One of its most notable features is the tallest building in Wales, the 29-storey Meridian Tower.
Chicago is a city of different levels - the tallest building in the US, street level, and underground roads.
The latest featured the Burj Khalifa Centre of Now in Dubai, the tallest building in the world.
The tallest building in the United States, the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois, stands 1, 450 feet high.
In Dubai, you will find the tallest building in the world, the first-ever seven-star hotel and the biggest indoor ski slope.
The tallest building in the world, Taipei 101, was completed in 2004.
The 31-storey Gold Strike Casino Hotel is the tallest building in the state.
It is no accident that the tallest building in the world today, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, sits mostly empty as well.
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On the way we stopped for cold, bottled water across the road from the Teslow Grain Elevator, the tallest building in Livingston.
It will be the tallest building in China, and the second time Shanghai skyscrapers ranked in the top five pieces of commercial real estate worldwide.
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First, construction on The Shard, architect Renzo Piano's shimmering, 72-story skyscraper, wrapped up in London, making it the tallest building in Europe.
Perhaps height is less important than it once was--ask someone on the street what the tallest building in the world is, and they probably won't know.
When Donald Trump decided to build his first resort in Latin America, of course it had to be the tallest building in Latin America.
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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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It will be the tallest building in New York, and it still has the subtle taper and the elegant octagonal ascent that David Childs gave it.
The 22-story Park Hotel, the tallest building in China when it opened in 1934, looms over People's Square -- once the oval of the city's horse-racing track.
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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.
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.
There were those who suspected that its extraordinarily long spire was intended solely to make it the tallest building in the world, but nobody has ever seriously suggested not counting it.
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.
In the past 6 years, we have stopped numerous attacks, including a plot to fly a plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles and another to blow up passenger jets bound for America over the Atlantic.
From the 360-degree observation deck on the 72nd floor of the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe at 310m, London opens up like a pop-up book and the landmarks of St Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge look toy-town tiny.
It will be around 558ft (170m) higher than the current tallest building, the 2, 717ft (828m) Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Known for the elegance of his designs, Calatrava discusses the relationship between art and architecture and man's desire to build increasingly higher -- he has recently conceived the proposed Chicago Spire, soon to be the tallest residential building in the world.
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.
There's a dizzying array of amenities at New York by Gehry, a building designed by iconic architect Frank Gehry near City Hall that is the tallest residential building in the city's history.
Across the fields and beyond a humming slash of motorway, the enormous bamboo stalk of Taipei 101, the second-tallest building in the world, stood like a punctuation mark.
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.
Tower 42, which was officially opened in 1981, is currently the fifth tallest building in London.
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In his brilliant 1991 design for Frankfurt's Commerzbank, the tallest office building in Europe, he brought off the seemingly impossible feat of building a supertower that could use natural ventilation (as against fuel-gobbling air conditioning) during 60% of the year.
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