Occupying the top 14 floors of the Shinjuku Park Tower, the sleek Park Hyatt Tokyo boasts commanding views and was a hotel of choice for director Sofia Coppola before the film.
In New York, he tried unsuccessfully to buy the One Madison Park condo tower, a project overlooking Madison Square Park, which stalled in the downturn.
In 1926 Loomis bought a huge, crumbling mock-Tudor mansion in Tuxedo Park called Tower House, where he set up the lab.
Real estate investment trusts are on the move again, and Ross Smotrich, an analyst at Barclays Capital, thinks now is a perfect time to buy blue-chip REITs at bargain prices. (For another take on REITs, see page 108.) He likes Boston Properties ( BXP, 50) , which owns classy office buildings like Boston's Prudential Tower, San Francisco's Embarcadero Center and, in Manhattan, 399 Park Avenue, Times Square Tower and Citigroup Center.
Lucy Tower car park will be shut for five months while essential structural work is carried out.
In October, Prof John Burland, a construction expert from Imperial College London who oversaw the building of the car park, said the tower was leaning, but it would not be a major concern for at least 10, 000 years.
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Pramod Bhasin, president and chief executive of leading outsourcing firm Genpact, calls DLF Corporate Park, the first office tower Singh built in Gurgaon, the birthplace of India s business-process outsourcing industry.
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.
On the south side of the park, the rising One 57 Tower ( now infamous for its dangling crane) has lured a handful of billionaire buyers including fashion mavens Lawrence S. Stroll and Silas K. F.
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Just beyond the tops of bare winter trees is One Hyde Park, a much-hyped prime tower development offering some of the world's most expensive apartments.
His DB realty has bagged several prized redevelopment projects in Mumbai where it is building a 135-story tower that will house a Park Hyatt Hotel.
Despite efforts to build an industrial park on the surrounding site, the tower has no purpose, except as a tourist spot an odd place to propose to your sweetie (it's happened), and a place to test the seemingly endless echo.
The 60-acre site is currently undergoing a major transformation and is home to the Glasgow Science Centre, Imax Cinema, the Millennium Tower and Pacific Quay Developments' business park.
At 12:00 BST on Monday, a 41-gun salute will be fired from Hyde Park, along with a 21-gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London.
Rooms are appointed in warm stained wood and leather with brass trimmings, have big walk-in showers, free wi-fi, Illy espresso makers and huge picture windows (ask for one overlooking 57th Street or for a Park View room on the highest floors of the 29-storey tower).
The tower, on East 22nd St. between Broadway and Park Avenue South, would be only 50 feet wide at the base but would expand like a slender champagne flute and be wider at the top, a rendering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal shows.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, a huge public art piece being built in the Olympic Park by sculpture Anish Kapoor, will probably remain open to the public as is.
It will propel you up to a peak in Namsan park -- central Seoul's biggest -- next to the Seoul Tower , from where you can survey the sprawling metropolis.
The top of the tower is flat and offers a view of the sky above the Olympic Park.
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Those with day tickets for the Olympic Park or for sporting events there can also buy tickets for the same day for the Orbit Tower.
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One57, a 90-story tower in midtown Manhattan that is currently under construction, will sit on top of a Park Hyatt hotel.
It turns World Park, in Beijing, a theme park of tacky reduced-scale reproductions of cultural wonders (from the Taj Mahal to the Eiffel Tower), into a derisive microcosm of China.
The building's developer, Maik Uwe Hinkel, said the relocation of a section of the wall is necessary not only to allow street access for the luxury tower, but also is demanded by the city to allow access to a planned waterside park and bridge for pedestrians and cyclists.
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