Sentences with phrase «many newer skyscraper»

Around that time, the city poured millions into the construction of sleek new skyscrapers, thoughtful cultural centers, and sprawling green parks to modernize its downtown district.

Property values in Terminal City soared when construction began on new skyscrapers — the tallest towers in the world — in the area around Grand Central.

She uses as an illustration the fact that foundations for new skyscrapers in Southern California are placed on rollers, enabling them to roll with the movements of the earth during an earthquake so that they won't crack apart.

Mayor Bloomberg came out in strong support Tuesday of a massive new skyscraper slated to be built just two blocks from the iconic Empire State Building.

Related and the city envision the 26 - acre site, currently an MTA - owned rail yard, to be a massive new neighborhood, composed of new skyscrapers and about 13 million square feet of commercial and residential space.

The Port Authority, which owns the World Trade Center site, has committed to meet or exceed all city safety codes in the new skyscrapers, a spokesman said.

The rezoning of a five - block Area Surrounding Vanderbilt Avenue near Grand Central Station was approved by the City Council last month to allow for One Vanderbilt, SL Green Realty's proposed new skyscraper.

New skyscraper boasts the largest commercial «blackwater» recycling system in the US, delivering a 76 per cent reduction in its water footprint

As cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle's camera zips and darts through slum alleyways and soars to the heights of Mumbai's thrusting new skyscrapers, the vitality of modern India bursts from the screen.

From creating a huge origami boat, constructing a new skyscraper, or designing an aeroplane, so many things we travel on, live in or use in our everyday lives involve engineering.»

Expand on this day - long lesson by including the many newer skyscraper choices in China and the United Arab Emirates.

In 1897, one such collector, a Chicago insurance magnate, sponsors an expedition into the South Seas to commemorate the completion of his company's new skyscraper - the world's tallest building.

Every action has a reaction, and all those new skyscrapers and restoration projects in Casco Viejo are reactions to the expansion of the Panama Canal.

A breathtaking view of the city's new metropolitan face and on the new skyscraper, symbol of Milan.

Guests enter W Panama on the 15th floor of the striking new skyscraper and are immediately greeted by playfully modern design.

Arriving back to the UAE after five or six weeks away, we'd look out of the window of the car on the way home from the airport and point out all of the things that had changed in the time we'd been gone; a new skyscraper would've started construction on what used to be an empty sandlot, or a complex of villas had been flattened to make way for a hotel, or what used to be small roundabout was now on its way to becoming a spaghetti junction,» says British photojournalist Alex Atack, the man behind this series, Under Construction.

The 50 - storey building is a tourist attraction intended to focus attention on the architecture of both the old city and its gleaming new skyscrapers.

For many years, the Art Deco building that was demolished recently for a new skyscraper on the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street was adorned with several of Katz's very bland and unattractive women.

The faces were finally removed, fortunately, but unfortunately the pylon and low - rise building are now being replaced by a new skyscraper for Reuters.

Speaking of his series, Matteo said: «In Angola, the contrast between the new growth and the old poverty is striking, such as the one between the «Marginal» of Luanda, the seafront symbol of a capital that dreams of becoming the new Dubai and the «Musseques», the quarters of misery that are being demolished to build new skyscrapers, now as bare as skeletons.

Citadel last week signed a lease for about 200,000 square feet in a new skyscraper on Park Avenue.

Bird's Eye View: Haikou V (2002) shows a woman — perhaps an outsider or a new arrival to the city — perched on an old wall, looking toward the new skyscrapers on the horizon, but not fully occupying the space of the past or the future.

Do I have to show up at the front door of the Times» new skyscraper with a sign that politely pleads for better coverage?

When we send money to foreign countries to buy nearly 70 percent of the oil we use every day, they build new skyscrapers and we lose jobs.

I do think that New York City is a city of skyscrapers; that it's self - defeating for any city of skyscrapers to stop building such things; and that if you're going to be building new skyscrapers, you're never going to bat 1000.

Across the street is one of London's newest skyscrapers, Heron Tower, home of McDermott Will & Emery, among others; and the Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe.

With brand - new skyscrapers opening and companies seeking to pack more workers into less space, New York landlords are having to work harder to lure and keep tenants.

Related: Step inside One Park Drive — London's newest skyscraper from the architects behind the Tate Modern extension

Not exact matches

In a bruising five - hour session, the FBI director also knocked down Trump's claim that his predecessor had wiretapped his New York skyscraper, an assertion that has distracted White House officials and frustrated fellow Republicans who acknowledge they've seen no evidence to support it.

New York City has a laundry list of alluring superlatives; it's home to the tallest skyscrapers, boasts the best food scene, offers the most luxurious shopping, and is a nexus of the arts.

We look in awe at China's cities, with their shimmering skyscrapers, and the claim that another 10 New Yorks must be built over the next two decades to accommodate the country's surging middle class.

By the early 1930s, the area along 42nd Street, directly north and south of Grand Central had become known as the «Valley of the Giants,» home to three of New York City's six tallest skyscrapers: Walter Chrysler's silver spire, real estate king Irwin Chanin's eponymous building across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News Building.

In one year alone — 1927 — 30 skyscrapers were built in Wilgus» new Midtown, a record that still stands.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a speech outlining his vision for tax reform at his skyscraper on Fifth Avenue on September 28, 2015 in New York City.

Selling a skyscraper isn't the same as selling a retail storefront, explains George Carras, who runs research company RealNet Canada (though there is one comparison to selling a family home; the tower will likely be «fluffed» for visits by bidders, which could involve anything from new lobby furniture to removing condensation from windows).

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 tech billionaire's new property boasts six - bedrooms, six bathrooms, and 10,923 - square - feet inside the One57 skyscraper on West 57th Street, south of Central Park.

IN THE skyscraper that is Bank of America's New York headquarters, the chief executive, Brian Moynihan, looks relaxed.

The tip above is from Brian's post on how a relatively new blog received thousands of readers using something called the Skyscraper Technique.

None of those basic elements have altered, and they can be found in invoices that have impressed into clay in Mesopotamia, brushed onto bamboo strips in Qin dynasty China, and typed on keyboards in offices in the skyscrapers of New York.

One of the owners of the skyscraper tells the Chicago Tribune that for now the building will be known as 875 N. Michigan Ave. while a new naming rights deal is sought.

The fourth - tallest skyscraper in New York, Bank of America Tower, was finished in 2009, a short jaunt along 42nd Street from JPMorgan Chase's property.

Though in a world of skyscrapers and office towers churches are no longer so prominent, the public role of church buildings to sacramentalize the heavenly city and redeem the earthly one remains critically important and demands new and compelling expression.

Along with the site of a giant ball descending down a skyscraper - perched poll and possible glimpses of Ryan Seacrest, New Year's Eve revelers were treated to another interesting site in Times Square this year.

Along with the site of a giant ball descending down a skyscraper - perched poll and possible glimpses of Ryan Seacrest, New Year's Eve revelers were treated to another interesting site in...

I was on my way to school that day, listening to the radio in my car, when the announcer said that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers in New York and destroyed the majestic skyscrapers.

In May, the skyscraper was lit blue and white to call attention to the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York's Salute to Israel Parade.

At the end of the day, this is why we have a ghastly thrill at the sight of skyscrapers tumbling, asteroids annihilating Paris, or waves overtaking huge crowds of New Yorkers.

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.