Clock Tower (Central University of Venezuela)
[2] The tower was proposed by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva as a joint piece built by the engineer Juan Otaola Paván, with both contributing to the design.[2] Villanueva and Otaola also chose to keep the design of the clock tower "pure", with nothing extra needed or added.The geometry of the twisted columns of the three bases took a lot of torsion to hold, ultimately being supported by the crossbars between columns, which give the tower stability; the designers wanted to preserve the tower's slender nature and so only adjusted the twist by the smallest margins possible.[9] The company that manufactured the columns of the tower later used the same techniques when contributing to the build of General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, spanning Lake Maracaibo.The techniques (based on Otaola's plans) were revolutionary at the time, as explained by construction historian Nancy Dembo in her book on the impact of Villanueva's works.
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