any building in the Toronto area. The CN Tower can be seen from at least as far away as Kennedy Street in Aurora, Ontario, approximately 40 km (25 mi) to the north, 60 km (37 mi) east of Toronto, in Oshawa, and from several points on the south shore of Lake Ontario, 48 km (30 mi) to the south in New York state in the United States.[5][6]

 In August 1974, construction of the main level commenced. Using 45 hydraulic jacks attached to cables strung from a temporary steel crown anchored to the top of the tower, twelve giant steel and wooden bracket forms were slowly raised, ultimately taking about a week to crawl up to their final position. These forms were used to create the brackets that support the main level, as well as a base for the construction of the main level itself. The Space Deck (currently named SkyPod) was built of concrete poured into a wooden frame attached to rebar at the lower level deck, and then reinforced with a large steel compression band around the outside.[13]

 The antenna was originally to be raised by crane as well, but during construction the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane helicopter became available when the United States Army sold off theirs to civilian operators. The helicopter, named "Olga", was first used to remove the crane, and then flew the antenna up in 36 sections. The flights of the antenna pieces were a minor tourist attraction of their own, and the schedule was printed in the local newspapers. Use of the helicopter saved months of construction time, with this phase taking only three and a half weeks instead of the planned six months. The tower was topped off on April 2, 1975 after 26 months of construction, officially capturing the height record from Moscow's Ostankino Tower, and bringing the total mass to 118,000 t (130,073 short tons; 116,136 long tons).

 Two years into the construction, plans for Metro Centre were scrapped, leaving the tower isolated on the Railway Lands in what was then a largely abandoned light-industrial space. This caused serious problems for tourists to access the tower. Ned Baldwin, project architect with John Andrews, wrote at the time that "All of the logic which dictated the design of the lower accommodation has been upset," and that "Under such ludicrous circumstances Canadian National would hardly have chosen this location to build."[14]