While Prudential is betting that it can fill the tower with high-paying tenants that have thus far gone elsewhere, it faces a Manhattan office market that is starting to wobble.
When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up to the top carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.
And the 442-metre-high tower has continued to be put to good cinematic use.
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.
The IT hub would be made up of six towers, including a 75-storey, 270m-high tower, "the highest in Africa", RLG Communications says on its website.
Known to his army friends as High Tower because of his height, he went to school at St Goban's College, near Bantry, in County Cork.
In addition, barriers to entry in the tower sector are high.
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Then it all came into focus: a single tower, 9m high, topped with a massive magnificent carved face, surrounded by the jungle, with no one else around for miles.
This 73-meter-high sandstone tower was built as a symbol of victory in the 13th century.
Customers can even order their own 2m-high beer tower complete with tap, to save them from needing refills.
Foreboding council estates and concrete tower blocks overlook rundown high streets full of fried chicken shops and stalls offering knock-off mobile phones.
The 416ft (127m) high Glasgow Tower will welcome visitors on Thursday.
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Freedom of Information requests sent by BBC London have now revealed that many tower blocks rated as high risk by local authorities received no visits at all from the LFB last year.
Those who fear that the city's historical buildings are in danger of being literally overshadowed by modern monoliths might take comfort in the global economic crisis, which has caused some of Moscow's most ambitious new developments, including Norman Foster's 600 meter-high Russia Tower and 450 meter Crystal Island building, to be put on hold.
The Empire State Building race is among the more high-profile tower climbs in the world.
Now BrightSource (and others) use huge arrays of mirrors to direct sunlight to a single spot high on a tower.
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It seems the contract tower program is taking a high, disproportionate cut.
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In addition to high-end graphics support, the R5500 provides the full scalability and powerful performance of Dell's high-end tower workstations in a 2U form factor.
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At least 21 London tower blocks rated as a high fire risk by local councils were not visited by firefighters last year - despite flawed visits being a factor in the fatal Lakanal House fire.
Together, the 17 franchises on our best seller list account for more than 867 million games sold worldwide over the last 25 years--enough that if you stacked them on top of each other, it would make a tower 13, 683 miles high.
The store will span seven floors in a mixed-use, retail, hotel and high-rise residential tower.
Officials in the tower said the plane was too high and did not have its landing gear down as it approached the airport.
She staged the evening of tapas in her apartment high up in a residential tower near City Hall.
The BBC does not have a list of which tower blocks the LFB itself rates as high risk.
That turned out to be a high water mark for the tower apartment.
The 418ft (130m) high Grade II-listed tower - taller than St Paul's Cathedral in London - was built by Express Lifts and opened by the Queen in 1982.
When we saw the Corsair 900D at CES we knew we had the enclosure we needed to make the original Hailstorm look like a small mid-tower system and not the bad ass high performance system it really was.
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In the category of homes that are guaranteed to make you drool, we took a peek at an eight-story 19th-century water tower that a London couple transformed into a high-flying single-family home.
Jonathan Trelawny who was ordained in 1673, was one of seven bishops charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to implement King James II's Declaration of Indulgence granting religious tolerance to Catholics.
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