Sentences with phrase «highest skyscrapers»

This is a city where nothing is done by halves, and its futuristic skyline is dotted with some of the highest skyscrapers on earth.

I have some reservations about cable technology that would enable continuous lifts in a 1 - kilometre - high skyscraper (15 June, p 23).

The area boasts some notable buildings, including the Unicredit tower, the highest skyscraper in Italy and the Torre Diamante.

Surfers can brave 80 foot - high skyscraper - sized waves at Jaws on the north shore.

You could pay 20 bucks to get a view of Melbourne from the Eureka Tower, the city's highest skyscraper, or you could just use the 35th floor public toilet in the Sofitel hotel...

Check out third person shooter in the great megalopolis with top high skyscrapers and military base.

David Chipperfield Architects is set to build a 230 - metre - high skyscraper on the River Elbe in Hamburg, expected to become the city's tallest building.

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There are currently 147 skyscrapers and high - rises under construction in Canada's biggest city.

Shanghai, population 24 million - plus, houses in more than 120 skyscrapers 500 feet or higher the offices and regional headquarters for dozens of major global and Chinese firms.

But if building skyscrapers and yelling on TV can prepare you to ascend to the highest office in the land, why not running a global communications company?

Construction is under way for Spire London which will be the highest residential skyscraper in western Europe.

Those were the words of Martha Stewart as she tapped out a tweet in Shanghai at 5:26 a.m. Tuesday, snapping a photo of skyscrapers stretching high above the Chinese metropolis that's now become one of her newest retail markets.

The dragon - shaped Shanghai Tower is the final skyscraper in the Lujiazui financial district's high - rise trilogy.

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.

Chicago's Other High - Rise Inhabitants Might Surprise You - DNAinfo.com Chicago - May 26, 2016 Celeste Troon, Curator and Director of Living Collections at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, said a wide variety of wildlife besides bugs hangs out on skyscrapers, apartment buildings and other multifloor buildings

These incredible images from the September 7, 1907, show workers installing the steel beams crucial to the skyscraper's stability in high winds.

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

After Tokyo was shaken by earthquakes in March 2011, the prominent billionaire property developer Akira Mori called for the country to stop building skyscrapers over 100 metres high.

The new technique developed by researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is a major advancement in the study of these skyscraper - high internal waves that rarely break the ocean surface.

Large structures like skyscrapers, bridges, and highway overpasses are sensitive to low frequency shaking, whereas smaller structures like homes are more likely to be damaged by high frequency shaking, which ranges from 2 to 10 hertz and above.

Where else at CES could you see a two - by - two grid of higher - than - HD - quality monitors display a rotating 3 - D image of a skyscraper, folded protein or brain slice?

And that means higher risk for long bridges and skyscrapers, which are more vulnerable to the long - period seismic waves released by very large quakes, Field says.

We love our riding boots, but there is something so irresistible about a sleek pair of skyscraper knee - highs in camel.

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Its stiletto heel is feminine and since it's not skyscraper high, it's comfortable.

With the divorce rate higher then most skyscrapers I have seen, it is a good idea to date within your faith.

Here is a movie about a man whose life was defined by a daring, unprecedented and now un-repeatable artistic feat (transforming boxy skyscrapers into a stage high above North America's largest city) and who achieved that feat by trusting in his training and bravery and will.

In one of the film's best scenes, he takes Stahl to a top floor in an empty skyscraper, where the two of them get high and throw themselves repeatedly against the shatterproof plate - glass windows.

«Furious 7» (2015) Box Office Take: $ 1,154 billion * (and climbing, still on release) 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 6 (may go higher) Vin Diesel and Paul Walker driving that billionaire's Lykan out of one Abu Dhabi skyscraper, 100 floors up, and into another for the second time, might be the platonic ideal of the «Fast & Furious» action scene — it is ludicrous, it defies both probability and physics, it involves insanely expensive kit and it happens more than once.

The production design, too, is glorious: Tomorrowland itself, with its Buck Rogers fashion and skyscraper - high swimming pools, is a triumph of digital world - building.

As glorious music reminiscent of «The Lion King» swells, we see a stunning and gorgeous world, from the outlying countryside to the bustling main city, with skyscrapers reaching to the heavens, pristine waterfalls, and even a nifty high - speed elevated rail system.

A new waterfront Chicago skyscraper opened in 2014 despite widespread complaints about the 20 - foot - high sign bearing his name.

A new society has been built by a hand of ruthless opportunists, who live in luxury in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the less fortunate citizens who must eke out a hard life on the streets below.

Despite its»80s high school allusions, Central Intelligence frolics happily in the nostalgia of the 1990s, reminiscing about Budweiser's «Wassup» adverts and featuring a soundtrack that opens with En Vogue's «My Lovin» and plays Blur's «Song 2» along to a vigorous action sequence which sees the pair crash out of a skyscraper in a mail cart.

Skyscrapers sit next to rondavel huts; street trolleys run under high - speed magnetized trains.

«Skyscraper Escape» (formerly «Crystal Inferno») with Claire Forlani and Jamie Bamber found the room at High Octane Pictures while «Siberia» from director Matthew Ross and stars Keanu Reeves and Molly Ringwald will be distributed by Saban Films.

In «Lift,» his new drama of suspense that begins performances on April 10 atCrossroads Theater Company in New Brunswick, the writer traps two strangers within an urban nightmare: Inside a damaged elevator that is stuck high up in a burning skyscraper.

Even today, no skyscraper must go higher than the cross on Mount Royal.

Sydney's CBD has a high concentration of skyscrapers dominating the city skyline.

Donald Trump's curving skyscraper in Panama City should do the trick — with a deep - soak tub and high thread count included.

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

Dubai City's glittering skyline is dominated by the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, which has offers stunning views from its sky - high observation deck.

Get an exhilarating view of Boston with a helicopter tour that takes you soaring high above the city's iconic rivers, harbor, skyscrapers, parks, universities and bridges.

Sit back and relax as you ride through a neighborhood known to the locals as «skyscraper city» — an area comprising Dubai Marina with its swanky lit - up yachts, and Jumeirah Lakes Towers, home to 79 high - rise towers set around artificial lakes.

THE «IT» FACTOR As the hotel occupies some of the highest floors of the 72 - storey skyscraper, it provides spectacular 360 - degree views of London.

When thinking of a break in New York, it is usually the skyscrapers and high - end shopping of downtown Manhattan that spring to mind.

Enjoy a fantastic 8 hours tour in Dubai by visiting the world's tallest tower Burj Khalifa which is 828 meters high and have a lovely dinner at the Armani hotel which is one of the most luxury hotels in Dubai where you can watch the beautiful fountain shows every 30 minutes, ride on a traditional boat for 30 minutes inside Dubai Marina which has more than 200 skyscrapers before you drive the 8th wonder of the world the Palm Island to take pictures for the Atlantis hotel and stop at 7 * hotel for pictures from outside (Burj Al Arab) hotel.

Due to its high concentration of skyscrapers the majority of accommodation options in Brisbane tend to be in full service hotel.

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.

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.