Sentences with phrase «skyscraper construction»

Earl's architects, LA / NY based Freeland Buck, applied computational methods usually reserved for skyscraper construction to the restaurant's interior details, as in this alpine inspired design that runs along the wall of the space.

One of the times I got caught was in a skyscraper construction site, I was wearing full body woodland camo and a bandana, the security guard just gave me a puzzled look then directed me towards the gate in the 12ft perimeter fence where he let me out.

But when he documents a skyscraper construction site a little too thoroughly Homeland Security are called.

According to bubble spotter Vikram Mansharamani, the Salesforce Tower and other skyscraper construction sites in San Francisco are indicative that we are in a bubble.

But the hybrid design may itself represent a breakthrough for a market - driven project — moving beyond the us - versus - them dichotomy and simply incorporating wood into skyscraper construction for all the right reasons.

Not exact matches

Currently under construction, the skyscraper has a very unusual shape, and is often referred to as «Jenga Tower» by locals.

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.

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

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

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

Trippe's status as one of America's most admired businessmen was secured in 1963 when construction was completed on the Pan Am Building, a skyscraper located astride Park Avenue in Manhattan, just behind Grand Central Station.

In the March 2011 version of his paper entitled «Tower Building and Stock Market Returns», Gunter Löffler relates construction of record - breaking skyscrapers to future stock market returns.

«Just as further innovation in elevator construction was required before today's skyscrapers could dot the skyline, so too will opportunities in space mature because of access and falling launch costs.»

Rinaldo forces Charlie to accompany him, and they drive to a skyscraper under construction on Michigan Boulevard.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has reached a deal to end an $ 87 million payment dispute with a Canadian construction firm that helped build the One World Trade Center skyscraper in lower Manhattan.

After years of delays and stagnation, construction is now moving forward at a dizzying pace, as 3,500 workers each day build two skyscrapers, a train station, a memorial and a museum.

After the August 2007 Deutsche Bank fire, three construction supervisors were charged with manslaughter for creating unsafe conditions in the toxic skyscraper that led to the deaths of two firefighters, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia.

He has even designed a contour crafter that climbs, allowing the construction of skyscrapers.

When inserted into the body, stem cells latch onto the structure and differentiate into cells that start to build bone, much as construction workers assemble walls, floors, and glass around a skyscraper's steel girders.

There's also a set with submarines on the front and a plaid pattern in orange, navy and green on the back, as well as a set with construction vehicles and tall skyscrapers on the front with gray and white triangles on the back.

For example, a student's questions about the construction of tall buildings quickly transformed the block area in our classroom into a place to investigate and test the children's theories about building skyscrapers.

In 2003, Retirement Systems of Alabama began restoration of the hotel, along with the construction of an adjoining skyscraper office building, which also includes additional hotel rooms on its lower floors, the RSA Battle House Tower.

Called «roaring» for a reason, the 1920s brought a surge of prosperity to NYC — the height of the Jazz Age, the birth of the Broadway musical, the construction of skyline - defining art deco skyscrapers and the dawn of a new era of urban development.

While that in itself is a bother, especially when missions are set quite far apart, when it really starts to hurt is when you complete a mission with not enough items and have to start the entire game, again... Example, Adam has just climbed a skyscraper that is only half built, with scaffolding and construction equipment littering the site.

The next Call of Duty Elite Content Drop for Premium Members on the PlayStation Network is scheduled to land on March 29 with the release of Overwatch, a multiplayer map that drops players into a construction site atop a New York City skyscraper.

Call of Duty Elite Drop 3: Overwatch drops you into a construction site atop a New York City skyscraper.

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 Cconstruction 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 ConstructionConstruction.

Construction and project management consultancy Atkins sought a partnership with an art consultant when furnishing one of the most prestigious skyscraper developments in downtown Dubai.

Some return and some find a place in the city working in construction on skyscrapers.

The photographs of Alfred Stieglitz function in the similar fashion; they capture the construction sights of the skyscrapers, the cathedrals of modern times.

In a twenty - year career cut short by his death at age 42, he painted the rapidly growing modern city — its bustling crowds, skyscrapers, and awe - inspiring construction projects, as well as its bruising boxers, street urchins, and New Yorkers both hard at work and enjoying their leisure.

Therefore, the exhibition reflects the dynamism and «copy and paste aspect» of London: dramatic steel constructions stand alongside delicate canvas pieces, just like the silver skyscrapers and sandstone buildings which make up The City.

«Empire State Building»: a fitting answer for an artist whose oeuvre displays her interest and fascination with construction, architecture, large - scale sculpture and the New York skyscraper.

On the tonier West side, amid downtown's skyscrapers, sits the so - called MOCA Grand Ave, just across from the still - under - construction museum to be known as the Broad.

Painting, assemblages, and skyscraper - like constructions have all found a place in her work.

A construction worker looks up at One World Trade Center in New York City, the central skyscraper under construction at Ground Zero, a year before its 2013 completion.

In the city center, a cinema hall from the 1950's is burnt down by an outraged mob protesting a video posted on the internet; an amusement park built in the 1970's fears closure as construction on the country's tallest skyscraper begins next to it.

The strong emphasis on the construction and implementation of advanced technologies such as skyscrapers, airplanes, and trains allowed the photographer to capture the ways in which land and space were being conquered and transformed through new state initiatives.

«If you look at business magazines from the «50s, for example Fortune Magazine, the advertising features a lot of skyscrapers, which are always stepped... the ziggurat came to represent the future, the strength of progress and technological change and the male power of construction.»

UN Studio, working with engineer and architect Werner Sobek, has begun construction on an interesting new supertall skyscraper in Dubai.

In the late 1980s Maathai led a courageous fight against the construction of a skyscraper scheduled for construction in the middle of Uhuru park, Nairobi's most important public space.

# 9 Build a skyscraper... «Almost everything about the Bank of America tower, a soaring skyscraper under construction near Times Square in New York City, has been designed to minimize the use of energy.»

It can happen on construction sites, in factories, power plants, oil refineries, buildings, skyscrapers and large monuments, such as bridges, while working with faulty scaffolding, unstable ladders, or falling off of roofs.

• Highly industrious Construction Laborer, seeking a position with the Skyscrapers.

Construction work is a pretty general term, as it applies to industries ranging from Arctic drilling for oil, to building mega skyscrapers in exotic locations like Dubai.

With 130 projects, the city heads a ranking compiled by Emporis, a provider of building data, of the North American cities with the most skyscrapers and high - rises currently under construction.

Nowhere else in North America are more high - rises and skyscrapers under construction, according to the latest figures from Emporis, a buildings database based in Germany.

(Bloomberg)-- SL Green Realty Corp. expects to get a construction loan by the end of September for One Vanderbilt, the office skyscraper it's planning near midtown Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the company's president...

A joint venture with China's SMI USA to build the $ 3 billion skyscraper on Manhattan's Billionaires» Row comes with a deadline: If a construction loan isn't obtained by May 24, SMI can require Extell to buy out its stake in the partnership — about $ 300 million — with interest.

Despite the economic downturn, The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) says 2008 was the single most successful year for tall building construction in history, both in terms of skyscrapers built and average height achieved.