Sentences with phrase «tallest skyscraper in»

I am a native Chicagoan and remember when the Prudential Building was the tallest skyscraper in the city!

Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey), billionaire businessman and soon - to - be owner of the tallest skyscraper in the northern hemisphere, is a -LSB-...]

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

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.

The 68 - storey Scotia Plaza, the second - tallest skyscraper in Canada, is one of the country's most prestigious addresses, and the last of the city's soaring bank towers still owned by its anchor occupant.

Most law firms are located in office buildings of various sizes, ranging from modest one - story buildings to some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world (though only in 2004, Paul Hastings was the first firm to put its name on a skyscraper).

Not exact matches

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.

Skyspace LA, the tallest open - air observation deck in California, features an all - glass slide that cascades down the side of the US Bank Tower skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles.

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

Dubbed the «Jenga Tower,» this 58 - story skyscraper designed by Rhode: Partners will be Austin's tallest building when complete in late 2018.

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.

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.

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 AsiIn 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 Asiin Asia.

Local Photographer Turns Lens to Birds That Crashed into Skyscrapers - Chicago Tonight - February 26, 2016 A yearlong exhibit highlighting the dangers of being a bird in a city with many tall buildings opened this month at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Trump's tale about why he took $ 150,000 in 9/11 money is as tall as the Downtown skyscraper he says he used in recovery efforts, according to government records.

After 50 cycles of harmonic vibration — skyscrapers swaying rhythmically from side to side in giddy wobbles — dozens of tall buildings have shed most of their glass.

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 IchiharIn 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 Ichiharin the next decade, says Ichihara.

Maybe there are a lot more monster black holes out there that don't live in a skyscraper in Manhattan, but in a tall building somewhere in the Midwestern plains.»

But there was a time when space travel kindled grandiose visions in scientists» minds, when rockets were as tall as skyscrapers and an unmanned mission seemed a failure of nerve.

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 those who prefer not to watch Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson defend a skyscraper from terrorists — «it's «Die Hard,» with a taller building,» was the pitch — there will be brainy, thoughtful and cinematically challenging films released this summer as well, covered in Carla Meyer's indie movie preview.

Mushrooms taller than skyscrapers dot landscapes to the east, while wood and stone marvels of engineering are being constructed in the marshy coastal lands to the south.

On assignment in China, where the world's tallest skyscraper has been built, the building is set ablaze with Ford framed for the crime.

The Reputation tour stage itself is a thing of wonder: a 110 - foot - tall structure resembling a skyscraper in progress, with six crane - like contraptions stretching up above a wedge - like screen that functions as video display and framing device.

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.

Standing 1776 ft. tall, the skyscraper will have a ceremony marking its official opening later in the month.

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 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.

The city's glittering horizon boasts the tallest manmade structure in New Zealand, Sky Tower — an otherworldly skyscraper featuring 50 - mile views in every direction on a clear day.

It's true, as I found out a few weeks ago, the famed Star Ferry, servicing cross-harbor trips in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor since 1880, costs under $ 1 and offers one of the most spectacular views in the world (if multi-colored, mind - boggingly tall skyscrapers set against the backdrop of a verdant, steep mountainside is your idea of picturesque that is).

It's true, as I found out a few weeks ago, the famed Star Ferry, servicing cross-harbor trips in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor since 1880, costs under $ 1 and offers one of the most spectacular views in the world (if multi-colored, mind - boggingly tall skyscrapers set against the backdrop of a verdant, steep mountainside is your idea -LSB-...]

The Shard: Visit this 95 - storey skyscraper (the tallest building in the U.K.) for one of the best views of the city!

Bigger, Better, Best in Dubai Top 5 Tallest Dubai Skyscrapers Q&A with Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority

You can also enjoy a tour through the so - called Skyscraper City and admire the 79 towers of Jumeirah Lakes Towers before enjoying the fantastic panoramic view from the tallest building in the world — the Burj Khalifa.

Enjoy a fantastic 8 hours tour in Dubai by visiting the world's tallest tower Burj Khalifa which is 828 meters high and have a lovely dinner at the Armani hotel which is one of the most luxury hotels in Dubai where you can watch the beautiful fountain shows every 30 minutes, ride on a traditional boat for 30 minutes inside Dubai Marina which has more than 200 skyscrapers before you drive the 8th wonder of the world the Palm Island to take pictures for the Atlantis hotel and stop at 7 * hotel for pictures from outside (Burj Al Arab) hotel.

Admire the magnificent skyline of Dubai and marvel at the 200 skyscrapers and tall buildings that have been built in the Dubai Marina since 2003 which make the new district a real attraction due to their striking architecture.

As you can see from the video, EA had designed a fairly ok open - world Metropolis, which in turn has created more issues, like crashing into buildings, I remember playing this game and it was quite fun, but the number of times I was trying to navigate the streets to the waypoint but just kept crashing into the tall skyscrapers.

During the course of the 20th century, no less than 8 different skyscrapers in New York held the title of the world \'s tallest building.

One level in particular seems to have been the game's downfall: Tower City, an arena roughly modeled on New York City and featuring tall skyscrapers as the area's main obstacles.

The tallest building in New York City in 1859, this first «skyscraper» was also the first building to be designed with a rolled iron I - beam infrastructure and the first to house an elevator shaft top to bottom, although the passenger car and conveyance system for such a shaft had not yet been developed.

In the summer of 2008, Burden's 65 - foot - tall (20 m) skyscraper made of one million Erector set parts, titled What My Dad Gave Me, stood in front of Rockefeller Center, New York CitIn the summer of 2008, Burden's 65 - foot - tall (20 m) skyscraper made of one million Erector set parts, titled What My Dad Gave Me, stood in front of Rockefeller Center, New York Citin front of Rockefeller Center, New York City.

[38] Also, the New Museum decided to have Twin Quasi-Legal Skyscrapers (2013), two 36 - foot - tall towers created for the museum's retrospective on Burden, remain on the institution's roof for several months in tribute.

A remarkable photographic project which documents five years in the lives of the inhabitants of Ponte City, an iconic Johannesburg landmark and the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa, will have its only UK showing at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this winter.

David Chipperfield Architects is set to build a 230 - metre - high skyscraper on the River Elbe in Hamburg, expected to become the city's tallest building.

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 iIn 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 iin the 1970's fears closure as construction on the country's tallest skyscraper begins next to it.

When Marcel Breur put the curves into Bauhaus furniture, whether he admitted it or not, he wasn't sticking entirely to the accepted wisdom handed down via Adolph Loos, who got it and adapted it from its original source the American architect, Louis Sullivan, responsible for establishing the shape of the tall steel - framed skyscraper in Chicago, that «form follows function».

[21] Kandor 10A (2010), a yellow city housed in a hand - blown, pink glass bottle, is a grouping of tall skyscrapers situated within a full - scale rock grotto.

U2 is having big problems with the 32 - storey skyscraper that it wants to build, which will be the tallest building in Dublin and all of Ireland.

In design, things got big (Chicago gets the tallest women - designed skyscraper!)

Of course, in a city like Chicago, a rooftop restaurant means dining very high — among the tallest skyscrapers — with a view of the city lights at night.