One of Brent's top picks is WSP Group, a design consultant firm that specializes in tall buildings.
What is important, however, is that most of the companies that want to set up shop in the City wish to do so in tall buildings.
In Boston, tall buildings, including the Hancock and Prudential buildings were evacuated.
It is an escape-pod for people trapped in tall, burning buildings.
They jump over walls, leap tall buildings in a single inhuman bound, and they can even attack a low-flying hang glider!
Glass structures might work in New York, in the shadows of tall buildings, but how would they fare under direct California sun?
"All those tall buildings in Manhattan with glass exteriors and windows use soda ash, " says Nikhil Sen, GHCL's senior finance and strategy manager.
More powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and faster than a speeding bullet is the dreaded buy-back.
Our favorite characters fly faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall buildings in a single bound, beat the bad guys and stroll away with nary a scratch.
Apart from his obvious gifts, Superman's capacity for continual rebooting has kept him fresh from generation to generation: from leaping tall buildings in 1938 to traversing the solar system and even traveling through time in the 1960s and '70s, to surviving both death and matrimony in more recent decades.
There, mudslides and raging rivers swept away shantytowns perched on steep slopes of the lush Avila mountain and left tall buildings marooned in a sea of rock-hard debris.
This includes the interference that comes from two stations that are broadcasting on frequencies that are too close together and the kind of interference that comes from driving in the mountains or near tall buildings.
The White House apologised after a presidential jet accompanied by a fighter aircraft flew low and close to tall buildings, causing consternation in lower Manhattan , with some workers fleeing their offices.
Zegerman, his neighbor in Bequia Tower, one of three tall condominium buildings overlooking Naples Bay just west of the Tamiami Trail.
Winter, city life (with the concomitant shadows cast by tall buildings) and dark skin in dark climates all reduce this action.
If you're in the middle of a city, with tall buildings blocking your view of the sky, that can be a problem.
The chicks' parents are among some 20 peregrine falcon pairs that live in New York City, favoring bridges and tall buildings where they can easily spot their prey.
If you stack all of the rum that we lose to evaporation every year in barrels, it would be 30 Empire State Buildings tall.
It has an ally in Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, who thinks tall buildings add to the capital's prestige.
And finally we get to Greenwood -- although you don't know you're in Greenwood right away because there are not a lot of tall buildings around.
This time, he has an addition to his stable: a flying craft, with two enclosed rotors underneath, which allow it to dink around tall buildings and, presumably, to chop vegetables in the event that Alfred wants to make a pot-au-feu.
China will have 802 buildings standing over 152 meters tall compared to 539 in the U.S., according to the report.
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But Antony Wood, head of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an industry association based in Chicago, says technological limitations no longer rule out such towers.
To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
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.
"We're seeing a tremendous amount of activity overseas, whether it's in Asia or the Middle East, " says Ron Klemencic , chairman of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and president of Seattle-based structural engineering firm Magnusson Klemencic Associates .
For example, when I lived in Jakarta as a young boy, I can remember the buildings being no more than a few stories tall.
To make sure there are no surprises post-construction, models of tall buildings and those surrounding it are sometimes tested inside mathematically accurate wind tunnels, meant to replicate conditions in the real world.
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