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Models of red skyscrapers, standing in pairs and assembled like stalagmites, imagine radical designs for some of Chicago's landmark skyscrapers, from the John Hancock Center to Trump Tower.
Colossal metallic orbs protrude off of morphed building complexes, skyscrapers grow out of the sides of other skyscrapers, ambiguous cords of twisted white erupt from the earth's core.
They transformed familiar building types like skyscrapers, offices, and museums.
To my right, illuminated in the distance, loomed modern skyscrapers.
Most Skyscrapers Flattened by Aliens in a Single Action Sequence?
The skyscrapers fade from view and dawn yellows the horizon.
Yet it's not easy to convince residents to build skyscrapers.
The first shows Trump in his Manhattan office, with skyscrapers
Essentially the skyscrapers are a way of capturing the value.
Super skyscrapers, office buildings and new domestic ways of living.
Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers.
Developers erect skyscrapers with a dozen floors reserved for parking.
Both shimmering skyscrapers and dark mountains loom in the horizon.
Paddyfields have given way to skyscrapers, bicycles to traffic jams.
This metropolis, still under construction, consists of mostly empty skyscrapers.
It's hard to get permission to climb skyscrapers without ropes.
I build movie sets in Mexico and skyscrapers in Chicago.
There is some fantastic urban lighting of skyscrapers in Midtown.
In San Francisco, construction workers installed partition walls on skyscrapers.
Mr. Caratowsa kept returning downtown, envisioning himself amid the skyscrapers.
Beyond the window, the skyscrapers were twinkling in the cold.
Across the river, Manhattan's glassy skyscrapers sparkle in the summer sunlight.
Its once demure profile is now punctuated with eye-catching skyscrapers.
Two, actually: the Trump Tower skyscrapers in Chicago and New York.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA is adorned by jungles, islands and gleaming skyscrapers.
Whatever the reason, many Nairobians cheered the sprouting of the skyscrapers.
You don't necessarily build high-rise skyscrapers in Arkansas or Kansas.
Nineteen new skyscrapers are under construction and 26 more are planned.
"I saw skyscrapers rise out of the ground," Antoine told me.
But then it almost immediately starts dropping those skyscrapers on London?
Today, skyscrapers covered in flashing screens light up the tourist hotspot.
New York City has long been known for its towering skyscrapers.
But the UK capital won't be swapping its skyscrapers for forests.
Skyscrapers are everywhere in big cities, but they're not built equally.
Why was I not moved by these people falling from skyscrapers?
More skyscrapers have cropped up around the tower in recent years.
Not that anyone cares, because skyscrapers are not "long," they're tall.
Hong Kong's skyscrapers are overshadowed by those in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Stalin thought people would find Communism deficient if Moscow lacked skyscrapers.
The observation decks atop Manhattan skyscrapers might be another good option.
How safe are San Francisco's skyscrapers, in your opinion, and why?
The skyline of the capital, Luanda, was quickly reshaped with skyscrapers.
The crane then begins to swing wildly, smashing into neighboring skyscrapers.
Skinny scrapersThe new skyscrapers in the Big Apple aren't so big.
Here are some other notable skyscrapers to visit in Hong Kong.
Our first skyscrapers were said to average one death for every story.
Oh, by the way, there might not be occupants for these skyscrapers.
Instead of stones in alignment with the cosmos however, we've got skyscrapers.
Skyscrapers soar above Islam's holiest place, dwarfing the granite Kaaba far below.
Forouzanfar sets his skyscrapers in some of Iran's most ancient desert cities.
We see smokestacks, factories, bridges and skyscrapers painted with geometric, smooth techniques.
China has 16 skyscrapers coming that will be over 300 meters tall.
Double steel reinforced skyscrapers, created to withstand a collision from a 747.
Originally settled 1,700 years ago, it's the world's first city of skyscrapers.
Many roads - even in the shadow of glittering skyscrapers - reek of sewage.
The city has witnessed a boom of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings.
In Sydney's Central area, tall skyscrapers were barely visible in the distance.
Silhouetted skyscrapers rise from a deep fog, casting shadows at stark angles.
Dubai screams extravagance with towering skyscrapers, lavish shopping and glistening sand dunes.
Read more: 20 of the most outrageous-looking skyscrapers of all time
He uses nothing but his bare hands to climb skyscrapers and cliffs.
Everything was to be huge — the new roads, the skyscrapers, the monuments.
Chicago was an instant wonder, with its skyscrapers and buzzing street life.
New York after Skyscrapers, shadows and baseball fields in New York City.
There's also a little bit of a white lie in glass skyscrapers.
Skyscrapers and new apartment buildings are going up all around Fort Lauderdale.
"Fuck Ilhan!" others shouted over indecipherable chatter bouncing off the skyscrapers overhead.
The city is filled with futuristic skyscrapers that resemble a science-fiction movie.
All you have is towering sand dunes that are as tall as skyscrapers.
Even the proliferation of skyscrapers in the developing world's megacities encourages air-conditioners.
China is the world's biggest exporter; its cities are jammed with gleaming skyscrapers.
Avoid "tall-building lawyers," especially ones who work in skyscrapers in New York.
Recently we've been looking into sustainable building materials, like skyscrapers made of wood.
Let's do the twist Twisted skyscrapers are a lot more common these days.
The statue that commemorates him in the capital, Seoul, is dwarfed by skyscrapers.
From skyscrapers, one could see dozens of buildings turn to dust within seconds.
Take a look at some of the most impressive skyscrapers in the world.
You can see the unfinished tower beginning to peek over the other skyscrapers.
The Flatiron Building in New York was one of the city's first skyscrapers ...
"I would never go back to the skyscrapers in New York," Christo said.
New York wasn&apost always an island of tightly wound cars and skyscrapers.
The skyscrapers hovered above his head, as if suspended in a yellow fog.
Luxury glass skyscrapers have been erected, and more tech offices have sprouted up.
Related's skyscrapers at the yard would rise beside and on top of that.
Clouds will cover our skyscrapers today, with thunderstorms and showers possible this evening.
It will be American steel that sends our skyscrapers soaring into the sky.
They put new skyscrapers up in Beijing while your factories in Michigan crumbled.
Shanghai is an ever-changing city, where skyscrapers seem to pop up overnight.
Voices escape, singing sad, sad songs" and "Voices whine/Skyscrapers are scraping together.
More skyscrapers followed, including the now-iconic Trump Tower on N.Y.C.'s Fifth Avenue.
Little flying cars rushed through the air, tall alien skyscrapers shimmered in the background.
It's fun to treat rows of towering skyscrapers like your own, personal jungle gym.
The skyscrapers are covered in more than 700 trees and 90 species of plants.
Over the next decades, Donald put the Trump name on skyscrapers, casinos and planes.
They fill 99% of private-sector jobs, from designing skyscrapers to scraping dirty saucepans.
But it also has millions of poor people living in slums wedged between skyscrapers.
Yes, the scores of shiny new skyscrapers look like something out of science fiction.
Much of the surrounding terrain is soft and swampy—not ideal for building skyscrapers.
It is true that China's gleaming coastal cities make Taipei's 1980s skyscrapers look shabby.
Much of the surrounding terrain is soft and swampy — not ideal for building skyscrapers.
That might be too tall a task, even for the movement taking over skyscrapers.
Slender new skyscrapers on Billionaire's Row had begun to cast shadows on Central Park.
" Mr. Fraser said: "Those skyscrapers are marching up right around the tip of Greenpoint.
South of Dubai's glittering skyscrapers lies Jebel Ali, the busiest port in the region.
Ambitious skyscrapers have been built, if not yet filled, and more are under construction.
The architectural treasures scattered throughout the city are no skyscrapers, but they still soar.
It was also one of the first skyscrapers in Manhattan — at just 10 stories.
Engineers have questioned the wisdom of building skyscrapers with foundations in mud and clay.
Downtown Beijing is crowded with new skyscrapers, shopping malls and wealthier middle-class residents.
Skyscrapers go up in flames because they have flammable cladding yet no automatic sprinklers.
Mayor de Blasio's "ban" on glass and steel skyscrapers isn't a ban at all.
Narrow ribbons of oceanfront skyscrapers are backed by wooded hillsides protected as country parks.
The point is not to mandate construction of skyscrapers in place of suburban subdivisions.
Intrigued diners turn to the window, trying to spot it beyond Singapore's gleaming skyscrapers.
How it started Today, Gurgaon is a thriving hub of skyscrapers and luxury apartments.
How would you deal with man-made obstacles like airplanes, skyscrapers, pollution or drones?
Both were brash, outspoken, greenback worshipping, tabloid icons obsessed with building taller, shinier skyscrapers.
The metro mostly travels on raised platforms, cutting through the city's famous glittering skyscrapers.
Meaning that there's a market for the city's spate of ultra-luxe condo skyscrapers.
In his prior screen incarnations, Kong has climbed skyscrapers; this Kong actually is one.
Concrete is the spine of skyscrapers, the span of bridges, and the bulk of dams.
A tall tapestry, teeming with mountains, skyscrapers and, of course, the omnipresent Christ the Redeemer.
The Los Angeles of Her is a dense metropolis teeming with skyscrapers and speeding trains.
I passed towering skyscrapers, banks and other financial institutions, and quite a bit of construction.
To achieve this goal, the Sidewalk Labs arm of Alphabet is betting on wooden skyscrapers.
Projects undertaken since 2000, like the reconstructed Marunouchi Buildings, tend to be massive, multipurpose skyscrapers.
The trailer, along with future gameplay demos, showed characters knocking down office complexes and skyscrapers.
Just think of it: Bugs can be grown in small cages nested inside insect skyscrapers.
For a city pitching itself as east Africa's business hub, under-occupied skyscrapers look bad.
Futuristic as they appear, Forouzanfar's conceptual skyscrapers blend organically with their environment in surreal harmony.
Some license the Trump name for skyscrapers and hotels, often to politically connected local partners.
Try capturing the crowd in your shot, a few towering skyscrapers, or even the moon.
That's why the lobbies of larger skyscrapers have elevators that only service the upper floors.
I grew up staring at the skyscrapers from below, shooting them from every which angle.
Most new skyscrapers in New York are whisper-thin silver spikes or clunky glass boxes.
The book is enriched by those who lived in tenements, skyscrapers or Fifth Avenue palaces.
I even believed Batman and Robin were climbing skyscrapers with little more than a rope.
Before skyscrapers and suburbs popped up, our ancestors resided in forested regions full of greenery.
And at night, admire Manhattan's glittering skyscrapers from the top of the Empire State Building.
He's regularly on top of its tallest skyscrapers, or interrupting a variety of rooftop parties.
And builders raced towards the heavens, constructing massive office skyscrapers containing millions of square feet.
Surrounded by giant skyscrapers, New York City has a particularly illustrious history in the sport.
And, how will 3D printing change the way we build everything from skyscrapers to spaceships?
Who really lives in all those awful luxury skyscrapers going up all over the US?
The cluster of brand-new skyscrapers at Hudson Yards can be seen in the distance.
Developers of superluxe skyscrapers are chopping up penthouses and, in some cases, scrapping plans altogether.
A special neighborhood has been growing in the upper reaches of New York City's skyscrapers.
Among the hulking Stalinist blocks of Warsaw's city center, skyscrapers—Axa, Deloitte, MetLife—shot up.
Through the panes you saw the purposeless, dominating brilliance of the skyscrapers of New York.
The last day would begin in Liechtenstein and end surrounded by skyscrapers near Canary Wharf.
New York is a city of landmarks: world famous skyscrapers, grand monuments and cultural icons.
The hero of this production is more likely to tilt at skyscrapers than at windmills.
But behind her, incongruously, a slice of the World Trade Center skyscrapers is clearly visible.
And many skyscrapers still avoid labeling a 13th floor, instead skipping from 12 to 14. 
Some of the damage was not evident; the skyscrapers of San Juan looked the same.
Along the way, she invites users to contribute their own skyscrapers, museums, foods and activities.
Its skyline comprises a riotous profusion of futuristic skyscrapers, among them the world's tallest building.
The booms of fireworks ricocheted off skyscrapers and ambulances screamed by, ferrying off the wounded.
Downtown still sparkles, but many of the innovative skyscrapers are struggling with high vacancy rates.
In London, the horizon is rarely visible, obscured by skyscrapers, grubby brick, and wet pavements.
Imagine a city with four soaring skyscrapers – and the rest of downtown constantly under construction.
The overall height of the world&aposs skyscrapers also reached a new pinnacle in 2019.
Twitter users posted time-lapse videos of the squall moving in and quickly enveloping skyscrapers.
Apartment towers, highways, bridges, skyscrapers, metros, dams: Each of them swallows unimaginable helpings of sand.
It also looms from the sides of the twin skyscrapers that the mall sits beneath.
Old houses and buildings were being destroyed and replaced by new ones including modern skyscrapers.
Plumes of smoke billowed across major thoroughfares and between some of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
The upper reaches of derelict skyscrapers, without elevator service since the riots, have been taken over by hang-glider and autogyro gangs, mountaineers, and steeple-jacks… In Burroughs' vision of New York, two walls cordon off Midtown Manhattan, while skyscrapers are webbed with connective catwalks.
This air will be funneled, as strong winds are around skyscrapers, in between these pressure systems.
Two skyscrapers in Istanbul bear Trump's name, yielding his family millions of dollars in licensing fees.
Moscow City is a modern business district with skyscrapers, where some banks, including VTB, have offices.
The massive rockets, standing as tall as skyscrapers, cost anywhere between $62 million to $350 million.
Not long afterwards Tulsa became the "oil capital of the world", memorialising its glory in skyscrapers.
Nearby, skyscrapers and construction cranes make the city less livable for all but a wealthy few.
"These newly-built houses, they're like some skyscrapers with slabs on top, as tombs," she said.
Today, however, we reserve our awe to stratospheric skyscrapers as countries compete for the tallest building.
Likewise, he shot on cloudless days to isolate the skyscrapers from the rest of the city.
Plumes of smoke billowed across major thoroughfares and in between some of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
There is no real centre, just a vast concrete sprawl where highways and flyovers corral skyscrapers.
Skyscrapers, built on shock-absorbing systems, are designed to sway in an earthquake instead of toppling.
We'd trade skyscrapers and people rubbing up against us on the subway for that any day.
Where communities are ghettoized beneath Asian-branded skyscrapers, and the enslaved population, Replicants, are overwhelmingly white.
Lekki is a prime site for investors, who have built luxury apartments, skyscrapers and waterside restaurants.
Together the pair would create a firm as towering as the skyscrapers their products make possible.
Sun Hung Kai, however, focuses on building skyscrapers and shopping centers in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported.
One of the tallest steel trees in Dubai's glittering forest of skyscrapers is the Princess Tower.
Cousins shows how Welles's experience in that city, amid the skyscrapers, taught him to look up.
Inside its gates, weatherworn headstones — some dating from the 1680s — stand in the shadows of skyscrapers.
The complex was erected in 1967 and was one of the first projects to incorporate skyscrapers.
Play it over headphones, walking aimlessly through the city, staring at skyscrapers and your own reflection.
According to Birdlife Australia, they often live in major cities and nest on ledges and skyscrapers. 
The district boasts energy-efficient, glass skyscrapers that contrast with drab architecture in most of Riyadh.
It was a Muslim from Bengal, Fazlur Rahman Khan, who created the architectural form of skyscrapers.
It is startling and unexpected to catch a glimpse of this most recognizable of Manhattan skyscrapers.
We learn how new zoning regulations shaped the cityscape and why and how skyscrapers were built.
The China that Ms. Wang depicts is a megalopolis of gleaming skyscrapers and breakneck economic growth.
Security was enhanced in high places, and gaining access to roofs of skyscrapers became more difficult.
Massive oil and natural gas reserves lie beyond shores that boast an expanding skyline of skyscrapers.
It was the subway that fueled the astonishing economic growth that built the city's iconic skyscrapers.
To deal with that, modern skyscrapers use a slew of architectural tricks to confuse the wind.
In Wakandan architecture, we saw red dirt and market places while alongside super railways and skyscrapers.
Long lines formed at polling centers in the morning, snaking around skyscrapers and past small shops.
New supertall skyscrapers have risen along the southern edge of Central Park on Billionaires&apos Row.
Long lines formed at polling centers in the morning, snaking around skyscrapers and past small shops.
Dittmeyer and his team found that skyscrapers and other large buildings could remove bounties of CO2.
But few, if any, offer unobstructed views of the sun setting between two walls of skyscrapers.
Even after replacement glass solved the problem, "we were blacklisted from doing skyscrapers," Mr. Cobb said.
Mr. Durst is the oldest son of Seymour Durst, whose family owns a dozen skyscrapers in Manhattan.
New skyscrapers and high-rise buildings are blanketed in heavy smog in Beijing's Central Business District, Dec.
Even if you're in the downtown area with skyscrapers there's always the slums right around the corner.
The artist's projects play out across the Paramount Backlot, in fake skyscrapers, townhomes, bars, and the like.
More than half the population live in informal housing that coexists with skyscrapers in the beachfront city.
Plans to build four new skyscrapers close to Shibuya station and Miyashita Park have also been approved.
New glass skyscrapers can only momentarily distract from the history, politics, and culture that permeate this place.
He has climbed numerous landmark skyscrapers around the world, often illegally and using the free solo technique.
When you think of impressive tech company campuses, Adobe's San Jose skyscrapers don't always come to mind.
Lubezki have wrung from mundane modern structures like skyscrapers (The Tree of Life) and Sonic drive-ins
Parks function as boss arenas; skyscrapers are repurposed as robotic hives; public transportation becomes an action setpiece.
Military stripes, stars, and medals are to President Trump what tall, named skyscrapers were to Businessman Trump.
"The Rise" is a Ballardian work set in the shiny, metallic, and modern world of Berlin skyscrapers.
Our cities are turning into more of an architectural hodgepodge, where skyscrapers gleam next to crumbling edifices.
Real skyscrapers have been digitally gutted, and what remains are Hollywood-like facades, braced by steel brackets.
There are no five-star hotels, gleaming skyscrapers, or even tourist-friendly souks selling exotic spices here.
Much like Timberlake's Tennessee digs, Pilgrimage is held on a sprawling farm with no skyscrapers in sight.
"That's her turf, all those buildings over there," Ms. Hooper said, pointing to Manhattan's maze of skyscrapers.
His previous videos show him hanging off the edge of glistening skyscrapers supported by just his hands.
Today it is home to modern skyscrapers that make up the skyline of Shenzhen's central business district.
It's packed with skyscrapers instead of palm trees, soot instead of sand, congestion instead of salty air.
The capital of South Korea is certainly metropolitan — here you'll find skyscrapers, temples, and street markets alike.
Read more: The tallest skyscrapers of 2018 include a helipad, sky gardens, and an indoor skating rink
I went to sleep barely 12 hours later surrounded by glittering skyscrapers next to London's Canary Wharf.
She remembered carefree, preschool afternoons creating skyscrapers out of blocks and T. rexes out of puzzle pieces.
The show moves in a glitter-zone of skyscrapers, luxury apartments, expensive restaurants and family horse ranches.
As for the city I would like a city with skyscrapers for work and also for apartments.
Green trees stood with wry and decidedly treelike composure at the bases of skyscrapers several feet tall.
It's often considered one of the world's top culinary capitals and has a huge concentration of skyscrapers.
Two other cities with skyscrapers, Chicago and Miami, have similar zoning codes but regulate mechanical floors differently.
Watching Blasey was excruciating, like seeing someone without circus training forced to walk a tightrope between skyscrapers.
This 1991 book details the history of New York's real estate dynasties and the skyscrapers they've built.
He built a new financial district, Moskva-City, home to nine skyscrapers more than 60 storeys high.
Jungle in the concrete city Hong Kong is renowned for its dense urban areas and dazzling skyscrapers.
In both kinds of skyscrapers, emergency exits usually stay lit — even when many New Yorkers are sleeping.
With a collection of photographs, The Times retraces the golden age of skyscrapers in New York City.
The banks and trading houses clustered in its gleaming skyscrapers provided a way to secure foreign money.
Yet the giant is visible only indirectly: through footprints in fields and shadows that fall across skyscrapers.
And Chicago, with its skyscrapers and location on a major migration path, is perhaps the biggest killer.
Yes, this is our city, but scattered among skyscrapers, slopes and seashores, we all experience it differently.
He pointed out the 1926 Moorish-influenced Olympia Theater and 1920s skyscrapers such as the Dupont Building.
" As the sun's last rays illuminate the columns of skyscrapers, Jeffrey reflects: "I didn't need heaven's light.
Like all skyscrapers of the Modernist period, it conveys the grand ambitions of a new machinist age.
The Dark Zone sits squatly in the middle of our maps, its ghostly skyscrapers colored blood red.
Computer animation renders possible the preposterous action associated with superpowers: energy bolts, collapsing skyscrapers, doorways to other dimensions.
As a young hotshot in the 1960s, Robertson had defied the engineering establishment to erect the iconic skyscrapers.
Surrounded by skyscrapers but full of wooded paths, the park attracts locals and tourists from around the world.
He's the supremely confident entrepreneur who defied naysayers and built skyscrapers that now make up the Manhattan skyline.
Opinion The world's most repressive city is also home to a bizarre array of museums, halls and skyscrapers.
The skyscrapers changed ownership several times and were finally bought by GM, Ford's arch-rival, for only $72m.
But a pair of Italian architects has imagined a sustainable alternative that would meld server farms with skyscrapers.
For example, urban canyons, or streets that are flanked by tall structures like skyscrapers, can disrupt GNSS positioning.
Most urban gardens and passageways between skyscrapers are private, and don't actually beckon the average citizen to explore.
A ring of skyscrapers circling the downtown core, perhaps, or a sea of suburban townhouses off the freeway.
But it's much sexier to talk about building green skyscrapers than it is to envision abandoning Miami Beach.
A man from New Jersey accidentally crashed his drone into one of New York City's most recognizable skyscrapers.
Something is happening in the postindustrial pocket of Hamilton, Ontario, a 45-minute drive from Toronto's gleaming skyscrapers.
Having been born and raised in Manhattan, I was hemmed in and surrounded by concrete buildings and skyscrapers.
Today, a lonely vestige from 271, the House on Sathorn, is dwarfed on three sides by glassy skyscrapers.
He found this same enjoyment in the wilderness, far from the skyscrapers, freeways and traffic of city life.
Aptly named "The View," the revolving restaurant and lounge looked out onto the center of New York's skyscrapers.
Thomas Kwok also opened a church on the 75th floor of Sun Hun Kai's skyscrapers, according to Bloomberg.
To explore them is to witness a grandeur that inspires you, unlike many skyscrapers, which merely surprise you.
I was still aloft by the window, my back to the flaming skyscrapers, when her specific buzz sounded.
It's a gigantic enemy with a body made entirely of city material: skyscrapers, office blocks, restaurants, residential edifices.
Over a flickering urban landscape, a swelling wave launches over a grid of skyscrapers and yellow-flecked asphalt.
For many, gravel pits represent pure financial potential as the bedrock of skyscrapers and the backbones of highways.
He also reflected a captivation with big things, at a time when skyscrapers were transforming cities, including Minneapolis.
The Dursts own a dozen skyscrapers in Manhattan, although Mr. Durst has long been estranged from his family.
By promoting density, skyscrapers confer a competitive advantage and allow a city to become a beacon of commerce.
We wouldn't have skyscrapers, clean rooms for building advanced computer chips, shopping malls, or multiplexes without air conditioning.
Futuristic structures and massive skyscrapers replace the huts and domes that make up the average National Geographic special.
And they wanted to live in low- and mid-rise blocks, between three and 12 stories, not skyscrapers.
The canine rescuers that this Queens museum will celebrate can't scale skyscrapers, shift shapes or leap tall buildings.
Through the rising smoke, the skyscrapers in Canary Wharf, where many banks have their offices, were just visible.
Lately, it had fallen vacant, a relic of an age when giant businesses commissioned whole skyscrapers for themselves.
Hundreds of people began running for their lives, taking cover in the nearby Omni Hotel and between skyscrapers.
SAN FRANCISCO — John Elberling has a drastic plan to address the city's housing crisis: no more new skyscrapers.
I hiked down to the same spot and stood there, surrounded by the skyscrapers of the Financial District.
Through the window, he spotted a concrete paradise, with blinking signs and illuminated skyscrapers complementing the setting sun.
I could picture the modern skyscrapers as they rose, cloaked in canvas and the city's traditional bamboo scaffolding.
It gave views of Dubai's famous skyscrapers and, as you got closer, the outside of the luxurious mall.
Both are hyperdense, fluently assonant, working with car crashes of syllables and making them sound like regal skyscrapers.
It became the region's economic marvel, a desert Xanadu of gleaming skyscrapers, endless malls and marble-floored airports.
The new condo tower has the standard medley of offerings of other glass skyscrapers in the city center.
A city of opposites, shiny skyscrapers sit alongside 16th-century Spanish buildings and shantytowns next to futuristic constructions.
Parts of Brooklyn and Queens are also filling up with skyscrapers and starting to look more like Manhattan.
What is the common thread connecting the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol and today's super-tall skyscrapers?
Eventually, two skyscrapers will rise in its place alongside a landscaped public park, part of a redevelopment plan.
Take a look at the five skyscrapers that broke the tallest building records in their countries in 2019.
Dubai&aposs shiny, driverless metro cuts through the city&aposs skyscrapers and offers striking views of the city.
The Tower's location, dwarfed by modern skyscrapers all around, made it feel like I was inside a snowglobe.
A view of the financial district from the Shard, one of the skyscrapers that define the London skyline.
One countermeasure is geofencing, placing invisible barriers around targets including airports, skyscrapers, military bases, prisons, and tourist attractions.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Between 250 and 290, Manhattan went from zero skyscrapers to over 19003.
Levitating trains cruise past vaulting skyscrapers with thatched roofs, as saucer-shaped aircraft carve arcs in the sky.
Steely skyscrapers dominate the landscape, with scaffolding and cranes taking the place of elegant bamboo and gnarly pine trees.
Skyscrapers don't bother me, and flying is totally cool, but feeling like I'm dangling 98-feet above the ground?
We wander around the park and then head to a cool area of the city with some interesting skyscrapers.
Ward's advice, however, flies in the face of Trump's well-known penchant for huge new projects and plans. Skyscrapers.
In the 1980s Japanese firms lost their financial virginity by paying too much for Hollywood studios and Californian skyscrapers.
So far in Hong Kong, Mangkhut has broken trees, ripped off roofs, and shattered glass windows of large skyscrapers.
The company is reportedly in talks with owners of two skyscrapers positioned just a block west of Penn Station.
Because entire skyscrapers often float on tiny islands of their own, the buildings can be viewed like 3D models.
The action this time is happening not underground but sprouting from the rooftops of the inner city's iconic skyscrapers.
High-rise skyscrapers, dotted with aerial gardens and parks, loom over low-slung commercial corridors where street life bustles.
New York City from 1929 and 1934 was changing fast, with new skyscrapers, industrialization, and a constantly increasing population.
The 150-year-old Peak Tram, a funicular with incredible — and sometimes vertigo-inducing — views of the city's skyscrapers.
Detached skyscrapers float in the sky, cityscapes face their mirrors, and illuminated buildings become a geometric matrix of lights.
If tree-covered skyscrapers act like enormous air filters, this cluster of buildings will be a clean air oasis.
He argues that, while the industrial revolution saw massive innovations such as electricity, home appliances, skyscrapers, cars, airplanes, etc.
That would not satisfy his son, who turned his sighs to Manhattan, erecting gleaming skyscrapers that bore his name.
There are many signs of China's presence, including Chinese labourers building skyscrapers or greetings of "Ni Hao" from children.
THE skyscrapers of the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) rise out of Riyadh's urban sprawl like an emerald city.
The sun slowly creeps down between the city's buildings and skyscrapers, radiating a magnificent golden glow over the pavements.
The in-between zones thus left behind were undesirable, and few people thought it profitable to build skyscrapers there.
New York City just lit its iconic skyscrapers orange, the color of Amazon's logo, to attract the online retailer.
Skyscrapers shimmer in the spring light, capped by the names of some of the world's biggest banks and insurers.
An erect penis on one rooftop underscores the skyscrapers' phallicism, but it's dwarfed and outnumbered by the mighty women.
At his day job, David M. Durst oversaw construction of eight Manhattan skyscrapers over the course of three decades.
The skyscrapers that shape many of the world's most recognisable cityscapes would not exist without fast and safe lifts.
And what would happen when people from the North first see the hustle and bustle and skyscrapers of Seoul?
Footage shows the crew of the C-17A flying close to Brisbane's skyscrapers as warnings chime in the cockpit.
Many of Qatar's assets are overseas and include a Hollywood movie studio, landmark skyscrapers and an Italian luxury designer.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - French "Spiderman" Alain Robert scaled one of the tallest skyscrapers in Barcelona without a harness on Friday.
Electrical pathways weave like streets past skyscrapers formed from transistors and diodes, bathed in a candy-colored LED glow.
Before 1916, builders could start projects wherever they wanted in the Big Apple, and skyscrapers cropped up with abandon.
It is surrounded by other skyscrapers of assorted colors and unconventional shapes that together form the kaleidoscopic Doha skyline.
You could do laps and stare at the World Trade Center and all the other skyscrapers kneeling before it.
The emir's image adorns billboards draped off skyscrapers, and he is lionized in saccharine songs hailing his steely leadership.
Her specialty was crystalline black-and-white images that lavish equal attention on steel skyscrapers and crumbling brick tenements.
In Damac, Mr. Trump's company has found a like-minded partner, one that has emblazoned its name across skyscrapers.
Detroit (CNN)In the shadows of Detroit's tallest skyscrapers, dozens of homeless people shiver in the 17-degree cold.
Vienna is not a particularly built-up city — there aren't lots of skyscrapers — so you could see for miles.
And we visit the Middle East to show you just how fast a famous city became populated with skyscrapers.
That loft building is now hemmed on all sides by glass-walled skyscrapers that form the Hudson Yards development.
OUE Skyspace's glass slide takes you over the edge (literally) of one of the tallest skyscrapers in Los Angeles.
One of the glossy new skyscrapers on 57th Street is 111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower.
The legacy of Pennsylvania steelworkers lives in the bridges, railways and skyscrapers that make up our great American landscape.
Now these skyscrapers are helping push up his family company's bottom line, even through Vornado actually runs the towers.
Born in the 1850s, the steel industry connected our country through rail and illuminated its cities with soaring skyscrapers.
Wandering around low-rise Tianzifang is an antidote to the soaring Shanghai of magnetic levitation trains and mega-skyscrapers.
There are no zoning laws: strip clubs sit next to churches, shining skyscrapers next to gap-toothed convenience stores.
But the U.S. Geological Survey report also shows that some of the city's skyscrapers may not be seismically sound.
Skyscrapers, one of the world's largest shopping centers and an indoor ski slope can all be found in Dubai.
Luxury condo high-rises and office skyscrapers aren't the only notable additions to the city in the past decade.
In cities across the country, skyscrapers grow like mushrooms, and along with them, dance clubs, restaurants and luxury resorts.
And this is a very New York story, one of palpable contrasts in this city of skyscrapers and gutters.
In 2012's The Avengers, a giant hole opens up in the sky, raining alien destruction onto the skyscrapers above.
So you wouldn't think skyscrapers would hold so much meaning for me, invoking lofty, aspirational thoughts about strength and sovereignty.
So this is basically the fish equivalent of those urban explorers that hang by their toes on top of skyscrapers.
Iowa is not just a reminder that America is more than the sum total of its skyscrapers and safe spaces.
On a bar graph — called a Manhattan plot because it looks like a cluster of skyscrapers — the MHC looms highest.
In the meantime, it continues working to push the limits of what modern-day skyscrapers can look like and do.
Those who worried about a banking crash or "ghost cities" full of vacant skyscrapers have yet to be proved right.
Artist Mohammad Hassan Forouzanfar plants skyscrapers in the country's ancient cities and villages in a surreal and spectacular new project.
Steel scaffolding is still often shunned for bamboo on skyscrapers under construction in even the ritziest parts of Hong Kong.
While it's known for its massive skyscrapers and shiny facade, there is so much more to this Southeast Asian city.
Skip ahead a decade and Chinese money is everywhere: ports in Oman, factories in Algeria, skyscrapers in Egypt's new capital.
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has a plan to steer the world away from glistening glass skyscrapers: Cover them with trees.
In Kinshasa, a city whose tin-roofed shanty towns encircle the skyscrapers of its business district, the fear is palpable.
The main stage is covered in curved electric-light rainbows ready to bathe the downtown skyscrapers in technicolor and strobe.
Several photos of skyscrapers, cast in light and shadow, accentuate angles and perspectives, making the buildings look odd and unstable.
Mr. Yalcindag's father-in-law, the tycoon Aydin Dogan, had set out to build two skyscrapers and a shopping mall.
Bustling streets, towering skyscrapers, and mustard-topped hot dogs immerse viewers into the uncharted universe of early 225th century America.
Because skyscrapers and office parks do not trade as securities on an exchange, they are hard to value and sell.
Most of the Art Deco buildings are smaller than the modern skyscrapers rising in the area, but they still soar.
Another proposal, by Michelle Schrank, imagines a 18-hole minigolf course safely wedged between the roads — a playground among skyscrapers.
"In real life, the skyscrapers do end at some point, but in the game, they continue on forever," Chyr says.
You'll find many amongst the shattered skyscrapers of a nameless city who simply want to exist, to survive, to live.
The hospital was right in the heart of Shenzhen, where the skyscrapers partition the sky into distinct rectangles and squares.
We would eat at the Automat, stare upward like bumpkins at the skyscrapers and scan the crowds for movie stars.
What in the World Amid the modern skyscrapers of Shanghai, the parties to a time-honored treaty are at war.
These touches, set against the skyscrapers and bustle of a metropolis, create an effect that is both hyperrealistic and otherworldly.
The Japanese megalopolis has no discernible center, and clusters of skyscrapers miles apart defy the idea of a downtown core.
As technological improvements make building skyscrapers easier and faster, the race for the world's tallest building will continue as well.
Some restrictions make sense: Nobody wants skyscrapers poking up among Victorian houses, and nobody wants to tear down historical buildings.
The Great War was ending so New York City went wild, from its harbors to churches and streets and skyscrapers.
What we need is for an ethics of data to be engineered right into the information skyscrapers being built today.
Others are witnessed, such as the 1890-themed "builders of the city" that toil on skyscrapers above the Place d'Armes.
Since then, Hong Kong has adapted to typhoons, including making sure its highest commercial skyscrapers can sway in the wind.
They dream of utopias with driverless cars, radical property-ownership models, 3-D-printed houses and skyscrapers assembled in days.
From Manhattan's skyscrapers, you can see the Ice Age on a clear day, as a Times headline writer put it.
Landmarks include the Brooklyn Bridge, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island, among a number of Manhattan skyscrapers.
There are sequences that seem intended to emphasize the ugly, alienating qualities of skyscrapers that ignore or distort Sullivan's principles.
The two behemoth skyscrapers in the background of the photos unexpectedly proved as perishable as the artwork in the foreground.
"Downtown, I think, has added at least twice as many skyscrapers as it had 10 years ago," said Ms. Fleming.
Since the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, skyscrapers overlooking venues filled with fans are viewed as an added risk.
Their skyscrapers, trains and robotic advances (as in a robot manservant named Lancelot who makes pancakes) shaped modern New York.
When I had the possibility to realize the dream, I was looking at modern buildings, skyscrapers — I was really open.
That's the question in Singapore as it battles rising sea levels that threaten to engulf it, gleaming skyscrapers and all.
Walking tours range from "Must-See Chicago," including the Wrigley Building, to modern skyscrapers, and most run about 90 minutes.
In today's 360 video, watch as some Shanghai residents resist the demolition of their homes to make room for skyscrapers.
Towering skyscrapers, highways, bridges, power plants and monuments stand as proud and silent witnesses to the resolve of American workers.
Bustling streets, towering skyscrapers, and mustard-topped hot dogs immerse viewers into the uncharted universe of early 20th century America.
The sun dipped behind the skyscrapers of the Central district just after 5 pm, hours earlier than six months before.
As we drove over the 59th Street bridge, colored Christmas bulbs shimmered on skyscrapers, and headlights twinkled in the snow.
Rows of half-finished skyscrapers rose from the earth like the picked-over rib cage of a great steely beast.
This is a franchise that has previously featured Dom and Brian jumping sports cars between and through skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi.
Or, even weirder, Raymond Hood's 1925 concept for solving a housing crisis by fitting 50-story skyscrapers into the city's bridges.
Another advantage of flying police vehicles could be easier access to the country's many high-rise apartments and record-breaking skyscrapers.
After all, Manhattan skyscrapers originate from a centralized design, not from an evolving, bottom-up, spontaneous, chaotic process of creative destruction.
All the commercial skyscrapers, housing, cultural institutions that currently sit near the waterline will be forced to contend with routine inundation.
But in Dubai, the economy moves so incredibly fast that skyscrapers can replace a community in a matter of a year.
He points to the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), a cluster of gleaming skyscrapers in the northern part of the city.
Just imagine what Henry James might make of New York's newest homes for billionaires, the attenuated skyscrapers rising above Central Park.
Downtown, elegant prewar skyscrapers that had sat hauntingly empty for years had begun to fill up with luxury apartments and hotels.
In skyscrapers, for instance, the floors and the structures that support them account for a good deal of the building's mass.
We'll be taking an inside look at the high finance scenes and stories within the tall skyscrapers of New York City.
In Odyssey you'll explore huge spaces, uncovering secrets and collectables, traversing everything from the rooftops of skyscrapers to icy underground caverns.
Crumbling, ancient buildings line the background, and tall beams of light across the land launch into the sky like heavenly skyscrapers.
Even the skyscrapers carry a visible flavor, the sleek glass towers festooned with motifs and embellishments that make them truly Wakandan.
In Manhattan, many keep their hives on rooftops, including skyscrapers and office buildings which make for "fantastic apiaries", according to Coté.
You can even wingsuit from tall structures down to the surface, making long-distance fighting atop skyscrapers and bridges more appealing.
The table is constructed from a blend of wood and steel, with 3-D printing apparently used to model the skyscrapers.
From the Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, the view is of a crowded skyline of fellow concept skyscrapers.
It's incredible to see the Manhattan skyscrapers up close in a way that you just wouldn't be able to appreciate otherwise.
Skyscrapers swayed from the force of the quake, causing frightened office workers to flee the high-rise buildings in the capital.
A showdown between two tennis skyscrapers - with Isner topping the 6 foot 8 Anderson by two inches - predictably featured three tiebreaks.
With their sleek design and awe-inspiring height, skyscrapers have been a fixture of our cities for well over a century.
Wallenda's feats have included high-wire walks above Niagara Falls, between two Chicago skyscrapers while blindfolded and across Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Pretty soon we had lights, skyscrapers, elevators, air conditioning, cars, planes, and all the other things that make up modern life.
Over the years, Trump used loans provided by Deutsche Bank to build skyscrapers and other high-end properties, the Times reported.
We have huge brains that allow us to build skyscrapers and come up with dazzling inventions like pizza and the internet.
You may like looking up at the concrete jungle of skyscrapers, but you'll love looking down on them from above, too.
Along with its iconic skyscrapers and impressive selection of pizza locations, NYC is home to a true diversity of sex shops.
The city is masculine, full of gleaming, phallic skyscrapers, and to Elkin, this boys' world is where the real action happens.
In his last decade, he produced luminous, pixelated images of skyscrapers by applying paint in tiny daubs on sheets of cardboard.
Skyscrapers usually conjure images of tall, thin structures — but the newest developments in architecture are proving that's not always the reality.
A 1930 issue of Popular Science speculated about a future in which skyscrapers would be made almost entirely of glass bricks.
The views of Manhattan include the slender, super-tall skyscrapers rising along Billionaires' Row on the southern edge of the park.
The miniature German city features a huge train station, massive skyscrapers, and even a waterway for mini ships to pass through.
The sun was still above the treetops, and silhouetted skyscrapers in downtown Montreal 10 miles northeast looked like penciled-in shadows.
In New York City, Billionaires' Row includes a set of eight ultra-luxury skyscrapers along the southern end of Central Park.
" De Blasio also called for a ban on "classic glass and steel skyscrapers" in New York City, calling them "incredibly inefficient.
Film Club The Op-Doc "Paraíso" (Paradise) reveals the beauty and danger of three immigrant window cleaners' work on Chicago's skyscrapers.
Our disaffected narrator has employed Hercules to fly his 'bots through holes constructed in various skyscrapers bordering the South China Sea.
Towering skyscrapers, highways and bridges, power plants, and monuments stand as proud and silent witnesses to the resolve of American workers.
Manhattan offers Broadway theater productions, art galleries, shopping, world-class restaurants, parks and skyscrapers all in less than 23 square miles.
From the design and construction of skyscrapers to picking the right sofa, virtual reality is infiltrating real estate in new ways.
WOHA has earned a worldwide reputation for innovative techniques that emphasize green space, healthy living and other amenities in its skyscrapers.
Gurugram, a global technology hub built on dusty farmland, is dotted with skyscrapers and swanky apartments bearing American and European names.
They've got the tallest skyscrapers in the world, police that drive Lamborghinis, resorts on man made islands, and profound income inequality.
Or, in a landscape of towering skyscrapers, ride an elevator to the top floor, seek an open roof deck, and jump.
Billionaires' Row is full of super-tall skyscrapers full of empty penthouses owned by rich people who don't actually live there.
Other unfinished skyscrapers left over from the 1997 financial crisis have either been torn down or completed, according to Lonely Planet.
The project to build the King Abdullah Financial District began in 2006; skyscrapers were to house banks and the financial regulator.
Despite the ridge's prominence and early allure for scientists, it turned out to be no rival for skyscrapers and urban distractions.
The hotel is on New York's most expensive street, which is dominated by luxury skyscrapers and empty penthouses owned by billionaires.
Fit City Urban kayakers are easy to spot along the Hudson River, watched over by skyscrapers and nonstop traffic of Manhattan.
I would also develop homes into well-spaced lots unlike crammed skyscrapers where multiple people live are living in one building.
Consisting of long white-plaster blocks, the Architectons resemble models for skyscrapers, a black circle painted discretely somewhere near the base.
To the east, skyscrapers are rising in a part of Midtown Manhattan that has been rezoned to allow for taller buildings.
We've shook our heads at shimmering skyscrapers that were meant to be the financial district but were obviously Toronto or Vancouver.
With its restaurants, bar and meeting rooms, the club has been a fixture amid Hong Kong's skyscrapers since the colonial era.
There are women who want to design skyscrapers, too, but this represents an awfully limited view of what architecture could be.
The structure, between East 55th and 56th Streets, has classical touches that set it apart from many neighboring skyscrapers in Midtown.
They knew that behind Birmingham's new skyscrapers and fancy restaurants that served polenta instead of grits, the Old South still lurked.
The action-thriller "Saaho" opens "far from India," a voice intones, in an almost sci-fi city of gleaming, antiseptic skyscrapers.
The plot, in fact, basically just bumps along between huge battles that leave skyscrapers scattered as if they were tinker toys.
But much more is at stake in relations between the United States and Turkey than a shopping mall and two skyscrapers.
For all its megamalls, haute cuisine and dizzying skyscrapers, Dubai can flip at speed from international playground to repressive police state.
Here, Haring envisions the city as a kingdom of phalluses: he transforms Manhattan's churches, skyscrapers, and fire hydrants into architectural penises.
It differs greatly from the Midtown location, a heavier, more closed-off structure that was situated in a forest of skyscrapers.
He's somebody who likes to build skyscrapers and get a new wife whenever the old model is not looking so good.
But it has already been displaced as an emblem of colonialism by the row of super-tall skyscrapers along 57th Street.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Blink and you might miss the rise of another dozen luxury skyscrapers in New York.
Wishful views of wealth — skyscrapers, stadiums, and private jets landing at nearby Boeing Field — are visible through a tangle of trees.
The photos capture the eerie sensation of standing on a silent street surrounded by empty skyscrapers and public spaces devoid of life.
Fisher says the floors will be assembled at a factory and then later attached to the tower -- that's another first for skyscrapers.
It was too far to see them, but people were looking out of each bright coloured window of the skyscrapers, I promise.
One day, Angelenos might summon self-driving cars to take them through streets of skyscrapers, where 10 million people live and work.
Most of the time, I found myself walking beneath skyscrapers with few other pedestrians around, apart from right around Brickell City Centre.
California has made significant strides in earthquake preparedness, but because of a severe housing shortage, San Francisco has been building more skyscrapers.
This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
The skyscrapers of Birmingham seem remote, just as the industrial prosperity of the vaunted post-war "New South" did to Kolb's followers.
A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.
But he stresses that he set himself apart when he headed to Manhattan and began building skyscrapers instead of affordable rental units.
After the end of the civil war in 2002, oil wealth started to flow, bringing new roads and fancy skyscrapers to Luanda.
Some live in rural farmhouses, some live in high-rise city skyscrapers, and then everything in between, in suburban and exurban environments.
From the top floors of lower Manhattan's skyscrapers, five miles away, they look like brachiosaurs gathered at a Jurassic-era watering hole.
Concrete and steel are both materials used in the superstructures of skyscrapers, but they behave very differently under prolonged exposure to fire.
If shiny surfaces really were conducive to contemplation, then Midtown Manhattan, with its concentration of glass skyscrapers, would be a meditation mecca.
In Furious 7, they steal a flash drive from a really nice car by driving it through three skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi.
The bowl facing the main stage, nestled in the belly of the city's small array of downtown skyscrapers, swelled with writhing bodies.
In the 1930s, however, skyscrapers taller than this began to shoot up in New York City, signaling a new era in architecture.
It just announced the top 10 skyscrapers for 2019, which were picked by a jury of architecture experts from around the world.
Social media and skyscrapers Rooftopping as a hobby didn't start in China -- it's been around as part of social media for years.
The tower's terracotta and bronze exterior does differentiate it from the sleek glassy surfaces of the other new skyscrapers on Billionaires' Row.
The master bedroom views face north toward the skinny, supertall skyscrapers rising on Billionaires' Row along the southern edge of Central Park.
Chicago has an imposing skyline, too, but only on one side of the course, and the skyscrapers are farther from the water.
The skyscrapers went up in Beijing, and in many other cities around the world, while the factories and neighborhoods crumbled in Detroit.
McDaniel says that when foreign tourists arrive for the festival, they're often shocked not to find skyscrapers and a bustling urban atmosphere.
It was then that he turned left and spotted, between the skyscrapers, the third cloud: It looked like a slice of pizza.
Professor Sitar calls the soil conditions "very challenging" for engineers, especially when compared to the Manhattan schist that anchors New York's skyscrapers.
The lights of skyscrapers on the city's main Reforma Avenue less than a mile away seemed a very distant reminder of normalcy.
As part of this development, nations expand their financial and banking sectors; research shows that skyscrapers are needed for this to happen.
Across China, we see a strong correlation between the heights of cities' skyscrapers and the size of their populations and local economies.
Recent research suggests that younger local officials build more skyscrapers and invest in more infrastructure to enhance their standing within the government.
And so what people don't realize is that the gateway for the skyscrapers here was the Queensboro Bridge, the 59th Street Bridge.
He looked toward the windows, where we could see the edges of Doha's hypermodern sprawl, studded with oblong skyscrapers and cavernous malls.
Chinese people have long looked to America as a source of inspiration, with its gleaming skyscrapers, financial power and unparalleled military might.
Look up, and looming right above this rustic setting are the crush of skyscrapers in Shenzhen, China, almost close enough to touch.
It was a model that helped China build its skyscrapers and high-speed rail lines and ushered in an era of prosperity.
Chants of a popular protest slogan, "Reclaim Hong Kong; revolution of our times," echoed off a canyon of skyscrapers and shuttered malls.
Chants of a popular protest slogan, "Reclaim Hong Kong; revolution of our times," echoed off a canyon of skyscrapers and shuttered malls.
It was an unprepossessing location for a firm that would become one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers around the world.
Like many architects, he worried that modernism was not sufficiently expressive, and he admitted to a great admiration for many early skyscrapers.
Wood said the warmth of the copper mimics a beating heart — a contrast to the shimmering blues and silvers of nearby skyscrapers.
This spinoff series borrows that approach, focusing on six metropolises with landscapes and skyscrapers best seen from above, beginning with Las Vegas.
Zoning loopholes that enabled skyscrapers on mid-rise blocks are being scrutinized, and could even result in the shortening of some towers.
It is less dense than the wealthier cities to the south, with fewer skyscrapers and malls, and it is a little shabbier.
But I do worry that many of its most unique independent voices will get bulldozed as big companies rush to construct skyscrapers.
In the center of the city that is at the center of the world, there's an Art Deco pedestal surrounded by skyscrapers.
Emblematic of the problem is the fact that Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District, begun a decade ago, has more skyscrapers than tenants.
Providing contrast are shots of the luminous nocturnal beauty of skyscrapers under construction that will do nothing to succor the lives below.
Luzhkov, a wily wheeler-dealer who presided over Moscow's transformation into a metropolis of skyscrapers and shopping centres, was hardly a communist.
The skyline of central Hong Kong, with closely packed skyscrapers rising in front of lush hills, is stunningly reflected in Victoria Harbour.
The skyline of central Hong Kong, with closely packed skyscrapers rising in front of lush hills, is stunningly reflected in Victoria Harbour.
Loudly applauding one another, these relative strangers begged for transparency, for a say in what happens and for a moratorium on skyscrapers.
The report recommends that the city step up its inspections of older skyscrapers when they are renovated or change owners or tenants.
Skyscrapers already fill Manhattan, but the majority of them look the same, write American designers Jayong Shim, Dailong Ma, and Tai Feng.
Robert has previously climbed a number of the world's best-known skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
Huge billboards advertising its new P30 smartphone have been plastered across the region, appearing near canals in Italy and on skyscrapers in Madrid.
The building only has 7 floors so it's dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers—as a result the towers create a natural echo chamber.
These efforts have led to prefabricated, modular, and sustainable steel skyscrapers that can be constructed in a matter of a couple of weeks.
There are people throwing fireworks into the crowd from the skyscrapers and a group marches by with a full stoplight they somehow dismantled.
We could be the "rising Asia," all glittering skyscrapers and futuristic urban design, or the rustic, impoverished-yet-inspiring backdrop for slumdog millionaires.
As his flight approached Chicago shortly afterwards, he held up the pin against the skyscrapers below and thought it could vie with them.
"One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better," he said.
Hudson Yards is a new $25 billion complex of commercial and residential skyscrapers built on Manhattan's far west side above the rail yards.
Many of the city's skyscrapers, including One World Trade Center, have had to deal with ice shearing off their buildings on frosty days.
With the monumental views in all directions of skyscrapers, bridges, and the constant movement of people, it's a ready backdrop for superhuman narratives.
In Doha bumper-stickers on cars and posters, even on skyscrapers, display the emir in heroic pose over the words: "Tamim the Glorious".
By contrast, Iran's neighboring countries on the other side of the Persian Gulf have fully adopted skyscrapers as part of their urban lives.
Trump is a man best known for slapping his name on anything he possibly can, from skyscrapers to steak sold at Sharper Image.
That would have been some $11 million from Amazon alone, so it fussed mightily and halted construction on several of its skyscrapers downtown.
Similar principles could also be applied to things like antennae, lampposts, chimneys, and skyscrapers—all of which could benefit from better aerodynamical design.
Today, the fiery forges that once melted raw iron to build U.S. skyscrapers, consumer appliances and family station wagons have largely gone cold.
If Midtown residential skyscrapers have sparked controversy, their Upper East Side counterparts seem to have met with less of an outcry so far.
Many pieces depict ziggurats, in keeping with common interpretations of the fabled tower's assumed shape, though skyscrapers and ruins are just as common.
But there is no higher authority for the rescue of wayward ringtails on skyscrapers, the raccoon had to work it out for itself.
But while newer apartment blocks and helipad-crowned skyscrapers have been constructed to withstand earthquakes, many older buildings remain at risk, said experts.
But earlier this week I found myself soaring above the earth, skyscrapers in the distant background, ships gently rocking on the water below.
The parade route has become known as the "Canyon of Heroes," as the giant skyscrapers of downtown Manhattan resemble a man-made canyon.
Whether pencil skyscrapers or squat apartment blocks, the buildings are shaped by the same invisible force: the U.S.'s first city zoning code.
The regime hopes to move forward with projects that were deeply unpopular before the war, raising skyscrapers, hotels and restaurants from the rubble.
Billionaires' Row is the term for a collection of supertall luxury skyscrapers in New York City along the southern end of Central Park.
While downtown Dallas is flush with glassy skyscrapers and high-priced restaurants, large tracts of the city's southern sector are empty and ragged.
To the west, you can see the new Hudson Yards skyscrapers sprouting up next to the Hudson River, and beyond that, New Jersey.
It's particularly tough to be a claustrophobe on an island of skyscrapers, where the vast majority of people rely on elevators and subways.
The blast would hit a mess of skyscrapers just south of Central Park, somewhere near the corner of 50th Street and 7th Avenue.
From the observation deck, you can see mountains in four directions, water in two and, just to the south, a forest of skyscrapers.
Built into the mountainsides of Hong Kong, these terraced cemeteries appear next to the many skyscrapers that make up the densely packed city.
A dense mix of banks, stores, restaurants, skyscrapers and residential towers along palm-lined roads, the neighborhood is the city's main financial district.
MC), has bought one of Madrid's most famous skyscrapers for 490 million euros ($551 million) through his property investment arm, a source said.
While some cities have enjoyed prosperous economic growth, spurring the construction of impressive skyscrapers and other structures, others have tragically lost beloved landmarks.
The main buildings resemble skyscrapers that have been expelled from other cities and deposited here, their mismatched angles gesturing in an aesthetic void.
It got there by introducing ambitious plans to build industrial parks, economic zones and glamorous skyscrapers, some among the tallest in the world.
Shops and homes taped up their windows to protect them from shattering but a number of panes from office building skyscrapers were smashed.
With 16 buildings of 500 feet or taller slated for completion this year, it could be the city's busiest ever for new skyscrapers.
With the departure of its longtime tenant, the building is joining a growing list of classic New York skyscrapers that are reinventing themselves.
But, paradoxically, the seasoned adventuress feared becoming lost in the metropolis and got her bearings by imagining skyscrapers as summits along a trail.
With Manhattan skyscrapers as a backdrop, Roscoe and Sharon Fawcett celebrated their 22009th anniversary with a meal of steak, corn and baked potatoes.
He might zoom between the skyscrapers of Manhattan, saving the day in action-packed faceoffs, but fans never forgot where he was from.
The photographer who gained fame capturing Hong Kong's dense skyscrapers and the minutiae of its daily life died on Thursday at age 65.
All of his work — from his commercial skyscrapers to his art museums — represented a careful balance of the cutting edge and the conservative.
A delegation of North Korean provincial leaders visited China recently to inspect major cities, where they saw glimmering skyscrapers and high-speed trains.
Although deeply rooted in tradition, it was not a return to roots, she insisted, but an innovative approach for the Africa of skyscrapers.
That includes the sides of skyscrapers, which broadcast the exploits of Montag and his crew as a kind of pyromaniacal propaganda reality show.
I sat on a bench for a while, with my back to the skyscrapers, watching office workers limber up for a friendly game.
Loyalty to Moscow was rewarded with lavish federal funds to raise Chechen towns from rubble and build shiny skyscrapers in the capital, Grozny.
Pudong, home of many of the gleaming skyscrapers that define Shanghai's skyline, became one of China's most successful and high-profile development projects.
This movie, in Bryant Park, surrounded by skyscrapers and with enough nostalgia to fill a Broadway theater, just feels too perfect to resist.
Overhead, new skyscrapers rise, while underground, the police stage sting operations to make sure people don't hop turnstiles to ride the failing subway.
Playing a disabled war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers, Dwayne Johnson springs to the rescue when the Pearl comes under attack.
Today, parts of Brooklyn have been filled in with skyscrapers, and the borough's skyline is starting to look more and more like Manhattan's.
Lever House arrived when glass-box skyscrapers were new, city planners were wary of them (can you imagine?), and setbacks were the law.
The set of supertall luxury skyscrapers south of Central Park has attracted wealthy buyers including Michael Dell and hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin.
China, the world&aposs leading builder of skyscrapers, only erected 57 tall buildings (656 feet or taller) compared to last year&aposs 92.
The magnetic city where it's normal to be different From free love and LSD to tech and skyscrapers, this city's still a gem.
The braver ones can ride the RER A suburban train to La Défense, the city's business district, where skyscrapers and vast avenues coalesce.
A "Symphony of Lights" took place instead, involving projections on the city's tallest skyscrapers, while smaller-scale pyrotechnics were launched from waterfront rooftops.
With its buzzing, finance-propelled economy and extreme scarcity of land, no city in the world has as many skyscrapers as Hong Kong.
Few genuinely expect Beijing, with the world's media watching, to roll its tanks through Hong Kong's streets of glittering skyscrapers any time soon.
Read: its impressive sculptural skyscrapers that dot the skyline and its trendy neighborhoods like the West Loop, which has practically become a foodie mecca.
A handful of 35-plus-story skyscrapers have appeared since 2010, and an 192014-story building is being constructed by the private conglomerate Vingroup.
On his website, he says he's ventured into Chernyobl and has several pictures from that trip along with photos from the top of skyscrapers.
Now he's an architect based in New Haven, Connecticut, where he works with the firm Pickard Chilton specializing in glass skyscrapers and corporate buildings.
Additionally, the USDA directed money to research on everything from renewable energy and allergen-free peanuts to carbon capture in soils and wooden skyscrapers.
Dubai, the Gulf's tourism hub known for its glittering skyscrapers and luxury properties, shops and restaurants, attracted 15.92 million overnight tourist visitors in 2018.
The coastal floodplains of South Florida, meanwhile, were made suitable for highways, golf courses, and skyscrapers, setting the stage for a massive population boom.
The skyscrapers on all four sides of the park cradled the men, permitting them only a small, neck-wrenching peek at the sky above.
Mangkhut sent scaffolding toppling from skyscrapers and cranes spinning, as videos and pictures posted online showed buildings swaying in the wind, and shattered windows.
I never look up at the skyscrapers anymore, and if I do, it's only to find the tiny patch of sky in between them.
Some have been pressed under the additional weight of enormous skyscrapers; they are judged to be responsible for 30% of metropolitan Shanghai's surface subsidence.
Martin Schulz, the SPD's centrist leader, sought to protect his working-class flank in last year's election by railing against bankers in "mirrored skyscrapers".
But never forget, it is also a color that can call to mind super-futuristic cities, skyscrapers, and the exteriors of modern art museums.
This chance was not entirely squandered—Angola has more roads and dams and skyscrapers than before, and its people are a bit less poor.
The video explains in more detail, but it's really interesting to learn about how different skyscrapers use different methods to get taller and taller.
The hill below his apartment building descended straight into downtown San Francisco, where towering skyscrapers were packed together like travelers in a Tokyo subway.
At the time, hundreds of new skyscrapers were simultaneously growing in cities like Dubai or Abu Dhabi, and all were covered by glass panels.
The tallest building west of the Mississippi River opened yesterday in once-stodgy downtown Los Angeles, which is sprouting a crop of new skyscrapers.
You can see it in the towering skyscrapers, shot on 35mm in black and white, and hear it in the old-fashioned orchestral score.
For men, the cemeteries are particularly arresting — suddenly, the skyscrapers that so perfectly encapsulate progress start to look like headstones to more you look.
Of two huge projects in Beijing, one is a cluster of dune-like skyscrapers, the other a hollowed out vortex of glass and steel.
The golden light glowed over the skyscrapers, illuminating cars and people, bringing the city to a still — if only for just a few seconds.
The history of the Woolworth Building puts it in stark contrast to the brand-new, super-tall and skinny skyscrapers rising on Billionaires' Row.
If the Vessel becomes a rival to the Statue of Liberty, it will be unusual, in the landmark category, for being corralled by skyscrapers.
The reconstruction was bankrolled by Russia and the city now hosts Europe's largest mosque, a multi million-dollar soccer stadium and modern skyscrapers complex.
Skyscrapers are continually going up in Abu Dhabi as more and more tourists and industries flock to the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
One Bunker Hill is now almost surrounded by the U.S. Bank Tower and the 26-story 400 South Hope building, two 1980s-era skyscrapers.
In Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Earth's remaining humans scuttle through a gritty, neon-soaked metropolis overrun by flying vehicles, flashing billboards, and oppressive skyscrapers.
Luke Bannister raised the golden trophy over his head after the race, held with the looming skyscrapers of the Dubai Marina in the background.
All of Trump's skyscrapers have the same aesthetic—spears of steel and rock and glass, the kind of buildings a child might imagine constructing.
Like most spaces in Hong Kong, the restaurant is narrow, growing tall and skinny like a sapling through the gap between two towering skyscrapers.
The city is famously full of diversions for rootless Westerners; any neurosis or perversion might be catered to in the warrens between its skyscrapers.
In downtown Phoenix and in Tempe, home of Arizona State University, there are skyscrapers over light rail and a taste of the urbanist dream.
Flying Wallendas: Two members of the circus family walked a wire stretched between skyscrapers in Times Square in Manhattan, 25 stories above street level.
As gray skies hung over the city's skyline — a mixture of old, colorful apartment buildings and shiny new Doha-like skyscrapers — the mountains beckoned.
Since Marvel's Spider-Man is all about swinging around Manhattan, much of the game's fights with criminals take place on the roofs of skyscrapers.
According to McKay Coppins's extensive BuzzFeed feature, Trump purchased skyscrapers in the city because of his class anxiety about growing up across the river.
Inexplicably, my father, a structural engineer whose work included major midcentury modern skyscrapers, churches, museums and sculptures, gave my mother full custody of me.
And all of his work — from his commercial skyscrapers to his art museums — represented a careful balance of the cutting edge and the conservative.
Children shrieked excitedly and posed for photographs, while adults gazed across the river at the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, one of seven Stalin-era skyscrapers.
Ms. Ding, the farmer, said she worried about how her son, Mr. Yang, would fare in a city with so many skyscrapers and distractions.
Chants of "Hong Kongers, add oil!" and "Reclaim Hong Kong; revolution of our times" echoed off a canyon of skyscrapers and shuttered shopping malls.
The most popular ones are at the top of iconic skyscrapers including the Empire State Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and One World Trade Center.
Prominent architecture firms like Skidmore Owings & Merrill, PLP Architecture and Perkins & Will have done studies for wood-framed skyscrapers between 40 and 80 stories.
Mr. Durst is worth an estimated $100 million and has long been estranged from his family, which owns more than a dozen Manhattan skyscrapers.
It would allow for the passage of the world's largest ships, vessels the length of skyscrapers that are too big for the Panama Canal.
Now it's home to countless skyscrapers, beautiful walkways, a plethora of hip bars and restaurants, miles of sandy beach — really anything your heart desires.
With skyscrapers becoming an inescapable fact of modern life, miniature ones turned out to be the best way for Kingelez's imagination to confront reality.
Take T. G. Nickel & Associates, a firm recently acquired by Consigli, whose portfolio included luxury condominiums and skyscrapers worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The contrast between the bright crop field and the drab skyscrapers succinctly captures the confrontation that the work stages between rural and urban space.
While these skyscrapers are undoubtedly impressive in terms of their scale and ambition, in the years ahead they will need to become increasingly sustainable.
Developers at the time were turning 28th Street into a billionaires' row, with a half-dozen skyscrapers, each boasting $2000 million penthouses, under construction.
He dated beautiful women, married three of them, had his own television show and erected skyscrapers that bore his name in big gold letters.
Hong Kong (CNN)Among the skyscrapers of Hong Kong, eight senior citizens gather at the Happy Valley Recreation grounds in the Wan Chai district.
It started with small changes, like allowing farmers to keep and sell their excess produce, but progressed to skyscrapers, stock markets and unprecedented wealth.
The pale sands of this once forgettable port alongside the emptiness of the Arabian desert have proved fertile ground for all manner of skyscrapers.
The Hong Kong transit system owns malls, shops and parts of skyscrapers, profitable investments that help pay for transit expansion and keeping fares low.
Three new skyscrapers totaling 5.7 million square feet of office space have been fully leased to tenants, including L'Oréal USA, Wells Fargo and Facebook.
In Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, the city is presently imagining the new jails as skyscrapers rising near borough courthouses where detention complexes already exist.
THE headquarters of General Motors (GM) tower over the other skyscrapers in Detroit's city centre, a reminder that the carmaker still rules the American market.
General Zod has taken over Krypton and begun transforming it into the world of shining skyscrapers that Kal-El is born into in Superman canon.
Workers for China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) lay foundations for the business district, where 21 skyscrapers including Africa's tallest at 85 stories are planned.
Most of the vendors on this particular street have been here for more than two decades, in some cases predating the skyscrapers that surround them.
He dated beautiful women, married three of them, had his own television reality show and erected skyscrapers that bore his name in big gold letters.
Powered in part by Jones' Cloudgine middleware and Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, it would allow players to fell skyscrapers with a well-placed explosive.
But the new rules did not apply to buildings erected before that year, so the vast majority of the country's skyscrapers fell outside the regulations.
If all the projects are realized, by 2020 the global skyline would be dominated by China, which would have nine of the 20 tallest skyscrapers.
Forouzanfar does that by presenting earthen Iranian cities and villages with the vertical conventions of modern skyscrapers while preserving the features of classic Persian architecture.
In the foreground, they situate a rustic house on a pier underneath a bridge; in the background are silhouettes of skyscrapers lit up at night.
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-esque shot shows a couple laying down in the grass at the J Residence hotel surrounded by skyscrapers.
I especially enjoy how Black took the opportunity to add a few skyscrapers to the horizon, which are fairly progressive in their boxy, modernist looks.
Another compelling example of the embodiment of architecture is seen in the skyscrapers illustrating the small book He Disappeared into Complete Silence, made in 40.
Small fires occur as frequently in skyscrapers as they do in any other type of building, but they rarely flash over into all-consuming infernos.
Its concluding battle features a rift opening up in the sky above Manhattan; spaceships carrying alien warriors stream down toward skyscrapers, spreading death and horror.
China has constructed more skyscrapers than any other country every year for nearly a decade, according to the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
There, Stalinist skyscrapers, behemoths and monuments were built to dominate the surrounding cityscape, to change the course of history and recenter the site of power.
The mom of two, 31, posted a few clips of the blended family pushing a stroller on a pathway with a panoramic background of skyscrapers.
After service, all of us chefs gathered outside in the garden, looking across the water to the flashing neon signs and skyscrapers in downtown Copenhagen.
From Italian banks to Silicon Valley start-ups, U.S. Treasury bonds and London skyscrapers, there is barely a mainstream asset class untouched by Gulf money.
Hong Kong is well known as an urban jungle, with skyscrapers jutting out of the island's hillside, but the city is surprisingly green and rural.
As part of its innovative work-study program, the school placed her at a prestigious law firm located in one of downtown Denver's gleaming skyscrapers.
Does this mean that moving Wall Street from the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the flat plains of Kansas will save us from the next recession?
There were few skyscrapers and many mom-and-pop stores (alas, no longer the case), and the subways and the river were close at hand.
Singapore was once mostly swamp rainforest; now it is a forest of skyscrapers decorated by the biological remnants that appeal most to humans—like orchids.
Narrator: Catastrophic earthquake scenarios have played out on the silver screen for decades, terrifying viewers with quakes that can collapse skyscrapers or topple entire cities.
He seemed more like a toon, a cocky huckster swanning around Gotham with a statuesque woman on his arm and skyscrapers stamped with his brand.
Hong Kong's iconic skyline, jam-packed with more skyscrapers than anywhere else in the world, has experienced a growth spurt in the past two decades.
Yet underneath the veneer of plexi-glass skyscrapers and the historic shipping yards of the Ville-Marie, it's also been described as Canada's sex capital.
Ridges, mountains and even flatlands are typically rooted in rocky strata, such as the bedrock that underlies Manhattan and makes it ideal for erecting skyscrapers.
Like the cities it's being modeled after — Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, and Shanghai, particularly its Pudong neighborhood — it may someday claim the world's tallest skyscrapers.
But India's big cities are overcrowded with residents, many of whom are stuffed into slums, low-income dwellings, single- and multiple-family homes, and skyscrapers.
GOLD COAST, Australia — Amid the skyscrapers and coastline of Surfers Paradise here, you can spot a large surfboard with a digital clock, determinedly counting down.
Taking the "workism" thesis to its furthest conclusion, if work is rapidly transforming into our religion, then these multipurpose skyscrapers are our temples, our cathedrals.
"I did not have a father who gave me millions of dollars to build luxury skyscrapers, casinos and country clubs," he said at one point.
"We are going to introduce legislation to ban the glass and steel skyscrapers that have contributed so much to global warming," he said on Monday.
The Empire State Building, 0003 Times Square, 1 World Trade Center and other New York City skyscrapers were bathed in orange light on Wednesday night.
Four piers, like graceful tuning forks as tall as skyscrapers, secure cables suspending a four-lane expressway 610 feet above fields of corn and rice.
The river runs through the city west to east, bisecting London as it winds past the new skyscrapers and old docks that line its banks.
The Shard — London's tallest and one of its most recognizable skyscrapers — juts in the distance, reflecting the morning light from its thousands of glass windows.
They comb through trash left on the street for collection or removed in bulk from skyscrapers to see what kinds of things people throw out.
While Toyota City's architecture is typical of a midsize Japanese town — don't expect glittering Tokyo-esque skyscrapers — Toyota, nonetheless, boasts some impressive natural bona fides.
Today, the iconic Empire State Building still stands out, but numerous other skyscrapers have risen above it all along the island, altering the entire skyline.
The city is already home to some of the most eye-catching skyscrapers – including the Burj Khalifa, which at 2,722 feet is the world's tallest.
In a two-story office with a backdrop of skyscrapers, community leader Shamsuri Suradi showed the Thomson Reuters Foundation a dusty collection of handwritten records.
In the neighborhood&aposs luxury residential skyscrapers like 15 Hudson Yards and 35 Hudson Yards, current condo listings range from $2.6 million to $53 million.
At the start of 2019, there were several other pricey closings in Manhattan's newly opened luxury skyscrapers — though all appeared dwarfed by Mr. Griffin's acquisition.
The birds perch on top of cliffs and increasingly on skyscrapers and other urban structures; they were taken off the endangered species list in 1999.
Riyadh felt Floridian: wide boulevards with shiny skyscrapers and palm trees, malls and luxury shopping as primary entertainment, development concerned more with image than substance.
There were so few skyscrapers in the city's first century that the ones that were built tell a tale of rampant egos and unrestrained power.
But some residents in the rapidly transforming Long Island City neighborhood across the East River from mid town Manhattan's skyscrapers have loudly opposed Amazon's plan.
The fabled massing of the Wall Street skyscrapers has been given masterful urban definition by the architects' ordering of these few blocks of new construction.
Within the so-called socialist-oriented market economy, skyscrapers are rising quickly for a wealthy elite increasingly disconnected from the majority of lower income residents.
Or Peter Parker, just another adolescent worried about spots and girls, who when the Green Goblin loomed was suddenly Spidey, scaling skyscrapers and running across ceilings!
Hopefully, the scientists can get some spider boots built soon, since I know there are plenty of spiderguys just waiting to start scaling their favorite skyscrapers.
After all, how else are you going to top cars skydiving, cars bursting out of skyscrapers, and cars flying over submarines to outrace heat-seeking missiles?
A light rain broke just as I pulled in, the January morning breeze erasing the smoggy haze across the ridge of skyscrapers forming downtown Los Angeles.
When you think of New York City, you probably picture soaring skyscrapers, picnics at Central Park, maybe a posh Brooklyn brownstone on a tree-lined street.
With this massive precedent, the Flatiron District, and Madison Square in particular, would probably have another midtown with super-tall skyscrapers extending in all directions. —S.
There were no malls, no motorways, no skyscrapers, no billboards; the only hoardings were pictures of "martyrs" who gave up their lives to defend the revolution.
Mr Quin points out that the development across the city has happened despite significant constraints, notably on building height (skyscrapers are conspicuous by their absence here).
In his project Retrofuturism, Iranian artist Mohammad Hassan Forouzanfar wishes to combine the best of two worlds by introducing skyscrapers into historical Iranian villages and cities.
But just as skyscrapers are built to sway with the wind, Europe must find ways to adjust to a world where the weather is growing stormier.
Images by PLP Architecture/University of CambridgeOver the past few years, wood has emerged as an unlikely yet desirable material for the design of future skyscrapers.
Instead of designing a whimsical tower, Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu propose excavating Central Park just enough that the skyscrapers around it fade into the distance.
Click here to view original GIFDubai's skyline is an ever-growing collection of impressive towering skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
But it's got a penchant for introducing flashy, financially questionable solutions for civic problems—remember the jet-pack firefighters enlisted to put out its burning skyscrapers?
He joins forces with his lovelorn neighbor Clarisa (Claudia Ramírez), on a mission to commit suicide by leaping from one of Mexico City's most famous skyscrapers.
In just over two decades, the city has transformed from a desert backwater port to a thriving metropolis with the third-most skyscrapers in the world.
Forests of giant luminescent kelp strung over ancient clockwork machines, elaborate ruins dotting the sea floor, mermaids and talking seahorses and leviathans the size of skyscrapers.
Peer into "Ville Fantôme" (1996) and you'll find a swirl of English and French, tall industrial skyscrapers and too-elegant carparks, pinwheel gardens, and firework plazas.
In the last two years, 39 skyscrapers taller than 300m have been constructed, with five of the them eclipsing the height of the Empire State Building.
It's the only major U.S. city without a zoning code saying what types of buildings can go where, so skyscrapers sometimes sprout next to split-levels.
An ultra high-speed hyperloop—personal transportation pods whizzing through skyscrapers and sand dunes faster than an airplane—might soon become a reality here in Dubai.
Whole skyscrapers are ripped out of their foundations in today's trailer, pulled into a darkened sky by huge alien spaceships, before being dropped back to Earth.
And if another city is your soul mate, remember the skyscrapers are the limit: There's no one in your way of a fast-paced urban adventure.
Instead I decide to find some place to drink in Golden Gai, a maze of minuscule bars housed in two-story buildings surrounded by Shinjuku skyscrapers.
He made his fame with looming skyscrapers—whose height he intentionally exaggerated—and he won't abide even the slightest suggestion that his fingers are unusually short.
But for commercial property auctioneers who focus on smaller properties rather than trophy assets like London's skyscrapers or regional shopping malls, it is a different story.
STANDING amid the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv, looking west over the sun-warmed Mediterranean, one can almost forget how unlikely Israel's recent economic success has been.
From the outside, the sculptured glass seems to change radically as you approach because of the folds, which reflect the sky and the skyscrapers against it.
It's apparent now that burning skyscrapers are just something that residents of the United Arab Emirates should simply come to expect as part of daily life.
This spring, I walked around the area to get a look at eight of the newest supertall luxury skyscrapers, several of which are still under construction.
For many people, moving to New York City might feel financially out of reach, with rent prices that seem to climb as high as its skyscrapers.
I spent an afternoon in Moscow's $12 billion financial district, home to some of Europe's tallest skyscrapers and where Trump once wanted to build a tower.
Checklists have helped builders construct skyscrapers without the risk that they will collapse, assisted pilots in landing distressed planes and showed stockbrokers which securities to avoid.
The second Turkish city to make this list, tourists head to Istanbul for its stunning mosques and mosaics as well as its modern skyscrapers and malls.
Sometimes the topics with the most resonance are so much a part of our environment that they become invisible to our examination: New York City skyscrapers!
Architect Virgil Bogue wanted to design a city that was the opposite of the skyscrapers found in New York, so he turned to Europe for inspiration.
Meowth loves shiny objects, and when it sees skyscrapers lined with glass, it won't be able to resist the urge to sharpen its claws on them.
But with massive metropolises boasting skyscrapers with thousands of windows each—let alone the half-dozen windows in each home—why hasn't this option taken hold?
We take a selfie on the Triennale's terrace, between De Chirico's I Bagni Misteriosi ("Mysterious Baths" fountain) and the skyscrapers of City Life in the background.
He and his band, the Attractions, were coming down from New Haven on their first tour of the United States when the skyscrapers came into view.
Cars drive around a floodlit street circuit through the heart of Singapore against a backdrop of glittering skyscrapers while spectators are entertained by headline music acts.
Another calls for keeping the port where it is, while constructing huge platforms above its bustling waterfront cranes on which residential skyscrapers could then be built.
With seemingly infinite skyscrapers nearly blocking out the sun (when its famously overcast skies don't do it first), visitors don't always take to the city instantly.
The largest is here in Gurgaon, a fast-growing city outside New Delhi with a litany of Fortune 500 companies and a skyline filled with skyscrapers.
Major urban-renewal projects have upgraded the waterfront into a sprawl of state-of-the-art cultural venues, shopping centers and skyscrapers from five-star architects.
At the same time, the Gherkin became less visible, almost enclosed in a thicket of other skyscrapers that is only going to grow in coming years.
You could buy sets to make thinly disguised versions of skyscrapers by all the major architects — Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson.
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth, the novel tells the story of her country's evolution from slavery to skyscrapers through the prism of one family.
These codes have helped preserve the city's historic buildings and neighborhoods while preventing its streets from being forever cast into darkness by endless rows of skyscrapers.
A fire broke out near the top of Trump Tower on Monday, causing smoke to billow out over the skyscrapers of Midtown Manhattan and Central Park.
Refreshingly, Egan and her characters turn their backs on a Manhattan interior defined by subways and skyscrapers, Broadway and Wall Street, to look outward to sea.
This meant we could see all the way to the bay and the beach from the window, as well as the skyscrapers below and around us.
But understanding how these white-collar workers occupy themselves when they get to their desks in skyscrapers and office parks across America takes a little imagination.
There were images of fighter jets and missile launchings cut together with shots of dancing children, pictures of artisanal pizza and time-lapse sunrises over skyscrapers.
The most recent map in the show, Bollmann's bird's-eye color lithograph of Midtown Manhattan, suggests the scale of the city's skyscrapers and dates to 1964.
The most ubiquitous images of Asia tend to be skyscrapers, bustling metropolises, hyper urban and cosmopolitan citizenry, despite the inherently conservative or spiritual nature of society.
Urban Studies Be skeptical when you hear about the return to glory of the American city — that idealized vision of rising skyscrapers and bustling, dense downtowns.
It's impossible to pick strawberries, build skyscrapers, and clean hotel rooms from overseas, so these industries have continued to look to immigrants to provide cheap labor.
The city's skyline is punctuated by the glass towers of Grozny-City, a collection of skyscrapers that house offices, luxury apartments, and a five-star hotel.
Right: One of New York's newest skyscrapers can also be viewed through the Flatiron's rooftop balustrade: the hundred-and-four-story 22012 World Trade Center (22005).
The view is still pretty cool — and just as in Dubai, I'm surrounded by skyscrapers, which gives things a nice, familiar, vaguely science-fiction-like feel.
Compared to glass skyscrapers, Mr. Stern mused that his masonry buildings appeal to buyers because they look decidedly different from office towers and are eminently livable.
Night life in the valley consists of gazing at the riot of stars in the sky, made visible because of the lack of streetlights and skyscrapers.
I remember daydreaming through my Modelling Theory course at university, wondering if there really were soaring skyscrapers in America, with branches of Starbucks in the lobbies.
Bahrani sets most of the film at night, accented by the glow of colored fluorescent light while newscasts displayed on skyscrapers propagandize Montag and Beatty's work.
The eight-seat private plane is able to cope with the steep pitch that the airport requires because of noise, surrounding skyscrapers and a short runway.
The shining stainless-steel Petronas Towers, two of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, anchor a startlingly beautiful skyline that is truly unique to this city.
Many were offbeat: a wry look at tourists gawking up at skyscrapers in Manhattan, a plan to resurrect a South Dakota ghost town by installing Indians.
They have pushed the conventions of public art in this green space ringed by skyscrapers, including the Flatiron Building, and traversed by 563,000 people a day.
International Commerce Center, West Kowloon (2010) The city's height champion, with its sinuous, tapered profile, is one of the most energy-efficient skyscrapers in the world.
LONDON (Reuters) - London's skyline is changing fast, pierced by gleaming new skyscrapers which defy predictions of a Brexit-related slowdown in the capital's two financial districts.
To my surprise, my mean arterial blood pressure was about 12 points higher when staring up at the enormous skyscrapers, indicating I may have felt stressed.
The presence of the large plane and two tailing helicopters raised eyebrows around the city, where the sight of military craft among the skyscrapers is not normal.
Skyscrapers being swarmed by pterodactyls stand in contrast to the music, which—riding the post-rock beat—layered fireball synthesizers against the first cries of progressive metal.
WASHINGTON, DC — Architect David Kemnitzer spent decades collecting paper models of castles, nuclear power plants, modernist houses, farms, and skyscrapers, starting from his childhood in the 1940s.
The sights of Centennial Olympic Park and the downtown skyscrapers are more than enough to take your mind off of the J. Crew clientele hogging the bar.
This $49-million Aspen, Colorado estate features million-dollar windows so big they had to be made with the same heavy-duty glass used to build skyscrapers.
Even the perspective from the wide window, gently masked with a light curtain, might seem familiar, with the swirl of foreign traffic and skyscrapers safely muted below.
In a part of the world better known for towering skyscrapers and oil than for its startup scene, Gulf Arab entrepreneurs might be seeing bright times ahead.
A current fan favorite are the architecture sets, which, when finished, make a 15-inch detailed replica of world-famous skyscrapers in NYC, Chicago, Dubai, and more.
Amazon was the most visible of them, making the dramatic public threat of suspending construction of one of its many skyscrapers in the city and repurposing another.
High-walled mansions and skyscrapers are a constant reminder of the wealth enjoyed by some, while there are millions of others living in townships and squatter camps.
There are plenty of popular tourist destinations you can visit in every single one of the United States, from skyscrapers in big cities to famous national monuments.
Slices of Midtown (Sunday) This walking (and eating) tour makes a case against the idea that Midtown Manhattan's garden of skyscrapers is also a desert for gourmets.
It's hard to like someone who rakes in obscene bonuses for dismantling institutions like the NHS, replacing orphanages with skyscrapers, or selling weapons to the third world.
From its traditional City heartland to the brash Canary Wharf skyscrapers and plush Mayfair townhouses, London represents one of the greatest concentrations of financial wealth on earth.
This is particularly true of its views: a stunning prospect of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building—one of Stalin's skyscrapers—is visible from the walkway over the river.
"I did not have a father who gave me millions of dollars to build luxury skyscrapers, casinos and country clubs," Sanders said, alluding to President Trump's background.
Construction cranes swayed at the tops of skyscrapers, windows imploded and nearly 200 trees were uprooted, while some people used canoes to venture out into flooded streets.
Bo remembered it spitting a rain of sizzling blue bombs down on the city, burning the park behind their house to white ash, toppling the skyscrapers downtown.
In the blocks around the undulating, metal-screened length of the city's new bus and train terminal, skyscrapers—including the city's tallest—flash all the familiar logos.
Elsewhere, we see the last son of Krypton hefting up his nemesis Doomsday and pushing him through entire skyscrapers while desks and walls scatter from the impact.
He's pictured in front of the looming skyscrapers and bustling traffic of midtown Manhattan—an unusual choice, given that New York is often vilified in campaign ads.
Rising skyscrapers testify to a construction boom in the city, businesses are printing Chinese-language brochures and salaries demanded by Pakistanis who speak Chinese have shot up.
A nation with technology at its heart, Japan is already home to a dizzying array of high tech gadgets, gleaming skyscrapers and even restaurants staffed by robots.
Whether you're building dreams in a lake or solving puzzles with skyscrapers, you can always expect to use the houses of cards in new and surprising ways.
An example: the team made 150 scale models of skyscrapers to create a picturesque cityscape that Anderson only used for two shots, according to producer Jeremy Dawson.
Some architects have even started designing wooden skyscrapers, like the proposed Tratoppen ("the treetop" illustrated above), a 40-floor residential tower on the drawing-board in Stockholm.
The practicalities of erecting massive 3D-printing gantries suggest printing skyscrapers and other large structures is probably best not done in one go, but in smaller sections.
For me, living in my dream house would mean looking out the window and seeing a great view, whether it be skyscrapers or a beautiful mountain skyline.
But in earthquake-prone San Francisco there's a catch: many of the city's new skyscrapers are concentrated in a neighborhood of squishy land reclaimed from the bay.
" The "after" story is glowingly recounted in "One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building" (Little, Brown and Co., $35) by Judith Dupré, the author of "Skyscrapers.
When the majority of your wealth is tied up in skyscrapers, golf courses, and a shrinking pool of licensing deals, accessing it can be a real problem.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Firefighters on Friday appeared to have mostly extinguished a blaze that suddenly engulfed one of Dubai's most prominent skyscrapers on New Year's Eve, witnesses said.
People were hooked on it in all corners of the UK: from bored teenagers in impoverished countryside villages to office workers in the skyscrapers of major cities.
He will arrive in a Midtown neighborhood soon to be packed with big-name chefs in skyscrapers, including Daniel Humm, Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Joël Robuchon.
He incorrectly assessed that the North Koreans were desperate for sanctions relief or even enamored of his talk of new skyscrapers going up across their dark capital.
The threat to the quality of life in this well-to-do enclave of multiplying skyscrapers is obvious to anyone who has made it their home: crowding.
Because of one-party rule, career promotion within the Communist Party is based on the ability to "get things done" — and building skyscrapers can serve that purpose.
Kenny's production takes on some new wrinkles care of some famous friends, Baauer shows up to make "Cheat Code" and "Big Titties" feel capable of toppling skyscrapers.
While New York City recently passed a law requiring its biggest skyscrapers to become more energy efficient, the new law could mean retrofitting thousands of buildings statewide.
Looking up from any point of Batumi, beyond the handful of skyscrapers, you see mountains: Bright green slopes peaked in sprinklings of snow looming over the city.
With its angular skyscrapers, luxury retailers and bizarre basket-shaped playground, Hudson Yards is the opposite of troubled — financially — although architecture critics have pounced on its placelessness.
In some cases, such as the emergence of supertall skyscrapers in the 21st century, our real capabilities have proven to outmatch what we once hypothesized for ourselves.
Mr. Marcus used a similar engineering technique at Central Park Tower, which at 1,550 feet tall will be among the most slender residential skyscrapers in the world.
Among them: airplanes, bridges, skyscrapers, smiling children, American armaments, missile launches, postwar devastation, high-speed trains, a basketball player dunking a ball and horses running through water.
"You've got to move to a lower-cost city, you've got to move to a city that has a lot of space for big skyscrapers," he said.
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.
Instead, it's more like an elaborate digital Lego set that allows players to build whatever they like, designing their own castles, skyscrapers, underground bunkers and booby traps.
Hudson Yards's skyscrapers are, for many people, a daily visual reminder of the ways in which the city seems to be surrendering itself increasingly to the wealthy.
We see hills and streams at places now occupied by skyscrapers and subway tunnels; a red maple swamp where an H&M store stands in Times Square.
By the time CNN arrived at the scene last Wednesday, police had blocked off traffic on the coastal road that runs between Victoria Harbor and the skyscrapers.
It is hard to imagine that dangerous relics from a murderous, bygone era can still lie buried somewhere beneath Hong Kong's glittering skyscrapers and heaving shopping malls.
The Hollywood sign, the skyscrapers of Downtown and the Pacific Ocean were all glistening as the sun set and tourists jockeyed for prime spots overlooking the valley.
In the high-tech zone, construction on Goldin Finance 13, supposed to be one of the country's tallest skyscrapers, has been halted for more than two years.
The hotel building is one of four enduring 1920s skyscrapers that anchor the DuSable Bridge (the others are the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and 333 North Michigan).

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