Sentences with phrase «in gleaming skyscrapers»
Today, in Singapore's financial district, big names in the private - money world, like Credit Suisse, Julius Baer and UBS, keep offices in gleaming skyscrapers among the squat facades of century - old colonial British buildings.
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Sitting in his top - floor office suite overlooking Moscow's gleaming skyscrapers, Lebedev says he believes economic pressure will not persuade Putin to change his policies.
In cities with gleaming skyscrapers and bustling industries, the schools are too frequently ramshackle, run - down, substandard accommodations unworthy of those who seek to learn within their walls.
His gleaming, vertiginous skyscrapers, sometimes abstracted into pure shape and color, reflect a love for both painting and urban life reminiscent of the affection paid to nature in more traditional landscape painting.
They have titles like Sky, Sun, and Celestial Navigation — and they depict a surreal roof garden (in a painting by Florine Stettheimer), a gleaming Chrysler Building (in a photo by Hiroshi Sugimoto), the light on a building's face (in a video by Morgan Fisher), and lightning striking a skyscraper (in a photo by Weegee).