Sentences with phrase «of the tallest building of»

The hotel, which is yet to be named, will take over the top 15 floors of the tallest building of the development and will include around 280 rooms and suites, all with beautiful views of the city.

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Robert Baden, the CEO and president of Rochester Software Associates asks potential hires, «If I stood you next to a skyscraper and gave you a barometer, how could you figure out how tall the building was?»

The taller the building, the higher the price of that stock.

Scheduled for completion in 2017, it will dwarf the iconic Transamerica Pyramid and assume the mantle of tallest building west of the Mississippi.

The company's chairman, Riad Kamal, reveals how the world's tallest building came to be and shows CNBC some of the latest works in progress.

A Japanese company is planning to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper in Japan, with 90 percent of the building made of wooden materials.

The main building is made of 17 shipping containers that measure 8 feet wide and 9.5 feet tall.

It will have the 151m tall «twisting» Beach and Howe Tower — a residential building complete with stunning views of water and mountains — as its centerpiece.

The rezoning of 78 blocks of east midtown Manhattan was approved by the New York City Council in August, with the goal of enabling the area's aging building stock to be replaced by more modern — and taller — office towers.

Take a photo of a tall building, and you might notice that it looks a bit like it's leaning, or even warped.

The new building, which has yet to be designed, could be as much as 500 feet (150 meters) taller than the current headquarters, said the person, who asked not to be identified because details of the plans haven't been publicly disclosed.

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 Bbuilding across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News BuildingBuilding.

He also cranked out hits that didn't even yet have a place: strange, viral - worthy segments of Dave dropping things off tall buildings and dunking himself into tanks of water wearing an Alka - Seltzer suit pre-dated YouTube by 20 years.

Dubai developer Emaar Properties has unveiled details of a new record - setting tower that is expected to be the tallest building ever.

At 2,716.5 feet, Burj Khalifa — which currently holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest building — has 160 habitable levels, the most of any building in the world.

The offer is not the first move online to be made by Dubai billionaire Mohamed Alabbar, who made his name as chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai - government linked - developer of the world's tallest building.

The Emar offer was not the first online move to be made by Alabbar, who made his name as chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai government - linked developer of the world's tallest building.

Teams of brilliant content strategists in tall, fancy office buildings obsess over what they can do to make videos go viral online.

The tower is still in the planning stage, but if it is build, it will be the sixth tallest structure in the UK, and exceed the height of the tallest building, the Shard in London, by at least ten metres.

Financial News reports that Vigilant Global, a telecoms company owned by high - frequency trading firm DRW Trading, has submitted plans to build a 320 - metre tall tower to allow what it calls «a new communications point between the UK and Europe» which will have a «completely unobstructed» line of sight both optically, and for radio waves.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago - based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.

With the additional 408 feet, the building would be the tallest in the U.S. and third - tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether the spire is actually an antenna — a crucial distinction in terms of measuring the building's height.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

It's almost unnerving — there's something off, in a good way, about a metropolis with tons of tall buildings and millions of people being so peaceful.

But for many other cities, tall buildings are needed to fill a shortage of affordable, innovative and sustainable housing.

Just last June, the council voted Mississauga's iconic 50 - and 56 - storey Absolute World — the so - called Marilyn Monroe towers — the best tall buildings in the Americas and became fascinated by the extent of the building boom north of the border, says executive director Antony Wood.

Among the signatories were the chief executives of Twitter and cloud computing giant Salesforce, which recently opened the tallest building in San Francisco.

By the fall of 1929, the stock market peaked and then plunged, financially - ruining many stock investors (some of whom jumped out of tall city buildings to their deaths).

When completed, the Rainier Square skyscraper will have 720,000 square feet of office space and be the Pacific Northwest's second - tallest building.

Indianapolis has had the most high - profile wins of late, including Salesforce.com Inc.'s takeover of the state's tallest building and India - based tech giant Infosys» plan to open a U.S. headquarters at the OneAmerica Tower.

Salesforce is planning to add hundreds of high - paying technology jobs in Downtown Indianapolis, and change the name on the state's tallest building.

The company is building a 61 - story skyscraper in San Francisco, also dubbed Salesforce Tower, that will become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River when it's completed.

In a feature from the business section entitled «Les villes chinoises veulent toutes leurs gratte - ciel géants,» La Mondetakes note of the phenomenon that is the skyscraper - dense Chinese city, and specifically, the completion of Shanghai Tower, now one of the tallest buildings in Asia.

Its tall, pointed design is typical of Hindu architecture, and is highlighted by a towering, approximately 154 - foot - high (about 47 - metre - high) central building inside a large complex of individual temples.

I thought NOTHING in Washington was to be built taller than the height of the Monument?

I am sure this is exactly what Jesus wants... I know I do not agree with a lot of the ways that churches spend money, but is there really any justification of any sort whatsoever to build the world's tallest church spire?

In the book of Ester, Haman builds a «gallows» 75 feet tall upon which he wanted to hang Mordecai (Esther 5:14).

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

If someone claims that they saw superman leaping over tall buildings in a single bound today, the burden of proof would obviously lie with the ones making the claim, and not with the ones that discounted it.

We are basically disputing over a piece of toast that has the crude image of Jesus burnt into it but we go it for free on ebay — the cross by no way is perfect and its shape is bound to happen based on the nature of how really tall building collapse and their architecture with many perpendicular angles.

you might ask like a local woman did to me as I snapped a picture of the ten - foot - tall reclaimed wood logo that stood outside a historic hall in the shadow of the Tennessee capitol building.

The latest tally of fire safety checks was presented to Cabinet by Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, who has issued an urgent call for all councils to send in samples of cladding from tall buildings.

You should stand on the roof of the tallest building you know of and try and fly... just remember to wear a parachute... ok.

From the top of a tall building a brick falls on his head killing him.

A crane operator who has been working on top of the Shanghai Tower — the second tallest building in the world — won second place in the Shanghai City Photography Competition with these beautiful and terrifying images.

The Seer opens with a blur of urban lights and longings: the faster freeway, the taller building, the machines that become the objects of our affections.

If you don't believe it controls you because you are so special, please, go to the top of the tallest building without a parachute or any other means to fly or defy gravity, jump off and try to change your destined death with your free will, because you see yourself as outside that power and totally in control of your own fate.

As in most small Italian towns, the Catholic church is one of the biggest and tallest buildings in sight.

On the other hand, it builds tall buildings, produces huge quantities of goods for those who can afford them, renders travel all over the world easy, and makes life very comfortable, even luxurious, for perhaps a quarter of the world's population.

The FBI described the suspects as two Hispanic females, both approximately 5» -5» 2» tall and of medium build.