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Alpha
09-25-2007, 07:27 PM
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Official sources:
Unofficial sources: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/turismo/noticias/ult338u5319.shtml , http://www.copasa.com.br/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?infoid=448&sid=129

Building Name: Nave Espacial de Varginha
Native Name:
Other Names:
Address: R. Silva Rittencourt
City: Varghina
Postal Code:
State/Province:
Country: Brazil
Official Building Website URL:
Skyscrapers.com (Emporis.info) URL:
Architect:
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Nave Espacial de Varginha is a water tower, whose reservoir looks like a flying saucer.
On January 20th, 1996 at Varghina, there was one of the most contraversional UFO sightings ever recorded at Varghina, the such called Varghina UFO incident ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_incident )


Heights--

PLEASE PROVIDE SOURCES FOR HEIGHTS, OTHERWISE WE WILL ASSUME THEY ARE ESTIMATES.
- antenna:
- spire:
- roof: 20 metres
- top floor:
- other heights: tower shaft: 12 metres

Current Building Status (Built, Proposed, Canceled, Destroyed, etc...): Built

Construction Dates--
- started: 2001
- finished: 2001
- destroyed:


Above ground floors:
Below ground floors:
Floor-to-floor height:
Gross Floor area:
Elevator count:
Unit count: 1

Structure Type(s): Tower
Building Use(s): Water Tower, Monument
Building Style(s):
Building Materials: Steel, concrete

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City Name: Varghina
Native Name:
State/Province: Minas Gerais
Country: Brazil
Population: 124502
Population Source & Year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha%2C_Brazil (2006)
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MKmillenium
09-25-2007, 07:48 PM
According this:

http://www.copasa.com.br/cgi/cgilua....pl=printerview

http://www.portalvarginha.com.br/turismo.php

http://revistagalileu.globo.com/Gali...1719-2,00.html (http://revistagalileu.globo.com/Galileu/0,6993,ECT656780-1719-2,00.html)
Varginha is all ET Thema....

http://www.varginhaonline.com.br/col...d_colunista=14

CITY NAME: Varginha !

Address: Praça Marechal Floriano - Centre Varginha Minas Gerais
Architect: Paulo Eduardo Antunes Corrêia
Ilumination: Philips do Brasil Ltda.
Owner: Copasa (Companhia de Águas )
Bldg Style: Futurism
More Facts: Resevoir of 100.000 liters of water

History:

One of the principal touristic places of Varginha, a reference to a supposed apparition of ET, which made the famous city also abroad, 380km away of Capital of Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte. The monument is one of the principal attractions visited by the tourists in the region. The lighting project including playing colors from projectors in white, violet and green from steam metal reactors to immitate a spaceship - flying dish was made by Philips Illumination Company in Brazil, who has a factory in city. Varginha was known in January of 1996, when two sisters and a friend says to becoming a creature humanóide, what mobilized ufologists, authorities and attracted curious people. The idea of raising a monument that was recalling the case came with the necessity of finding a weird form to a water compartment of 100 thousand liters lifted to 12 meters of height in the center of the city at Marechal Floriano Square together an Allien Sculpture of Artist Michele Vanzetti.

drawing done!

MKmillenium
09-26-2007, 11:12 AM
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=10901

Source www.aflaloegasperini.com.br (http://www.aflaloegasperini.com.br/)

Style: Post Modern
Materials: Concrete, Glass, Granite, Sandstone, Steel.

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BTW, Many thanks for recognizing the great work done in Nyphenburg Castle diagram... I'm glad someone taking an attention to that...

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