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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Wikipedia  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and ... He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter ... Progressive thinkers called for a completely new architectural design ... for the faceted all-glass Friedrichstrae skyscraper in 1921, followed by a taller...
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Lust for Height - AEI - American Enterprise Institute  Feb 23, 2007 ... The Burj Dubai, slated to be the tallest building in the world when it's done in ... or doubt that by 2030, somewhere, a mile-high skyscraper would be built. ... When the speaker made this prediction, there was no murmur of dissent from his ... tallerafter lingering for decades around 1,400 feet, the height now...
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The Illinois - Wikipedia  Not to be confused with Jeddah Tower, previously known as Mile-High Tower. The Mile High Illinois, Illinois Sky-City, or simply The Illinois is a visionary skyscraper that is over 1 mile (1,600 m) high, conceived and described by noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his 1957 book, A Testament. ... The design, intended to be built in Chicago, included 528 stories, with a...
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Dizzying Heights: A mile-high skyscraper - CNN.com  Feb 11, 2016 ... Rising like the Emerald City is a building that will not only dwarf the world's tallest skyscraper -- the Burj Khalifa in Dubai -- but double its height. ... Dizzying Heights: Tokyo's future skyline could include a mile-high skyscraper ..... Architectural renderings reveal how the mega-city might address issues like...
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Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia  The Burj Khalifa known as the Burj Dubai before its inauguration, is a megatall skyscraper in ... The design of Burj Khalifa is derived from patterning systems embodied in .... Wright's vision for The Illinois, a mile-high skyscraper designed for Chicago. ... Floors through to 108 have 900 private residential apartments (which,...
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Is New York done with skyscrapers? [Archive] - Wired New York Forum  new york will never be 'done' with skyscrapers. buildings over 100 feet are hard to get .... It's been done and New York and Chicago did it. ... And also even if not all are new - the first ones, like the Chrysler building and ...... getting tallerafter lingering for decades around 1,400 feet, the height now needed...
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Daniel Libeskind's World Trade Center Change of Heart - The New ...  Aug 28, 2013 ... As the opening of 1 World Trade Center approaches, Daniel Libeskind has ... 1 World Trade Center, the iconic Ground Zero skyscraper formerly known as the ... It's not, however, the building that Daniel Libeskind, the site's master ... in Berlin when he entered a competition to design a master plan for the...
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Morning Buzz, May 2, 2006 - SportsBusiness Daily | SportsBusiness ...  May 2, 2006 ... For $2,000: This 'Golden Boy' has an interest in architecture and told Interview Magazine, 'I really have a passion for designing.'...
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Norman Foster's Hong Kong HSBC headquarters tore up the rule ...  May 28, 2015 ... Norman Foster delivered, taking the 1960s dream of a plug-in, prefab city and making it real. ... the best bank building in the world  an office tower that would have to be ... as well as reinventing the slab of stacked floor-plates as a series of .... Better safe than sorry, advised HSBC's feng shui masters, who...
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Frank Gehry - Wikipedia  Frank Owen Gehry, CC is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. ... Gehry got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City ... Though Gehry continued to design other notable buildings in California such as ..... He said, "Three hundred million years before man was fish....if you gotta go...
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LIVING IN/New Rochelle, N.Y. - Buildings Grow Taller - Reactions ...  Nov 26, 2006 ... THE revolutionary Thomas Paine, who as a resident of New ... the place, which Rob Petrie commuted to so he could be with his wife, Laura, ... And depending on whom you ask, the construction jangling nerves there .... But most current projects, planned before the law took effect, will not have to comply.
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Noted alum to design new SOM campus - Yale Daily News  Sep 18, 2007 ... Foster  who also designed the Hearst Tower in New York City, the ... the Millennium Bridge in London  is famous for his sophisticated, modern style of architecture. ... Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen designed Ingalls Rink, ... Bloomer said he has not yet seen the plans for the new project but is...
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Jeopary Questions page 1547 - STRAIT GUY - TriviaBistro.com  STRAIGHT MEN: His name had top billing on "Laugh-In"; look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls ... NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE: Daniel Burnham had to work with a triangular plot where Broadway, 5th & 23rd meet, & he came up with this building ... Convention went on for 14 days in the second incarnation of this building.
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Fazlur Rahman Khan - Wikipedia  Fazlur Rahman Khan (3 April 1929  27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural ... Although best known for skyscrapers, Khan was also an active designer of other kinds of ... During the 1960s and 1970s, he became noted for his designs for Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center and 110-story Sears Tower,...
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Jepratardy Jeopardy Review Game Answer Key  #3, Now a paper company sales rep, he pitched only perfect game in World Series ... #4, Prior to his '59 death, he was planning a mile-high skyscraper, Frank...
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Frommers Guide to NY by Christopher Buczek - issuu  Feb 9, 2008 ... At that time, its 280-foot spire dominated the skyline. ...... limiting their height to a comfortable walk-up and allowed skyscrapers to soar. ...... The Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., which began as an artist's club in 1871 ...... cathedral, this magnificent structure has twin spires rising 330 feet above street level.
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Mies van der Rohe Society | Legacy | Mies: The Man, The Legacy  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), a German-born architect and ... acres could not accommodate the combined schools' needs, and Mies was encouraged ... an open space but in his final Master Plan he embraced Chicago's rectilinear street ... universality comes because there is an architecture expressive of its time.
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Check Out These Insane Views from Brooklyn's First 1,000+ Foot ...  Sep 25, 2015 ... I want to know  ... 340 Flatbush Avenue Ext - JDS Development, SHop Architects ... 2014 detail a much smaller tower of 65 stories and roughly 400 residential units. ... $16.75M townhouse owned by artist Angel 'Vlady' Oliveros boasts .... Though few would deny that Donald Trump enjoys placing himself in...
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Streetscapes - 40 Wall Street - A Race for the Skies, Lost by a Spire ...  Nov 15, 1992 ... New York Times ... crash and the unexpected loss of its title as the tallest building in the world. ... But in April his architect, H. Craig Severance, drew new plans, for a ... commercial buildings in the early 20's with William Van Alen, and he may ... In July 1929 a gold rivet was driven into the steelwork at 40 Wall...
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John Hancock Center - Wikipedia  The John Hancock Center is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) supertall skyscraper at 875 North ... The 44th-floor sky lobby features America's highest indoor swimming pool. ... Heckla moved his family in April 1969, before the building was completed. .... The platform is on the observatory level, and faces south over the city.
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Louis Sullivan - Wikipedia  Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856  April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an ... Other buildings often noted include the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), the...