Sentences with phrase «built tall towers»

The thriving town was able to govern itself independently, and in this time many competitive Tuscan families built tall towers here - each a little bit taller than the last one.

In order to adequately harvest wind, you have to be able to build a tall tower that will rise above treelines and buildings surrounding your property.

Shortly after it being reported that construction would start in early 2010 the South Australian Government announced that it has refused to vary major development approval of the wind farm (Trust Power wanted to build taller towers, 110m high).

Blow everything away to build tall towers and you get more wealth, not cheaper housing.

Not exact matches

It will have the 151m tall «twisting» Beach and Howe Tower — a residential building complete with stunning views of water and mountains — as its centerpiece.

The rezoning of 78 blocks of east midtown Manhattan was approved by the New York City Council in August, with the goal of enabling the area's aging building stock to be replaced by more modern — and taller — office towers.

On Aug. 3, the tower was «topped off,» making it, at 632 metres, the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world..

In August 2012 Euro Forex Investment Ltd moved into London's Heron Tower, the tallest building in the City.

Dubai developer Emaar Properties has unveiled details of a new record - setting tower that is expected to be the tallest building ever.

The 605 - foot tall tower was built for the 1962 World's Fair.

The tower is still in the planning stage, but if it is build, it will be the sixth tallest structure in the UK, and exceed the height of the tallest building, the Shard in London, by at least ten metres.

Financial News reports that Vigilant Global, a telecoms company owned by high - frequency trading firm DRW Trading, has submitted plans to build a 320 - metre tall tower to allow what it calls «a new communications point between the UK and Europe» which will have a «completely unobstructed» line of sight both optically, and for radio waves.

Dubbed the «Jenga Tower,» this 58 - story skyscraper designed by Rhode: Partners will be Austin's tallest building when complete in late 2018.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago - based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

In its heyday in the 1970s, the company forever changed Chicago's skyline by building the iconic, 110 - story Sears Tower, which held the record for the tallest building in the world for more than 25 years.

Just last June, the council voted Mississauga's iconic 50 - and 56 - storey Absolute World — the so - called Marilyn Monroe towers — the best tall buildings in the Americas and became fascinated by the extent of the building boom north of the border, says executive director Antony Wood.

In 2001, before construction began on Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, he said he'd love to make it the tallest building ever.

Washington, D.C., is incorporated, Joe DiMaggio makes his major - league debut, the Sears Tower becomes the tallest building in the world, and the first spam email is sent, all on this day.

The developer plans to build a 65 - story, 1,005 - foot - tall office tower spanning more than 2.8 million square feet at 509 West 34th Street.

Gary Barnett's Extell Development is yet to announce construction funding for the Central Park Tower project at 217 West 57th Street — set to become the city's tallest building by roof height once completed.

Indianapolis has had the most high - profile wins of late, including Salesforce.com Inc.'s takeover of the state's tallest building and India - based tech giant Infosys» plan to open a U.S. headquarters at the OneAmerica Tower.

The company is building a 61 - story skyscraper in San Francisco, also dubbed Salesforce Tower, that will become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River when it's completed.

In a feature from the business section entitled «Les villes chinoises veulent toutes leurs gratte - ciel géants,» La Mondetakes note of the phenomenon that is the skyscraper - dense Chinese city, and specifically, the completion of Shanghai Tower, now one of the tallest buildings in Asia.

Its tall, pointed design is typical of Hindu architecture, and is highlighted by a towering, approximately 154 - foot - high (about 47 - metre - high) central building inside a large complex of individual temples.

The article didn't say it was the tallest building; it said that the tower was the HIGHEST POINT in Washington.

But there's a problem: The tower, once the tallest building in the world, was never built to last.

A crane operator who has been working on top of the Shanghai Tower — the second tallest building in the world — won second place in the Shanghai City Photography Competition with these beautiful and terrifying images.

The object of the game started out to build as tall of a tower as you can with Dots and spaghetti, but the spaghetti didn't work very well, so we switched to toothpicks.

«Kipco Tower is regarded as the tallest and most prestigious mixed - purpose residential and office building in Kuwait's premier business address, and it only invited Johnny Rockets to represent the hamburger category in its retail offering,» Al - Naqeeb says.

The X Games have built their version of the Mega Ramp, a towering peak that rises to 89 feet at the tallest of three drop - ins.

By age 2, most toddlers can kick a ball, scribble with a crayon, and build towers four or more blocks tall.

As you stack one on top of the other, describe what you're doing by saying «I'm building a really tall tower» or «Let's put this green block on top of the red one.»

Whether you choose to use magnetic blocks, marble runs, bricks etc; come up with something creative you can build together or have contests on who can make the tallest tower.

[139] The Hope City project is expected to be completed in 2016 and is estimated to cost $ US 10 billion in construction; [139] and one of its towers will become Africa's tallest building.

BY JOE C. DANIELS Visitors to the National 9/11 Memorial who are old enough to remember recall horrific images of the burning towers, the collapse of the buildings and the tall piles of debris.

The $ 27 million contract to purchase One Seneca Tower — Buffalo's tallest building — has fallen through after less than two weeks, as the wealthy New York City buyer pulled out of the deal because it was too expensive without investment partners to spread out the costs.

The owner of Grand Central Terminal filed a $ 1.1 billion lawsuit in US District Court in Manhattan that argued that the de Blasio administration, the NYC Council and SL Green Realty Corp. had deprived him of his property rights when the city gave SL Green permission to build a 1,501 - foot tall office tower, without having to buy any air rights from him.

The new owner of One Seneca Tower paid $ 12.6 million for Buffalo's tallest building and its accompanying parking ramp, according to the deed records now filed with the Erie County Clerk.

A Georgia company has withdrawn plans to build a 17 - story student apartment tower that Syracuse University criticized as being way too tall for the university neighborhood.

The opening of 432 Park Avenue, a 96 - story tower marketed by developers as the tallest residential building in the Americas, had an outsized effect on prices, said CityRealty research director Gabby Warshawer.

The move would get rid of the rule that bars residential towers in New York City from exceeding more than 12 times their lot size, leading to more tall buildings on city streets, according to Crain's.

What was once called the Freedom Tower should soon become the tallest building in the U.S..

For nearly 2 centuries, Dharahara, a nine - story observation tower in the center of Kathmandu, stood firm as the tallest building in Nepal's capital.

First, they would need to build a base tower approximately 50 kilometers tall, out of the wind for stability and near the equator for alignment with the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).

By MICK HAMERAt 240 METRES, the tower at Canary Wharf is Britain's tallest building and almost overshadows the nearby buildings of London's traditional financial centre, the City of London.

«That's just the right frequency to damage tall buildings like the Dharahara Tower because it's close to their natural period,» Avouac explains.

But if Shrady had provided more context on medieval building techniques, he might have arrived at a clearer answer to a central question about the tower: Was its architect incompetent or just unlucky when he planned a tall tower on shallow foundations in soft silt?

Not only are they more expensive to build, but more than a third of every floor in buildings as tall as the World Trade Center towers is given over to the service core.

The tower will be built in seven sections that are 28 feet tall, 20 feet wide and 20 feet deep and stacked, reaching a height of 200 feet, said Howard Biegler, launch operations engineer with United Launch Alliance.