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Close-up of a moving escalator
A Tengger horseman, contemplating the Lautan Pasir ("Sea of Sand") from the slopes of Mount Bromo (Indonesia).
The Coit Tower is an iconic Art Deco monument located on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Completed in 1933, the 210-foot reinforced concrete tower was built using a bequest from Lillie Hitchcock Coit (American, 1843 - 1929) to beautify the city. The tower features an observation deck offering panoramic views of the skyline, Bay Bridge, and Golden Gate Bridge. The Art Deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. (American, 1874 - 1957) and Henry Temple Howard (American, 1894 - 1967). The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 22 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants. Three artists preferred oil on canvas and worked offsite. One artist preferred egg tempera rather than fresco. The tower was constructed as the result of a bequest by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, whose will included two bequests, one to create a memorial to the city's volunteer firefighters, which was done by statuary in Washington Square, and the other to beautify the city. Coit Tower is the result of the second bequest. A concrete relief of a phoenix by sculptor Robert Boardman Howard is placed above the main entrance. It was commissioned by the architect and cast as part of the building. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.
The Malaysian Airlines symbol is a stylized red and blue representation of a traditional "Wau Bulan" (Malay/Kelantanese Moon kite).