Off in the distance there was a glowing green tower with a few bandits hammering at a structure on the edges, reeking if suppressed narrative.
It starts when you first arrive on the island and you see a group of people silently laboring on a shrine near a glowing green tower.
But in recent years it has become the home of huge empty lots and darkened projects, including Las Vegas Plaza and Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent finished when construction ended.
The north Strip is also home to the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent completed when the construction workers were dismissed, and the Sahara hotel-casino, which went dark in 2011, and only recently began renovations.
Just outside of town, hiking opportunities abound in the lush green hills that tower over the fjord.
At the other there is the New Era Hotel, a blank, green, glass tower block.
Here, 10, 000 hectares of woodland, glades and rivers are dominated by sweeping whale-back hills in various hues of green, brown and purple that tower above the landscape like sleeping beasts.
Echo 1: Uh, it's just the green side of the, uh, big water tower.
The Tower Companies championed the business case for green buildings before doing so became a market mandate.
Craig Pinckney, 34, a shipping manager at a Connecticut environmental laboratory, seriously considered trading in his Alienware Area 51 tower (complete with a cyborg-green paint job) for the new Doom 3 machine, but decided he could just upgrade his processor and video card instead.
Global landmarks that are going green on 17 March include Niagara Falls, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Burj al Arab in Dubai, Table Mountain in South Africa, New York's Empire State Building and Berlin's TV Tower.
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Long before he became the bleeding edge of the green building industry, David Borchardt, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Rockville, MD-based Tower Companies, earned his spurs cleaning up many of the most polluted Cold War weapons sites in the United States.
The new apartments will replace the 10-storey tower block, The Fosters, which was seen across the city on the hills of High Green.
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