• Shechtman counsels businesspeople who fear traveling and many who don't want to set foot in a tall building.

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  • In my case, I like to the think that my contributions to DNS were the basement and first two floors of a tall building.

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  • The architectural symbol of the city is the Mole Antonelliana, a tall building with a superb 360-degree panorama, hosting the National Cinema Museum ( www.comune.torino.it).

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  • There is, at the moment, no convenient way to leave a tall building if the emergency staircases are on fire and the fire brigade has not arrived or its ladders will not reach.

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  • It doesn't have to be a tall building.

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  • Bart Sullivan, a senior vice president at WSP Cantor Seinuk, a firm that handles engineering for buildings like One World Trade Center, says building a residential skyscraper is generally more challenging than building a tall office building, partly because residential buildings have fewer internal columns and other core structural elements.

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  • You come into this cathedral and are hit with organ music, incense, colored light and a skyscraper-tall building let's call it architecture or art but the rest of your existence is lived in a mud shack.

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  • It takes you to a tall slit in the outermost building, where an offset door makes you turn right into an entry area, avoiding an immediate, direct full view of the interior.

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  • The ship would use 60% wind power, relying on three computer-operated masts rising 55-meters -- as tall as a 14-storey building.

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  • Other options include building a fence or installing tall hedges to screen the view, but I don't recommend this.

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  • The accident happened near to the 110m tall (360ft) Bridgewater Place, a building which architecture experts say has created a wind tunnel.

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  • Thousands of people work at the Pemex headquarters, which includes a 54-story building that is nearly 700 feet tall.

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  • Back then each of us in the business section was assigned a tall, old metal gym locker in the adjoining Paramount building to store our stuff.

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  • The Nintendo building is a giant white cube, seven stories tall, surrounded by a plaza of white cobblestone and beyond that a white brick wall.

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  • As a child growing up in Langham I knew of this odd 25-foot tall, 40-foot wide Christmas pudding of a building on the edge of the airfield where my father, somewhat unsuccessfully, first tried to teach me to drive.

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  • The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.

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  • Ever since, Chicago has been a laboratory for architectural experimentation, a celebration of engineering ingenuity and the joys of building something really, really tall.

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  • You have two tall buildings, where one's a hotel and one's an apartment building.

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  • They endorse rezoning for increased density permitting, in particular, a cluster of five to six buildings, 700 to 900 feet tall (the Chrysler Building is 1, 046 feet), west of Grand Central around Vanderbilt Avenue, with slightly smaller towers marching up Park.

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  • After making that first toy, it was eight inches tall, but in my head, it was like I'd just made a building or a boat.

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  • My father had to take off a morning of work to go over to the home office in New York to the tall building whose uppermost tower was crowned with the beacon his company proudly designated "The Light That Never Fails" and inform the superintendent of agencies that he couldn't accept the promotion he longed for.

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  • In an anonymous old building, at the top of too many flights of stairs, a door opened to reveal a tall lady, a Bechstein piano and two Siamese cats.

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