Sentences with phrase «first skyscraper»

Did you know the first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1885?

Home to the world's first skyscraper, a steel - framed high - rise built in 1885, Chicago is an urban jungle to rival any in the world.

A showcase of over 100 international innovators in spatial design, in the extraordinary city which forged the world's first skyscraper.

A city that takes pride in its industrious past, Chicago is the birthplace of the zipper and the United States» first skyscraper.

Finally, The Citizen occupies Sacramento, CA's historic California Life Insurance Building, the city's first skyscraper built in 1925.

Built in 1922, this 400 - foot high, 29 - story building was the first high rise in the United States to have air conditioning and the city's first skyscraper.

When it opened in 1960, Copenhagen's Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, as it is now called, was the talk of town as much for being the city's first skyscraper, as for its top - to - toe design — which included everything from the exterior of the façade to the furnishings and cutlery — by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.

Originally built in 1893 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the Ames Building is considered Boston's first skyscraper and remains a vital part of its history.

First opened in 1881, the Temple Court building that houses The Beekman was one of the city's first skyscrapers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were born the year before, while the world's first skyscrapers are raised in Chicago in the next few years.

As I watched her play, I remembered many of the good experiences I had with the game, like zooming in close on a neighborhood and watching the Sims living out their lives, checking out what businesses have moved into a recently zoned commercial area, or seeing my first skyscrapers built in the heart of my city.

Not exact matches

Cohen, 51, first caught Trump's eye in the early 2000s when, as a member of the condo board at a Trump property, he took it upon himself to wade into a nasty dispute between Trump's management company and some residents at a skyscraper near the United Nations.

But it was also the 34 - year - old singer's first visit to the summit of the legendary skyscraper.

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.

And she talked about how much China has changed since she first visited in 1982 («very few automobiles,» «no big skyscrapers.»)

These are solid first steps toward building skyscrapers.

For marketers that think that SEO always comes first, Brian Dean's skyscraper technique is a good example of a brilliantly executed «content first» approach.

We would end invariably at the fountains of the Seagram's Building plaza ¯ the first «modern» skyscraper, he would explain, with the frame of the structure exposed.

That concept was expanded audaciously in 1922 when the congregation decided to build a skyscraper, putting the sanctuary and church offices on the first two floors, commercial space on floors 3 to 24 (Clarence Darrow's office was once on the sixth floor) and the parsonage in the loft.

And so it was that my first day passed awash with vibrant market scenes, new smells and tastes, skyscrapers and friendly faces all framed by the South China Sea glittering in the south, and by hills and mountains stretching for the sky in the north.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

She will arrive at the memorial Sunday morning before the annual moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., marking the moment that the first plane struck the skyscraper's north tower.

It would be the first major private lease in the 1,776 - foot skyscraper.

First seen in October 2017, the space rock «Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space — and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form

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

I still vividly remember my first impression of empty space, and Melbourne's skyscrapers pointing out of the horizon were amazing.

Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semi-transparent, as well, «so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper and have them all producing electricity during the day when it's needed.

One of his first jobs when he moved to Vancouver was «hanging out the side of skyscrapers changing windows and fixing the weather stripping.»

While a typical Hollywood movie depicting first contact would invariably lead to a massive technicolour fight across all seven continents as skyscrapers collapse into fiery abysses while heroic characters battle vicious aliens, Arrival couldn't be further from the trope.

The first poster and trailer tease for Dwayne Johnson's summer blockbuster Skyscraper has landed online.

«Not many people know what they'd die for...» Universal has aired a first look at the gnarly action movie Skyscraper as a Super Bowl TV spot, with a full trailer coming soon.

You can now watch the first full - length trailer for Skyscraper here, to see more footage from this movie.

First to hit cinemas will be Skyscraper, arriving in mid-July.

Headquartered in Manhattan skyscrapers located just across town from each other, the two firms are run by competitive CEOs obsessed with being the first to bring any new ideas to market.

Ahead of the film's trailer debut during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Universal Pictures has released the first poster for the upcoming action - thriller Skyscraper — and it's a hell of a thing.

Universal Pictures unveiled a first look at their new action - thriller with the Skyscraper Super Bowl trailer today.

This year we got a supersized look at the sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as well as a first look at the new Dwayne Johnson actioner Skyscraper, which finds The Rock going all Die Hard and attempting to safe his family from a burning building — which happens to be the tallest building in the world.

Ground - breaking though it is as one of the first gay films to come out of Poland, Tomasz Wasilewski's Floating Skyscrapers brings home how happy endings on such subjects are hardly to be hoped for in the conservative, Catholic country.

«The first time we brought our small - town, somewhat sheltered kids together with the urban students — most of whom live in the shadows of Chicago's skyscrapers but have never once been to the heart of the Loop or a major museum — one of them pondered, «What are the real differences between life in Effingham and life in Chicago?»»

Similar to its more famous neighbouring city, Abu Dhabi is renowned for its spectacular modern architecture, with impressive structures such as the Aldar headquarters in Al Raha, the first circular skyscraper in the world.

To start, the teachers took the quiz with the skyscraper question, to see what their students would be expected to learn in the first month of school.

One of the first public confrontations came in 1989 when Maathai openly protested the building of a $ 200 million, sixty - story skyscraper in Nairobi's Uhuru Park that was slated to be used for government offices.

When this first - generation skyscraper opened in 1907, Le Pavillon Hotel became an instant signature in the historic heart of the Big Easy.

Radisson Blu is further growing the European portfolio — recent highlights include the very first Radisson Blu hotel in Madrid, and flagship of the year 2010 will be the Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow which is scheduled to open in May: Also known as «Hotel Ukraina» the building is part of Stalin's legendary Soviet skyscrapers «Seven Sisters» and will offer 506 luxurious rooms and suites as well as 38 apartments, world class restaurants including dinner river cruise boats, and a unique art collection featuring 1,200 original paintings by leading Russian artists of the early XX.

While the building is an 80 - story skyscraper, the hotel only uses the first 18 floors; higher floors are reserved for condos.

George Bigelow Rogers (1870 — 1945) was an American architect, best known for the wide variety of buildings that he designed in Mobile, Alabama, including mansions in historic European styles and other private residences, churches and public buildings, and the first 11 - story skyscraper in Mobile and the Southeast United States.

At first glance, Hong Kong is nothing short of daunting: a thicket of skyscrapers perched on a South China Sea island.

A helipad planned for the roof is expected to become the first for a private residential skyscraper in Florida.

Park Hyatt New York occupies the first 25 floors of the 90 - story One57 skyscraper designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc and located in midtown Manhattan.

The Plaza was one of Oslo's first «skyscrapers», making the building a staple on its own.