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Look Out, London: India Is Building Its Own Big Ben
The world’s tallest free-standing clock tower will go up in the southern Indian city of Mysore.
UC Berkeley’s Campanile, a tower that boasts a helpful clock, is 307 feet tall. London’s Big Ben—which is technically the name of the clock and not the tower, but stick with me—soars to 316 feet. Old Joe, on the campus of the U.K.’s University of Birmingham, is the rumored inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Tower of Orthanc, and the world’s tallest free standing clock tower at 361 feet.
But not, perhaps, for long. Old Joe can keep Tolkien, but the the IT company Infosys has announced plans to build the new tallest free standing clock tower in the southern Indian city of Mysore. Its height? A record-smashing 443 feet.