No other type of contemporary structure is as charged with social, economic, and political symbolism as the television tower. But how exactly are wishes, ideas of the future, and demon-strations of power implemented through architecture? How is architecture transformed via political propaganda or assimilation into everyday culture? And just how political can architecture be? On the basis of twenty-five television towers all over the world, this book presents fascinating portraits of an unusual type of building. Here, it is not only a matter of beating architectural and structural records, but also of social and political contexts at the time of building, and the towers’ situations today. 25 TV-Towers: Stuttgarter Fernsehturm, Stuttgart Al-Borg, Cairo Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Ostankino Tower, Mosckow Avala Tower, Belgrade Torre de Televisao, Brasilia Berliner Fernsehturm, Berlin Jested Tower, Liberec Telkom Jo’Burg, Johannesburg Canadian National Tower, Toronto Televizijos Bokstas, Vilnius Tashkent TV Tower, Tashkent Riga Radio and TV Tower, Riga Zizkov TV Tower, Prague TV Tower Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg Torre de Collserola, Barcelona Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Stratosphere Tower, Las Vegas International Saddam Tower, Baghdad Sky Tower, Auckland Borj-e Milad, Tehran Menara Jakarta, Jakarta Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, Guangzhou Tokyo Sky Tree, Tokyo