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unusual facts about Skyscraper


Seascraper

The term "Seascraper" is an analogous derivative of "Skyscraper".


201 Portage

Originally built by the Toronto Dominion Bank, the skyscraper was acquired by Canwest to serve as the company's main corporate headquarters.

APIIC

APIIC Tower, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Tower, a supertall skyscraper planned for construction in Hyderabad, India

Bertelsmann Building

High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, HarperCollins Publishers.

Burj Qatar

The Burj Qatar (Arabic: قطر برج) is a skyscraper in West Bay, Doha, Qatar.

C. P. Wang

Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan's tallest building since 2004, and the tallest skyscraper in the world from 2004 to 2009.

Cajasol Tower

There will be two commercial buildings designed by César Pelli flanking the skyscraper.

Chris Barth

The Impossible Shapes also shared the stage with Wilco, Guided by Voices, Elf Power, David Berman, U.S. Maple, and Interpol, among others, while garnering acclaim in publications such as Spin, Magnet, and Skyscraper.

Commerzbank

The Commerzbank Tower (designed by British architect Norman Foster) was Europe's first ecological skyscraper and also, from its completion in 1997 until 2004, Europe's tallest skyscraper at a height of 259 meters.

Continuum on South Beach

The Continuum on South Beach are residential towers /skyscrapers in Miami Beach, Florida's South Beach.

Drapers' Gardens

Richard Seifert, its designer as well as the architect of Tower 42, described the Drapers Gardens' skyscraper as his proudest achievement.

Elite Residence

Elite Residence is a supertall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the Dubai Marina district, overlooking one of the man made palm island, Palm Jumeirah.

ExoClick

During summer 2011, the company moved his office to the Torre Mapfre skyscraper situated in Barcelona (Spain), and reached 1.7 billion ad impressions per day.

Giusto Manetti Battiloro

Once more in these years Manetti Gold leaf has been used in several prestigious operations in Italy and all over the world: the restoration of the spires of the skyscraper of the New York Life Building in New York, the great works of Tsarskoye Selo in Saint Petersburg, the reconstruction of the theatre La Fenice in Venice following the devastating fire of 29 January 1996, and the details of the Amerigo Vespucci (ship).

God Lives Underwater discography

The title comes from the cover of the Depeche Mode album Black Celebration, where it appears in quotes on the back, while the front cover features a distorted view of a skyscraper.

Hit Video USA

From 1985 to 1993, the station was located on the 35th floor of the Allied Bank Plaza/First Interstate Plaza (now Wells Fargo Plaza), a skyscraper in Downtown Houston.

Hollywood and Vine

In 1927, while researching The Skyscraper for DeMille Studios, Ayn Rand visited the building and, while waiting for her contact to arrive, went to the nearby Hollywood Branch Library, where she was reunited with Frank O'Connor, whom she had lost track of 6 months earlier when DeMille's The King of Kings finished shooting; Rand and O'Connor then began dating, were married in 1929 until his death in 1979.

Hotel Barcelona Princess

Hotel Barcelona Princess is a skyscraper and hotel of Princess (Hotels & Resorts) in the Diagonal Mar district of Sant Martí in Barcelona.

Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London

From the outside it appears identical to the skyscraper situated at 30 St Mary Axe in London, known as 'the Gherkin'.

KPMG Tower

The building features prominently during the 'Temptation of Christ' scene in the 1989 Denys Arcand film Jesus of Montreal reflecting the tower's status as the most prominent and modern skyscraper built in Montreal during the late 1980s as well as its unique relationship with the church.

KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel

KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel (Also known as the Johannesburg Sun Tower) is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Lafayette County, Missouri

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

Lincoln Tower

Lincoln Bank Tower, an Art-Deco skyscraper in Indiana, United States

Livingstone Tower

Games developer Chris Sawyer, an alumnus of the University of Strathclyde, based one of the skyscraper sprites appearing in the computer game Transport Tycoon on Livingstone Tower.

Mariston Hotel

The Mariston Hotel is a skyscraper and hotel in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mercury City

Mercury City Tower, skyscraper currently under construction in Moscow, Russia

Morgan Stanley Building

The building is featured in the movie Down to Earth as the skyscraper from which a failing businessman jumps to his death.

New Montgomery Street

Landmarks and notable buildings along New Montgomery Street include the Palace Hotel (1875, rebuilt in 1909), the Sharon Building (1912), the Montgomery (1914, headquarters of the San Francisco Call until 1950) the Rialto Building (1902, rebuilt in 1910) and San Francisco's first skyscraper the PacBell Building (1924).

NFU Mutual

In 1954 the NFU Mutual orchestrated the building of the new skyscraper, Farmer's Mutual House, in Harare.

Nick Leventis

He has also raised many thousands of pounds for charity by abseiling down The Shard in London (Western Europe's tallest skyscraper), raising money for the Commando Spirit Appeal on behalf of the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund, and has ski-dived from 30,000ft above Mount Everest for the Global Angels charity

PKNA

Introduced in the same issue were Paperinik's two new allies, the A.I. Uno (One), who resides in the skyscraper Ducklair Tower, and Lyla Lay, a journalist and robot utilized by a time police organization based in the 23rd century.

Plantation Place

On the other side of Rood Lane the 160 m skyscraper 20 Fenchurch Street is under construction, due for completion in 2014.

PPG Place

In 1997's Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below, the exterior of the skyscraper is shown before the headquarters scenes of the corporate congolmerate.

Rufus T. Bush

Among other contributions, the terminal funded construction of Bush Tower, a landmark skyscraper on famous 42nd St. next to Times Square in New York, as well as the building of Bush House, London, an elaborate office building that housed the BBC World Service from 1941 until Jul 2012.

Sally Regenhard

A former long-time resident of Co-op City in The Bronx in New York City who has degrees in behaviorial sciences and gerontology and has worked in the nursing home industry for over 20 years, Regenhard became an advocate for skyscraper safety after the death of her 28-year old son, Christian, a probationary firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, who perished in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Save New York

The game takes place on a single static screen with various skyscraper buildings and a subway tunnel running underneath them.

Singer House

The management of the Singer Company initially intended to construct a skyscraper, similar to the Singer Building, the company headquarters being built at that time in New York, but the Saint Petersburg building code did not allow structures taller than the Winter Palace, residence of the emperor.

Sky City 1000

Sky City 1000 is a visionary (i.e. not proposed/intended to be built) supertall skyscraper in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan announced in 1989 during the height of the Japanese asset price bubble.

Tom Adair

He wrote many hit songs, including "Let's Get Away From It All", "Everything Happens To Me", "In The Blue of Evening", "Will You Still Be Mine?", "Violets for Your Furs", "The Night We Called It A Day", "The Skyscraper Blues", "A Home-Sweet-Home In The Army", "How Will I Know My Love?", "Sing A Smiling Song", "Paul Bunyan", "There's No You", and "Weep No More".

Torre Espacio

The building project was featured on the Discovery Channel's Build It Bigger series due to the skyscraper's unique form and shape.

Torre Titania

Torre Titania is the twelfth tallest skyscraper in Madrid, Spain and has become the country's largest mall.

Tour Generali

Tour Generali (English: Generali Tower) was a skyscraper planned for construction in the business quarter of La Défense in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine, France).

Tower Financial Center

The Tower Financial Center (also known as TowerBank) is an 57-story office skyscraper of 255 meters located on Calle 50, Panama City.

Treg Brown

In the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), the skyscraper into which Michigan J. Frog is entombed is named the "Tregoweth Brown Building".

Trigger Cut

The B-sides, "Sue Me Jack" and "So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)," were recorded at the same sessions as the Watery, Domestic EP.

Trust Bank Building

Trust Bank Building is a skyscraper in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Vern Riffe State Office Tower

The Vern Riffe State Office Tower is a 503-foot-tall (153 m) skyscraper in Columbus, Ohio.

Willis Building

Willis Tower a skyscraper in Chicago formerly called the Sears Tower

Xinyi Road

Xinyi Road is known for the location of the original Din Tai Fung restaurant, which is famous for its Taiwanese dumplings, and as the location of the Taipei 101 skyscraper.


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