The houses are replaced by high rises and parking lots for construction crews that are soon to be high rises.
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Nobody says, 'no, we should have these tall high rises.
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There are more than 353 high rises in the city.
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Between the high rises, dust storms whipped the empty fields.
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For instance, high-rises should not be built on barrier islands.
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Neighbors may assume that the high-rises cause the high rents.
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Each week the cityscape changes as new high-rises get taller.
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These buildings aren't the first lofty high-rises in the neighborhood.
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It's not too high rise, 'cause I don't like high rises.
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Today, the street is filled with cars and modern high rises.
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Odor migration is common in high-rises, particularly the newer ones.
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Blocks lined with squat rowhouses are interspersed with hulking high-rises.
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Now, Greater Noida's skyline is dotted with half-built, abandoned, high-rises.
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High-rises in shades of grey, black and brown stack the skylines.
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Surrounded by high-rises, it certainly looks not long for this world.
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We do all the senior high rises in the city of Wilmington.
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Several high-rises and a vast airport in Beijing are under construction.
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The towering high-rises are a trademark of this part of town.
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Around Jakarta, panicky Indonesians fled schools, office buildings and other high-rises.
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Some of San Francisco's most prominent high rises are on the list.
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I asked my driver, a local woman, about the lakefront high-rises.
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High-rises and casinos go up with little care to everyday people.
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Moluccans are aghast when they see photos of Jakarta's highways and high-rises.
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The twin high-rises that make up the center were built in 2004.
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High-rises replaced gardens, two or three to a single plot of land.
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As high rises go up, the capital's fashionable sip espressos in upmarket bars.
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When technology finally dominates us, when high-rises turn against us and cars
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Tech startups are often located in high-rises of Tel Aviv's financial district.
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The idea of being pushed out of homes and back into high rises.
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"The next mega-attack will come back to high-rises," Chief Pfeifer said.
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Thousands of Glaswegians were transported into towering new high-rises across the city.
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According to the FAA, SkyPan repeatedly flew near high rises in restricted airspace.
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He led me through tunnels that had been dug underneath the high rises.
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The march passed between red brick high-rises—public housing built by Chávez.
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Fancy new high-rises line the lakefront on the north side of town.
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Hundreds of families were evacuated from five high-rises that posed similar risks.
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The lights of the high-rises of Cali shimmered in the far distance.
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More than 2000 people were rescued from the rubble of two collapsed high rises.
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A hotel and a few new businesses and residential high-rises have sprouted downtown.
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Condos include high-rises like 55 Austin Place, with an outdoor pool, and Nos.
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But nobody wanted to pay to remove the cladding from privately owned high-rises.
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While luxury high-rises are plentiful along sleek downtown streets, affordable housing is scarce.
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On the one hand, the neighborhood feels urban, particularly amid its lofty high-rises.
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"All these high-rises that went up recently made a total glut," she said.
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At home, in the high-rises, people are getting creative with their new lifestyles.
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I've been photographing them ever since, as the high rises continue to go up.
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"Renters don't like new high-rises because they see new high-rises and rents going up at the same time," said Xiaodi Li, a doctoral fellow at the N.Y.U. Furman Center who has studied the effect of new housing in New York City.
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It would be one of Dubai's tallest buildings, in a city awash with high-rises.
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"From the late 1960s, the government ... started redeveloping (Bunker Hill) with high rises," says Bastian.
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Italian villas, empty 19th-century warehouses and blocky Communist-era high-rises fill spaces between.
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In the early 1960s huge shanty-town populations were moved into safer government high-rises.
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Like beavers that build dams, we build high-rises to shelter ourselves from the elements.
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The city's glass high-rises contain dozens of multinational corporations, including Pepsi, Google, and Microsoft.
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The sun was softly coming-up over the unforgiving cityscape of Kiev's dusky high rises.
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High-rises made from engineered wood would replace weed lots and underused warehouses along streets.
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Such tenements, known as tong lau, were common here in Hong Kong before high-rises.
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Three high-rises were going up next to, across from, and cater-corner to Naia.
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Its high rises, bombed and shelled, look as though they had been punched by giants.
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Glittering high-rises and condominiums keep sprouting up along Miami Beach and other coastal areas.
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He agrees that water and sewage systems need higher strength requirements, but not high rises.
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They might be the best bulwark against the high-rises threatening to swallow Kampong Bharu.
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Glittering high-rises and condominiums keep sprouting up along Miami Beach and other coastal areas.
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The shots of these high-rises are some of the film's most bizarre and dreamlike.
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Typically these are wood-frame construction, cheaper to build than luxury steel-and-glass high-rises.
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When the show jumps to New York, it's full of gleaming helicopter shots of high-rises.
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Sunset Park's park offers sweeping views of tugs, the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan's high-rises.
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In her Manhattan neighborhood, she can see only slivers of the sky sandwiched between high-rises.
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Disney hotels come in all shapes and sizes, from swanky high rises to wilderness-inspired enclaves.
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Several residential high-rises were evacuated by fire in Ajman, a city in Dubai's metropolitan area.
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Already, developers are experimenting with "nano flats," supertall high rises, and permanent housing on cruise liners.
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And the other parts of Monaco were even less so, full of drab, outdated high-rises.
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The old photographs allowed him to notice the new density of high-rises in today's city.
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Vast areas of the city look like slums, interspersed with high-rises and affluent gated communities.
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High-rises have gone up on long-empty lots, while promised parks have come to life.
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Rental options in the area include contemporary high-rises like the Tate, Ten19803 and Abington House.
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An effort is underway to sign up more high rises in Manhattan and the South Bronx.
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Think high-rises, gated communities, all the places that give you a twitch of existential dread.
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So far, 21989 apartment buildings have signed up, a small fraction of the city's high-rises.
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"All you see is huge high-rises all around him," Mr. Pan said of Mr. Tan.
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High-rises gave way to lush forest as the street wound down to a pebble beach.
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There are also 236 low-slung two-family townhouses, with tiny yards, tucked amid the high-rises.
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Nowhere in the beloved decades-old show do you see the soulless steel and concrete high rises.
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In what Korean capital city were mysterious changes recently observed on the upper floors of high-rises?
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Some look like virtual corals, others like spiky death stars, others like models for trendy high-rises.
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So he breathed new life into high-rises, in strange and intricate shapes, and in electric hues.
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This time, though, most of the high-rises are being built by private developers for private buyers.
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Yet it will take more than knocking down a few high-rises to reverse a rotten legacy.
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"We have all these landmark high-rises but they have no relationship to one another," he says.
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Our only gripe, of course, is that many non-stretch high-rises tend to restrict and restrain.
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Tokyo will see a 50% increase in high-rises between this year and 2020, according to Bloomberg.
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It's here where the high-rises are shooting upward like the jagged formations of some distant planet.
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Apart from the high-rises in the background, it doesn't feel like we are in the city.
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Today hotels and condominiums line Sunny Isles' two-mile beach-front, including three Trump-branded high-rises.
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Take a look around the East Cut, with its glitzy, glass high-rises and big tech offices.
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But perhaps predictably, after five years in the shadows of multiplying luxury high-rises, the project shuttered.
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Soulless new high-rises erupt randomly from the landscape, with little heed paid to infrastructure or aesthetics.
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The high rises along Waikiki Beach would be vulnerable to damage if hurricane force winds move onshore.
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The developer chose Placencia "because it doesn't have lots of high-rises and development," Mr. Hannan said.
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Most of the city's so-called "Stalin high-rises" — both residential and government buildings — desperately need renovating.
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Not in the shimmering high-rises of Miami, where hurricane winds partially knocked down two construction cranes.
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The 168,000 residents in his district, the second largest in the city, mostly live in high rises.
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On Tuesday, the government ordered an investigation into construction materials used in high rises across the country.
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While apartment high-rises are going up, there's little evidence major service sector employers are following yet.
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But in 2019, the figure reigns supreme over its neighboring high-rises and even the Transamerica Pyramid.
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It's lined with luxury high-rises that looked more or less like those I saw throughout Monaco.
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These businesses range from big-city high-rises and medical centers to rural agriculture and energy farms.
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What's there now is a scrubbed, wealthy enclave punctuated by new luxury high rises and vacant storefronts.
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Floor height plays a part in determining those fees; the high-rises range from 24 to 33 stories.
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But beyond the high-rises on the capital's Dubai-style coastal promenade, the problems are plain to see.
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And of course it would conveniently serve all those god-awful ugly high rises sprouting in west Williamsburg.
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Instead of Cairo's teeming slums and cramped alleys it features wide boulevards and neat rows of high-rises.
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At first glance, the high-rises look idyllic: new towers with two-bedroom apartments, elevators and common areas.
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HONG KONG'S serried ranks of high-rises, stuffed with small flats, are the epitome of modern city living.
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Toronto's new oppressive high-rises and its growing housing crisis seem fresh and painful, and they absolutely are.
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But unlike America's modern concrete jungles, these high rises were built from mud brick in the 16th century.
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Many Beijing high rises simply disappeared into the grey haze, as commuters wearing face masks headed to work.
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The country's rapid urbanization has led to groups of villages' being razed to make way for high-rises.
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We passed the Olympic Village, a cluster of cream-colored high rises on the outskirts of the city.
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The Department of Sanitation says that 2,123 high rises throughout the five boroughs currently have brown bin service.
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When today's high-rises grow, low-rise neighbors fear the shadows will block sunlight and kill backyard gardens.
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Hundreds of apartments in other high rises were evacuated Friday after inspectors found safety problems, including similar cladding.
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The earthquake could be felt hundreds of miles away, and shook high-rises in Bangkok, the Thai capital.
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The light show will feature projections on high-rises once the clocks turn to midnight, tourism officials said.
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Apartments in many of these high-rises remain unsold or are owned by investors who don't live there.
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At times, I spotted some beautiful historical buildings, but they were mostly hidden away behind newer high-rises.
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As a result, American building codes have effectively banned flammable cladding in high-rises for nearly two decades.
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The zoning on some side streets was changed to prevent the ungainly high-rises of an earlier era.
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Horrified onlookers recorded the event in hi-def from high-rises, instantaneously uploading their footage to social media.
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He said he reminded the artists constantly that one day he would turn the building into high-rises.
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These businesses can range from big-city high-rises and medical centers to rural agriculture and energy farms.
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The scene is actually a collage of hundreds of high rises, apartment buildings and factories from cities across China.
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He has developed just two condo buildings in the US since 2003 – high-rises in Chicago and Las Vegas.
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Scroll through Explorest to find a surfeit of futuristic high-rises, minimalist staircases, and rooftop views perfect for selfies.
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The glare undulates for miles across the hillsides, touching cozy homes and glitzy high-rises and bullet-perforated storefronts.
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The government says it will spend 400 million pounds ($530 million) stripping the cladding from publicly owned high-rises.
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Relocated to a squalid block of high-rises with a mockingly pastoral name, they do their best to assimilate.
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The sprawling Iranian capital nestles between barren mountain ranges, its streets packed with high rises, leafy parks and markets.
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The key difference between Waterstone at the Circle and other expensive high-rises is the demographic of its clientele.
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One more bend in the river, and the high-rises of the Bronx can be seen in the distance.
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Narrator: Five steel high-rises could collapse completely, while 10 others will be red-tagged, or unsafe to enter.
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Signs of construction are as ubiquitous as the glossy high-rises that the East Cut neighborhood is known for.
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Tenants organized a nighttime check-in system in one of the high-rises to keep out strangers with guns.
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The Downtown Brooklyn skyline has been redefined by the cluster of high-rises that has sprouted in recent years.
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And new heights will soon be reached in Brooklyn and Queens as well, thanks to luxury apartment high-rises.
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For years, people in Zürich only knew high rises from photos of New York and Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.
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Now the place — called "the new Macau" by its developers — is blanketed in Chinese-built casinos and high-rises.
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Donald Trump Jr. has spent the week in India, pitching new luxury high-rises that bear his family's name.
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Most people walked straight past it, a festering eyesore in a city dominated by high rises and building cranes.
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A strong earthquake shook a border area between northern Thailand and Laos on Thursday morning, swaying Bangkok high-rises.
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On my morning walk, the bridges and high-rises in the distance almost disappeared, mere shapes in a fog.
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Hampton Inn & Suites Montgomery-Downtown occupies one of the city's historic high-rises, putting many attractions within walking distance.
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Through the palm trees and high-rises, I could spot the glossy Odeon Tower rising above the other buildings.
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Ice can form on pretty much any New York City building, from low-rise tenements to luxury high rises.
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Luxury condo high-rises and office skyscrapers aren't the only notable additions to the city in the past decade.
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In the end, officials concluded that wooden high-rises could help revive Oregon's stagnant timber industry, Mr. Kaiser said.
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Downtown and select other areas zoned for high rises are, in fact, seeing a huge boom in high rise construction.
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But the scattered sites testify to millennia before the shores were dotted with high-rises fashioned from glass and steel.
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Developers complain that these fees suffocate all but the most lucrative projects—which then invite criticism as "luxury high-rises".
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High rises were demonized in the 503s by a generation of activists who battled against the "Manhattanization" of the city.
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Not only drivers will see the work — many of the high-rises in Paris Rive Gauche also offer a view.
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The fight takes place in the slums, separated from the city's high rises by a swath of shallow, grimy water.
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The government said Thursday it is testing 600 high-rises across England, in the wake of the fire at Grenfell.
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It's been relatively untouched by the tech boom and the accompanying high rises that pepper the rest of the city.
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I passed three low-income senior apartment buildings and four high-end assisted living high-rises and saw no one.
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Today, a phalanx of half-built high-rises stretches across the new island, a flock of construction cranes hovering above.
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Nothing he owned, managed or marketed lacked the Trump name, from high-rises and golf courses to wine and water.
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It did not recommend that fire sprinklers be installed on existing high-rises or on new buildings below 10 stories.
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Many of the new buildings are high-rises, taller than the old standard of five or six floors, she added.
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The space, in a corner of TriBeCa bristling with new high-rises, was tricked out like an upscale disaster shelter.
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Prime Minister Theresa May ordered an inquiry as concerns intensified over fire safety and construction materials used in high-rises.
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The archive is in TriBeCa, a trendy Manhattan neighborhood with shiny high-rises, chic stores and, of course, rising rents.
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In these seven new residential high-rises on and around Manhattan's "Billionaires' Row," 213 percent of the units remain unsold.
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He and a few other residents are trying to keep their homes from being razed for yet more high-rises.
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Tear gas billowed between the high-rises as sirens wailed on some of the most densely populated streets on Earth.
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But high-rises are rare in this low-slung city (at least so far), which allows for some breathing room.
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High rises were decorated with anti-American murals or portraits of the martyrs of the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
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Overtown is sandwiched between swanky downtown Miami high-rises and artsy Wynwood with its shops, bars and world-renowned street art.
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Granted, certain parts of the outer boroughs now sport more and more glass and steel high-rises, thanks to skyrocketing gentrification.
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October 21, 2019 What could be the reasons for obstructions that were recently observed at high-rises in North Korea's capital?
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There are the post-war high rises around cities like Marseille and Rotterdam, typically inner-city slums relocated by idealistic planners.
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Mandaluyong abuts the Manila business district of Makati, but there are no glittering glass high-rises and no wide sidewalks there.
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In recent decades waves of migrants and refugees have filled its high-rises after native Swedes upped sticks for better areas.
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Cities like Krakow, Belgrade, and Budapest are a Whitman-esque mix of old factories, warehouses, beautiful homes, and modern high-rises.
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Developers, for instance, have recently fenced off one of Beirut's last stretches of natural waterfront to build more gated high-rises.
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Today, there are fewer than two dozen floral businesses, Mr. Nikolis estimates, and they are often hemmed in by high-rises.
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"I wish that he would have been here when people ran from high-rises," Miami's mayor, Tomás Regalado, said of Pruitt.
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Many are in luxury high-rises that attract young professionals like Elisabeth Conroy, 30, an arts lawyer who works in Manhattan.
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While shophouses thrived under British rule, many were razed to make room for high-rises after Singapore became independent in 1.073.
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There's a group of high-rises in the southwestern Spanish city of Seville nicknamed "Las Vegas," but it's no casino district.
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New York's professional athletes have long gravitated to luxury Manhattan high-rises, trendy TriBeCa lofts and sprawling mansions on the Hudson.
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The couple also disliked Kips Bay, which to them felt soulless and lacking greenery, dominated by high-rises and sports bars.
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The "countryside" description didn't seem fitting; bare plots of land littered with garbage sat adjacent to clusters of colossal high-rises.
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Ideology inspired the construction of the Stalin high-rises, rechristened for tourists with the more palatable name of the Seven Sisters.
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In a statement, Arconic said it would stop selling the cladding panels, known as Reynobond PE, for use in high-rises.
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Neoclassical buildings, once grand, looked dilapidated, and thick nests of high-rises had replaced villas with French doors and Arab arches.
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Millions were watching live coverage of a fire in one of Tehran's most prominent high-rises when the building suddenly collapsed.
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Properties included are mixed-use high-rises, condominium and apartment buildings, and institutional and commercial properties, but not single-family homes.
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There was a new subway with rubber-tired trains like ones that Paris had, shiny high-rises and just-opened expressways.
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The storm was meant to be a reckoning about the city's environmental fragility, but the shoreline continued to sprout high-rises.
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But after considering several offers, the owner Alan Rosen decided that the community still needed cheesecake more than luxury high-rises.
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Today, most residents live in tenement-style concrete high-rises like the one that collapsed this week on Karl Marx Street.
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As high-rises were multiplying amid a real estate boom, Mr. Freiberg began creating an army of testers, using local actors.
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The 36-floor building near the tourist mecca of Waikiki was built in 1971, before sprinklers were mandatory in high-rises.
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So it's a whole host of efforts that we're making, and that the real kinda forward push for us is actually taking it to the air, which is if you have cities going three-dimensional, high rises for residential, high rises for business, you're going to add another-- you're gonna have to add another dimension to transportation.
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His family in Macau had moved several times, first from an oceanfront villa to two modest residential high rises on Taipa island.
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Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 places in the capital alone as high-rises across the city swayed sickeningly.
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That could be because those areas tend to have housing complexes or high rises that make getting to the patient more difficult.
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It is dominated by modern high-rises along the Tagus River and is where tech conference Web Summit is held every year.
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In the future, it will become increasingly risky to build high-rises, which can sway several feet in extreme wind, Webb said.
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Basements in surrounding high rises had up to 6 feet of water in them, presumably destroying whatever had previous been stored there.
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To win approval for taller luxury high-rises, developers frequently agree to provide courtyards or other amenities for the public to enjoy.
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He remembers when it was a place rich in culture though economically poor, circumstances that are reversing as high rises replace brownstones.
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On one hand, Sony is targeting early adopters, who may well live in one of San Francisco's sparsely furnished new high-rises.
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While high-rises abound in waterfront neighborhoods like Exchange Place and Newport, other waterfront enclaves like Paulus Hook retain a quaint sensibility.
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At the same time, it put up more than twenty-five other projects, many of them high-rises in African-American neighborhoods.
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Pocketed in the corners of North Brooklyn's neighborhoods, in between the ascendant high-rises, restaurant rows, and sprouting boutiques, is industrial space.
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An area of low-lying fields that once absorbed the runoff is now a suburb of high-rises known as New Kolkata.
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And now that the downtown waterfront is almost fully built out with high-rises, developers are pushing into those areas as well.
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Country Club Towers, next to the Upper Montclair Country Club, has 476 rental apartments in a pair of 1960s-era high-rises.
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The process of clearing many of Glasgow's high rises had already begun, and there were parts of Dalmarnock that resembled frontline Sarajevo.
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Larger commercial buildings and high-rises are more likely to use chemical de-icers, which are often cheaper than pet-friendly brands.
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A group projected stark messages onto high-rises in three British cities, citing similarities to the London building that burned in 2017.
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"It's all about railways, more airports, more roads, more high-rises, and now, the biggest statues in the world," Ms. Dube complained.
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"It's hard to imagine all these tall buildings filling up," he said of the neighborhood's high-rises, with a note of skepticism.
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In the Brickell neighborhood, which is between Biscayne Bay and the Miami River, seawater hurtled down major streets and past high rises.
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She said she came out with proof that the Marcoses owned four high-rises in New York, and with a new career.
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As a result, Tehran looks like a concrete jungle where high-rises with no provisions for parking spaces soar over small alleyways.
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According to the latest measurements, how much has the building sunk, and how many inches is it leaning toward neighboring high rises?
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Many of these high-rises have restaurant spaces down below, which give the developers an opportunity to nudge gentrification in another direction.
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The government responded to the housing shortage by building satellite towns of sterile high-rises on barren land far from the capital.
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It envisions that number rising nearly fivefold to 77,000 by 2035, and shows how that will happen: with 50-storey high-rises.
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For the scores of Americans who thrill to his eponymous high-rises and video games and steaks, that makes her a winner.
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Adapting to Hong Kong's economic miracle of glittering high-rises, developed social services, and undeniable safety, triads now participate in softer crimes.
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Business Trump licensed his name to high-rises in India, a hotel in Panama, and luxury developments in Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Housing garment manufacturers and other businesses, the Plasco building was one of Tehran's oldest high-rises and a feature of the city's skyline.
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The building has little to no amenities compared to the surrounding luxury high rises and there are units with vermin and other pests.
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Dreaming without limit, he made models for communal living in hive-shaped high-rises, intended for simple replication in cities around the world.
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The Shed's outdoor performance space sits across from a Neiman Marcus and borders a Sephora, Cartier, and a cluster of luxury high-rises.
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Nearby, three nascent high-rises stretch their naked girders upward, though they may be hard to fill without the promised influx of workers.
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The women in A People's History of Heaven call their neighborhood Heaven – but really, it's a slum nestled between high-rises in Bangalore.
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One day, these futuristic high-rises will house the 250 million or so people the government hopes to move from villages into cities.
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Police had previously blocked off streets around the 17-story structure, which was among the first high-rises built in the Iranian capital.
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Leaving the fair, you find yourself smack in the middle of Chelsea, where luxury high-rises near the High Line stand semi-finished.
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The mural honors Cairo's garbage collectors, many of whom live in the high-rises which are covered with a snippet of the piece.
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Broadway was still a grand old boulevard, not yet overwhelmed by the anonymous glass fronts of high-rises and chain stores farther south.
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Thanks to the neighborhood's medley of luxury apartment buildings, there's high-end security monitoring the areas around the entrances to these high-rises.
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Rezoning along the waterfront has led to luxury condo high rises, and parks and flea markets there have added to the neighborhood's appeal.
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They would largely apply to neighborhoods around Central Park and would not touch other areas with high rises, including Midtown and Hudson Yards.
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And the Grenfell-style cladding covered by the government fund is hardly the only fire propellant lining the sides of English high-rises.
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As we construct high-rises to accommodate the suntan set, sands tend to settle offshore, diminishing a beach's capacity to recover from erosion.
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He said many developers of Class A commercial office buildings and luxury residential high-rises already incorporated works of art into their designs.
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Ms. Stathakis happily visited dozens of places, from no-frills tenement buildings to high-rises with swimming pools, documenting everything for Ms. Witonsky.
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Start in the waterside Rinko Park, with lawns backed by towering high-rises, and try to spot fish jumping in the water offshore.
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Critics, reported to include Senator Dianne Feinstein, have bristled at the arrival downtown of high-rises like the Millennium Tower and Salesforce Tower.
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By day, he works diligently at a construction job, building one of the many expensive high rises that are sprouting all over Santiago.
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Sleek high-rises are already popping up above the walk-up apartment buildings that have served as first homes for many New Yorkers.
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The vast majority of EB-5 money goes to New York City, where developers gobble up the cheap capital for expensive high-rises.
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Preparing to build high rises on the property in 2013, Mr. Wolkoff faced opposition from the artists, who sought to block the demolition.
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This is where a high concentration of condo high-rises and tech offices —like Salesforce, Facebook, Google, and Slack — have set up shop.
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What's most striking about Uruguay's coastal towns is what they don't have: high-rises (except in Punta), chain restaurants and hotels, overdeveloped beaches.
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Pilkey takes particular aim at post-storm "urban renewal" projects—replacing modest homes with high-rises and mansions, for instance—that swell coastal populations.
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For New York City, the blackout left 600 train cars stuck between stations and many people trapped within the stalled elevators in high rises.
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Many mom-and-pop shops closed when the subway stations opened in 2017, leaving in their wake more chain stores and luxury high-rises.
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The boroughs are changing to include more office spaces, residential high-rises, restaurants and e-commerce brands taking a plunge into bricks and mortar.
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But as the area has exploded, the iconic seafood shack has become a stark point of contrast to all the gleaming new high rises.
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Today, steel, concrete, and, glass high-rises block sunrays meant for golden-brown palms, whose distant ancestors were brought to California by Franciscan missionaries.
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Just south of there, Bryant Park, a six-acre shaded oasis among Midtown Manhattan high-rises, now packs in huge lunch crowds year round.
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On the FarmJust a half hour drive from the towering high rises of Miami lies Homestead (See: Neighborhoods We Love), Miami's own farming community.
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Modern high-rises dominate the skyline, though perhaps none rival 98 Wireless, a new residential project by one of Thailand's biggest property developers, Sansiri.
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The cemetery, a rare patch of jungle surrounded by manicured gardens and high rises, has about 2000,240 graves, including hundreds of early Chinese immigrants.
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Schreiber was filming in the light-drenched penthouse of a loft building that overlooked rusting water towers, regal high rises, the Hudson's frayed ribbon.
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The density and nearly identical stripped-down designs of the high-rises were also believed to cut down on costs while meeting greater demand.
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But the public had an obligation as well to ensure that those who lived there didn't lose out when the high-rises were replaced.
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The escalation in elevation By the end of 2019, several of the tallest new buildings in New York City will be residential high-rises.
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The problem is not confined to high rises; engineers estimate that there are hundreds of defective steel-frame buildings of all sizes in California.
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The council said in a statement that the cladding material would be removed from the five high rises, located on the Chalcots housing estate.
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The Star Ferry chugged us across the harbor, cheap as ever, offering amazing views of the bristling forest of high-rises scaling Victoria Island.
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But thousands actually do live amid the office towers and hotels, a number that is climbing with the opening of new luxury high-rises.
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"Outer-borough homeowners, especially black and Latino homeowners, have been subsidizing woke progressives in posh neighborhoods and billionaires in high rises," Mr. Borelli said.
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But practitioners, known as 'pichadores', say that will do little to dissuade them from climbing high-rises and highway overpasses to leave their mark.
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Property values of condominiums in New York City's Trump Tower are dropping faster than comparable luxury high rises in Manhattan, real estate brokers say.
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Much of this mountainous, densely populated territory of more than seven million has already been filled with high-rises, shopping centers and concrete sprawl.
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Hundreds of LES residents voiced their opposition to the proposed luxury high-rises in the area mainly populated by low-income people of color.
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A real estate analyst was addressing the partners and he said: 'Currently there's 5.6 billion square meters of high rises in China under construction.
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Instead of a dense cluster of high-rises, as the complex can appear from a fast-moving car, Co-op City is mostly open space.
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The Cemetery of the East, perched on terraces overlooking Caracas&apos high-rises and slums, has long been an oasis from Venezuela&aposs noisy capital.
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These young professionals buy condominiums in luxury high-rises such as Echo Brickell, according to Elmir, where a four-bedroom penthouse is asking $37 million.
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Just minutes from the National Congress, the Shrine of the Shamans - with its unpaved roads, forest and small houses - sits surrounded by lavish high rises.
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The type of cladding on Grenfell is not allowed on high-rises in many countries, including the United States, specifically because of the fire danger.
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Simpson made a previously unreported allegation against a Soviet-born real estate broker who handled dozens of sales at Trump-licensed high-rises in Miami.
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In comparison with the Soviet-style high rises in the capital, the neighborhood is quiet and nearly bucolic, with a small mosque in the center.
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The secret of the plan, said Papandreou, is that it wouldn't add much density to the city at all in the form of high-rises.
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The densely packed Ibura neighborhood where Silva lives lies a short distance from Recife's glossy beach-front high-rises but conditions are a world apart.
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But the community, void of condominium high rises and hotel chains, is bound to be built differently to limit future damage, Mayor Al Cathey said.
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At 2:30 P.M. , a dozen or so people were lined up outside the warehouse, in the shadow of several shiny new residential high-rises.
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Just across the river is the bustling Chinese city of Heihe, with gleaming new high-rises and a population nearly eight times that of Blagoveshchensk.
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From the river, the half-built Vessel seemed a little lost—a shiny brown espresso cup—amid the clutter of cranes and unfinished high-rises.
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There was even a Columbia store, where you could buy a puffy vest, on the bottom level of one of the more bustling high rises.
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Defying sanctions The development, called Ryomyong Street, is a mammoth project of 3,600 flats and various high rises, the tallest topping out at 70 stories.
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Both the book and the exhibition aim to influence construction norms with an eye toward more environmentally friendly techniques for high-rises and urban landscapes.
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Donald Trump's proudest accomplishment—next to his high-rises, his golf courses, and his daughter Ivanka—is his book, Trump: The Art of the Deal.
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In the 22019s and 22.55s, the firm expanded the center on the west side of the Avenue of the Americas, with several commercial high-rises.
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As my colleague Stefanos Chen wrote, by the end of 2019, several of the tallest new buildings in the city will be residential high-rises.
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A small forest of white high-rises has sprouted in recent years, and the once-sleepy city resembles a miniature version of Miami circa 22017.
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Stalin's Russia: Muscovites once came to gawk in droves, but most of Moscow's so-called Stalin high-rises are now in desperate need of renovation.
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The architect recently designed a giant Art Deco building with a flat top as a tribute to the original vision of the Stalin high-rises.
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Pichação is a product of graffiti gangs known as pichadores, whose members make death-defying ascents up high-rises to paint political protestations in black.
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"Fairfax shaped my view of Los Angeles: a self-contained, three-block enclave butted up against the Korean high-rises of Wilshire Boulevard," he writes.
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Billionaires' Row: New Unsold Condos In these seven new residential high-rises on and around Manhattan's "Billionaires' Row," 39 percent of the units remain unsold.
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They will mirror the cluster of seven glassy high-rises that stand along a nearby stretch of riverbank, by a well-known Pepsi-Cola sign.
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In fact, this building is the last remaining example of the original steel skeleton frame that set the standard for all modern high rises today.
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My favorite metro funding model is in Hong Kong, where the city's private mass transit system funds itself by building high-rises atop new train stops.
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Marilyn Mugot's Instagram feed teems with cinematic images of cluttered streets, slumbering high-rises, and empty shopping malls illuminated by the neon glow of city lights.
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The U.K. government has called for tests at dozens of other area high-rises that used cladding and insulation similar to those installed at Grenfell Tower.
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The area began as a planned community of Modernist high-rises and wide, elevated highways built in the 1960s as a Dutch suburb of the future.
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Nestling among a plantation of high-rises in a business district of Tokyo, the clinic implants fertilised eggs in an average of 103 women a day.
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Mr. Chávez, who died of cancer in 2013, turned petroleum dollars into concrete, setting off an experiment of moving Venezuela's poor from slums into high-rises.
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Rod says he prefers creating structures and scenery as opposed to laying down railroad ... and his whimsical town features warehouses, high-rises, mills and different landscapes.
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The Hunt Bailey Stanbury enjoyed living in her first New York apartment, in one of the many financial district high-rises converted from an office tower.
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The city is a postwar boomtown of sorts, with luxury high-rises popping up in every other neighborhood and cranes in primary colors punctuating the skyline.
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As places like London become denser jungles of luxury high rises, the futures these folks are forming are going to keep looking a whole lot worse.
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"They said that when people who live in the high-rises in Vanke look down, the view from their windows is our ugly roofs," she said.
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The 1.2 million units range from single-family homes to apartments in high-rises, making it a useful policy laboratory for different kinds of energy interventions.
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Today, many of the beaches facing the worst erosion problems are located in urbanized areas, where high-rises and roads butt right up against the shoreline.
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And with projects now filled with the politically powerless, and with revenue from rent payments falling, government slashed maintenance budgets and turned high rises into slums.
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He raised 30-foot-tall basketball hoops studded with bottle caps in Harlem and Downtown Brooklyn before those neighborhoods were made smooth with glassy high rises.
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The British government has since banned Grenfell-style cladding on high-rises, though tens of thousands of people still live in buildings wrapped in the material.
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His building, near the ultraluxury Hudson Yards development, is surrounded by glassy high-rises occupied by transient renters and owners, few of whom order gyro platters.
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But increasingly it also means the senior affordable housing, the high-rises and the tiny homes — also arguably vital to the larger community — are never built.
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"I have four high-rises going up around me," said Ms. Shapiro, who became a stay-at-home mother after a career in the fashion industry.
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The city is now dotted with high-rises that fill the skyline, roads that are slowly being paved, and newly renovated monuments of eras gone by.
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Compared with the sacred city of the past, today's Beijing is a slightly out-of-control urban area of highways and high-rises, subway and suburbs.
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Why are the high-rises built on soft sand and soil on the edge of the bay a potential danger for the city of San Francisco?
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Nearly 93,000 buildings were damaged by the quake, and residents of high-rises wonder if their buildings may fall before they can make their way downstairs.
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While it is not uncommon to see hawks and falcons in Manhattan, a bald eagle perched against a backdrop of the borough's high-rises is remarkable.
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New York City officials said that fire doors in all high rises must be self-closing and self-latching, and noted that they were regularly assessed.
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Employees can use an elevator to get to a rooftop seating area, which serves as a front-row seat to the city's towering glass high-rises.
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You're walking down the street — Lexington Avenue, say, somewhere in the East 50s, a neighborhood of generic high-rises and tourists en route to Rockefeller Center.
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It's where I take deep breaths and drop down because it's so vast and I feel quite small, but within nature instead of these high-rises.
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If we were to suddenly shut off the cooling systems in some of the glass-enclosed high rises of Manhattan, people would roast, Cox pointed out.
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However, alongside the emergence of several new high-profile arts institutions and a glut of high-rises transforming downtown, Los Angeles's homeless epidemic has reached unprecedented proportions.
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" Zacharyj, whose company will provide guards for high-rises and office buildings, said he expects $500,000 in revenue during the week of the convention "without a doubt.
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By Chinese standards, the northern Chinese city of Yanji is a fairly ordinary place, but to Lee, the twinkling lights of the ubiquitous high-rises were stunning.
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Opened with fanfare by Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, in 2015, Makuza is one of several new high-rises in the central business district of the capital, Kigali.
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Between my vantage point and the plant stood a number of high rises, their windows empty, popping out of the green forest that now fills the town.
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Outside, where it was a bright, cloudless Sunday, the only signs of modernity were ever-encroaching high-rises and tents emblazoned with the Monster Energy Drink logo.
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San Francisco is going aggressively vertical, with a building boom of high rises in a city that was once proud of its low-rise, European-style ethos.
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Just past the glittering high rises steadily jutting up in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a mass of tents and people huddle across 50 city blocks.
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It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.
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Of more than 80 new projects underway throughout Panama City, about 0113 percent are luxury high-rises, said Rafael Gangi, the director of Panama Sotheby's International Realty.
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The building was, at the time, a 43-story shell of concrete and iron, barely discernible against the city's dizzying cluster of cranes, scaffolding, and high-rises.
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In addition to pockets of prewar brownstones and high-rises, the area encompasses Wrigleyville, around Wrigley Field; and Boystown, the hub of the city's gay night life.
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Brady Sullivan's Plaza is the second-tallest building in the state of New Hampshire, and one of very few high rises: it thus stands out as is.
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Residents felt the quake about 20163 miles away (305 kilometers) in the capital of Jakarta, where people briefly evacuated to the ground floor of their high-rises.
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Squeezed in between a noisy freeway and a ghost town of empty condominium high-rises, Qibuchang village is to stinky tofu what Lockhart, Texas is to barbecue.
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Working at a real estate agency in Toronto in the 2000s, Zaikin brokered sales in one of the city's new high-rises: the Trump International Hotel & Tower.
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Outside Tehran, in the city of Boomehen, around 40 high rises have been erected on the flanks of a mountain, vexed by all sorts of construction issues.
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Herds of construction cranes swing above the harbor, and entire neighborhoods like the futuristic Barcode district — a row of distinctive side-by-side high-rises — have sprouted.
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Located where African-American poverty was already concentrated, the Chicago high rises replaced barely habitable slum dwellings — wood-frame firetraps frequently without plumbing, heat or adequate sanitation.
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Many of the new buildings are luxury residential high-rises, a trend fueled by increased costs and by more demand from high-end buyers in major cities.
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But low-rise buildings, like the one on Eagle Avenue, present unique challenges for Nycha compared to the agency's iconic red brick high-rises, Mr. Mustaciuolo said.
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But the two restaurants that burned on Friday were in Lower Parel, a former mill area now full of fashionable bars, bistros and new luxury high-rises.
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After Israel threatened Monday night to begin leveling Gaza high-rises, and then did, Hamas warned that "millions" of Israelis would soon come under its rocket fire.
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High-rises built in England since 2007 must have sprinklers, but older ones, like Grenfell Tower, built in 1974, do not have to be retrofitted with them.
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It's an exploration of Miami's history, subcultures, and attraction to the unusual, as well as the myths and legends that predate the skyscrapers and luxury high rises.
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"We're in a high-rise building, but there are no other high-rises around us, so we have this open view of the sky," Ms. Butler said.
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Before Long Island City was a bustling metropolitan center in its own right, with high-rises, loft spaces and restaurants around every corner, there was Water's Edge.
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What might he make now of Goiânia, with developers laying waste to Art Deco buildings, replacing them with the nondescript high-rises that occupy cities around Brazil?
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It's full of luxury high-rises, performance venues and exceptional restaurants, all located just a few minutes from the theater district and Times Square (if that's your thing).
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San Jose, California With a mix of innovative tech campuses, high-rises, and suburbs, this Silicon Valley hot spot is high-tech, quirky, and outdoorsy all at once.
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The struggle is over a new homeless shelter being built near some luxury high-rises and touristy areas, a proposal that's shocked some of the city's wealthier inhabitants.
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To ease Hong Kong's housing crisis, a local architectural firm created micro homes in concrete water pipes that can be stacked under elevated roadways or between high rises.
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Even as high-rises sprang up in recent years to surround her dilapidated home, Ms. Zheng, a 303-year-old schoolteacher, and her husband, Sun Guojian, held firm.
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The makeshift skyline of slatted wooden low-rises and high-rises is one emblem of how far and fast the coronavirus outbreak is reverberating throughout the global economy.
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Condominium choices include apartments in the Claridge Houses, two older high-rises on Verona's eastern ridge, and Kips Ridge, a 1980s townhouse development next to Kip's Castle Park.
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As the airplane began its descent, the city looked unchanged, its odd mix of high rises and strip malls still surrounded by emerald-green vegetation and turquoise waters.
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The square, named after the prolific Italian architect, sits at the heart of this recently developed part of town, where shiny new high-rises are redefining the cityscape.
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In fair weather, the kayak launches, picnic lawns and cafes bustle, but even in the off-season, the walkway offers good perspectives on the surrounding landmark high-rises.
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Despite the rebound in urban areas, developers maintain that rental rates in smaller markets still fail to justify new high-rises without incentives, especially with skyrocketing construction costs.
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"Although high-rises and doormen are awesome, we wanted the full New York City experience, and decided a walk-up was best for our first apartment," she said.
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Miami Beach's famed Collins Avenue is lined with everything from boutique hotels to luxury high-rises, and with so many options, it's hard to know which to choose.
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Sitting in the best part of Mid Beach in Miami, right on Collins Avenue, the white, cubic Circa 39 is pretty unassuming next to its neighboring high-rises.
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In the distance stood a line of high-rises, at least one of which was rumored to be owned by Zardari, who was President from 22018 until 21947.
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It had been two decades since he shifted the focus of the family real-estate business from middle-class housing in Queens to "classy" luxury Manhattan high-rises.
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When you think of the richest places in America, it's often the sunny beaches of Miami or the towering high-rises of New York that come to mind.
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The lack of high-rises didn't happen by chance; it was the result of a concerted effort by local officials to preserve the town's spectacular views of Manhattan.
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While Mr. Trump's name appears emblazoned on Manhattan high-rises, he has long been shunned in the clubby world of the city's upper echelon as a tabloid sideshow.
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Those troubles seemed far away as the pope's plane touched down amid the palm trees, opulent high-rises, men in white dishdashas and enormous mosques in Abu Dhabi.
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Suddenly, they were transported to a commonwealth of the United States, with busy streets that came to a halt at rush hour and high rises in San Juan.
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After World War II, urban renewal pushed 300,000 people, about half of them black, from their homes nationwide to build new high-rises, civic plazas, and office buildings.
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Doshi said it was key that residents identified with their surroundings, and could adapt their homes in their own image, rather than existing like aliens in glass high rises.
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Even the old world charm of Kolkata seems masked, diminished: new malls and high rises jostle with the old three and four-storey homes that once dotted the city.
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We'd share posts about new high-rises being built in Brooklyn or elderly residents being tricked into selling their homes far below market rate, and comment with appropriate outrage.
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From cars falling out of Manhattan high-rises to high-speed chases on frozen lakes in Siberia, The Fate of the Furious takes automobile acrobatics to the next level.
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Dubai is a small place we have a very small coastline we don't have a lot of land that is why you see people building high rises in Dubai.
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As for the air, the canyon of high-rises in Manhattan's financial district and in Jersey City could negatively affect the all-important wind that is the sailor's fuel.
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Earlier this year New York City adopted a measure mandating that its high rises and other large buildings cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 from 2005 levels.
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Earlier this year New York City adopted a measure mandating that its high rises and other large buildings cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 from 2005 levels.
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Despite warnings from climate scientists about rising seas and stronger storms, state and local officials have allowed real estate developers to line the Sunshine State's shorelines with high-rises.
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And without question, there will be successes aplenty to highlight, from his gleaming golden high-rises to his well-regarded golf resorts, hit TV shows and best-selling books.
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While he was at it, he also captured some of the festival's picturesque palm trees, impressive high-rises, and scenes from the most electric EDM party of the year.
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Discarded plastic bottles lie along the tree-lined velvet lawns of Nairobi's diplomatic district, and choke the stinking river that uncoils through the smog of the high-rises downtown.
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Ms. Cunningham's 14-story co-op building on Nassau Street has been dwarfed by new towering high-rises, and there is no escape from the crowds — or their garbage.
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The common sentiment is that the people who can afford the luxury high-rises have created their own good fortune; the generous government benefits they receive are rightfully earned.
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Some areas of East Chelsea have seen vigorous growth, with high-rises and larger stores popping up along Sixth and Seventh Avenues, but Eighth and Ninth are generally quieter.
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Nidhi Sinha, 35, moved with her husband in June to South Orange, N.J. from Newport, a Jersey City neighborhood known more for its glassy high-rises than its foliage.
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By tightly framing high-rises in a way that showed neither sky nor horizon, Mr. Wolf created architectural photographs that gave the viewer the impression of infinity and repetition.
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Wind-driven rain flooded the ultramodern high rises and Art Deco hotels alike; two feet of water sloshed through some neighborhoods, while others were left without electricity for weeks.
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Surrounded by bank buildings and glass high-rises, they gathered at a stage in the middle of the street and chanted "They won't stop us!" as salsa music blared.
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The sight of old spires squeezed between new towering high-rises suggests the ability of churches and other houses of worship to hang on through block-altering building booms.
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It ensures that no other high-rises will ever go up next door, along any of the condo's facades, which might have permanently blocked the windows there, he explained.
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"It's good to reflect on it, where you come from," said Kerwin Wimberley, 51, as he ate lunch in a downtown park that sits amid shiny, restored high-rises.
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It might be tough for a New York real estate mogul, accustomed to selling his luxury high-rises to corporate tycoons and global investors through good times and bad.
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Meanwhile, the 160 mph winds of the storm are blowing roofs off houses and smashing out the windows of high rises like a hole punch through a paper card.
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What's most striking about Uruguay's coastal towns is what they don't have: high-rises (except in Punta, which even has a Trump Tower), chain restaurants and hotels, overdeveloped beaches.
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Singapore Journal SINGAPORE — In the middle of this island nation of highways and high-rises lies a wrinkle in time: Bukit Brown, one of the world's largest Chinese cemeteries.
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Whether with the anxiety of the Industrial Age, or our current growth of high rises, they continue to be a portal for comprehending the future by acknowledging our fragile past.
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Although nomenclature varies, the concept involves growing crops on urban rooftops or in high rises or other controlled, indoor environments, which build vertically in stacks as opposed to spreading horizontally.
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By then, 125,000 people will work, visit or live in Hudson Yards, which includes five office high-rises, eight residential buildings and a retail complex with 100 shops and restaurants.
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Tenants in government housing are offered priority access to apartments in new government high-rises for those who can afford mortgages or publicly-owned rental housing for those who cannot.
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More than 1,000 allotment gardens have been leased out to residents at S$57 ($41) annually in national parks across the island, which is dominated by densely packed high rises.
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Two year-old HomeShare manages a number of two-bedroom apartments in 10 properties of luxury high-rises, which it converts into three bedrooms via the use of a partition.
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Though the city is most famous for its thicket of skyscrapers—it has more high-rises than any other place in the world—most of its land area is undeveloped.
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The proliferation of cheap, boxlike concrete-slab high-rises that spread like bacteria throughout Germany's bombed-out cities after World War II is a Bauhaus legacy, for better or worse.
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We hit a stoplight in the sea of white cement high rises on the Bocagrande peninsula, and Rafa asks for volunteers from the front and the back of the bus.
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A vast spread of high-rises have been built on land reclaimed from the Mithi, along with higgledy-piggledy working class enclaves like this one, perched precariously on its edge.
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In this dramatic union of forms, a single corner of an otherwise squat, rectilinear volume is extruded upward, tapering to a point that surpasses the tops of neighboring high-rises.
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Cairo grew outward and inward at the same time, with buildings taking over surrounding agricultural land and desert, and high-rises replacing villas or vacant lots in the city's center.
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The advent of high-rises created not just plusher apartments but cushier commodities like gyms, indoor pools and children's playrooms, tightly focusing that sense of community on the building itself.
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Some high-rises feature condos as hotel-type stays, including the 41-story Aston at the Executive Centre (1088 Bishop Street; doubles with kitchenettes and ocean views are about $240).
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In addition to Yerevan's concrete hive high-rises, there are detailed wrought iron works, beguiling sheet-metal structures that stand in forested areas, and even the occasional hand-painted billboard.
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In a part of Manhattan booming with trendy green high rises, renovated lofts and digital media companies, a hidden trove of musical relics has been growing for over 30 years.
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You may revel in the mix of rawness and glamor, marveling at the city's hodgepodge of shiny high-rises and old houses with the Lebanese triple arcade at the front.
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In contrast to its past reputation as an urban dead zone after dark, Houston now includes a greater array of restaurants, high-rises, green space, and cultural and entertainment venues.
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Still, to the multimillionaires who will likely be drawn to 20083 Hudson Yards, it may seem discounted to other high-end high-rises, like those along Billionaires' Row in Midtown.
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While the high-rises promise to add stores, parks and hundreds of units of affordable housing in an area where below-average salaries are common, many neighborhood residents oppose them.
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But while they may not always be installing bedroom doors that are wide enough or easy-to-reach electrical outlets, their high-rises often are nonetheless informed by accessibility design.
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In an area filled with public housing high-rises, delis and other stores, it is unclear why the father was not able to get help from bystanders or call the police.
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Some of the most expensive neighborhoods in America are exactly where you might think they'd be: by the sunny beaches of California or among the high-rises of New York City.
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But past the gleaming skyline of high-rises, many residents fear that Amazon's arrival will only intensify the gentrification that is making the neighborhood less affordable for people of limited means.
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But for many walking along the park in the area that hugs the East River, what stands out are the shiny new high-rises, baby stores, coffee shops and yoga studios.
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And throughout the planning, the city has continued to advance toward the water, with glass high-rises stretching across the riverfront in Queens, Brooklyn and the Far West Side of Manhattan.
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There are other new high rises, a memorial and museum, and the soaring Oculus, its wings perched atop the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, which has been criticized for its opulence.
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It's the sound of construction on high-rises, condos and luxury hotels — all sprouting up, in towering variations of steel and stone and glass, along a half-mile stretch of beach.
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Over the past 2 1/2 years, his team ran studies of how wind moves through the area's cluster of high-rises and hosted workshops for municipal officials and industry types.
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Many of them are long-range and accurate enough to bring down Tel Aviv high-rises, sink offshore gas platforms, knock out Ben-Gurion Airport or level landmark buildings across Israel.
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They number in the many thousands and count among them the very rich and the very poor, from city dwellers who lived in luxury high-rises to farmers in adobe huts.
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"The current contract prices reflect the new market," Mr. Miller said, "not the one established several years ago," when many new high-rises were little more than holes in the ground.
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In the microcosm of San Francisco, fancy new high-rises and tech riches haven't stopped the famously left-leaning city's politicians from tangling with Silicon Valley, though they've had mixed success.
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Foreign and Albanian engineers fanned out across Albania's second biggest town of Durres to check whether high-rises needed just new plaster, or were unsafe and had to be pulled down.
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Arconic, the American company that sold the combustible material used at the London housing project, said on Monday that it would no longer sell the paneling for use in high rises.
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A fire official said that state building codes now require sprinkler systems in high-rises, but that older buildings, like this high-rise, would not have been forced to add sprinklers.
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Japan has funeral parlors, too, an industry that developed as people moved from the countryside to the cities and it became difficult — and often impossible — to take corpses into high-rises.
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In an average year Singapore, which has 5.6m inhabitants, most living in high-rises, has a handful of deaths; Norway, with a similar population, mostly living in low-rise buildings, has dozens.
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The homebuilder industry has suffered in recent years after failing to adapt to changing consumer preferences and new government rules that prioritized urban high rises over family homes away from city centers.
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"Stanley Park is the park of the people," she said, intimating far more than the inhabitants of the glass high-rises that overlook the nearly 1,000-acre peninsular park on Vancouver's waterfront.
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Talk to an older Singaporean, however, and at some point you will hear her wax lyrical about the lost kampongs—the small, intimate villages of Singapore replaced by highways and high-rises.
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The businessman, Joseph Weichselbaum, was living in an apartment in Trump Plaza, another of the tycoon's East Side high-rises, when he pleaded guilty to federal charges of cocaine smuggling in 1986.
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The company has customers all over the world putting up ever taller buildings that require a new approach to delivery, especially as more residents in high rises increase use of delivery services.
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The Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn has had plenty of incarnations of late: industrial waterfront; hipster hub; a village of expensive high-rises, soon to be christened by the borough's first Apple store.
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One agent they contacted, Lena Lerner, a saleswoman at Platinum Properties, arranged for a day of hunting in the financial district, filled with high-rises and an easy commute to Jersey City.
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The firm has teamed up with Property Markets Group and Spruce Capital Partners on the condo, which is the latest to elbow into the elite group of high-rises along Billionaires' Row.
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For a variety of complex reasons—lack of upkeep, insufficient vetting of new tenants, endemic long-term economic decline—the high-rises became a byword for deprivation, poverty, and appalling social conditions.
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The flames raced in minutes up the sides of the 24-story building, and in its aftermath similarly flammable exterior cladding was found and removed from many other high-rises around Britain.
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Combined with federal housing bills that paid developers to tear down existing housing stock and replace it with high-rises, they resulted in the continued decimation of huge swaths of many cities.
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Roth's finely carved exterior limestone details give the Belleclaire an exciting theatricality, one sorely missing in many of the newer, utilitarian steel and glass high-rises jack-rabbiting skyward all around Manhattan.
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A separate report to the public inquiry also said the London Fire Brigade's advice to residents to "stay put" in their apartments — a standard policy for fires in high-rises — had failed.
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An estimated 4,000 residents of more than 800 apartments in the five high rises were being relocated while the problems are addressed, said the Camden Council, the local assembly for that area.
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The tower and the high-rises around it are a bold symbol of the new San Francisco — and a potentially grave danger for a city that sits on unstable, earthquake-prone ground.
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Life in the high rises is laced with oppression; from the gangs and the police also, the latter keen to dish out their own brand of terror in the name of community.
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The high-rises built during the post-Communist boom along the beach are mostly apartments and hotels catering to both Albanians and foreigners, including ethnic Albanians from the Balkans and the Diaspora.
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The three sleek black high-rises were rebranded as Carillon Miami Wellness Resort in 0003, and the project's wellness focus remained: There's a 2000,25-square-foot spa and gym and four pools.
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The lowest-profile of the bunch, Saransk, spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a stadium, high-rises and transport to accommodate tens of thousands of visitors who descended in recent weeks.
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The public voted to restrict the construction of office high-rises after that, a limitation that still exists today as the office market grows even more squeezed and commercial rents continue to skyrocket.
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In the glimmering glass high-rises of the European Quarter, the country's leaders are asking themselves how security forces that blanketed the city for months still let the bombers slip through the cracks.
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The brainchild of Italian architect Stefano Boeri, Bosco Verticale (meaning "Vertical Forest") is the concept of residential high-rises packed with greenery, which can help cities build for density while improving air quality.
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After flawlessly floating up the East River — passing by housing projects, high rises, and iconic landmarks like the UN's headquarters — the barge got stuck in the shallow, stinky waters of the Bronx River.
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In fact, they're tiny lobsters, split into age group, and making their way up to what Sheddan calls their own "apartments" in the lobster high rises stacked at the back of the container.
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Gray office towers and residential high-rises glided by, the legacy of Deng Xiaoping 's socialist market economy, along with construction sites for a new subway line and walls plastered with patriotic slogans.
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In recent years, luxury high-rises and big tech offices have ushered thousands of people into parts of Rincon Hill, South Beach, and SoMa (South of Market), just south of the Financial District.
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"Beneath the slick surface of gleaming high-rises, however, it is a repressive place, where the government severely restricts what can be said, published, performed, read, or watched," the 133-page report said.
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There are barren lots and worn-down homes all over the predominantly black north side, while mostly white crowds traffic through the restaurants and boutiques downtown, or inhabit the glossy lakefront high rises.
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I quickly lost track of where we were as we drove through canyons of high-rises and tangles of highways, occasionally glancing a prominent throw-up or a tag on a roadside structure.
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The sprawling city of San Jose is "as much defined by its suburban neighborhoods and large tech campuses as it is by the high-rises in its business district," said a local expert.
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The divide is starkly visible in places like Santa Fe, an affluent neighborhood on Mexico City's western edge, where glass high-rises and shopping malls overlook slums that sprawl out from their shadows.
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NEW DELHI — Donald Trump Jr., who has spent the week in India pitching new luxury high-rises that bear his family's name, took the stage before a crowd of about 200 on Thursday.
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Gone are the concrete high-rises, worries of the 9-to-5 work week, and never-ending bills, replaced instead by three balmy days of live music, beautiful people, and mountain-lined horizons.
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The so-called stay-put policy is not uncommon for British high-rises, but the resident association had complained about it, saying that it would hinder escape in the event of a fire.
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Its facade, by the architecture firm Davis Brody Bond, is lined with red bricks like older warehouses nearby, even as most of the high-rises in the area seem to favor gleaming glass.
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It was easy to be skeptical at first, because the project, on the face of things, seemed little more than a gift to real estate interests building expensive high-rises along the shore.
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There are also modern high-rises and resorts that are part of the nation's biggest chains and brands including Hyatt Hotels, Marriott International, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, and Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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We met in an office belonging to his wife, the mayor of Taguig City, thirty minutes southeast of Manila, among the glittering high-rises of the financial district known as Bonifacio Global City.
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With cladding on each of the 21974 high rises tested so far having failed combustibility tests, and hundreds of fire doors missing from buildings, the language of politics has now itself become incendiary.
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Covina's location—in Kips Bay, where lacrosse bros-turned-bankers and indistinguishable high-rises have congregated in recent years—may not seem like the easiest locale in which to make a culinary statement.
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My favorite discovery was a suite of colorful bar graphs charting women's labor productivity, souped up with photocollages of climbing high-rises and satisfied workers: a rather more inventive kind of data journalism.
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Picture yourself skydiving from the world's tallest building on a warm Arabian night, taking in the dazzling kaleidoscope of neon lights from the many high rises below as you soar towards the earth.
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Nothing in Trump's new rules prevent that outright, but the technology powering autonomous, self-flying craft perhaps isn't ready for a bustling city of high-rises — and the FAA might not allow it, either.
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The building originally offered sweeping views across Victoria Harbor, allowing scientists to keep a vigilant watch, but today it is surrounded by much taller modern high-rises that block the view of the sea.
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There were reports coming in of KGB cells in mountain hideouts in Bolivia, safe houses for Stalinists in the high-rises of São Paulo, Communist agents seeded into the governments of Chile and Uruguay.
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Swapping information via Slack and Twitter, the Bellingcat crew and their followers figured out what part of Benghazi the incident took place in by examining fleeting shots of high rises built by Chinese workers.
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His name was removed from residential high-rises and a hotel in SoHo after numerous complaints, and the Central Park skating rinks that his company runs diminished the presence of his name on signs.
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There are also modern high-rises and resorts that are part of the nation's biggest chains and brands including Hyatt Hotels, Marriott International, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Hilton Hotels & Resorts and Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.
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A unit of the rebel force, which comprises several groups that fight under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, posted video of its fighters strolling through the empty streets between deserted high rises.
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Beyond apartment towers, more than 1,300 vulnerable buildings like hospitals, care homes, schools and hotels have flammable exteriors, Rockwool estimates, but are exempt from having to strip it because they are not high-rises.
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Some spectators also noted that the concert's site, on a 350-acre park across Lady Bird Lake from downtown Austin, is relatively far away from high-rises that could serve as a sniper's perch.
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Knowing she liked being by the sea, Tony asked her to meet him at a waterfront park in Kwun Tong, an industrial area with shuttered factories overseeing a distant skyline of glittering high-rises.
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Bloomberg reported that plans for the factory have already lured more investment into the village of Grunheide; some developers have plied local leadership with plans for 22-story apartment high-rises and massive malls.
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A hub for the oil and gas industries and the nation's fourth-largest city, Houston is on the upswing, boasting an array of new restaurants, high-rises, green space, and cultural and entertainment venues.
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Luxury glass high-rises and tech offices have gone up, and new tech sprouting up on city streets has become so common that an office devoted to regulating emerging technologies is set to launch.
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We are currently in the midst of fighting to protect the historic buildings that provide affordable housing from being demolished so that hotels, office towers and luxury high-rises can rise in their stead.
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Separately, the authorities are racing to identify and evacuate dozens of high-rises wrapped in the same kind of combustible cladding as Grenfell Tower in London, where a fire killed at least 79 people.
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Like most modern high-rises, it had a concrete structure that was designed to keep any fire compartmentalized, but instead the flames spread rapidly across the exterior, a phenomenon that caught firefighters off guard.
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"A year ago, I didn't realize how much this would change me," she says to the camera, as Tal Bachman's 1998 one-hit wonder "She's So High" rises to a crescendo in the background.
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And what I tell people who live on the west side is, they talk about neighborhood character, we don't want high rises on the west side of town, we want to protect neighborhood character.
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Because, while heirs to the Singer Sewing Company fortune theoretically still exist, they're spending their time in high rises and McMansions, places where children who live next to the city dump aren't exactly invited.
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Along with Ten & Taller, the Skyscraper Museum also has a digital project called New York's Super-Slenders on the 50 to 90-story luxury high rises now pricking the city like a pin cushion.
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He should create a new federalism for transportation, in which states take more responsibility for funding and new roads, like new high-rises, are built only when users will pay enough to cover construction costs.
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Veran's evil construction and the spiking nightmare of Latria jumble together in my head now, together with scenes from movies like Wall Street and Margin Call—where high-rises are home to more contemporary villains.
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But skyrocketing rents have driven most recent immigrants to Brooklyn and Queens; tourists fill up all the little Chinese restaurants and souvenir shops, and luxury high rises and European cafes are taking over the streets.
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In his November interview, Simpson encouraged the intelligence committee to issue subpoenas to the developers of seven Trump-licensed condo high-rises that were built along the beach in south Florida between 2003 and 2010.
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In Hong Kong—a Chinese metropolis that moves at a breakneck pace, with people squeezed elbow-to-elbow on sidewalks and living neck-to-neck in narrow high rises across the city—competition is fierce.
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In the wall's center are four videos displaying, in juxtaposition, the policing of Miami's neighborhoods and Getty images of plastered shots of high-rises and birds soaring over an Atlantic Ocean intended for the rich.
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The lawsuit accuses the companies' American arms of exploiting lax English rules to sell products they knew were not fit for high-rises or, in some cases, manipulating test results to hide concerns about flammability.
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Mr. Baylock couldn't afford a place in one of Jersey City's condominium high-rises or older rowhouses, but he could afford a modest apartment in Jersey City Heights, a couple of miles north of downtown.
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Some of the well-kept high rises, in Beaux-Arts, Renaissance revival and Art Deco styles, hug those bends, including No. 13, a prewar co-op with a concave facade that extends a full block.
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There is no border here between New York and Kathmandu, illustrated at the top of the menu with a silhouette of the cities' skylines yoked into one, high-rises shoulder to shoulder with tiered pagodas.
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At the same time, millions of Muslim immigrants began arriving in the concrete high-rises of the French banlieues, French cities, with a culture less amenable to the kind of assimilation France had always preached.
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Photographs of Wheatfield, for example, today appear more mirage-like than ever: the wheatfield has given way to Battery Park City's manicured high rises; the Twin Towers have disappeared from the skyline like missing teeth.
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Some of these high-rises, including a planned, city-approved 1,1889-foot supertall at 29th Street and Fifth, threaten to block much of the singular view of the Empire State Building from around the Flatiron.
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The scrapping by parliament of developments approved by the last administration, and a sweeping review of construction projects that has halted work on half-built high-rises that dot the Yangon skyline, has fueled disquiet.
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In its place, two high-rises are being built that will offer 1,200 market-rate rentals starting in 2018, Mr. Wolkoff said, adding that the development would include a public plaza with broad concrete walls.
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Continuing a trend among luxury high-rises that seek to make hip locales of postindustrial locations, the Eugene will also pack in a summer camp's worth of amenities, totaling 55,000 square feet over several levels.
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For the 1993 work "Home Run," he arranged for neighbors in high rises facing the Museum of Modern Art to place oranges in their windows, so the bursts of color were visible from the museum.
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Because churches and rowhouses dominate this part of Malcolm X instead of the monotonous high-rises farther north, the spaciousness of the thoroughfare can be fully appreciated here for its generous width and broad sidewalks.
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The old city is small and the rest of the city is lots of shops and high-rises, so I just walk around the old city and grab late lunch/early dinner at a restaurant there.
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In a comparison of photos taken by Reuters this week and on a visit to Pyongyang last October, several new high-rises of 20 or more stories have appeared in the capital, some appearing near completion.
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"I feel the city is intentionally creating a subpar arts environment to speed up gentrification and give the illusion that artists have moved in [so they can] build high rises and raise rent," Ordway told Hyperallergic.
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Still, it will take years for the offices and residential high rises around Hudson Yards to fill up, as some buildings in the neighborhood remain under construction, causing traffic jams and the occasional chaos among commuters.
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SPEND a day in Yangon, shuttling among new high-rises and bars before retreating to your boutique hotel, and you can almost believe that after decades of isolation, Myanmar is squarely on the road to prosperity.
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Forget cramped, inner-city life—in Perth, you live in a big house with a big backyard that's an hour drive away from the CBD along a desolate highway dotted with bars and high rises. Paradise.
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But by 2015, the country's economy was growing by 7 percent annually, up from 5.6 percent in 22019, and new high-rises and shopping malls were sprouting alongside the city's majestic, if dilapidated, colonial-era buildings.
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Both boomers and millennials are flocking to areas like downtown Brooklyn, where a flurry of new full-services high-rises are springing up — and they sometimes compete over units, Citi Habitats agent Jason Burke told CNBC.
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They advocated utopian, tower-in-the-park developments, high-rises in antiseptic plazas, with housing neatly cordoned off from offices, and highways bulldozed through old neighborhoods to whisk people who could afford cars out of town.
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The rest of us will keep soldiering on with what dwindling space we have, as high rises rise, social mores fall, and our frail mass transportation systems subject us to decreasing personal space and increasing indignities.
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As the city's population has grown and its skyline has been redrawn with new high-rises over the past decade, singles and couples who moved there as young adults are electing to stay and raise families.
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The Seattle Times reported this year that the construction of new high-rises has meant that the city has more cranes than any other city in the United States for the third year in a row.
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Everyone's favorite bar for bluegrass and roots music, the genre-bending, boxlike Station Inn sits genially amid the shiny high-rises of the Gulch, a little like an architectural Luddite — but that's part of its charm.
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Fairies can see strip malls and high-rises, we can see fluorescent franchise joints, and Montreal is as full of them as most cities, but we can't describe those places, we can barely talk about them.
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In mid-October, there were 224 rental properties listed on the MLS, ranging from $220,228 to $22.75,19123 a month, but that doesn't include apartments in new high-rises, which handle their own leases, Mr. Pinto said.
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"They want to show that they are a first-world country, and you don't do that by saving old buildings, but by having impressive high-rises and shopping malls and rich people everywhere," Mr. Biedassek said.
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While prices in the quickly developing neighborhood have skyrocketed by nearly 29 percent since 2015, a Reuters analysis found that older luxury high-rises have seen a sharp decline in value as new developments go up.
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Formerly a working class quarter of shabby apartment buildings and unkempt gardens on twisting, hilly streets, over the past few years the neighborhood's modest housing has been mostly leveled and replaced by luxury residential high-rises.
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Those teams are also more vigorously preparing for New Year's Eve, scouring the hotels, office buildings and residential high-rises around Seventh Avenue and Broadway, from the West 40s through the West 50s, to familiarize themselves.
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But looking at only no-fee listings knocks out a lot of options, and no-fee apartments are more commonly found in luxury high-rises or large complexes with their own leasing offices, like Stuyvesant Town.
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Twitter, Facebook and even Apple have headquartered their Middle East operations in Dubai's impressive high rises, and the emirate's ruler, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, has called the UAE an "incubator of innovation and future technology".
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Heralded as state of the art when it opened in 2003, this beachside campus of high-rises and four-story townhouses had, over the years, taken a nose dive, the victim of bad management, crime and rot.
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And there's also some evidence that people living or working in high-rise buildings are more at risk for depression—one theory says it's because high-rises' constant motion can drive disorientation, depression, and other neurological problems.
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Now, with high-rises being built on both sides, G'Raj having been turned into a glitzy brick-and-mortar spot, and more and more people flooding in on the weekend, the area can feel a little claustrophobic.
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Others claim to have already played top-tier soccer in Africa or Asia but said they had decided to come to Qatar to drive buses and build high-rises instead because the paychecks were at least regular.
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The county has successfully used aerial spraying to combat mosquitoes in the Wynwood neighborhood, but will not be able to use that tactic in Miami Beach because of its high-rises and high winds, Dr. Frieden said.
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"The high-rises themselves take on traits and modes of agency that shift and evolve from story to story — each time a familiar name is brought back to the stage, he or she feels recontextualized, born anew."
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Half a century ago, when refugees poured into Hong Kong to escape turmoil in mainland China, the city started a public housing program that provides residences, usually in high-rises, for nearly half of the population today.
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And its suburban location contrasted with the five-star urban high-rises synonymous with the Trump hotel brand, though the Trumps had hotel management experience that the Kushners lacked, and the family connection helped bring them together.
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As the owner, Jerry Wolkoff, was preparing to build high rises on the property, he hired a crew that painted over the murals, then left the building sitting for months until it was knocked down in 2014.
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It is the gleaming glass towers of Spinningfields and the hipster bars of the Northern Quarter, the leafy suburbs of Chorlton and Didsbury, the high-rises of Hulme and the uneasy, red brick streets of Moss Side.
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Also this summer, after a bidding process, the city selected Macquesten Development, the firm behind one of the Mount Vernon high-rises, for a 27-story, 282-apartment tower that will also include offices and a restaurant.
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If you take a bullet train across China, you will see clusters of high rises in the distance, which raise the question: who are the people living in this isolated enclaves and how did they get there?
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The following tour of some of the most advanced, personality-filled high-rises in this remarkable city will focus on Central, the business and political center on the upper edge of Hong Kong Island, facing the water.
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READ: Trump just hit Russian oligarchs with the most aggressive sanctions yet In 1999, Trump said sprinklers made people feel safer, but he didn't see the point of them in high-rises, The New York Times reported.
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I grew up in Greenwich Village, where James Ingo Freed and I. M. Pei designed a refined trio of high-rises, two of the towers for New York University families, the other for low-income Mitchell-Lama residents.
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The government used its powers to acquire much of the land that was not then under its control (it now owns around 5003% of Singapore's territory), and gradually moved Singaporeans from low-slung villages into concrete high-rises.
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Barry told Reuters that, working as a consultant in the Gulf in 2012, he had identified "a general trend of fires in high-rises", which in some places indicated a need for stronger regulation and tougher building codes.
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On and around the street these days, glass high rises jostle for space with swishy restaurants and retail outlets, while many independent businesses (including a much-beloved indie bookstore) have been forced to close because of skyrocketing rent.
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Steel towers, although they're typically pretty sturdy, aren't immune to destruction: the federal report predicts that five steel high-rises will collapse and 503 others will be red-tagged, or unsafe to enter, after the big one hits.
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The Post report, citing government documents, showed Donald Trump Jr.'s Secret Service protection racked up $97,805 in bills for the February trip to New Dehli, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata, where there are Trump-licensed luxury high-rises.
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They migrated together from DC, where they had been in a ska-influenced band called The Ignobles, to New York's Lower East Side, at a time when fancy high rises hadn't yet reclaimed the streets from drug dealers.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New York's skyline is getting a green makeover under a bill adopted on Thursday that imposes massive cuts to the planet-warming greenhouse gases the city's high rises and other large buildings emit.
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This part of town houses some of San Francisco's most high-profile characters — Salesforce, Google, Facebook, and the like call this neighborhood home — and luxury high-rises are popping up to accommodate the thousands moving into the area.
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But they brought their rural traditions with them—people made soap out of animal fat outside between the high rises, kept livestock in their apartments, and cooked dinner in front of their building, like they had always done.
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A forest of office and residential towers has risen in Lower Manhattan and around Central Park in recent years, while new neighborhoods of high rises have sprouted in Downtown Brooklyn, the South Bronx and along the Queens waterfront.
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"They're not going to want to live in these glass houses," he said, pointing to the high rises in Long Island City as about 150 people gathered on the patch of grass at Gordon Triangle on November 14.
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Bart A. Sullivan, an engineer in New York who has worked on high rises around the world, said supertall skyscrapers need large unoccupied floors for complex mechanical and structural equipment, including elevator motors, heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
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QUITO, Ecuador — The squat gray building in Ecuador's capital commands a sweeping view of the city's sparkling sprawl, from the high-rises at the base of the Andean valley to the pastel neighborhoods that spill up its mountainsides.
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Winter occasionally disrupts this plan, in which case head to Maggie Daley Park next to Millennium Park to skate on the meandering ice ribbon that simulates a frozen prairie path amid surrounding high-rises (free; skate rentals $14).
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John and I set our sites quickly on Shijinglong, the first ski area to open near the city, in 1003, in Yanqing, a rural clutch of drab high rises and farms about 50 miles northwest of downtown Beijing.
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President Trump and Kim Jong Un will drive down new highways leading into the city, "cross the new suspension bridge over the Red River, pass newly built houses, high rises, factories, shops, restaurants, cafes and hotels," Elliott said.
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High-rises sprang to life in the 50s and 60s as a quick-fix solution to the huge pressures of housing during the colonial period and here they remain, as towering visual markers on today's emphatically urban society.
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As she bullies and badgers him into helping Leisureland's lowest-class citizens, who live outside its walls in a few dilapidated trailers converted into rusty, disintegrating high-rises, he gets his consciousness raised a bit about poverty and privilege.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Hidden between the high-rises, the traffic jams, the signs promoting Miami's Brickell neighborhood as though it's a lifestyle — between all this energy-draining commotion — there's an almost-secret, nourishing, and quiet space.
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Check out more videos from VICE: Students of urban planning know well the narrative of Robert Moses clearing out neighborhoods on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and across New York to make room for expressways and high rises.
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YONGIN, South Korea (Reuters) - In Yongin, a satellite city south of Seoul, orange construction cranes are racing to build gleaming new high-rises, but realtor Kim Woong-jib says he is pointing would-be apartment buyers to older buildings.
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No matter how much the wealthy might seek to retreat into high-rises from which the people below look small and insignificant, eventually they too must descend into the city streets, the life that we all share here together.
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We're treated to sweeping wide shots of the resplendent Young estate, with its many pools and topiaries, invited to parties that are held on giant yachts in international waters or attached to the top floors of massive high-rises.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Cranes at three South Florida high rises under construction collapsed in the face of heavy winds as Hurricane Irma ripped through the area on Sunday, days after authorities warned about dangers to cranes from the approaching storm.
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In Manhattan, the $246 million Maplewood Senior Living residence, a 19753-story luxury high-rise offering 215 units and a farm-to-table restaurant, is meant to be the first of a line of branded high-rises called Inspir.
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Toll said it was cutting it full-year gross margin forecast as it expected to deliver a "few high-margin units" in its City Living business, which builds high-rises, in fiscal year 2017, instead of fiscal year 2016.
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Emine Akarsu, 48, an architect, praised the party for helping to transform the district from a trash-strewn field into rows of pastel high-rises and landscaped parks, complete with artificial streams, a lake and a nearby subway stop.
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Similar older, pointed high-rises are prime candidates for terraces, but for decades, rents in many neighborhoods were not robust enough to cover their costs, said Mr. Sealy of TF Cornerstone, who has worked in real estate since 2000.
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Numbering more than 270 million, they abandon their impoverished farms and villages to move to the cities, where they run the factories and build the highways and high-rises that have made China's growth the envy of the world.
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It airs on Channel A, a cable network started in 24 by the conservative Dong A Ilbo newspaper, which has its studios in Digital Media City, a cluster of shiny high-rises on what was once a giant landfill.
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Before the fire, the cladding had been banned in the United States and some European countries because it was too combustible, but English building rules were more lenient, opening the door to its use on hundreds of high-rises.
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That is, the high-rises themselves take on traits and modes of agency that shift and evolve from story to story — each time a familiar name is brought back to the stage, he or she feels recontextualized, born anew.
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Modern timber high-rises make use of cross-laminated timber, essentially large-scale plywood, made by gluing two-by-fours together into a sheet, then flipping the sheet 90 degrees and gluing still more two-by-fours on top.
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Those who cannot afford to live in the city's luxury high-rises or even the many rundown housing developments wind up in places like Otodo Gbame, a cluster of wood and sheet-metal shacks behind stylish houses in Lekki.
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His black-and-white images can be stark, surreal and unsettling: from gun-toting youths and heavily armed troops to children playing in favelas, where high-rises loom on the horizon and bloody corpses wait to be picked up.
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Sky-high closings continued in February at 220 Central Park South, 520 Park Avenue and 70 Vestry Street, the limestone high-rises designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects that are among Manhattan's most expensive and talked-about new residences.
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The reunited actors have been filming back in Muirhouse, where the estate's ugly post-war high rises have been replaced by less daunting low rises, and the "eyesore" shopping mall is about to get a multi-million pound revamp.
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Other residential towers are also in the works near the Journal Square station, including two high-rises from Kushner Companies and KABR Group, one of which will replace the former headquarters of The Jersey Journal, which gave the square its name.
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Fiery building collapse in Iran injures at least 75 people Fiery building collapse in Iran injures at least 75 people One of Iran's historic high-rises, the Plasco, collapsed on Thursday in Tehran after a fire spread through the building.
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"Between Queensbridge and LIC, there exists a tale of two cities," Rahman says of the contrast between the housing projects and the newly developed high rises with "an average rent of $3,500 for a two-bedroom apartment" a walking distance apart.
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The Marco Polo building where the fire took place, which is just blocks from Oahu's famous Waikiki Beach, was built in 1971, just four years before the city passed a law requiring sprinkler systems to be installed in high-rises.
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I work in sheet-metal construction on high-rises, around heavy equipment, and was just not caring about my safety as much: crossing the street without looking both ways; ignoring warnings about heavy loads overhead; not caring about my environment.
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But persuading a class of investors more accustomed to being pitched luxury high-rises in cities such as Los Angeles or Miami to buy into a heavy industry project in one of America's poorest states is proving a hard sell.
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Two weeks ago, Trump took time out to meet with three developers of Trump Towers Pune, twin high rises in Pune, India — a meeting which Trump's office dismissed as purely social but which Indian newspapers reported as a serious business meeting.
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Throughout Citizen Jane, experts echo Jacobs' insight that this "superblock" Modernism took off like wildfire in postwar United States urban development and ruined cities, producing an epidemic of isolated high-rises that worsened the social ills they purported to cure.
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What these results suggest is that while buildings people occupy everyday probably affect their decisions at one point or the other, the impact may be more consequential for individuals who work in high-rises and manage millions of dollars of investments.
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Eagle Beach, sandwiched between the cruise terminal in Oranjestad and the high-rises in Palm Beach, has some of the most beautiful turquoise water and white sand on the island — or even in the Caribbean — in a low-key setting.
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The reality will probably be a bit different, but the city has said it will push developers to create varied ways to enjoy the waterfront, beyond the paved walkways and benches behind Whole Foods and the Bond Street high-rises.
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The developers also had to angle some of its apartments to face away from the mostly-blank brick wall of next-door One Pierrepont Plaza, a 21-story 1980s office building that was once among the tallest high-rises in Brooklyn.
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HUD began to award municipalities tens of millions of dollars in grants to tear down their public-housing high-rises and replace them with much smaller developments that mixed public-housing families with higher-income renters and market-rate owners.
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But in Greece, it's the absence of modern developments — of high-rises and high-speed technologies — that can make you feel as if you're walking among the ancient philosophers and tragedians who gave us our sense of hubris and catharsis.
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The list, buried among the seismic calculations of an appendix in the U.S.G.S. report, includes around 40 steel-frame high rises clustered in downtown San Francisco and built between 1960 and 1994, the approximate years when the flawed technique was employed.
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The High End The effort to convert the old Penn Central rail yard on the Far West Side of Manhattan into high-rises has bumped along since being proposed in the mid-1970s by a developer named Donald J. Trump.
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On the side of a building one night, as shots were heard in the capital and people in high-rises banged on pots and pans to protest the president, someone projected a message on a wall directed at the National Guard.
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She added that for a while, the Naftali Group project she is head of sales for, at 210 West 22th Street, was the only one of its kind in the neighborhood, with the exception of the Riverside Center high-rises.
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For instance, the Elghanayans built a cluster of glassy high-rises near a well-known Pepsi-Cola sign in Hunters Point, Queens, over the course of about a decade starting in 2300, turning a remote industrial enclave into a popular address.
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In the early 2000s, after a bruising fight with city officials, residents successfully resisted construction of high-rises, and have since been able to work with developers on projects that generally maintain the low-rise scale and complement the historic architecture.
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And the expansion is poised to continue: 10 massive high-rises are planned in what some are calling the "Manhattanization" of the city's skyline, including a 92-story Frank Gehry-designed skyscraper in King West that would be the city's tallest.
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The rise of post-Soviet capitalism throughout Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Caucasus has fueled unchecked development in the region, but as cities modernize, neighborhoods are being razed to make way for malls, parks, transit hubs, and high-rises.
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I'm not going to complain about how grimy, abandoned streets in Williamsburg and Hell's Kitchen were backdrops to endless nights of shenanigans that are now stifled by generic glass-and-steel high-rises crammed with white fools and their designer dogs and babies.
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Because of the way they were plumbed and owing to policy decisions decades later (that would make it difficult to convert the buildings to, say, luxury hotels or high-rises), these became a permanent fixture in the neighborhood, making gentrification nearly impossible.
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"During the '80s and '90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money," says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration.
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Ten days into 2018, Mehta launched another Trump project in India, in Gurgaon, a global tech hub crowded with high-rises and gated communities that was, until a real estate boom in the 1990s, a lonely stretch of mostly farm and forest land.
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Separately, John A. Fry, the Drexel president, has just unveiled an ambitious plan: a $1303 billion, 14-acre development of parks, businesses and high-rises to be built over four decades, connecting the campus to 30th Street Station, the nearby railroad hub.
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While Rio de Janeiro may be best known for its fantastic beaches and hillside favelas, the city, which was Brazil's capital until 1960, remains one of the country's major business centers, and its downtown is crowded with high-rises and corporate headquarters.
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Yet nearly a quarter of a century later, California is still wrestling with what to do with the hundreds of buildings, many of them high rises, that were constructed during the more than three decades when the defective connection system was widely employed.
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Tyrants and their cronies would neither be able to hide their assets behind the smiling façade of Nevada and Wyoming company formation agents, nor use Delaware shell companies to anonymously launder their funds through Cleveland skyscrapers or Houston high-rises or Boise bungalows.
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And other additions to the city, like ultra-luxury condo high-rises and a $1.4 billion world-class sports center backed by Silicon Valley tech money, show just how integrated big tech has become into the fabric of the cityscape and its infrastructure.
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The government could plow money into the private system, loosen building restrictions for day care, such as those banning the use of high rises or those lacking outside space, or they could raise prices or subsidies, which might attract more private providers to compete.
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Even so, listening to her music is less about the individual records, and more about the world she's created within them; one that was born from the long dewy grass of Somerset, the murky chaos of London and the twinkling high rises of New York.
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Going north alongside it, a little further west along the elevated Brown Line, or northwest toward O'Hare along the Blue Line, there are trendy neighborhoods dotted with occasional high-rises, but mostly two-, three- and four-apartment buildings, as well as vintage courtyard layouts.
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I've actually already seen designs for skyscrapers that have little mini-heliports sticking outside the window so that UAVs can drop packages on people's windows in high-rises or just outside their windows or maybe land and then someone can take the package right there.
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In a rich city known for its soaring high-rises, reports that several domestic workers fell to their deaths this year while cleaning windows have added urgency to a long-running debate about the city's deep social inequality and dependence on low-cost migrant labor.
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The same enthusiasm for demolition that gripped Glasgow planners in the 1960s is present again today: Since 2006, more than a quarter of the city's high-rises have been demolished as part of a bold, and at times worryingly scattergun, vision for Glasgow's future.
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But more recent foreign investment has fueled its expansion, with luxury developments like Porto Montenegro in Tivat, home to a Regent hotel and a yacht marina, and the Miami-like high-rises that surround the walled heart of Budva, now filled with restaurants and cafes.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "San Francisco Still Has an Earthquake Problem" (news article, June 15), about the risk to high rises in the city: This report is eerily familiar to those regarding warnings of the vulnerability of New Orleans to hurricanes before Katrina.
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Think of this activity as similar to a flash mob, with people sharing balcony music all over the world, and in some cases turning high-rises into the site of some indoor, impromptu block parties: This is what's going on in my apartment right now!!
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LONDON — All 75 high-rises in Britain that have been tested for fire safety since the Grenfell Tower tragedy have failed, a leading government official said on Monday, raising concerns that even more buildings may have to be evacuated while emergency repairs are undertaken.
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On Monday, Arconic, the American company once known as Alcoa that sold combustible material used at Grenfell Tower, the London housing project that was the site of the fire, said it would no longer sell that kind of paneling for use in high-rises.
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Beside one of the less-used railroad tracks in Manila - a grassy area scattered with human excrement only a few miles from the gleaming high-rises of the Makati business district - shabu was easily available last week, costing just a few pesos (cents) per hit.
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"Everything is changing really quickly, so we're trying to change with it," said Kathryn Moore, 51, the president of the Powerhouse Arts District Neighborhood Association, which has been a critic of some of the high-rises that have replaced historic warehouse and factory buildings in that neighborhood.
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In this post-apocalyptic future, a huge class divide is maintained by military rule—the elite live in fancy, militarized high rises in Los Angeles while the poor are relegated to massive slums on the outskirts of the city, where they are slaughtered indiscriminately by the military.
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And in an election in which the candidates are already focused heavily on inequality — between prosperous coastal cities and Middle America, between billionaires and working-class residents, between luxury high-rises and the homeless — Mr. Bloomberg, himself a billionaire, appears headed for criticism on several fronts.
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Rod stretched in the parking lot, bending toward the high-rises, and the gleam from the street lamps made his shadow bloom in the night, and the reek of deli meat mingled with the tinge of gasoline, and Poke tightroped the curb alongside the cars congesting Westheimer.
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In those heady days, Forest City had boasted that modular technology would allow the company to build high-rises for 70 percent of the cost of a conventional building and finish the tower in 18 months, or about 75 percent of the typical time of construction.
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The building, on the Upper East Side, is part of an onslaught of new high rises being erected in the area as developers push into untouched corners of New York City, prompting fierce resistance from residents who believe their neighborhoods are being overwhelmed by soaring glass towers.
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Of the 20 hotels in Panama City Beach, a mix of high-rises, chains and boutiques, only the Sheraton Bay Point will remain closed until April, according to Dan Rowe, executive director of the Bay County Tourist Development Council; 90 percent of the city's inventory was untouched.
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Starring Hugo Speer and Sharon Small, the five-episode "London Kills," now showing, follows rival detectives as they race through crack dens, opulent high-rises and even Parliament to solve a string of murders, while having their attention diverted by the disappearance of the lead inspector's wife.
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In fact, the West Side Tennis Club still exists in the same reasonably leafy corner of Forest Hills — the Long Island Railroad main line tootling politely alongside bustling Queens Boulevard, and high-rises on the north side and still-swanky Forest Hills Gardens just to the south.
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"This is an issue that structural engineers should have been dealing with continuously since the mid-1990s and we just dropped it," said Keith Porter, an earthquake engineering expert who helped lead the United States Geological Survey study that published the list of San Francisco high rises.
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They live together in Harlem and speak fondly of the neighborhood that existed before familiar black faces started to disappear from the street corners, before single-family brownstones were razed for cold, metal high-rises, before the Apollo Theater was walking distance from a Whole Foods.
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Occupying the grounds of a former shipyard, the central business district of Minato Mirai 1003 is today a glitzy neighborhood of modern high-rises, sprawling shopping complexes and several museums, including the Yokohama Museum of Art, the Mitsubishi Minato Mirai Industrial Museum, and the Yokohama Port Museum.
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Perhaps because he grew up in a country that offhandedly integrates its ruins and monuments into daily life, neither fetishizing them nor letting them be bulldozed for high rises, De Cotiis feels free, even compelled, to explore the ambient tension between crumbling antiquity and futuristic minimalism.
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From his studio inside one of central Moscow's Stalin-era high-rises, the designer develops 3-D computer renderings of his pieces in surreal imagined environments — for his Yalta wooden chairs, he conjured a disused sanitarium on the Black Sea — before deciding which items to manufacture.
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Murat Germen's photos of highways, high-rises, billboards, and container ships in the Egyptian cities of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Suez — arranged into grids and classified under headers like "Globalism/Expansion" or "Post-capitalism/Precarity" — stand in particularly stark contrast to the images taken by his predecessors.
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Mr. Wenders's first commercial feature, after a half-dozen art films, was both enthralled and appalled by Hollywood; made in three countries (and three languages), it feels precisely placed yet essentially placeless, celebrating even as it deplores a new-minted environment of soulless high-rises and empty airports.
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But the most trend-setting and appealing feature of the new complex is most likely its location: plopped between glass and steel high-rises on a busy street in downtown Seattle where food trucks are abundant, apartments are within walking distance and Happy Hour greets employees at quitting time.
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Wolkoff, who had invited artists to paint on his property for over 20 years, contends that they knew he ultimately planned to tear down the warehouse to build high-rises; his lawyer, David Ebert, argued that VARA was irrelevant to the case as the law concerns artworks, not property.
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First, what seems to be an industrial park goes up on the lot, and in Lowery's idiosyncratic telescoping of time, the high-rises get higher until this corner of what seems like Kentucky has become a megalopolis that looks a little like Shanghai and a little like Las Vegas.
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I cross the Harlem River on the Madison Avenue Bridge, one of the city's lesser known crossings, and then I'm in Manhattan, on the F.D.R. Drive heading south, cruising by the high-rises and the hospitals of the Upper East Side and under the tower of the United Nations.
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Other high-rises, like the 22-story co-op Troy Towers, built in 1966, or the 2008 14-story condominium called the Thread Building, both atop the Palisades cliffs, continue to draw buyers, although the city's 2012 master plan set a six-story height limit for future building.
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Beachfront hotels (like the Ilikai of Hawaii Five-O fame), shopping malls, luxury high-rises, power plants, military training centers, freeways, and even telescopes went up—drawing ire from native residents and environmentalists, and leading to the oft-repeated joke that Hawaii's state bird is the construction crane.
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Image 230 of 228 SARANSK, Russia – Valerie Fayzullina expresses a hopeful sense of wonder as she stands near a wire sculpture of a soccer player, in the shadows of eight new apartment high-rises and a freshly finished stadium that will host stars as big as Cristiano Ronaldo this month.
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In terms of its appearance, the gray-brick Noma "is betwixt and between" the older garment buildings that populate the heart of NoMad, along Broadway, and the glassier high-rises that have cropped up along the Avenue of the Americas north of 23rd Street since the 1990s, Mr. Kaplan said.
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How do you explain the feeling of 83 AM drizzle on the nape of your neck as you realize that, yes, everything is shut, and yes, the only way of extending the night is with that bloke from the high-rises who wants to talk about hunting knives and Brexit?
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When I visited the construction site in January, on the eastern edge of Gurgaon, an M3M sales associate pointed to a small, bare patch of land, surrounded by several other high-rises, a golf course, and a parking lot, as the spot where the Trump Towers would eventually be built.
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She did not recall which stars or planets they were supposed to see that night, but, after the teacher had left, a boy from the science club, in order to impress Bella, had turned the telescope toward one of the first high-rises in the city and found an uncurtained window.
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Carlos Lima said the probe into corruption on projects for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August was not limited to Porto Maravilha, or the "Marvelous Port", a regeneration of the city's waterfront that includes five high-rises bearing the name of U.S. property mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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"Toward a Concrete Utopia" starts there: We see three briskly edited films celebrating the erection of New Belgrade, a Brasília-style extension of Yugoslavia's federal capital with large-scale Brutalist projects like the Genex Tower, a pair of concrete high-rises linked by a sky bridge with a revolving restaurant.
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In Donald Trump's version of how he got rich, he was the master dealmaker who broke free from his father's "tiny" Brooklyn and Queens real estate operation and built a $10 billion empire that would slap the Trump name on hotels, high-rises, casinos and golf courses the world over.
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You walk to the park, look at his sculpture up close, with its structure tightly wrapped in chain-link fencing, and realize that your mind is traveling in many directions at once: urban renewal (or is it destruction?); high-rises for the rich and poor; construction sites; and Jeremy Bentham's panopticon.
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To accommodate growth, Seattle needs what growing cities have traditionally had — not just luxury high-rises on a narrow swathe of land, but the ability to sprinkle duplexes, triplexes, garden apartments, and rowhouses throughout the city and for strip malls and low-rise retail corridors to grow and evolve into secondary business districts.
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Throughout the 19th and 20th century, industrial progress was seen as very important and the sense of the future was shaped by the sense of what technology could do: rationally planned cities with your beautiful high-rises and airports on top of airports and helicopters, and all this giving people a better life.
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He accumulated at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants, and other subsidies from New York to build his empire of hotels and high rises, according to The New York Times, including the longest tax abatement the city ever handed out, 40 years, to rehabilitate the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the '70s.
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But the rents the federal government pays to Section 8 landlords are generally not enough for a home in a diverse neighborhood with strong schools and low crime; most landlords taking vouchers aren't in "opportunity" areas but in poor and racially isolated ones not so different from the razed government-run high-rises.
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And steel frame high rises ... we saw it in the 21 (Northridge) earthquake and in Japan in '123, they saw the same issue with the welding of the buildings: the weld changed the chemical properties of the seal and the cracks formed in the welds in the corners, and then propagated into the main beam.
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In a paper with Ozlem Sahbaz, based on five years of crime data in one London borough, he concludes that a higher density of people helps to deter crime (high-rises are often not as densely populated as medium-rise blocks built closer together), and that integration with streets, even full of strangers, is safer.
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In these countries' capitals, International Style architecture became a marker of new nationalist ambition, whether in Abidjan, the economic engine of Ivory Coast, which built high rises resembling those of La Défense in Paris, or in Lusaka, where a new building for Zambia's National Assembly comprised a long concrete block supported by dainty pilotis.
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OK, yeah, it's pretty with all its luxury high-rises, startup offices, and AVEDA salons, but let's be honest: River North is where you go when you want to get into hour-long arguments about the validity of global warming with a 45-year-old drunk finance bro who believes the environmental movement is a Marxist plot.
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" There are policies in place that attempt to balance the development so that, along with luxury high-rises, more affordable housing units are added to the city stock "Thankfully we have an inclusionary housing ordinance," said Sobel, "that requires developers provide a certain percentage of affordable housing or pay a fee towards affordable housing, but it's not enough.
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From Caracas, Venezuela, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, many cities in the developing world remain in thrall to obsolete, environmentally irresponsible, socially debilitating visions of high-rises and highways, sprawl and segregation, with poor people pushed to the outskirts and more well-to-do residents in gated communities that are yet another unfortunate global export from postwar America.
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Jacobs's problem with modernism was ecumenical; she saw no distinction between the towers of the New York City Housing Authority — still relatively new and functional and producing future Lloyd Blankfeins when she was disparaging them — and complexes like Stuyvesant Town, high-rises created for the middle class, because both upended the street grid, the natural order of things.
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The systematic urban redevelopment of the once-colorful neighborhood, particularly over the last decade or so, has pushed out punks and the poor in equal measure, with luxury high-rises, trendy clubstaurants, and a sprawling Whole Foods supplanting affordable housing and legendary haunts like CBGBs, the latter long since gutted and turned into a John Varvatos boutique.
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A 10-minute drive unfolds more like a cinematic montage than topography: corrugated tin shacks giving way to gleaming high-rises; children cycling against the backdrop of sugar cane fields; mountains in jagged shapes seemingly culled from the mind of Picasso; a procession of hot pink and cobalt blue bungalows popping against the never-ending emerald expanse.
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Among the high-rises are midcentury co-ops like the 20-story Winston Churchill, at 2500 Johnson Avenue; the 25-story 555 Kappock Street; and the 23-story Blue Building, at 2400 Johnson, perhaps best known for its location near a familiar sight from the Manhattan side, a giant C, for Columbia University, painted on a nearby rock face.
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As our planet continues to spiral into a climate catastrophe, architects have in recent years taken notice to wood's virtues, including its merit as an extra-strong composite material, and have been honing their skills building high-rises up to 275 feet tall out of lumber, leveraging newfangled wooden materials—these are no giant log cabins.
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Developers are digging in on either side of the new Van der Donck Park, constructing high-rises and retrofitting old factories, adding residences to what was once strictly a business and government district, and banking on the greener look of downtown to lure people priced out of New York — or simply looking for a change of pace.
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We all paid heed to that English tatterdemalion's cry (6) of "no future" in different ways, and if the word "future" didn't portend a lifetime's career opportunity in the mills gone south, or a cracked vision of needle-nosed high-rises connected by space taxis against a bloodred sky with three moons, what mostly remained in our heads was no.
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Being associated with the Trump name was helpful, he told BuzzFeed News, because the name comes with a sense of power (for instance, the Washington Post reported that the developers of the 600-foot high-rises unveiled a sleek sales office in Gurgaon last week, claiming they racked up $23 million in sales — for more than 20 units — in the first day).
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P.H.: A primary goal of Drawdown is to help people who feel overwhelmed by gloom-and-doom messages see that reversing global warming is bursting with possibility: walkable cities, afforestation, bamboo, high-rises built of wood, marine permaculture, multistrata agroforestry, clean cookstoves, plant-rich diet, assisting women smallholders, regenerative agriculture, supporting girls' ongoing education, smart glass, in-stream hydro, on and on.
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"It's the absence of modern developments — of high-rises and high-speed technologies — that can make you feel as if you're walking among the ancient philosophers and tragedians who gave us our sense of hubris and catharsis," writes Pico Iyer in his story for T's spring Travel issue, for which he journeyed to some of the country's most storied classical sites.
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It is not just the proliferation of high-rises and condos that has made Florida more economically vulnerable to hurricanes in recent years, but the growth of its artistic infrastructure as well: Art collections and museums have blossomed in the Art Basel Miami era, and performing arts organizations have thrived as the state has grown in both population and wealth.
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He's welcomed by a party in the sleek and luxurious apartment his wife, Mayme (Ilfenesh Hadera), has secured for them in the Lenox Terrace high-rises, but he also gets bad news about the neighborhood's shifting fortunes: The Italian crime families are encroaching on the heroin trade, and the competition is driving up the number of junkies on the street.
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OVER the past two months, as the weekly candlelit protests along Sejongno, Seoul's main boulevard, swelled from a few thousand participants to 2m, the calls bouncing off the high-rises for Park Geun-hye to step down are said to have become audible even in the Blue House, the president's official residence and office, a short distance to the north, where Ms Park had cloistered herself away.
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Raised during a crack plague, he was a child of government institutions — a half-dozen foster homes, a city jail, six state prison facilities, public housing high-rises — who, at 29, had landed at yet another: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a red brick monument to both well-honed emergency treatment and overburdened recovery care where most gunshot victims in the South Bronx are taken.
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On one page of the large hardback, the perspective is on the ground at the mouth of the Jacobshavn Ice Fjord, with an incredible panorama taking in its icy peaks and the human spectators dwarfed by its form; on another, the New York Harbor is witnessed from the sky, an angle that emphasizes the proximity of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan's high rises to the water.
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Age: 31 Occupation: Founder and creative director of Pyer Moss Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn His Favorite Room: Between designing for Pyer Moss (which earned him a Council of Fashion Designers of America nomination) and collaborating with Reebok on a sneaker line, Mr. Jean-Raymond hardly spends a day at home, which for now is a rental in a cluster of high-rises on the Brooklyn waterfront.
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They're a little aimless, looking for meaning and purpose and authenticity in their work and relationships, but they're also able to do that because they're living in the years just before the recession, during a time when it was plausible for a young artist to live cheaply in a place like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which now is all high-rises and luxury apartments that I can't afford.
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"I think in the last 10 years, it's been a real struggle for Austin to keep its identity and keep its soul, as downtown is being razed and converted into condos and high-rises, and you have people like Google and Facebook and Apple taking over the town with these buildings," said Omar Gallaga, who covered the city's tech culture for The Austin American-Statesman for more than 20 years.
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" Shiny high rises now cast their shadows over Kakaako's warehouses, and real estate investment is flooding in from China, Canada, Japan, and the continental US. Art impresarios also have their eyes on the islands, including the inaugural Art Hawaii International art fair opening in November with the stated goal of "cater[ing] to a global audience with an innovative cross-cultural contemporary art event in one of the most extraordinary destinations in the world.
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The aboveground train rushed past ugly high-rises and megamalls built as a result of the aggressive urban transformation policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, known as the A.K.P. Changing lines at Yenikapi, a new transportation hub on the southern shore of the Bosporus, I found the subway station decorated with tall cylindrical columns displaying photographs of policemen and soldiers who died fighting the coup plotters last July 15.
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