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• Dark Ride Magic: Roger Rabbits Falling Room

  
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  Theres a moment on Roger Rabbits Car Toon Spin where you seem to be hurled into the air by an explosion. You have to return to Earth somehow, of course...How about a hundred-story fall between skyscrapers toward the distant skylight of the Acme warehouse? My blurry photos dont do it justice, but the "Falling Room" is ...
  6 days ago

• Most beautiful Malaysian State Capitals

  
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  Give your opinions of the top 5 most beautiful state capitals excluding the federal territories. Here are my opinions- 1. Georgetown, Penang 2. Johor Bahru, Johor 3. Kuching, Sarawak 4. Melaka, Malacca 5. Shah Alam, Selangor
  6 days ago

• New York City of Diversity

  
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  If you’ve never been to New York City, you may be surprised to know that there is so much fresh to this great city than skyscrapers, lots of people, and really fantastic parades. Chronology it is in fact the awesome people of this city that make it the exciting place to visit that it has [...] The post New York ...
  6 days ago

• Rising In NYC: 60-Story "Jenga" Tower

  
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  Super-skyscapers are rising all over Manhattan and the "Jenga" tower is the citys latest hot building for jillionaires. Tribeca’s soon-to-be-tallest building, 56 Leonard, sold more than 70% of its 145 units in just 10 weeks — including one to a Frenchman who got so excited just from looking at renderings of ...
  1 week ago

• 408-Foot Spire Tops Out One WTC

  
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  One WTC was topped out this morning. Construction workers bolted a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday, symbolically capping New Yorks comeback after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. The spire brings the iconic building to a height of 1,776 feet -- an allusion to the year the ...
  1 week ago

• Broad Group Vision of Living and Working in Sky City Skyscrapers

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 634
  Sky City would likely be the tallest building in the world, with 220 floors and a total height of 838 m (2,749 ft). The 220 story Sky scraper has been delayed getting regulatory approval. There appears to have been approvals given for a 100 story building (Yuanda Tower). The Broad Group Vision is to us the ...
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• Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture Unveils Proposal for Mumbai’s Tallest Tower

  
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  Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled a competition-winning prototype in which they hope will become Mumbai ’s tallest skyscraper. Standing 400-meters about the crowded city streets, the 116-story Imperial Tower’s curvilinear form is aerodynamically shaped to “confuse the wind.” Its 132 ...
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• Proposal unveiled for Mumbais tallest tower

  
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  News:  Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled its competition-winning proposal to build Mumbais tallest skyscraper. (more...)
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• Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill’s Imperial Tower Could Be Mumbai’s Tallest and Greenest Skyscraper

  
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  With projects like the Burj Khalifa under his belt, architect Adrian Smith has become synonymous with supertall skyscrapers, so it’s no surprise that his firm, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill , is the creative force behind Imperial Tower , a 116-story tower that’s proposed for Mumbai. The only problem with ...
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• From prefab skyscrapers to prefab houses, Klik claims to fit the bill

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 739
  With Klik, Australian companies Elenberg Fraser and Unitised Building have come up with a prefabricated modular building system they claim is equally suited to knocking up a quick skyscraper as it is a modern, designer house. It makes sense, then, that the product is pitched at developers, architects and would-be ...
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• Shanghai Tower poised to become China’s tallest skyscraper

  
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  This thing is GORGEOUS. Completion date: 2014 Completed height: 2,073 ft Floors: 121
  2 weeks ago

• A Vertical Perspective of Hong Kong

  
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  This collection by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze  might make you a little dizzy. The French photographer and graphic artist in his collection -  Vertical Horizon  - saves you from a massive neck ache by visually exploring Hong Kong’s skyline. Using a unique perspective, Jacquet-Lagreze presents the ever-growing city in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Holy Insurance Batman! Understanding Why This Superhero Doesn’t Need Life Insurance

  
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  Holy Insurance Batman! Understanding Why This Superhero Doesn’t Need Life Insurance is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - Its all about Money! In an effort to determine where the basic American understanding of life insurance principles resided, the Life and Health ...
  2 weeks ago

• One World Trade Center (1WTC) scheduled to top out tomorrow

  
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  The iconic tower in lower Manhattan is expected to reach its final height of 1,776 ft sometime tomorrow when the final section of the mast is installed. Here is a recent photo of the skyscraper and a shot looking down from the antenna. Photo Source Photo Source News Source UPDATE: It should surprise no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shanghai Tower Construction Continues Despite Rumors of salt in concrete sand

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 634
  In September 2011, it was reported there were concerns of an increase in steel thinning across China. Zhengzhou and Shaanxi Province were two of the regions highlighted in the piece but the rumors that manufacturers of steel reinforcement rods were stretching their materials to greater lengths to maximise profits ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tribeca 2013 Review: FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS, The First Polish LGBT Film, A Boldly Intimate Story of Forbidden Desire

  
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  Floating Skyscrapers is described by its director Tomasz Wasilewski as the first LGBT Polish film, which makes the film itself as taboo-breaking as its main characters themselves, who struggle to assert their desires, and their right to express them, in a society that is unceasingly hostile to this. Wasilewskis second ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chicago Photo Tribute #1: Up and Up and Up

  
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  My wife and I find ourselves traveling to Chicago more and more each year as opportunities keep presenting themselves, and as we find fewer barriers and excuses to keep ourselves trapped at home. We’ve both lived in Indianapolis since birth and don’t anticipate dying anywhere else (Lord willing), but Chicago has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Free Chapter | 9/11 Truth: Implications

  
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  Our government doesn’t work for us anymore.
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• Robotic Cars Could Enable Super-suburb cities

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 634
  Cityminded notes two ways that cities will change with driverless cars. * Cities will greatly expand, again: Faster and more efficient transportation will convert locations that are currently too remote for most users into feasible alternatives, abundant with space. Like suburban rail in the early twentieth century ...
  4 weeks ago

• Shenzhen Stock Exchange by OMA nears completion

  
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  Here are the latest photographs of the OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, set to complete next month in the Chinese city (+ slideshow). (more...)
  4 weeks ago

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