The difficulty of luring tenants into such a skyscraper is only one argument against it.
The Triumph, he said, is the size of three football fields or a skyscraper laid on its side.
If a structure were built inside, it would be six or seven stories tall, by no means a skyscraper.
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Variety of actions in these locations is also impressive - rappelling off a skyscraper in Shanghai is a real highlight.
The thought of working on the upper levels of a skyscraper now strikes fear into the hearts of many New Yorkers.
That means I'd have to wait to look up "defenestrate" if, say, I'm near the window of a skyscraper without Wi-Fi.
The 20-story hotel was a skyscraper when it was built, and served as a residence and hot spot for wealthy Manhattanites.
Not only would a skyscraper penthouse office be uncool" for a New York tech titan, Mr. Mayer argued, "it would be untenable.
He wants to build a skyscraper called the Dynamic Tower in Dubai.
We enjoy pretending to be dragon-slaying knights or bad-guy-perforating cowboys or Bruce Willis, saving our ex-wife from a skyscraper full of terrorists.
We also showcased several feats of futuristic architecture -- a skyscraper zoo with a built-in ferris wheel and a shape-shifting solar bridge that purifies the air.
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Catapult Chicago, which opened March 5, for instance, occupies 12, 000 square feet, donated by a law firm, on the 25th floor of a skyscraper in the River North area.
From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.
Forty Chicago technology companies and 250 individuals pay for round-theclock access to common areas and huddle rooms within 25, 000 square feet on the 15th floor of a skyscraper across from the Sears Tower.
For years, the regional government has been planning redevelopment of the area, in an apparent effort to emulate the likes of Shanghai, which China transformed into a skyscraper metropolis during the economic boom of the 1990s.
There was always a sleepwalker edging along the parapet of a skyscraper with his arms reaching toward the moon, or a werewolf starting to howl in the middle of Times Square, or a pyromaniac setting fire to the dock warehouses.
The concept of vertical farming is not new - the phrase was first coined by Gilbert Ellis Bailey in 1915 as pressure increased on already limited farmland - and involves growing produce either in a skyscraper greenhouse, or in this case, a tower.
The job means that one is daily attending - in the most seemingly innocent moments, when responding to a school project or appraising a Lego airport - to the casting of foundations no less sensitive and load-bearing than those of a skyscraper.
Susan just built a skyscraper.
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Mr Piano, who comes from a long line of Italian masterbuilders, collaborated with Richard Rogers on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and is now working on a commission at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, as well as on a skyscraper near the Sydney Opera House.
As firefighters sadly saluted a new group of human remains uncovered at ground zero, New York City officials postponed plans to reopen a symbolic skyscraper a few feet away.
This is a movie of gleaming surfaces -- veteran DP Roger Deakins turns a glass skyscraper at night into a funhouse hall of mirrors, and a floating Macau casino is like an oasis in the black sea.
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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.
Then there's Fox Plaza, memorable for its starring role in the 1988 hit terror-in-a-skyscraper film, Die Hard.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the offending scene showed the shooting of a security guard in the lobby of a Shanghai skyscraper by the French assassin being chased by Bond.
For fourteen days, in a conference room in a midtown skyscraper, Mastro and other Chevron attorneys questioned Donziger, under oath, about the financing of the case, and about various legal strategies that he had used.
So a few years and a billion pounds or so later, the great architect delivers his monumental vision - a cloud-tickling skyscraper, a giant gleaming obelisk that emerges from London Bridge train station like a rocket about to take off.
This month, it began renting luxury apartments at the 47-story 500 Lake Shore Dr. Last year, a Related venture also resumed construction on a stalled Chicago skyscraper at 111 West Wacker Dr. that it is converting into a rental-apartment tower.
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