Spire spires were an astounding architectural innovation, beginning with the early fourteenth-century spire at Freiburg Minster, in which the pierced stonework was held together by iron cramps. The openwork spire, according to Robert Bork, represents a "radical but logical extension of the Gothic tendency towards skeletal structure." The organic skeleton of Antoni Gaudi's phenomenal spires at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona represent an outgrowth of this Gothic tendency. Designed and begun by Gaudi in 1884, they were not completed until the 20th century. In England, "spire" immediately brings to mind Salisbury Cathedral. Its 403-foot (123-m) spire, built between 1320 and 1380,
Spire Global Spire Global Spire Global, Inc. is an American private company specializing in the design, build, launch, and management of a network of small satellites. It has successfully deployed more than eighty Earth observation CubeSats into low Earth orbit. The company has offices in San Francisco, Glasgow, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Boulder. Spire's constellation of cube satellites 'listen' to the planet in real-time, then apply machine learning and analytics to that data. Spire was founded in 2012 and opened offices in San Francisco. The company later opened offices in Glasgow, Singapore, and Boulder. Spire was founded to create ArduSat, a crowd-funded satellite,