Big Ben's full name is Clock Tower of Westminster Palace which is a clock tower structure on the East-North side of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, England. Although widely known as Big Ben, in fact, this name is the name of the heaviest bell, 13.5 t, of the five bells set inside the tower. The tower is often called St. Stephen's Tower.
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the British Parliament declared Big Ben Tower to be renamed Elizabeth Tower on June 4, 2012.
This tower was taken as part of Charles Barry's design for a new mansion after Westminster Castle was destroyed by fire in the night of October 16, 1834. The tower was designed in the Victorian Gothic style and tall 96, 3 m.
The first 61 m of the structure is clock tower, including stone-covered brick; The rest of the tower is the pyramid-shaped structure. Foundation 15 x 15 m, concrete 3 m thick, 7 m deep underground. Weight of tower 9553 tons. Four faces are 55 m high on the ground. Due to the ground condition since it was built to date, the tower is slightly tilted to the north-west, about 220 mm. As a result of the heat, the tower wobbles east-west a little bit every year.