Towers are usually depicted as the Wheel of Convention turned sideways, and the aldmeri-built towers were supposed to imitate this idea. But then I saw this: http://images.uesp.net/5/57/OB-Imperial_City_Above.jpg
White-Gold is the axel of the wheel itself, rather than the wheel turned sideways. Any significance?
Also, there are 8 districts around White-Gold, and
PELINAL'S DEATH
And in the blood-floored throne room of White-Gold, the severed head of Pelinal spoke to the winged-bull, Morihaus, demigod lover of Al-Esh, saying, "Our enemies have undone me, and spread my body into hiding. In mockery of divine purpose, the Ayleids cut me into eighths, for they are obsessed with this number."