In March 2011, Shanghai is hosting the 4th Annual Ultra-High-rise Building Summit -- which extols the merits of high-rise construction.
Mr. Tourre resides in a high-rise building overlooking Lake Michigan and Chicago's stately Field Museum.
"It's not cheap, but the location is good, " she says of the apartment in a high-rise building in a residential district north of the Shanghai Bund.
Once a potent symbol of American frustration with the Vietnam War, the prison is now a tourist attraction, in the shadow of an upscale high-rise building owned by a Singapore businessman.
According to a report on Engadget.com, the cable connection across the river separating Hong Kong and the China was powered by a slingshot fired from a high-rise building on one side to a house on the other side.
But Chinese secret agents could just as easily outfit a high-rise apartment building with survelliance gear.
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Dhingra said he won't consider working in a high-rise office building again.
"Everybody's home would produce more taxes as a Costco or a high-rise office building, " Institute for Justice attorney Dana Berliner tartly observes.
"We are on the cusp, really, of that full-speed rebuild, " he said from the high-rise city council building near the downtown disaster area.
Peel's Liverpool Waters plan includes building high-rise buildings housing offices, shops and up to 14, 000 apartments on an area of disused land.
Professor Stead said a sense of community had been destroyed by factors such as the decline of pubs and churches, and the building of high-rise flats.
His Metropole Hotel, whose interior fittings still feature a Sassoon family emblem with its two greyhounds, rises at a nearby intersection -- across from its twin, Hamilton House, built by Sir Victor as a hybrid office building and high-rise apartment house.
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Rents in the rebuilt city center are expected to rise sharply to offset the high cost of building offices on a speculative basis.
In a long shuttered, 19th-century building said to have been the first high-rise in New York City, the designers displayed a restrained color palette of white, black and subtle pastels that included mint and peach.
The building uses traditional Chinese window-lattices up its high-rise facade, and is topped with a tiled pagoda-like roof.
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On Sunday, a family that lives in a high-rise apartment near Moussavi's election headquarters in Tehran reported that their building was attacked by militiamen.
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Is it my imagination or did the rise of expense-account restaurants purposely building-in conversation-evaporating high-volume noise levels (partly by not building in the architectural elements that muffle them) coincide with the market run-up to 2008?
Other Chinese developers are taking similar steps abroad, building vacation homes in Southeast Asia, resorts in South Korea and high-rise condos in New York and Sydney.
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