Sentences with phrase «skyscraper which»

The 16 - square blocks in the Downtown district feature Victorian buildings alongside skyscrapers which together, offer an interesting visual.

«Now, I live in New York, with an intimate understanding of the escape the Park provides — from noise, pollution, density, and looming skyscrapers which only occasionally permit a glimpse of the sky,» she writes.

Not exact matches

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

(The average skyscraper has about 50 floors; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fully explains which job titles get the «executive / senior officials and managers» designation in a footnote here.)

This 1,070 - foot - tall office skyscraper, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, will become the centerpiece of the San Francisco Transbay redevelopment plan, which contains a mix of office, transportation, retail, and residential uses.

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).

This 62 - story skyscraper, which will house 83 luxury condos, was designed by the late Pritzker Prize - winning architect Zaha Hadid.

Sites such as F - Squared Investments, which allows investors to purchase farmland, and Prodigy Network, which raised $ 171.8 million to build a skyscraper that Forbes says will be Bogota, Colombia's tallest building, are constantly popping up in the industry.

The landmarks were replaced by the Abraj al - Bait complex, which included the Mecca Royal Clock Tower, six skyscrapers, and a large shopping mall developed in partnership with foreign hotel chains.

However, I've decorated a couple cakes with chocolate shards before, which gave me the idea of creating skyscrapers out of chocolate or candy melts.

Some of last season's favorites: jet skiing in Maui, an ultimate Frisbee tournament and base jumping, which is parachuting off skyscrapers and bridges — all to the sounds of various artists» rap, hip - hop and rock music.

The modifications, unveiled at a press briefing Thursday, would allow St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, and Central Synagogue, which together own millions of square feet in air - rights, to sell those rights to developers seeking to build skyscrapers not immediately adjacent to the religious buildings, a stipulation normally required by city law.

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.

In Japan alone there are 797 skyscrapers over 100 metres tall, around 150 of which will be between 30 and 40 years old in the next decade, says Ichihara.

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.

There are now about 1,000 pairs of peregrines in the lower 48 states, not a few of which are nesting on skyscrapers rather than cliffs; New York alone has 15 pairs.

That flying sensation, for one, results from this year's introduction of Google Earth, which not only maps terrain and finds routes and addresses but allows flightlike movement over three - dimensional landscapes, from the Grand Canyon to the skyscraper chasms of Manhattan.

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.

Taking an inspiration from an architecture does not neccessarily mean very popular (on the Parisian catwalk) skyscraper shapes but the colour palette and mood which is not always that obvious.

I am wearing the A400 Skyscraper tights here, which provide core support and really smooth everything over.

My sister and I decided to visit Au Sommet, which is Montreal's Observation Deck, and the second tallest skyscraper in Montreal.

There's a terrific scene that is just this side of ridiculous, in which the primatologist and a concerned scientist, played by Naomie Harris, are atop a skyscraper that's about to collapse.

Such is the case with «A Sound of Thunder,» a trivial sci - fi thriller in which Edward Burns can barely muster an excited yell even when he is leaping from a skyscraper.

A teen girl is connected to scanning cables and she shouts at a woman behind a glass wall, pulls loose and runs through shattering glass, unharmed; as the girl reaches the woman, the woman dissolves into silver confetti and the girl flies out a crumbling skyscraper, falls past skyscrapers that fill the screen with crumbling concrete and she hits the pavement, which breaks into pieces.

Though barbs bounce off it like giant lizards off a Wakandan force field, one criticism has stuck: that the studio is loath to kill off characters with the potential to generate revenue ad infinitum, which means that nothing ever seems at stake except skyscrapers assembled from ones and zeros.

Directed by Brad Peyton, who has wreaked cinematic havoc around Johnson in «San Andreas» and «Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,» «Rampage» expands the narrative of the retro game, which involved a giant gorilla, wolf and crocodile crunching skyscrapers into dust.

Describing a scene in which Emma is sitting enjoying a meal at the top of a skyscraper when the earthquake hits, director Brad Peyton says, «We literally travel with Emma, with no cuts, through a collapsing building.

The film opens with a mission atop a skyscraper in which the agents try to thwart a pair of Eastern European criminal siblings, one of whom (Til Schweiger) gets away.

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.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, is about a billionaire vigilante who picks a fight with a superpowered alien for accidentally toppling one of his skyscrapers.

The wow factor arrives early, with a bait - and - switch prologue: Dark wizards flee what looks like an ancient Shaolin temple, only to emerge into the blinding daylight of contemporary Manhattan, which the hooded figure on their tail then folds inward, altering the direction of gravity's pull and transforming skyscrapers into giant, rotating gears.

The Skyscraper trailer will debut on Sunday during the Super Bowl, at which point we'll get a full look at this actioner.

He flies over devastated landmarks, walks atop the buried buildings of New York City (which, conveniently enough, is interred up to the observation deck of its iconic skyscraper), and recalls the story of the final football game played in the rubble of a stadium.

The Skulls (PG - 13) The ridiculous implausibilities stack up into a skyscraper in Rob Cohen's laughable thriller in which Joshua Jackson stars as a college student who's recruited into a campus secret society — one that he quickly wants out of once he gets wind of their shady affairs.

If it doesn't fit the character as Fitzgerald plainly intends, the characterization is at least in line with the movie's simpler pleasures, which amount to taking in the polish of well - designed sets (Daisy's introduction in a room drenched in flowing white curtains is particularly memorable) and the sheen of the computer - generated ones (The sight of the city's skyscrapers being constructed in a sweeping pullback shot is a doozy, while Gatsby's race through city streets in his custom roadster shows the movie's occasional technological limits).

This year we got a supersized look at the sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as well as a first look at the new Dwayne Johnson actioner Skyscraper, which finds The Rock going all Die Hard and attempting to safe his family from a burning building — which happens to be the tallest building in the world.

«Sully» is not a documentary, though when it departs from the melodrama of the actual flight including Sully's nightmare of an aircraft crashing into a New York skyscraper, we are left with testimony at a hearing, a kind of modern Caine Mutiny Court Martial, which appears headed to strip the man of his glory.

Some of which are man made - the incredible megacities, filled with life and skyscrapers, the incredibly efficient bullet trains, and a hotel that has been in the same family for over 1,300 years.

Today it is built up with skyscrapers that hem the Creek (the natural sea - water inlet which cuts through the heart of old Dubai) and five star hotels that overlook the beach.

When it opened in 1960, Copenhagen's Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, as it is now called, was the talk of town as much for being the city's first skyscraper, as for its top - to - toe design — which included everything from the exterior of the façade to the furnishings and cutlery — by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.

Experience a unique beauty of Dubai from Dubai Marina Walk (skyscrapers) which is called small Manhattan where you will find an ideal living lifestyle.

You'll walk through vintage row houses which lead way to modern city skyscrapers.

Vietnam is home to the biggest cave in the world, the Son Doong Cave, which is large enough to fit a 40 - story skyscraper.

Its many skyscrapers give it a larger - than - life feel, which reminds one of New York City.

Radisson Blu is further growing the European portfolio — recent highlights include the very first Radisson Blu hotel in Madrid, and flagship of the year 2010 will be the Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow which is scheduled to open in May: Also known as «Hotel Ukraina» the building is part of Stalin's legendary Soviet skyscrapers «Seven Sisters» and will offer 506 luxurious rooms and suites as well as 38 apartments, world class restaurants including dinner river cruise boats, and a unique art collection featuring 1,200 original paintings by leading Russian artists of the early XX.

Not many people know that Panama City, apart from the skyscrapers, also has a historical district called Casco Viejo which is an equivalent of an «Old Town».

Numerous gardens and parks give a pleasant, open feel to the city, whose skyline mixes elegant spires with dazzling modern skyscrapers, which dwarf the elegant Victorian - era buildings that are dotted along leafy streets.

Amidst office blocks, shopping malls and skyscrapers you'll discover historic treasures such as Gandan Khiid, a beautiful Buddhist monastery built in the late nineteenth century, and the Winter Palace of Mongolia's last king, Jebtzun Damba Hutagt VIII, which is now a museum featuring a large collection of stuffed animals.

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

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.