Steel frames and elevators had made tall buildings achievable and urbanization made them necessary.
You have two tall buildings, where one's a hotel and one's an apartment building.
Tall buildings, new financial centers, energy cities, new university hubs -- they are all being built.
To mitigate the feeling of motion, tall buildings sometimes include dampers at the top.
One of Brent's top picks is WSP Group, a design consultant firm that specializes in tall buildings.
It has an ally in Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, who thinks tall buildings add to the capital's prestige.
The commercial viability of tall buildings are always undermined by the excessive space needed for structural elements and for elevators.
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Mr Johnson said lights on cranes and tall buildings would now be reviewed.
Tall buildings pose an obvious danger to low-flying aircraft, but here too there are strict rules to minimise pilots' risk.
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Under safety regulations, tall buildings must have navigation lights on top to make them visible to low-flying aircraft, he said.
They jump over walls, leap tall buildings in a single inhuman bound, and they can even attack a low-flying hang glider!
There has traditionally been a lot of opposition to more tall buildings cutting out the famous views of St Paul's Cathedral.
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.
Glass structures might work in New York, in the shadows of tall buildings, but how would they fare under direct California sun?
In Boston, tall buildings, including the Hancock and Prudential buildings were evacuated.
"All those tall buildings in Manhattan with glass exteriors and windows use soda ash, " says Nikhil Sen, GHCL's senior finance and strategy manager.
Pelman hopes to produce competitive amounts of electricity by capturing slower, more erratic winds, such as those blowing between tall buildings or across roofs.
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.
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.
The Corporation of London, the Square Mile's local authority, wants more tall buildings because it fears competition from rival financial districts and not just Frankfurt and Paris.
Its collectors are also suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics, such as energy-harvesting awnings or the sides of tall buildings, but market has not yet materialized at scale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It seems to me quite strange that we haven't wished for tall buildings for some time but it is one of the signifiers of a really terrific city.
In the nervous reaction to the World Trade Center buildings coming down, building standards were amended to provide for better fire proofing and an additional stairwell for tall buildings.
As is well known to participants in the sport of Base Jumping (a mind-bogglingly dangerous activity that involves parachuting from static objects), parachutes have problems when launched from tall buildings.
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