If all goes according to plan, Tiankong Chengshi Sky City will be completed sometime next January.
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Yet even if Broad can finish the building on budget, the economics of Sky City are dubious.
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The Fairfax stake is now gone, as is New Zealand's Sky City casino.
Sky City may just get central government approval and state bank support after all.
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And so far, Sky City does not look like a winner.
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There are few coincidences in that country, so Sky City fans must surely have been pleased when China Daily on May 19 highlighted their favorite city.
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At the moment the central government has yet to give its blessing to Sky City, and many think the building will never get out of the ground.
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We learn early on he has a debt to pay, but if he rescues an imprisoned young woman, Elizabeth, from the sky city, his debt will be cleared.
Sky City will have 104 of them.
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Upbeat couples with an adventurous spirit will meet their match in this sky-high city.
They are many images of women 30 feet in sky above the city on giant placards, directing the populace to buy things.
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Shunned by the City, Sky was also looked down on by the rest of the television business.
"We are living in the lap of luxury here, " he said, gesturing to the blue sky and the magnificent city skyline.
Television cameras showed debris falling from the sky west of Oklahoma City and power transformers being knocked out by high winds across a wider area.
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In this video, we learn the history and background of Columbia, the fact that the city had vanished, and the fact that a building fell out of the sky, which implies that the city has decayed.
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The game portrays their journey together from a futuristic city in the sky into the post-Victorian world of 1912.
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Elsewhere, much has changed: Ottoman minarets pierce the sky and outside the old city the prosperous Akko is unmistakably modern Israel.
While air pollution has remained a nagging problem since then, Beijingers have learned to live with the situation, and there have been enough blue sky days in the capital city to keep the Air Quality Index (AQI) out of the news until last week that is.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have spent a few hours playing BioShock: Infinite (B:I), the upcoming Irrational Games FPS. I only played for three hours out of what is likely dozens, and I barely scratched the surface of Columbia, the city in the sky.
As thick plumes of smoke billowed into the sky across the Potomac, the city was transformed in minutes.
The Army, ever-secretive and rightly mistrustful of other government agencies, had not informed the governor, the mayor, the state police, the municipal police, or the federal police of its plans, so Guadalajarans huddled in their homes and workplaces, phoning and e-mailing one another, waiting in vain for advisories or information from the government as the sky filled with black smoke and the city rang with sirens.
The areas beneath would become parks, greening the city by banishing its traffic into the sky.
Looking out from a taxi at the water-logged city, it seemed that sometimes the sky really does fall.
Yet as we pedalled toward Albany, some 56 miles from Rhinebeck, the sky looked increasingly grim, finally bursting near the city of Troy.
There were few cars on the road, and the sky was cloudy, an ominous sight in a city that gets only seven inches of rain per year.
What follows is an epic battle in the middle of a human city, with giant Reapers descending from the sky, knocking over buildings, and beginning their attempt to exterminate humanity.
Wolinsky, who now runs the photo advice site PixBoomBa.com, tends to shoot city buildings when the natural light in the sky equals the light inside a building (usually around dusk, just as evening lights are turned on).
In Auckland, the major city closest to the International Date Line, fireworks exploded over the city's 328m (1, 076ft) Sky Tower as midnight struck (11:00 GMT).
In these photos, you can see the city lights of Minneapolis and Chicago glittering against the night sky.
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