Professing to be an architectural icon in a liveable city core, this giant structure, purported to be the largest wood structure in the world, is best described as a forest of mushrooms welded onto a flying waffle.
The addition of the spire, and its raising of the building's height to 1, 776 feet, makes One World Trade Center the tallest structure in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna a crucial distinction in measuring the building's height.
The Mecca Clock Royal Tower Hotel, with more than 800 rooms, occupies what will soon be the world's second-tallest building, a structure incorporating the world's biggest clock, with faces at least six times the size of Big Ben's, and capped by a spire topped with a golden crescent.
There were thousands of people from all over the world circumambulating this sacred structure at the center of the Earth, all there for a common purpose of praising God, yet each engaged in private reflection oblivious of any other.
It is believed to be the largest religious structure in the world and built some 800 years ago.
The Dome, the largest single-roofed structure in the world, was built to hold a year-long exhibition to celebrate the beginning of the third millennium.
World War I turned Wilson not only against German militarism but against the structure of world politics and economics that the imperial struggle for colonies had sustained.
Globalisation and technological innovation are bringing about long-term changes in the world economy that are altering the structure of the labour market.
According to these researchers, at any given time, each of us has around hundred pursuits, ranging from mundane aims, such as picking up toilet paper on the way home from work, all the way to lofty ambitions, such as changing the underlying social structure of the western world.
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Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.
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Genting, Southeast Asia's largest casino operator, will rebrand the languishing structure Resorts World Las Vegas.
With 17 miles of corridors it was easily the biggest office building in the world, and yet the five-story structure was barely visible from the capital on the other side of the Potomac River.
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The outdoor climbing frame, built by the army, is the largest man-made structure for apes in the world, and will encourage the chimpanzees' natural curiosity and intelligence.
The nature and structure of higher education around the world has changed more in the past sixty years than at any time over the six hundred years since the foundation of the university as we know it.
Despite its availability all over the world and its ease of use, the molecular structure of concrete had remained elusive for decades.
However, as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War structure collapsed, and the world economy entered an unprecedented period of globalization, the 1980s Japanese economy bubble burst.
The future of the world's largest surviving Victorian glasshouse structure has been secured with the help of millions of pounds worth of grants, donations and state funding.
Leading the fashion was Philips, a Dutch multinational electronics company, which first set up a matrix structure after the second world war.
During the meeting students were instructed on conservation challenges, and the structure and limitations of the World Heritage Convention.
Samoa Air says its program is the world's first fare structure that charges only by weight.
The only structure in the world that would be taller is the 2, 722-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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The specification of the legal rights that structure real-world markets have profound distributive consequences, and those are far from irrelevant to the justification of those rights.
The 787 is the world's first airliner whose structure is made mostly from lightweight composite materials.
Built in 2008 to showcase the Buddha's teaching, the pagoda is the world's largest unsupported dome structure, pieced together using an ancient technique of interlocking blocks.
Today, there are 25 countries around the world that have adopted the REIT (or REIT-like) structure as a tax-efficient way for small investors to achieve the many benefits of owning an indirect interest in high-quality, well-located and professionally-managed income-producing real estate.
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Since I had built a shared services model within the global IT function, taking millions of dollars out of cost structure while improving service levels around the world, our CEO thought it would make sense to look for opportunities to utilize that same model in other parts of the business.
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IR--You question both the fundamental purpose of the World Bank and the integrity of the changes we are proposing to its structure and operation (March 1st).
The eastern boundary of the Global Geopark extends beyond the settlement of Durness and Loch Eriboll to follow the Moine Thrust Zone, an internationally significant geological structure that helped 19th century geologists determine how the world's great mountain ranges were formed.
That is why the major central banks of the world are going to keep their rate structure relaxed.
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