Let wireless reach its potential by opening up spectrum and discouraging municipalities from blocking tower construction.
But with demand growing by thousands of percent, and with local zoning authorities slow to approve new tower construction or even modifications, more spectrum is essential.
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But now they have a rival tower under construction, and at least five other buildings that will eventually rise to 60 stories.
Many of the units at One57, a new 1, 004-foot tower under construction on West 57th Street, have gone to Russian and Chinese buyers, brokers said.
The latest (and only) tower under construction is highly modernist.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
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.
"There is no better time to be in the Philippines than now, " says Robbie Antonio, managing director of Century Properties, a Manila real estate firm whose array of luxury construction projects includes Trump Tower, Makati City.
As we walked over to the center of the tower, you could see dozens of construction workers with their phones out recording videos and taking pictures.
But in recent years it has become the home of huge empty lots and darkened projects, including Las Vegas Plaza and Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent finished when construction ended.
One57, a 90-story tower in midtown Manhattan that is currently under construction, will sit on top of a Park Hyatt hotel.
The north Strip is also home to the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent completed when the construction workers were dismissed, and the Sahara hotel-casino, which went dark in 2011, and only recently began renovations.
Currently under construction, the 40-storey Cajasol Tower is being built on the former site of the 1992 World Expo in La Cartuja, a neighbourhood that Seville has struggled to redevelop.
Hang Yingwei, president of Shanghai Construction Group Co, told Xinhua news agency that the tower will break many world records.
At the World Trade Center construction site in Lower Manhattan, crews were readying 10 tower cranes for high winds ahead of Hurricane Irene's arrival.
In Atlanta he plans to begin construction early next year on a 270-unit condo tower in the first of up to nine new residential towers to be built on the largest blank slate in the city, a 20-acre parcel.
About five years after construction stopped on the planned 150-story Chicago Spire luxury residential tower, an Irish government agency has put the note formerly held by the defunct Anglo Irish Bank Corp. on the block.
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.
Among the other high-profile designers working in the city: London-based Zaha Hadid Architects designed a new opera house under construction, and Information Based Architecture of Amsterdam designed the TV and sightseeing tower that will contain retail shops and gardens with teahouses.
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.
The Ivanpah solar tower, formally known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is the largest solar thermal power facility currently under construction.
With much of the site under construction or stripped down, the visit involves a bird's-eye view from the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower which stands next to the Olympic Stadium.
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