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• n  a very tall building with many stories

• Each of the 80 floors in the world's first moving skyscraper with offices and a hotel, topped by apartments will rotate 360 degrees, all at different speeds.
• When city land becomes too expensive to build churches upon, a solution is to combine churches and skyscrapers.
• Last week in Manhattan the American Society of Civil Engineers met to ponder the problem of bracing skyscrapers against the winds of heaven.

News & Articles

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• Saudi prince eyes world's big cities for mile-high tower
  By Mirna Sleiman DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at the world's largest cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London and New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building by far. The prince is inviting Dubai's biggest real estate developer Emaar Properties, chaired by Mohammed Alabbar, to team ...
  June 18, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Billionaire eyes mile-high tower
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at global cities, including New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building by far.
  June 18, 2013 - MSN
• Striking Photos Of New York's Tallest Skyscraper 100 Years Ago And Today
  New skyscrapers are being built all the time . But it's still pretty cool to look back and compare New York's tallest building in 1913 to New York's tallest building in 2013.
  June 17, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Gary Oldman in CNN
  We make (Chicago) look a lot grittier through the camera in the story,says Gary Oldman, who plays Lt. James Gordon, "but I think initially there were artists' impressions of cities, and they take a skyscraper from here and a skyscraper...
• Steven Cojocaru in 뉴스와이어
  For many people, a laptop may be just as much an everyday accessory as a hip belt or skyscraper stilettos, so we're seeing an image-conscious culture demanding that their laptop looks as great as it performs,said Steven Cojocaru, style...
• Jim Bowden in MLB.com
  Our goal No. 1 is to build the strongest player development and scouting departments in baseball,Bowden says as he watched a 6-1 lead slip away. "It's like building a skyscraper. You don't start with the penthouse, you start with the...