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Smoke - stained brick factories along the once - industrial shores of Brooklyn and Queens gave way to shiny glass towers as new parks and esplanades attracted residents to the water.

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It's just the latest in a string of disputes in recent months involving condo residents, owners, boards and property managers that have highlighted some of the downsides of condo life, even as scores of cranes erect new glass towers in Canada's largest city.

With a new $ 92 - million glass tower on the U of T campus, a program that typically leads the Canadian pack in global MBA rankings and a dean whose C.V. includes a stint as senior deputy governor at the Bank of Canada, it's not surprising that Rotman has a great reputation.

Jamestown Properties wants to add a 250 - office glass tower above a section of the market overlooking 10th Avenue, as well as a 12 - story, 90,000 square - foot hotel on the Ninth Avenue side, over Buddakan restaurant.

Day 1: SkyDeck with photos in glass boxes (formerly known as the Sears Tower) + afternoon Architectural Boat Tour and Dinner in downtown

In the first scene of Wet, you slide down a long table in slow motion, smashing through towers of champagne glasses and a giant cake as you gun down thugs who are trying to kill you.

The Car and Driver offices were not, as I expected, in some magnificent glass tower.

Or he could drive to a multiscreen effort: there'd been one in the last big town as he came round the coast — huge glass and metal tower, looked like a part of an airport: they'd have an audience, they'd have audiences to spare.

Other hotels are airy, modern glass towers, such as The Ritz - Carlton, Fort Lauderdale.

The two parallel high - rises connected by a glass bridge are known as The Tower and are centrally located with regards to the resort's many ski trails.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to have a 2.5m - high (8ft) wall of reinforced glass to act as protection against terrorism.

The glass - faced hotel towers 28 stories over Fourteenth Street, and with the sections of windows that are recessed or extended slightly, looks as though it was purpose built for Starwood's hip, design - oriented brand.

The gleaming white Belle Epoque facade sums up the essence of Monte - Carlo ritz and glitz: inside, it boasts one of the most famous lobbies in Europe, with a glass domed cupola designed by Gustave Eiffel (as in, the tower).

The hotel's 25 - story, ultra-modern glass tower makes a grand statement as the most cosmopolitan and contemporary of Lima luxury hotels.

Sip a glass of sparkling wine and nibble on tasty appetizers as you glide past landmarks like Bitexco Tower, Nha Rong (home of the Ho Chi Minh Museum) and Cau Mong (a bridge designed by the architect of the Eiffel Tower).

For a walk through time, consider The Majestic Malacca as your choice accommodation when youre in the historical city.Previously a private residence of a Chinese merchant, the 1920s mansion is now part of the luxury hotel (together with a 20 - storey accommodation tower), with some of its original fixtures still maintained, such as its Straits Chinese tiles at the reception lobby and the colourful stained glass at the entrance of the mansion.A library, an outdoor swimming pool, a fully equipped gym, four conference rooms and three on - site restaurants round up the hotels facilities, but in - house guests also get to enjoy its exclusive activities lined up, such as the historical walk with a resident historian and the Peranakan cooking class.

Five minutes from the Petronas Twin Tower and Bukit Bintang shopping area, Hotel Istana is a five - star business hotel with a touch of charm and luxury.Istana is Malay for palace, and the hotel is rightfully described as such, as it exudes elegance and grandeur, starting with the lobby lounge Songket Lounge with its high ceilings, intricately - patterned marbled columns, and tall glass windows with views of the gorgeously - landscaped gardens, to staff clad in traditional purple songket kebaya and baju melayu outfits welcoming you.Being in Jalan Raja Chulan makes Hotel Istana all the more attractive, too - with business centres, shopping, sightseeing and nightlife all a short walk away, guests are sure to be kept occupied throughout their stay.

The adjacent East Village neighborhood features Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, as well as a community of new residential glass towers and an up - and - coming culinary scene.

A brief cutscene shows a stained glass portrait of Tetra above Zelda's throne, and as Zelda herself tells to Anjean in the Tower of Spirits, the people living in the newly established kingdom are aware of their heritage and the connection to the old Hyrule.

There's the odd dull cavern, but some of the dungeons look wonderfully inspired: The city of Jurayn is centered around the Sky Temple, a sacred tower that resembles a lily: You'll clamber through its basement before ascending to the sky above, climbing to the top of the lily as you watch the world recede through its glass floors.

Judging by the 100 works on paper here, he was positively giddy, as effervescent as the towering glass of bubbly he sketched around 1963.

Appearing both delicately miniature in illuminated manuscripts and towering in the gleaming glass of cathedral windows, the wheel served as a constant reminder of Fortuna's grasp on medieval denizens.

From the visual representation of time (known by Latham as the «quantum - of - mark») in the early spray paintings and One - Second Drawings, to the book reliefs of the 1960s, the roller paintings of the 1970s and the late glass tower works which incorporated bits of all theorems, John Latham maintained a steadfast devotion to exploring the most complex cosmological ideas and questioning the traditional notions and structures of art, science and philosophy.

London looked to the future during the postwar years, as the bombed - out city rebuilt itself with towers of steel and glass.

Concrete behemoths and steel - and - glass towers rise from sand dunes and rocky cliffs, inviting viewers to see them as if for the first time.

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As nocturnal migrants, Swainson's Thrushes are also frequent victims of collisions with glass, towers, and wind turbines.

Severfield - Rowen is the UK's leading steel fabricator having supplied and erected the steelwork for major projects, such as Heathrow Terminal 5, the 2012 Olympic Stadium and principal recent London office developments, including One New Change, the Heron Tower and the «Shard of Glass».

As for the glass towers, only a tiny fraction of all the law firms practice in such settings.

The towering 5.7 - inch Quad HD Super LCD 5 screen shielded by Gorilla Glass 5, boasts the same resolution as the Lenovo Moto Z Force and ZTE Axon 7.

They do use the same one - inch aluminum dome tweeter and one of the same 6.5 - inch composite glass - fiber cone drivers as their larger Ultra Tower brothers, which certainly look like nice, modern, and high performance.

As an antidote to all the suits pontificating from their glass towers, we visited a Sichuan mining farm for a frontline report on the troubles facing China's miners.

As Toronto's skyline continues to be transformed by the explosion of new high - rise construction, observers will be watching to see if the glossy image of these new towers is maintained or whether cascading glass balconies and watery suites will give rise to a significant spike in litigation related to high - rise construction deficiencies.

The glass tower will feature 114 guest rooms including 26 suites, as well as 61 private residences ranging from one - to four - bedrooms, including four full - floor units and a five - bedroom penthouse duplex with an outdoor terrace.

Lincoln is very familiar with the granite and glass tower — the Dallas - based firm owned it before selling the asset in 2007 to Brickman Associates, which kept Lincoln on as property manager and leasing agent.

This 31 - story tower features virtually column - free floor plates enabling efficient office layouts, as well as floor - to - ceiling glass and a 12 ″ raised floor system throughout, allowing air and power distribution from beneath the floor.

Constructed in 1899 by contractor George E. Starrett for his wife, the home features an octahedral dome atop the tower that acts as a solar calendar, with ruby - colored glass casting a red glow inward as the seasons change.