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.
Trump properties include Trump Place and Trump World Tower in New York City, the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza and Trump Marina casinos, as well as a number of golf courses and office buildings.
The court hearing marked the latest turn in the complex sale process surrounding the world famous tower.
The new Shanghai Tower is now over 500 meters tall, and currently stands 1, 643 feet into the Shanghai sky, making it taller than the World Financial Tower next door.
Mr. Carpenter's architectural design work includes the facade of the new 7 World Trade Center tower in New York and the renovation of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, completed in 2010.
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The 7 World Trade Centre office tower, the only building completed at the site, opened in May.
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.
The proposed new publicly-listed REIT consists of twelve office properties, six retail properties, and one development site and is anchored by the world-famous officer tower known as The Empire State Building.
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Mr Singer's influence extends to the world beyond the ivory tower partly because he writes with such lucidity and quiet passion about genuinely pressing questions: the environment, the rich-poor divide, cruelty to animals, human suffering.
The proposed new Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) consists of 12 office properties, six retail properties, and one development site and is anchored by the world-famous officer tower known as The Empire State Building .
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It is our building, and still the most famous office tower in the world.
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With the support from the UNESCO World Heritage Fund the stylite tower (a tower in which monks lived in isolation) was stabilized.
Glimpse Brunelleschi's dome from the narrow streets of Florence and suddenly the behemoths of 20th-century architecture--the Sears Tower, the World Trade Center--shrink in importance.
And it was on hand at the early stages of rebuilding, as it won a contract to put up steel for the site's signature tower, One World Trade Center, in 2006.
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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B. had a cable TV in his office, and we gathered that Tuesday morning, some of us just in from the Green Line with our morning coffee, when he came down the hall to tell everyone that a plane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Today it's one of the world's most recognizable and most-visited monuments but in its day, the tower, erected for the 1889 World's Fair, was a controversial emblem of industrialization.
In 1974, Chicago sealed its reputation with the completion of the Sears Tower, then the world's biggest building.
The Empire State Building race is among the more high-profile tower climbs in the world.
Stand at the top of the tower and watch the world be alive.
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Hang Yingwei, president of Shanghai Construction Group Co, told Xinhua news agency that the tower will break many world records.
On September 11, 2001, Kathryn Freed watched from two blocks away as a plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower.
Jim Riches, who lost his firefighter son, Jimmy, when the World Trade Center's north tower collapsed, said the news offered a bit of comfort.
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In addition, PNC is currently building the greenest skyrise in the world in steel town, The Tower at PNC Plaza, that will be certified LEED Platinum and is slated to open in 2015.
While wireless headset manufacturers battle one another to shrink their wares until they completely disappear into your ear canal, organizers of the Switched-On London lighting festival (not named, unfortunately, after the excellent column by NPD's Ross Rubin) have taken the opposite tack: for one week in February, they've transformed the famous Tower Bridge into the world's largest Bluetooth device (narrowly edging out the PS3).
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German company TimberTower celebrated the installation of the world's first wooden wind turbine tower in Hanover, and for the annual Glow Festival, Eindhoven unveiled an impressive glowing dome made from 30, 000 LEDs.
His neighboring tower at the site, 4 World Trade Center, is due for completion by late 2013 and is about half-leased by government agencies.
Just beyond the tops of bare winter trees is One Hyde Park, a much-hyped prime tower development offering some of the world's most expensive apartments.
In addition to holding the steel contract at One World Trade Center, DCM is putting up steel for 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story tower.
We had lunch in the North Tower at The Windows On The World and posed for pictures with the kids from the highest vantage point in Manhattan.
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