skyscraper

Mr Roberts next saw Him, in 1980, as he stood praying by a giant unfinished skyscraper in Tulsa.

You can be very impractical, envisioning a skyscraper when all that was necessary was a two-story house.

Second, the pear-shaped foundation of the Taj Mahal is similar to that of a skyscraper.

The violence erupted just as visitors began to queue up to ascend the famous New York skyscraper.

And Loc from Vietnam has this to say about her wavy skyscraper in Chicago: "If I have a chance, I would lean from one of its balconies. "

The Cannon halted rush-hour traffic as it rattled the windows of every car and skyscraper for blocks around.

Each rise of a skyscraper breaking the world record tends to be followed by an economic downturn.

In a city, a skyscraper rushes into the sky, elevators inside swiftly shuttle up and down.

Formerly independent of Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein College was the first college to be housed in a modern urban skyscraper.

means that this more than 2 million-square foot skyscraper uses half the energy and water of a typical office building.

In a city, a skyscraper rushes into the sky, elevators insideswiftlyshuttle up and down.

Things that would be perfectly reasonable to plan for a skyscraper seem a little ridiculous when you are talking about a garden.

This guy-calls himself "the Human Fly" -- climbed up this skyscraper with nothing but some big suction cups!

The tallest buildings in London are small in comparison with the skyscraper of new York.

For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very, very high skyscraper.

Therefore, a skyscraper is usually completed at the time when the economy has already entered recession.

When he perches over Gotham on the edge of a skyscraper roof, he looks more like a gargoyle than a savior.

The lift is the vertical means of transportation of the modern skyscraper, its designing requirement stability , security and high.

With a few exceptions, the technique for building a skyscraper is similar whether you are in Europe or you are in Singapore.

The Yintai Centre's main tower is Beijing's tallest and, for the moment, most expensive skyscraper.

The 104-storey skyscraper is due to be completed in 2013 and will be one of the tallest buildings in the U. S.

As testament to her environmental ardor, a grove of skyscraper-esque trees in Redwood National Park bears the name of Lady Bird Johnson.

TO THE west of the tree-lined avenues and cobblestones of Paris, the steel skeleton of a new skyscraper rises into the air.

The office on the fortieth floor of a skyscraper in the center of New York City is the world he works in.

Through them perfectly visible unique mechanism Bugatti, built on the principle of a skyscraper, although stories in it are only five.

But just like any other skyscraper, these 3-D chips have to keep the power flowing from layer to layer without overheating.

Nikolai Sutyagin, a former gangster, started this amazing wooden skyscraper as a simple two-story structure, and then he just kept building.

Many skyscraper has springed up in Shanghai since these several years ago.

Bullet-proof glass has been used on some floors of the skyscraper.

Taipei 101, also known as the Taipei Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan.

The simple question was: "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer. "

London's tiresome planning laws prevent you from knocking down your 17th-century palace and replacing it with a more functional skyscraper.

More important, the sleek ICC marks the return of the record-beating skyscraper to a city that helped spawn a global skyscraper race.

The alleged plots were against the Dallas skyscraper and a federal building in Illinois.

The memorial and a new skyscraper should be complete by 2012, but construction work will alter anniversary ceremonies before then.

And a French skyscraper climber was arrested in Moscow today after scaling the city's tallest building.

The platform would rise up and down alongside a skyscraper and pick up people trapped in high stories.

Says structural engineer Michael Ludvik, "You could literally make a skyscraper. "

With more than 400 towering buildings, Shanghai claims to be a global leader in skyscraper construction.

Everything starts from scratch, and a skyscraper is built on its foundation.

Suddenly, a top needle of a skyscraper is pressing toward him. He fails to dodge and bumps heavily on the concrete needle.

BANDS: Future bicycles, Arrows Made of Desire, Skyscraper, Bugua, Rubber Phonograph Needle.

Any kid who's ever made a paper airplane has dreamed of throwing it off a tall skyscraper to see how far it can actually fly.

"Should you really be walking around naked? " asks Jonathan, pointing out that there's another skyscraper right opposite.

Even though crops growing in a glass skyscraper will get some natural sunlight during the day, it won't be enough.

When the skyscraper is actually put into use, the economy is likely to be in deep trouble.

And it's one of the most famous buildings in the world, it was the first skyscraper.

Many experts consider the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois to be the first skyscraper.

The skyline of Chicago can be seen as the timeline of skyscraper history, which started in 1885 with the Home Insurance Building.

the work is expected to take two years . the skyscraper was designed by german architects peter schweger and sergei.

French skyscraper climber Alain Robert is known as "Spiderman" .

The hills recede into the distance and now we are in vast grasslands dotted with termite mounds, skyscraper sandcastles of the insect world.

Shouldn't the plan for your life and mine be given much greater thought than that of a mere man-inspired, steel-and-iron skyscraper?

The skyscraper dwarfs the surrounding buildings. By comparison to it, they seem puny .

The Golden Age of the skyscraper began in 1930s Chicago and New York.

Conquering an Infinite Cave There's a jungle inside Vietnam's mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. And the end is out of sight.

This skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts.

The surface of the submerged skyscraper sustains a smallforest, while the lower levels contain spaces for its inhabitants tolive and work.

In making the transition from third-world village to first-world skyscraper, Huaxi is in many ways a microcosm of China.

Steel is an integral part of a modern skyscraper.

In the past, nothing evoked the spirit of America's emerging economy like the skyscraper.

So the lift in the building disposes and planning are important, especially on the high-rise building or skyscraper.

e. g. Last night I had a nightmare about falling off the skyscraper.

Local media are reporting that Citic plans to use Z15 as the site for a gleaming 500-meter skyscraper (see artists rendition above).

Under the earthquake, wind function, the skyscraper should reduce the swing of the structure effectively respond to the request of the code.

Skyscraper is the old bungalow residence, fast and convenient behind, it shows a deeply rooted in Taipei's human and life quality.

The Shanghai building is only surpassed in height by Taiwan's Taipei 101 tower and the Burj Dubai skyscraper.

The construction of the skyscraper is going on smoothly.

The most famous Manhattan skyscraper got its name from the state. It is, of course, the Empire State Building.

Imagine yourself as an architect tasked with designing a large corporate skyscraper.

AIG has removed the words "American International Group" from its office skyscraper in Manhattan.

Peak out seven, and skyscraper highest peaks overlapping range upon range of hills, spectacular momentum.

In this approach, an entire skyscraper is dedicated to agriculture, and it doubles as a water-treatment and waste-recycling facility.

This is the Chinese version, in the hands of this tour, you are a stevedore, you have to do is to carry bricks on your skyscraper.

But now, the beautiful scene disappeared, our sight was blocked out by the skyscraper everywhere.

But the tower will exert a far greater impact on the city and perhaps on the typology of the skyscraper itself.

In June, we featured Steven Holl's latest Horizontal Skyscraper which hovers above a landscaped park in Shenzhen, China.

A vast structure of steel and glass, it is a dazzling reinvention of the skyscraper, using size not to dominate but to embrace the viewer.

With the introduction of steel frame construction, the skyscraper became possible.

Then head to the skyscraper with the giant hole at the top: the new 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center.

Elderly residents of the city could still recall the construction of the first skyscraper.

The skyscraper rears High over the neighboring buildings.

Is it the skyscraper of the future, or just a pie-in-the-sky idea?

We invented the Big Mac and the Twinkie; the freeway and the internet and the skyscraper; government and religion and law.

Earth's tallest skyscraper Burj Khalifa (height 828 m) and its gigantic shadow clearly visible even from space.

Elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper.

Funding for the project came from Vneshtorgbank, which will occupy 30 storeys of the tallest skyscraper.

"Every time we build a new skyscraper, we learn new things, " says Adrian Smith, architect of the Burj.

Bear right around the skyscraper.

Beijing architects MAD have designed a skyscraper for Chongqing, China, with gardens at each level.

Skyscraper: a tall ad or column that runs on either side of a Web pages.

The September 11 terrorist attacks exposed the vulnerability of the skyscraper, the symbol of urban society.

Ahead of the opening of their new skyscraper, the mood on the streets was optimistic.

The Viewing Skyscraper Tower in Hangzhou Leisure Expo Garden is the tallest skyscraper tower in Asia.

Gucci will open its biggest shop in February in Trump Tower, a shiny skyscraper on New York's Fifth Avenue.

Completed in 1982, this Manhattan skyscraper has a cap of symmetrical curls like those on an 18th-century Chippendale commode.

The booming city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has also joined the skyscraper race.

So which mountain peak, soaring skyscraper or towering roller coaster draws the most visitors in East Asia? Read our slideshow to find out.

Around three thousand people have held a rally in the Russian city of St Petersburg to protest about plans to build skyscraper there.

The man who builds a skyscraper to last more than forty years is, a traitor to the building trade.

In Pudong, the skyscraper district of Shanghai, office workers are calm and phlegmatic .

eg. We had a bird's eye view of the city from the top of the skyscraper.

The Saudi billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal announced this week that he wants to build a skyscraper a kilometre high.

Not only does it dwarf neighboring buildings, but it towers 1, 050 feet over the next tallest skyscraper, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan.

The tallest skyscraper was the World Trade Center.

"Not only did American invent skyscraper" , says the Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava, "it invented the skyline. "

It is not rare for a law firm to rent a skyscraper as their office.

Skyscraper Wandering in the Shanghai street, you can see many modern skyscrapers everywhere.

President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D. C. , and on came the lights in the world's tallest skyscraper.

Shiniest: Gehry's New York skyscraper, a gleaming prong of stainless steel.

COMING UP: MALAYSIA TAKES SKYSCRAPER BUILDING TO NEW HEIGHTS. . .

With his brother, he owns the skyscraper Eagle Plaza in north Beijing that houses it.

Dickson Despommier had the idea of putting a farm in a skyscraper about eight years ago.

The skyscraper, Dallas's tallest, is outlined with tubes of glowing green argon gas at night.

The skyscraper itself is composed of three towers spiraling around a central core.

And hundreds of spectators watched a French skyscraper climber scale the New York Times 52-storey building.

A skyscraper is a condensed vertical city, where stories happen on every floor.

When you see a skyscraper, turn right.

And hundreds of spectators watched a French skyscraper climber scale the New York Times 52-story building.

The skyscraper dwarfed all of the surrounding buildings.

eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Skyscraper Competition.

Taipei sees more quakes after skyscraper: geologist.

This new-type product is a kind of stretcher suitable for the skyscraper and give first aid, shift the sick and wounded.

One concept would see cable cars "docking" inside a skyscraper in Canary Wharf.

They're building a skyscraper across the street.

A steel mill's ingot goes into a sedan or a skyscraper, but not both.

But what if we could replace the hot roof of each skyscraper or building in a city with grass or a garden?

The skyscraper have been built with no. regard for us.

Every 15 minutes, its production is enough to clad a 100-story skyscraper.

Alwaleed's proposed skyscraper would shatter the record for Burj Khalifa, which opened in January 2010.

Maybe the same folks who wash skyscraper windows, the architects say.

The cathedral is dwarfed by its surrounding skyscraper.

On a vacant city block behind the SWFC (1, 614 feet), construction has begun on a rival Chinese-financed skyscraper.

Can you imagine an engineer building a tall skyscraper without a plan?

They put forward many valid reasons for not building the skyscraper.

These days, China has taken over as the skyscraper's home.

The 828 metre skyscraper includes residences, offices, a hotel and an observation deck on the 124th floor.

Cervantes Monument in the positive rear, 2 Bai Yumi is a tall skyscraper? ? House and De Madrid, Spain.

Formerly named Sears Tower, Willis Tower is a 108 story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.

The 1930s saw the peak of skyscraper construction on Fifth Avenue, with numerous high-rise buildings erected along its length.

Skyscraper: A very tall building.

They were building a skyscraper.

CIC may soon become an investor in the Citigroup building, another landmark skyscraper, which is for sale.

The skyscraper will cost an estimated $700m to build and should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.

It took him less than 30 minutes to ascend the 799-foot federation skyscraper.

Taipei, Taiwan: Fireworks explode from Taipei 101, the world's tallest completed skyscraper.

When completed, it will be the European Union's tallest skyscraper.

The skyscraper dominates the city.

Zaha Hadid, a British architect, has designed the city's first skyscraper.

For a skyscraper-sized hydroponic farm, that is clearly impractical.

We've never slept in a skyscraper before.

It took three hundred workers three years to build the skyscraper.

Actually every skyscraper has a history.

An abnormal fear of being near an object of great height, such as a skyscraper or mountain.

The skyscraper, the tallest on the Chinese mainland, also has three stories underground.

In Wang Qingsong's recent foray into video art, he captures the pith of China's overnight transformation in Skyscraper (2008).

It sure is. I can't even make out the skyscraper.

Skyscraper climber Alain Robert scaled a 33-story building in 45 minutes, in Jakarta , Indonesia.

Last November, a museum opened in Tokyo, called The Mori Museum in a skyscraper, up on the 56th floor.

The skyscraper was designed by German architects Peter Schweger and Sergei Tchoban.

I'm a thumbprint on the window of a skyscraper.

Standing on the roof of the skyscraper, we saw the boy screaming down.

A skyscraper built on a base of solid rock.

They m the continually bestufrered a skyscraper.

There stands a skyscraper on the island.

The skyscraper was soon burned down.

This is the only reason to live in Shanghai. Who wants to live in skyscraper land?

For example, sensors in a skyscraper could be powered by the normal sway of the structure.

A skyscraper is the first thing that salutes the eye.

The government is planning to build a skyscraper in the central of this city.

"Big John, " a Chicago skyscraper that opened in 1970, is an example.

Around 3, 000 people have held a rally in the Russian city of St Petersburg to protest about plans to build a skyscraper there.

Skyscraper is a mushroom in this city.

Now I am just a man pressed against the glass, on the one hundred first floor of a skyscraper my brother designed.

Emaar built the world's tallest skyscraper.

The skyscraper was wrapped in fog.

City-slickers: Have you ever worried that, at any moment, you could be struck dead by apenny flung off the roof of a nearby skyscraper?

The skyscraper interruptsour view of the river.

Want to build a skyscraper for my department Stores and other companies to use.

A skyscraper called The Kingdom Tower will soon rise in the port city of Jeddah.

I'm a thumbprinton the window of a skyscraper.

Opposite the station itself they are building a new skyscraper, already maybe 40 storeys high, with two huge construction cranes on top.

The skyscraper being built is still higher than that built the year before last.

Construction consists of 5 to 6 story building, 11-story mini-skyscraper and jointed or separated villa.

A new skyscraper has been put up downtown.

He's winning a gold medal from the American Institute of Architects, beating out the man who designed Dubai's giant skyscraper.

The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai stands 2, 717 feet tall.

Many people are unhappy because they had never been in a building, while you are sitting in a skyscraper sighing.

He wants to build a skyscraper called the Dynamic Tower in Dubai.

A further 1, 001 people took part in a so-called "self-challenging" race up the skyscraper.

Work on One World Trade Centre, a single skyscraper originally named Freedom Tower, started in 2006.

For example, no one would even contemplate building a modern skyscraper using basic hand tools.

That 2, 717-foot skyscraper may never break even.

For example, "Bill is acrophobic, so he avoided standing near the window of the conference room on the 80th floor of the skyscraper. "

How many floors does that skyscraper have?

It saw the first skyscraper rise in 1885 and the tallest in 1974.

As I walk through the city on my way to school, I look up at yet another skyscraper under construction, wrapped in a cocoon of bamboo poles.

A total of 390 rooms and 90 suites along with 144 apartments and 3, 600 meters of shopping area will be housed in this skyscraper.

A company in China is preparing to build the world's tallest skyscraper in just 90 days.

The skyscraper-strewn city is attracting capital that a couple of years ago might have gone to Hong Kong.

This is a skyscraper of 140 storeies.

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Hey! That skyscraper downtown sure looks like a stack of pancakes! " ?

A worker stands ready to greet people to one of the extravagant meeting rooms in the skyscraper

Behind him, floor-to-ceiling windows frame the sunny, skyscraper-strewn waterfront of Hong Kong.

The discussion on the question of extra pressure of mechanical smoke-prevention of skyscraper

aged members of the society; elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper; senior citizen.

One is on The Senior Level and Exceeding the Heat Preservation of Outer Wall Of Skyscraper And Patented Technology of The Manufacture Method

Construction workers attended the inauguration ceremony of the skyscraper which opened on Saturday

Chinese quarter extension house building skyscraper flat shop, store department stores bazar, bazaar market junk shop newsstand

The mural exaggerates the height of the pagodas next to it which are actually only 15 storeys high compared to the skyscraper's 72 storeys

Unusual situation analysis of concrete construction of pump sending cement of the skyscraper

High strength Concrete Construction Quality control of the Skyscraper

Effect and Its Counter-strategies of Skyscraper on Urban Environment

The newly-opened skyscraper in Huaxi Village, Jiangsu province, dwarfs the surrounding buildings

The CON Simulation and Optimization for the Construction of Skyscraper Framework

Sedimentation Observation of Pile Foundation in Skyscraper Building

The ecological skyscraper, let people touch naturally in the building

Application of Inner Control Method to the Construction Measurement of Skyscraper

China's ghost towns: New satellite pictures show massive skyscraper cities which are STILL completely empty

Application in the Skyscraper of the Steel - Concrete Construction

Discussion about GPS System's Application On Skyscraper's Construction Measurement

A kind of inclination of the architectural design of high level-- Collection group melts in the extensive skyscraper and urbanization

To analyse the ways of supplying water and consuming energy in the skyscraper

Research and Design of Electronic Intelligence System in Skyscraper

Application of the Mixing Basic Pattern in the Basic Design of the Skyscraper

The Application of Heating System of the Level Contacts and Flows Backwards in the Skyscraper

Discuss and constructs in fire control of the skyscraper and manages

Survey on the Resistance of Soils under Pile - box Foundation of Certain Skyscraper

The relief pressure valve that the skyscraper uses and supplies water

Beijing's tallest skyscraper to be built

Application of the Solar Water Heater in the Skyscraper Design

Application in exceeding the skyscraper of concrete of steel of strength

Analysis of Conical Tube Structure in Skyscraper Building

Modern Skyscraper and the Gothic Architecture

Apportionment of base land title of skyscraper

Plane Hits Milan Skyscraper, Terror Ruled Out

without the base , the skyscraper can ' t be built up

a skyscraper disappearing in the fog

Observation of skyscraper's settlement and it's data analysis

Glory Skyscraper Index of Space

to build up a skyscraper here

This concept skyscraper could generate enough energy to power 4, 000 homes

I will be rising from the groundLike a skyscraper,