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China could be the next country to go bust, if its headlong rush to build ever-taller skyscrapers is a guide to its future economic health.

two out of every five men died or are disabled building the skyscrapers of America's new cities.

It might seem odd to be erecting skyscrapers when Britain's economy is still recovering from its nastiest shock since the 1930s.

He wanted a city to "rival London, New York, Tokyo or Shanghai" . He did not rule out the construction of more skyscrapers.

The nine-story building was built in 1923, and its neoclassical arches and columns make it stand out in a city dominated by skyscrapers.

But as my eye drifted just to the left of that mountain, I saw Macau, with its rising skyline of casino skyscrapers.

However, once the city of skyscrapers rise building under construction, as if sitting on top of a pile of firewood.

Skyscrapers and public constructions are built in a year, and haste appears to be the key word. then there is a veritable army of cleaners.

The imposing financial zone in Pudong, with its forest of skyscrapers including the Jin Mao Tower, has been a particular delight for me.

From industrial docks and ultra modern skyscrapers to a bustling urban center, Kaohsiung looks like an amusement park for filmmakers.

These buildings are part of a new generation of innovative, exciting skyscrapers set to appear all over the world over the next 10 years.

They were the ugly stepchild of New York's skyscrapers, seemingly destined to be forever denied a place in the life and lore of the city.

Of course, they have built their skyscrapers and museums of modern art, but somehow, the potential seems to be gone.

Dubai's skyscrapers poke through a carpet of fog at night in dramatic images taken from 800ft up in the air.

Splendid is the architecture of Manhattan, the heart of the city, with its one hundred and more skyscrapers.

Splendid is the architecture of Manhattan, the heart of the city, with its hundred and more skyscrapers.

The Chongqing Grand Theatre in Chongqing is a part of a development that will also include skyscrapers and a science museum.

Prof. Glom has named them skyscrapers since they seem to be scraping the skies .

The tallest buildings in London are small in comparison with the skyscrapers of New York.

China often looks like it's decided to skip ahead to 2059 - with a set of dazzling skyscrapers, stadiums and airports.

Arhat Temple, one of the few ancient structures still standing in Chongqing, is now surrounded by skyscrapers.

Great changes have taken place in shanghai and a lot of skyscrapers have been set up.

Eric: I feel like there are more skyscrapers and high rises around. There wasn't so much traffic as well.

Skyscrapers rocket from hutongs, which make those familiar street sights, gates towers, four-square courtyards disappearing out of our view.

The tallest buildings in London are small in comparison with the skyscrapers in New York.

China was much more modern than I expected. The cities are filled with skyscrapers.

The office is the hub of an enterprise that now extends from skyscrapers in New York to a new city in Abu Dhabi.

They received news flashes on televisions, worked in giant skyscrapers, and rode to work on highways much like the ones we ride today.

This transparent sheet can be placed in the roof of skyscrapers and the yang side, they absorb the sun's rays and converted into energy.

The tallest buildings in London are small in comparison with New York's skyscrapers.

The centerpiece of this plan was the group of sixty-story skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in huge curtain walls of glass.

In the evening, I also saw lots of colourful lights around the skyscrapers, it looks like stars in the sky.

Amid the forest of skyscrapers and malls and the bustling, thriving sights of such a city, a sixth grader was kidnapped.

Helicopters shot overhead, dangling a rope-ladder of marines who clung on for dear life as they swung around the skyscrapers.

In the age of capitalist society, people worshipped the tall buildings and skyscrapers emblematic of capital strength.

More conventional viewing parties in Shanghai had been planned along the beach, in a park and in skyscrapers.

Plenty of room spare: Experts have said some of the developments are like a 'forest of skyscrapers'

What's more the skyscrapers and shopping strips are just a short drive from mountains, ocean, river and bush.

But most business-minded observers think such plans fanciful, like the models of Juba skyscrapers in government offices.

And he said, "Shanghai is the city in the world with most skyscrapers. "

From a few high rise buildings on my last trip, to a gleaming Olympic complex and corporate skyscrapers today.

Chen Dandan spends his days suspended hundreds of feet above downtown Shanghai, building one of the city's newest skyscrapers.

I'm travelling by bus through Sheikh Zayed Road and I can't tell whether the skyline is dominated more by cranes or skyscrapers.

Across the Seine, the soaring skyscrapers of the distant business district seem dwarfed by Argenteuil's rain-streaked tower blocks.

That village has been gone for some time now, replaced by one of the flickering skyscrapers that has sprung from the ground.

Cranes dot the Chinese skyline, where more than 40% of the skyscrapers to be built over the next six years will be sited.

Beijing is crowded with skyscrapers and grandiose cultural monuments, built to show that China's capital wants to be a world-class city.

Cities have a lot of apartment buildings and some tall buildings may seem to "scrape the sky" , so they are called "skyscrapers" .

Later mineral discoveries led to the building of skyscrapers and the modernization of the city.

The area is still a building site despite plans for a memorial, a museum, and five new skyscrapers.

Even Sun Hung Kai Properties has been able to rise above fraternal squabbling , building what will be the territory's tallest skyscrapers .

Rich in skyscrapers and natural resources, Chongqing is an immense inland city at the convergence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers .

I looked out of the window - armies of construction workers were building skyscrapers, in preparation for the great 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Last week , I found it transformed into a forest of neon-lit, modernist skyscrapers .

The tops of skyscrapers in Beijing can be hard to see from the street.

The setting sun sliding down the glass faces of the great downtown skyscrapers marked the ebbing of the final hours.

If Seoul does opt for the skyscrapers, he believes, the city could become a model for the booming megalopolises of the developing world.

Mirror-walled skyscrapers , whose reflective glasses reduce glare as well as heat inside, raise the temperature of the surrounding air.

It was a cloudless autumn day and the pale sunlight sliced between the pastel skyscrapers.

Property developers have responded by reclaiming land from the sea and building the dazzlingly tall skyscrapers that now epitomize the city.

Subways and skyscrapers, in other words, are replacing exports of furniture and iPhones as the symbols of this nation's prowess.

You can experiment with different skyscrapers to see what suits you best.

Most skyscrapers utilize pendulums or dampers, designed to transfer the motion of the building to mitigation devices.

The capital's gleaming skyscrapers, Olympic venues, new subway lines and updated network of highways would be sure to wow onlookers.

Pilots have some freedom to pick their own route, as long as they stay under 300m and do not stray too close to Manhattan's skyscrapers.

The images were taken from a police helicopter -- the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept.

The traditional Shenzhen is still here: All you have to do is look behind the glimmering new skyscrapers and fancy shopping malls.

The commercial construction industry is dependent on the metal, used in the framework of skyscrapers and smaller office buildings.

Aqua has magnificent views over the largest outdoor swimming pool in Shanghai, with the skyscrapers of modern Shanghai in the background.

The human comes, with smoke of fights burning the ground, with skyscrapers beating mountains, with cars erodes the air.

It was a cultural magnet, home of skyscrapers and abstract expressionists, bebop and jazz.

China's remarkable economic development is reflected in its booming cities of skyscrapers, expensive cars and designer clothes shops.

Paul Bonhomme flies past skyscrapers during an air race March 27 in Abu Dhabi.

But each of these cities has a wonderful botanic garden amid their skyscrapers and monuments.

"You had these images in the 1930s of executives jumping out of skyscrapers, " Benjamin Friedman, the US academic, said recently.

Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers or a superhero defending the planet in games or plays is empowering to a child.

The Great City of London, known for its historical landmarks, modern skyscrapers, ancient markets and famous bridges.

Photographic evidence shows that skyscrapers and other tall structures may be struck many times in the course of a single storm .

Prospering the most are the booming coastal provinces, where shiny skyscrapers boast malls teeming with well-heeled shoppers.

However, mirror walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.

Skyscrapers could alter their aerodynamic profiles, swaying slightly to distribute increased loads during hurricanes.

v. compare adj. comparative The building in Dalian are small in comparison with the skyscrapers in New York.

You are not a Software Engineer. You do not build skyscrapers. You do not build bridges.

Shanghai had no freeways, subways, skyscrapers, or even drugstores with more than one brand of toothpaste.

Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers or a superhero defending the planet is empowering to a child.

However, the thin piece of paper, even if the geometric growth rate of multiples, I am afraid not more than one height of skyscrapers it!

The skyscrapers in Tokyo today are not the preeminent East Asian architecture that the Tokyo Central Post Office was in the 1930s.

000 of these buildings could be skyscrapers - the equivalent of ten New York Cities.

An influx of tens of thousands of Palestinians to the city has fuelled a building boom, with 20-storey skyscrapers soaring upwards.

PROS Loads of good-value office space as five new skyscrapers go up on the site of the World Trade Centre, pictured.

Confidence is bubbly, with skyscrapers rising, art markets booming, and conspicuous consumption galloping forward.

So the city's shiny new shopping plazas and skyscrapers reveal only a partial picture of how people are living.

Due to the high price of land in traditional CBD, the buildings here are always dense skyscrapers .

What's the point of building skyscrapers?

But to go home again through the sewers, climbing skyscrapers, through large-scale urban park.

The story of how the Ambanis moved from dusty provinces to city skyscrapers is a tale of pluck, guile and vaulting ambition.

The skyscrapers would still be there long after the human race had been atomized .

Developers around the world have proposed numerous new skyscrapers.

Skyscrapers, then, are the physical embodiment of "irrational exuberance" in the markets.

Yet, when looking beyond the bustling marketplaces, skyscrapers and big city lights, today's cities all too often put human health at risk.

Abu Dhabi's planned zero-carbon "ecotopia" is a world away from the skyscrapers that dominate the Gulf region, writes John Vidal .

My work refers to shapes that populate both places, from skyscrapers or jagged perimeters to an Icelandic mountain range or wooden fence.

I wanted to, brick, stone, sand is too mundane, and is also a very common, but without them, how can we build skyscrapers?

The skyscrapers of central and southern Chongqing rise above the blue rooftops of small factories that dot the surrounding hillsides.

Friends who were in skyscrapers said being on higher floors was terrifying because they were swaying so much.

These soaring tapers of contorted limestone tinged with greenery rise sheer and giddy , like nature 's answer to the Pudong skyscrapers .

Tube structures, braced tubes, and trussed tubes were developed to give skyscrapers the ability to resist lateral wind and seismic forces.

Perhaps it's that they want to be closer to god and heaven but in reality this type of construction, the skyscrapers, has become a trend.

Bridges, tunnels, and skyscrapers under construction can also be dangerous places to work.

All those winking electric colours ; all those pulsing rainbow-phalluses that are Jinmao's junior or rival skyscrapers .

When sea levels rise, the ground in parts of NYC will be swallowed up, leaving skyscrapers as pillars in the water.

The city's key sights include its 14th-century Gothic cathedral and a host of futuristic skyscrapers.

So let us restrict ourselves to the vista: cranes, skyscrapers, spanking new rail networks and smog: China.

Bridge, tunnels, and skyscrapers under construction can also be dangerous places to work.

Now it sprouts skyscrapers, including Britain's tallest, that provide palatial premises for global banks with giant trading floors.

"Consequently, there are simply too many luxurious condominiums, magnificent government office buildings and soaring skyscrapers. "

S was the first person to photograph skyscrapers, clouds and views from the airplane.

The state includes everything from skyscrapers in Manhattan to rivers, mountains, and lakes in upstate New York.

The two record-breaking skyscrapers were completed in 1972 and 1974 respectively, with a severe global stagflation in their wakes.

Does our spirit need or not a support when we construct countless skyscrapers and web-like highways and railroads?

The Symphony of Lights is a stunning multimedia show, featuring more than 40 skyscrapers in a co-ordinated light and sound display.

But on soft soils, vibrations from long-period seismic waves are amplified, possibly exacerbating the swaying of skyscrapers.

His first Toothpick City, called History of Skyscrapers, was sold to a museum in Mallorca, Spain.

Four young members of the Madison Square Boy's Club rowing a boat in a rooftop pool, Manhattan skyscrapers in the background, Feb.

Slowly but surely, however, skyscrapers are ornamenting the skyline, as London's commercial-property market returns to life.

Now we haven't even talked about the projects for whole cities in the sky, and skyscrapers that can change shape. Oh well, next time.

Three stories underground, this basement boarding house is a world away from the skyscrapers above.

In skyscrapers, brass is better than brick, and gold is better than brass.

In New York City, despite the pleas of safety engineers, meaningful fire drills are still not mandatory in skyscrapers.

did you know that the EmPire State Building is short. when comPared with many of the skyscraPers today?

the only difference from ancient times is that now the fog, mixed with smog, obscures the tops of the skyscrapers.

From the time a formal proposal circulated in 1963 the Port Authority intended to crown the city with the two tallest skyscrapers on earth.

Building the confidence of financial markets takes more than new skyscrapers, tax breaks and incentives.

How wonderful to trade traffic jams for winding valley roads, skyscrapers for mountains, neon lights for star-filled nights!

Beautiful ornate skyscrapers, "yesterday" central avenue is a wasteland, liao people.

Today, skyscrapers dominate the skyline and Japanese cars and western goods are hugely popular and widely available.

S was the first person to photograph skyscrapers, clouds and views from an airplane.

This morning the blackened shell of the hotel stood out amid the collection of mirrored skyscrapers in Eastern Beijing.

Surrounded by glittering skyscrapers of glass and steel , it is a tranquil oasis in the very heart of the city .

They build new hotels, office buildings, skyscrapers, modern art museums. . . which are just stunning!

You do not build skyscrapers. You do not build bridges.

Seven years after the attacks, New Yorkers gathered at "ground zero, " the site where the World Trade Center skyscrapers once stood.

From soaring skyscrapers to dramatic innovations in engineering and design, the modern era transformed the way we think about building.

Here visitors experience the fusion of past and present by walking around a mix of modern skyscrapers and centuries-old markets.

The population exploration results in the erection of numerous skyscrapers where people are crowded together.

e. g. Bangkok really is a feast for the eyes. Here you'll find skyscrapers sitting comfortably next to temples.

skyscrapers and high-rises The cathedral is dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers.

Burnham and Root pioneered the construction methods that made modern skyscrapers possible.

Tallest building in a forest of skyscrapers , the 78-story Central Plaza on the Wan Chai waterfront glows bright turquoise.

This building is completely self-powered. Wind has a very negative effect on skyscrapers, we all know. . .

A crop of skyscrapers encircles a harbour decorated with sleek motorboats and a Ferretti yacht costing $5. 5m.

For years, Shanghai has happily smothered its past in skyscrapers, each one taller, flashier and more futuristic than the last.

Skyscrapers tower above, while a large number of streets, stores and markets are welcoming to anyone, no matter where they are from.

Skyscrapers consume too much, stop building them. India leads the way, spread slums everywhere, cheap and easy.

During this period, three record-breaking skyscrapers were built successively.

In contrast to skyscrapers in New York, the tallest building in Nanjing is so low.

Because of light and shadow, whether or old alleyways skyscrapers, including one of the people and their pets, are dynamic.

For years it remained the tallest man-made structure on earth, until such skyscrapers as the Mempire Building surpassed it.

China is certainly still an emerging economy despite the skyscrapers, trade growth and the upcoming Olympic Games.

Frame buildings range from small tool sheds to giant skyscrapers. homes, schools, and factories may all be made with frames.

Some trouble operating, you need to familiarize ourselves, I wish you boarded early skyscrapers.

What has one got left to admire except tall skyscrapers and lighted windows in a row at night?

Americans had sewing machines, phonographs , skyscrapers, and even electric lights, yet most people labored in the shadow of poverty.

Although the same is reflected in internationalization, modern style, but the Finance Street will not have CBD skyscrapers built picture.

Despite the city's towering skyscrapers and ultra-modern Millennium Park, underground the story is grimmer.

I enter and leave public parks, libraries, the lobbies of skyscrapers, and movie houses. I stay in no place for very long.

Lighting, heating, and air-conditioning in the skyscrapers strain energy supplies.

Jake: Today, Stamford is a corporate center with lots of skyscrapers and modern office buildings.

There are bright neon lights and skyscrapers of the buildings. Everything looked extremely stylish and full of vigor.

Built in your human skyscrapers foil below, more show me uninhibited character! But, in the boundless universe, I also rare small planet.

a large chunk of the Gulf's petrodollars are also being spent on gleaming skyscrapers and new airports.

What about skyscrapers, aeroplanes, and the broadcast speeches of politicians?

Most people inagine New York to be a city of skyscrapers.

Flipped on a light switch recently? Watched a good movie? Ridden up any skyscrapers?

Today, Pudong has three times the number of skyscrapers as Manhattan.

There are plenty of reasons why lights burn in Manhattan skyscrapers into the small hours.

Many bankers have lost their jobs. Some skyscrapers in Manhattan and London's Canary Wharf have new signs on them.

Its downtown bristles with skyscrapers, but many of them are playful, almost perky, with unexpected shapes and bright, incorporate colors.

Where communal farms once languished, one can find modern skyscrapers and Starbucks.

On both sides of Chang'an Avenue, new skyscrapers and giant billboards stood under a murky sky.

Skyscrapers become lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power.

Those types of piles are created when parking garages and skyscrapers collapse.

There are plans for a new exhibition center with twin skyscrapers that could be taller than any in the world.

New York City's numerous skyscrapers give the city its special character .

But there's more to an evening in Shanghai than techno music, skyscrapers and luxury retail.

Space missions and skyscrapers are not the symbol of China's recent boom; it is the steel mill.

I can see the future gleaming in the new skyscrapers that line the streets in Beijing as well as in the eyes of the young people I meet.

Now skyscrapers sprawl hundreds of metres further into the harbour.

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

The buildings in Taipei are small in comparison with the skyscrapers in New York.

Viewing skyscrapers in Pudong has become a tourist attraction for visitors in Shanghai.

NY City is, at first glance, a city of glaring neon lights, skyscrapers and frenetic pace.

They hope to build skyscrapers in Tokyo, run banks in London and make films in Hollywood.

Some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.

The old cathedral is dwarfed by the skyscrapers that surround it.

Aluminium is used to support everything from skeletal skyscrapers to young saplings.

AFRICA'S ramshackle cities are wearing crowns of gleaming skyscrapers.

The building, already worth £ 500 million, could start a rush on skyscrapers.

Glass skyscrapers rise behind him housing the capital's new financial district.

I am standing in the middle of a bridge, looking at the skyscrapers.

Building skyscrapers is the nearest peacetime equivalent of war.

When we think of US cities, we think of skyscrapers, those architectural testaments to market forces and American optimism.

Shenzhen has scores of skyscrapers and many, many hundreds of factories.

Despite the challenge of constructing the world's tallest skyscrapers, the quest rages on with on end in sight.

Like returning heroes, they are feed and tell tales of car-choked streets and the towering skyscrapers they helped build.

Now his dream has come true. Beijing's sky is lined, not just by chimneys, but by skyscrapers too.

Stacked integrated circuits are today's tech skyscrapers.

In terms of economy, are skyscrapers a glory or a curse?

Fougeron Architecture displayed a concept where new towers are built or the city's unused skyscrapers are dedicated to growing food.

Skyscrapers tower over the city.

The cathedral is dwarfed by its surrounding skyscrapers.

People's attitude towards the skyscrapers varies widely.

Prices for New York's skyscrapers have followed the slump in housing.

Narrow streets lined with ornately carved teak houses lie in the shadow of contemporary skyscrapers.

The 60-storey skyscrapers of New York will be tiny compared with the vast 300-storey structures of the world's future cities.

All of the skyscrapers will have farms , create their own energy and deal with their own waste.

Shadowy men of power and wealth inhabit newly built skyscrapers.

A city of skyscrapers rises up from the land.

Some skyscrapers in Manhattan and London's Canary Wharf have new signs on them.

Mohammed, who said his targets included two U. S. presidents, a pope, several skyscrapers and other U.

Here's another weird satellite pic from Google Maps of some downtown Houston skyscrapers.

The Brooklyn Bridge and the skyscrapers of Wall Street are in the background .

From Green-Wood's highest point, you can see the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan across New York Harbor and even spot the Statue of Liberty.

In big cities skyscrapers, bridges and tunnels were built.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking against the program of constructing skyscrapers.

But are enclosed city skyscrapers a practical option?

Forget the soaring skyscrapers of Shanghai.

Companies project giant logos onto the sides of skyscrapers.

The Koreans are building the world's tallest twin skyscrapers, the Incheon Towers, scheduled for completion in 2012.

And they represent the principle behind a new concept for urban farming: bug-like greenhouses perched on the roofs of skyscrapers.

Since Mao's boot was lifted from their necks, they have built marvels, from the skyscrapers of Shanghai to the factories of Guangdong.

Things such as trains, ships, skyscrapers, electric lights, movies, telephones and radios, for instance, were never seen by our forefathers.

Hot dogs, jazz, the elevator, skyscrapers.

Glass and granite skyscrapers were built in Center City.

It feels like the twin buildings were directly copied from the skyscrapers in America in the 1920s into the Rockbund area in Shanghai.

They are embodied in the pyramids of Egypt, the cathedrals of Europe and even the skyscrapers of modern cities.

In Mainland China, new skyscrapers have kept springing up because of the unparalleled economic boom.

Skyscrapers soar above the horizon.

Their skyscrapers , bridges and dams often have a splendor which matches in beauty and scales the country's natural wonders.

So what is happening beneath the futuristic skyscrapers that are rising in time for the Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Expo in Shanghai?

Most of the famous buildings such as the Empire State and the United Nations and other skyscrapers are in Manhattan.

In addition, the skyscrapers and shopping zone and mountains, sea, rivers and jungle between only apart a short drive.

There are a large number of modern skyscrapers in that area.

Our people still work in skyscrapers. Our stadiums are filled with fans, and our parks full of children playing ball.

So will we end up with cities of skyscrapers that wave in the breeze?

Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park provides a striking view of New York's skyscrapers.

This means that your skyscrapers, if left standing, would have 600 feet of water around them.

The visitors can't help feeling surprised when they see the New York skyscrapers.

Shanghai is famous for its skyscrapers.

Both of them disliked skyscrapers.