Painted Cooling Tower of Meppen

Painted Cooling Tower of Meppen

Gewerbegebiet Huntel : Meppen : Germany

Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature. Common applications include cooling the circulating water used in oil refineries, chemical plants, power stations and building cooling.


From above description, we may assume that a cooling tower is totally a technical thing, a subject of engineer and technology lovers, but this simple tower can be an attractive and eye catching subject if it is a colorful and full of graffiti. Here is another one from Meppen, Germany.

From Google Earth

This tower can be viewed far from twenty kilometers, from almost all directions. Christoph Rihs is the master painter of the world map, he also won a completion for this tower renovation.
Geotegs : Google Map | Bing Map 

Painted Cooling Towers of Bloemfontein

Painted Cooling Towers of Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein:Free State:South Africa

Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature. Common applications include cooling the circulating water used in oil refineries, chemical plants, power stations and building cooling.

From above description, we may assume that a cooling tower is totally a technical thing, a subject of engineer and technology lovers, but this simple tower can be an attractive and eye catching subject if it is a colorful and full of graffiti. Here is one of those colofrul COOLing tower from Bloemfontein. There are two towers of same nature in Soweto too.

Inspired by the positive response from the newspapers and other media, after painting the Orlando cooling tower of Soweto First National Bank took the initiative to paint these four cooling towers of Bloemfontein's coal power station. An Ad agency named Draftcb from Johannesburg did the paint to revive theses 200 feet towers.
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Geotag and source: Google Map | See Bing Map too
Address : Harvey Road, Bloemfontein, South Africa [Street View]

Another Painted Cooling Tower at Johannesburg

Painted Cooling Tower at Johannesburg

Johannesburg : South Africa

Just like the cooling towers of Soweto and Bloemfontein, this inactive one was also painted during the World Cup Soccer 2010. This one is situated so close to the Soccer City stadium of Johannesburg.

A close up view of Johannesburg cooling tower
Photo credit: Umme Habiba Jasmine

But this one has a dissimilarity with the other painted towers, it is fully painted as the advertisement of famous brand Coca-Cola, even though rest of the towers were painted to show the cultural phenomena of South Africa. Thus, globalization wins over the local appearances.
Take a look at this cooling tower before painting here.
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Geotag and source: Google Map |also in Bing Map

Address :Nasrec Road,Gauteng 2013,Johannesburg South, South Africa [StreetView]

Painted Cooling Towers of Soweto

Painted Cooling Towers of Soweto
Soweto : South Africa

Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature. Common applications include cooling the circulating water used in oil refineries, chemical plants, power stations and building cooling.

From above description, we may assume that a cooling tower is totally a technical thing, a subject of engineer and technology lovers, but this simple tower can be an attractive and eye catching subject if it is a colorful and full of graffiti. Here is one of those colorful  Orlando COOLing tower from Soweto.

From Gregor Rohrig

These two towers were painted during the World Cup Soccer 2010. One of the sponsor of WC was First National Bank, it was their idea to color these two tallest structure of Soweto. One of the tower was painted for the FNB and the second one was painted with the south african cultural theme. It took ten painter to finish the work.7 of them are all qualified artists and 3 assistants. There were 2 on the ground to move the heavy 6m gondoliers across the towers the other assistant was up on the tower doing flat painting. Now these towers are using for the bungee jumping.
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Take a look at these cooling towers before painting here.

Geotag and source: Google Map |see in: Bing Map
Address: Nicholas, Soweto, South Africa[Streetview]