In 2007, Col Gaddafi came to Dakar to inaugurate the site of what was supposed to become the tallest tower in West Africa.
Dubai's Emaar Properties, which is building the world's tallest tower in Dubai, has invested more than half a billion dollars in an Indian joint venture.
Baghdad also now boasts what Iraqis claim is the Middle East's tallest tower (erected in competition with Kuwait), the region's only double-decker bridge and a complete reconstruction of the world's oldest palace at nearby Babylon.
The tallest part of the tower block is side-on to the river, along which the prevailing wind blows.
The tallest and most ornate tower is based on a bell tower in Florence by Giotto, the smaller octagonal tower is based on a tower in Verona and the smallest tower represents a Tuscan tower as seen in San Samignano.
Meanwhile Glasgow's tower, the tallest free-standing structure in Scotland, was closed for more than two years because of technical problems.
That was surpassed when the World Trade Center arrived in 1973, but two years later, Chicago's Sears Tower became the tallest at 1, 454 feet.
At 90m (300ft), the tower is the tallest residential building in Wales and has became a landmark on the city's skyline since completion in 2009.
In his 15-year career, Mr. Majcen has notched 45 buildings, including a 50-story sprint up the stairs of the Millennium Tower, the tallest building in Vienna.
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The tower's builders say it will surpass Chicago's Willis Tower as the tallest building in the United States, with a final height of 1, 776 feet -- a nod to the year of the Declaration of Independence.
From its ribbon cutting in 2004, the viaduct was destined for Guinness: When finished, it had the highest road deck in Europe, the tallest piers and highest bridge tower in the world, and the longest launch of a bridge deck.
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People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.
The Freedom Tower, the site's tallest skyscraper, also aims to be LEED-certified, as do ever more government buildings across America.
It even displaced the Eiffel Tower as the country's tallest structure.
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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley had requested that the federal government institute a no-fly zone of at least five miles to protect the Sears Tower, the nation's tallest building.
Nakheel, a state-backed developer, said it would build another tower block that would be the tallest building in the world, even higher than today's tallest, the Burj Dubai.
The tallest building in the United States, the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois, stands 1, 450 feet high.
One of its most notable features is the tallest building in Wales, the 29-storey Meridian Tower.
At 127m, the tower has been hailed as Scotland's tallest free-standing structure.
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In Colombo, the capital, various swanky structures are rising and the ground has been cleared for a lotus-shaped tower intended to be South Asia's tallest.
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Construction is set to begin this winter on the 70-story Trump Tower New Orleans, which will be one of the tallest buildings on the Gulf Coast, according to co-developer David Brannen.
The company that built London's Shard skyscraper has been chosen to oversee the construction of a tower in Saudi Arabia set to be the world's tallest.
Tower 42, which was officially opened in 1981, is currently the fifth tallest building in London.
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In November, Wu met his stockholders as usual in Hopewell Center, the 66-story tower in Wanchai district that until the late 1980s was Hong Kong's tallest building.
When the new Freedom Tower is complete in lower Manhattan, it will be one of the top five tallest buildings in the world with a total peak height of 1, 776 feet.
Of the top 10 tallest buildings in the world right now, the only U.S. property is the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago standing at 1, 451 feet.
The slim, glass condo tower he is planning, designed by architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, would be the tallest building between the Empire State Building and downtown.
If it didn't have the spire, One World Trade Center would be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which stands at 1, 451 feet and currently has the title of tallest building in the U.S., not including its own antennas.
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