Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.
The airport opened a new control tower in June, incorporating the latest technology, which managers hoped would help it attract airlines.
In the newly-opened Marwa Tower mall, a gleaming structure of glass and steel skyscraper next to the Grand Mosque, you may find Puma trainers, Chanel fragrances, gold jewelry, mobile phones and dozens of other gadgets -- alongside religious books and traditional calligraphic art.
The medieval Pater Church Tower is also being opened to the public.
The area around the stadium in the south of the park with the Aquatic Centre and Orbit Tower will not be opened fully to the public until spring 2014 but the north of the park, with the Handball Arena, waterways and parklands, will be made available to residents permanently this summer.
Formally opened in January 2008, the tower remains unoccupied because of fears about its soundness.
French fashion icon Christian Lacroix collaborated with five Thai designers to create the lavish, whimsical interiors of the 238-room Sofitel So Bangkok, which opened in March 2012 in a glass tower at the intersection of busy Sathorn and Rama IV Roads, within walking distance of both BTS and MRT stations.
For example, the 300-room Renaissance Zurich Tower, opened in August 2011, is a central landmark in the blossoming Zurich West district, a former industrial centre now known as the city's zone for artists, designers and musicians.
The tower and rotating platform opened in June, ahead of the Olympics.
The 7 World Trade Centre office tower, the only building completed at the site, opened in May.
Tower 42, which was officially opened in 1981, is currently the fifth tallest building in London.
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The tower, which forms part of the Glasgow Science Centre complex in Govan, was opened in a blaze of publicity in 2001.
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So, as well as blue lanes from Merton to the City (CS7) and Barking to Tower Gateway (CS3), two more have opened from Bow to Aldgate (CS2) and Wandsworth to Westminster (CS8).
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