Sentences with phrase «from skyscrapers»

Seattle's supercharged market for everything from skyscrapers to single - family houses is expected to keep booming next year, even with higher interest rates.
Bond sales linked to everything from skyscrapers to strip malls are surging amid a recovery in real estate values after issuance froze for more than a year in the wake of the financial crisis.
Seville, Spain About Blog From the Skyscrapers of Chicago to the Olive Groves of Southern Spain.
But in Dubai's cultural soup — dominated by foreign workers, visitors and sun - seeking vacationers — such rules can seem far removed from the skyscrapers, Western - style malls and lifestyle options that are much closer to California than Cairo.
As many as a billion birds a year are killed in the United States when they collide with glass on all kind of structures, from skyscrapers and office buildings to homes and bus shelters.
The omission seems odder still when you consider that this era, the Roaring 20s and Depression 30s, is the great dawning of American culture, from skyscrapers and jazz bands to speakeasies and Scott Fitzgerald, mass production, hard - boiled gumshoes and Hollywood.
You'll have no problem getting around NYC, hanging from skyscrapers and swinging smoothly through city streets.
As each mission starts, your «spectators» shout encouragement from their skyscrapers.
The new gameplay shows an expansive rainy night in Arkham city, showcasing a breathtaking amount of visuals as Batman swoops down from the skyscrapers above to the city streets below; into the Batmobile -LSB-...]
A country of myriad wonders, from skyscrapers to swamps, snowy peaks to tropical beaches and high culture to Disney magic, a holiday in the United States truly offers something for everyone.
Other highlights of the tour include Marine Drive, which runs from the skyscrapers of the city centre to Chowpatty Beach.
Not many people know that Panama City, apart from the skyscrapers, also has a historical district called Casco Viejo which is an equivalent of an «Old Town».
In its downtown core, you feel the city hustle and bustle, along with the shade from skyscrapers, yet a short walk over the bridge and you're enjoying the peaceful Southbank parklands, facing the skyline and the river.
You can tell from the skyscrapers it's the New donk city map.
Materials scientist Xavier Lepró can't grow his «spider webs» fast enough to swing from skyscrapers like Spiderman, but he can best another web - maker, Mother Nature, when it comes to consistency.
Aug. 28, 2017 - Materials scientist Xavier Lepró can't grow his «spider webs» fast enough to swing from skyscrapers like Spiderman, but he can best another web - maker, Mother Nature, when it comes to consistency.
It's an essential skill that allowed humans to make everything from skyscrapers (by reinforcing concrete with steel) to solar cells (by layering materials to herd electrons).
A daredevil who parachutes from skyscrapers will try to smash the nearly 50 - year - old record for the highest ever jump, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall
It's an essential skill that allowed humans to make everything from skyscrapers (by reinforcing concrete with steel) to solar cells (by layering materials to herd along electrons).
Michelle has designed everything from skyscrapers to boutiques, but her desire to understand how a space makes us feel sent her back to graduate school for a Spatial Morphology degree (who knew there was such a thing?).
Such indoor farming — ranging from skyscraper greenhouses to in vitro meat — is altering our definition of agriculture and creating technologies that could stave off a global food crisis.
The hopes of Barca fans the world over were smashed like a glass dropped from a skyscraper last week as the overwhelming favourites went down without a fight against Roma in Italy and were subsequently knocked out of the Champions League.
In order to escape giant bird - pterodactyl - creature thing, for example, I had to ward it off with a pulse laser, create a linking portal from a skyscraper to the ground, AND utilize an anti-grav cushioning device to save ANI and ION from becoming bird food.
Such is the case with «A Sound of Thunder,» a trivial sci - fi thriller in which Edward Burns can barely muster an excited yell even when he is leaping from a skyscraper.
Moments like O'Brien and his friends jumping from a skyscraper window feel like the kind of sequence that shouldn't go with something technically dubbed a young adult movie (a term I really despise, as it shoots franchises like this in the foot before they even begin), yet here we are, gripping the edge of our seats, mouth agape at the severity of the action.
«Lens on the Burj» (0:57) shares some footage from the skyscraper shoot.
A partially nude woman plummets to her death from a skyscraper after snorting a copious amount of drugs.
Here are some other fascinating facts for charts, graphs, and general mind - boggling, from The Skyscraper Book by James Cross Giblin (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1981):
Vibrant paintings and kinetic, rhyming text describe a day in the life of a bike messenger, from his early morning in a spare urban apartment and his free - flying day on the run, to a final delivery, where he views the city lights from a skyscraper.
The people of Adrian's stories seem determined to live ordinary secular lives, despite the miracles that erupt into the everyday, as when a nineteenth - century farmboy begins seeing visions of people plummeting from a skyscraper.
You're looking for a room with a view, but it could be equally from a skyscraper hotel or a boutique jungle - set property.
You can smell Al Nafoorah's tasty hookahs and charcoal grill from a skyscraper away.
From skyscraper to skyscraper, from basement bar to rooftop restaurant, from terrace swimming pool to glistening sandy beach, the United Arab Emirates is a once in a lifetime getaway.
Before long, you're blasting through bad guys and leaping from skyscraper to skyscraper like it's nothing.
Open fields, spectacular waterfalls and inviting coastlines make up the majority of the map which is a huge departure from the skyscraper bound original game.
From skyscraper bridges to giant bio-domes enclosing Manhattan, an exhibition at the Queens Museum takes us on a tour of the city that could have been
The art of constructing anything from a skyscraper to a beautiful city bridge is a process which requires thousands of brilliant minds, and your mind could be one of them.
One pointed to a high - rise and said, «I did a free fall jump from that skyscraper once.»

Not exact matches

Thirty - five years ago it was a fishing village, but today its miles of subtropical sprawl sprout skyscrapers and huge malls across the border from Hong Kong.
And at night, admire Manhattan's glittering skyscrapers from the top of the Empire State Building.
Li Ka - shing, a wartime refugee who used to sweep factory floors in Hong Kong for a living, retired after a career spanning more than half a century amassing one of Asia's biggest fortunes from building skyscrapers to selling soap bars.
By the early 1930s, the area along 42nd Street, directly north and south of Grand Central had become known as the «Valley of the Giants,» home to three of New York City's six tallest skyscrapers: Walter Chrysler's silver spire, real estate king Irwin Chanin's eponymous building across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News Building.
From inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty he stood in awe, gazing out at the sea of skyscrapers, shining like metal and glass exclamation points, punctuating the urban skyline.
The problem is that poster selected to showcase Paramount Picture's Ninja Turtles 5 is so offensive that some social media users thought this was fake at first sight: Four teenage mutant ninja turtles are jumping from an exploding skyscraper.
The promotional poster features the four characters, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo, leaping from what appears to be an exploding skyscraper.
Selling a skyscraper isn't the same as selling a retail storefront, explains George Carras, who runs research company RealNet Canada (though there is one comparison to selling a family home; the tower will likely be «fluffed» for visits by bidders, which could involve anything from new lobby furniture to removing condensation from windows).
Engineers and architects will use Minecraft to design everything from toasters to skyscrapers.
Chu is joining a record $ 5.2 billion deal to buy most of a Hong Kong skyscraper from Li Ka - Shing's company, people familiar with the matter said last month.
While Manhattan skyscraper values have surged 50 percent above the 2008 peak, prices for suburban office buildings still languish 4.8 percent below, according to an index from Moody's Investors Service and Real Capital Analytics Inc..
The tip above is from Brian's post on how a relatively new blog received thousands of readers using something called the Skyscraper Technique.
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