| 单词 | skyscraper |
| 例句 | What about windmills on the roof of every skyscraper? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It felt weird to see the skyscrapers once brimming with life and now half dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z A polar bear as large as a skyscraper. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On Thursday, October 24, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, men in finely tailored suits began jumping from the windows of the city’s famous skyscrapers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I would like to climb up skyscrapers, fly with a cape, burn holes in metal with my fingertips, wear a mask, see through walls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The raft jerked to the right just as a polished rock tower the size of a skyscraper appeared in our path. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There was a glossy new airport, towering skyscrapers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When she looked down, she saw no safety net, only a forest of skyscrapers stabbing upward like needles upon which she would be impaled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Georgia O’Keeffe’s landscapes were of angular skyscrapers and neon thoroughfares, but mostly of the bleached bones, desert shadows, and weathered crosses of rural New Mexico. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Carmen had imagined golden streets, skyscrapers topped with rubies, wide-open spaces where she and Papa would build their new life. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Like the buildup of super-tall skyscrapers along the Asian rim in our own time, architectural gigantism followed the accumulation of sufficient money and political confidence to make such gestures. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Vectors depicting advanced computer-aided design models for amazing new skyscrapers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The rim arced through the sky at a height of 264 feet, as high as the topmost occupied floor in Burnham’s Masonic Temple, the city’s tallest skyscraper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sitting on the floor with a fake skyscraper, none of us says anything about sitting in Ben’s room, about terrorists or tears. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z When they came to this country, they headed for the things that looked like high rocky cliffs to them, which happened to be tall buildings and skyscrapers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I notice Tiny looking blankly at me, swaying back and forth like a skyscraper in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes I think it would be weird if there were a skyscraper that moved up and down while its elevator stayed in place. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Flat water and docks were on one side of their van, and a cluster of skyscrapers on the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Beyond the treetops, there's a banner of skyscrapers looming overhead. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There were no skyscrapers in Caldwell, thousands here. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was here, in what Chicagoans called a “streetcar” suburb, that stockyard supervisors chose to settle, as did officials of companies headquartered in the skyscrapers of the Loop. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “There’s a successful architect who designs skyscrapers by using his feet to type, just like Aven does on her computer, and a woman who paints beautiful artwork that sells for quite a bit of money.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t know there were over a hundred skyscrapers. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The elevator stands at the far end of town like a windowless concrete skyscraper. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It’s a small skyscraper, all dark glass and metal. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some of the crystals were as massive as skyscrapers! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He described its skyscrapers and explained how each year the buildings grew taller and taller. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In his private practice Burnham was accustomed to having complete control over expenditures needed to build his skyscrapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Across the East River, like a fairy city made of silver cardboard, the skyscrapers loomed cleanly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t knock down the skyscrapers when the tenants left; so instead boards went over the windows and doors, and the great shells of commerce were put in cold storage. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Far down the island the skyscrapers rose tall and mysterious in the thin, pastel haze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched as it flew straight down the length of the island, so low it seemed to barely skim the tops of the skyscrapers. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z With each beat of their wings, we climbed higher between the canyon of skyscrapers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Flat water and docks were on one side of their van, and a cluster of skyscrapers on the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Contractors had begun erecting two of the firm’s newest, tallest Chicago skyscrapers, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Temple and the Masonic Fraternity Temple, at twenty-one stories the tallest building in the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the same way, a rat civilization would probably never have built skyscrapers, since rats prefer to live underground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The IOI skyscrapers were the three tallest buildings in the city, mighty towers of steel and mirrored glass joined by dozens of connective walkways and elevator trams. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Always sun. Never snow. The sky is wide open and blue. No skyscrapers. Not like Chicago.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Rain had slicked the streets into shiny, reflective tunnels lined with skyscrapers whose tops disappeared into the mist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The mountains are tall and proud, more impressive than any skyscraper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As I walked up, I held the railing tight and started inventing things in my head: air bags for skyscrapers, solar-powered limousines that never had to stop moving, a frictionless, perpetual yo-yo. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z On Fifth Avenue that summer, demolition was soon to begin on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, clearing the way for a skyscraper of unprecedented proportions, the Empire State Building. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Manhattan was a towering mass of skyscrapers on their left. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Offices in the newest of Chicago’s skyscrapers remained vacant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma City’s decaying skyscraper core. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Our skyscraper is firm, supporting the golf ball. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I mean, think about it: drowning in an elevator in a skyscraper. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z From here, the skyscrapers look like toy blocks propped up in the lowlands between hills. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Terrorists had crashed planes into two skyscrapers in New York and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I pressed my cheek against the glass to see as far south as possible, where the skyscrapers rose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And then we reached the crest of the ridge, and there, across a wide river, was a huge island jammed tip to tip with skyscrapers, their glass glowing like fire in the setting sun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was impossibly tall—a skyscraper with legs and arms. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The primary diver enters the water tethered to a search line as tall as a skyscraper. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She draws twisting white skyscrapers, complicated bridges, flocks of figures beside a river. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As the transport rolled deeper into the city’s skyscraper core, I saw people clustered on every street corner and in every vacant lot, huddled around burning barrels and portable fuel-cell heaters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Why, twenty-two million black people should tomorrow give a dollar apiece to build a skyscraper lobby building in Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s a skyscraper, impossibly imposing with his arms crossed now against his chest in a battle stance, studying me like I’m a new life form. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maybe they weren’t as tall as the skyscrapers Gregor knew by name, but they towered high above his head, some at least thirty stories and finished in artful peaks and turrets. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z San Francisco’s Sixty-Niners, Bob Presto’s club: it stood in North Beach, within view of the skyscrapers downtown. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z New York was known for its architecture, the elegant brownstones, the towering skyscrapers, the grand museums. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “He had an engaging naivete about the East. He had never seen a skyscraper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Little kids on pastel bikes pedaled furiously, churning the heat to butter, gasping stories of wooden crates piled higher than skyscrapers, of crates broken into, pigeons flushed and killed, security guards posted. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z If I end up being an office lady who wears slacks and changes into white sneakers to walk home from the train, I’ll just jump off a skyscraper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Even the dim sight of it, mostly lines and edges of shadow descending into blackness, brought back to Mark the memory of the flood and their mad clamber up the stairs of the skyscraper. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bobby took the elevator to the thirtieth floor of the skyscraper at 110 West Fortieth Street, on the edge of the garment district, and when he disembarked, the elevator operator pointed to a doorway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The old man huddled in the dark doorway, his bony face lit by the burning yellow in the windows of distant skyscrapers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, we’re just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in skyscraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that kind of thing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Reggie dropped them in front of a skyscraper and told them to call when they were done. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z You’d see a classmate who normally dressed in ratty jeans and an untucked shirt crossing campus in a pin-striped suit and understand that he or she was destined for a Manhattan skyscraper. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Past that, a wall of fog had swallowed most of San Francisco, leaving just the tops of skyscrapers and the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Those are skyscrapers! So this must be America! And that, my friends, means that we have crossed the Atlantic Ocean overnight!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The first time my parents took me to the Boston Public Library, I was four and crying from subway screeches, trucks, car horns, loud-talking people, wind blasting around skyscrapers. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “I get back from a morning of dealing with the Patriot rebels and what do I hear about? Helicopters two blocks from Drake. A girl scaling a skyscraper.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z On the north the view was bounded by the long chalk ridge of the Hog’s Back, from behind whose eastern extremity rose the towers of the seven skyscrapers which constituted Guildford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Hot 105 is in one of the skyscrapers downtown. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Mark sits on a seat at the tail end of the vessel and twists backward to look up at the towering skyscraper, where the dwindling glow of the day’s sunshine reflects an amber sheen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I bet. They asked me stuff like, ‘Did you eat a skyscraper?’ and ‘Do you weigh more than my dad?'” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After they left the niece’s suburb, the son drove them to the address his mother had given him, which turned out to be a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We chose Miami because the city’s skyscrapers are designed to withstand hurricanes, not earthquakes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Scene 1: A crowd viewing the body of a man that has jumped from a skyscraper on Wall Street as police officers try to clear the street. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Names of buildings hover in neon colors over each of the skyscrapers, and bright, animated advertisements play across entire sides of buildings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They formed multicolored skyscrapers, spreading high and wide. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Some redwoods are over a thousand years old, as tall as skyscrapers. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Our apartment on Euclid Avenue was about nine miles south of the Chicago Loop, which with its glittering skyscrapers and crowded sidewalks felt otherworldly to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When she arrived at the top, she felt like she was standing on a skyscraper. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help but think about what it would be like to fall from the top of one of these mile-high skyscrapers here, down toward these hard concrete sidewalks below. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Through the grid of steel cables, the skyscrapers divide into manageable fragments. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They travel south past the Wall Street skyscrapers, past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, past Bayonne, New Jersey, and the Bay Ridge Channel and under the Verrazano Bridge. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But beyond them lay a seething mass of factories and skyscrapers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, few people die as a result of high-wire acrobatics between skyscrapers, an activity which is nevertheless not safe. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The world around us changes, and suddenly we are no longer standing on the deck of the Pirate’s Den, but on top of a skyscraper, illuminated by a bloodred sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Brash skyscrapers, towering high above the city’s busy markets and railroads, made almost anything seem possible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The sky beyond the cut of skyscrapers is gray, turning grayer, and in a few hours this flurry of snow will become a steady fall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As a thing to catch people jumping out of burning skyscrapers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z How there were tall skyscrapers and that the city lit up at night. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m standing at the top of a wind-whipped skyscraper, arms outstretched. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It hasn’t got skyscrapers like New York, has it?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What if you had to water skyscrapers, and play classical music to them, and know if they like sun or shade? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Or: “Notice how the skyscraper here looks like it’s about to pierce the moon. That’s a thoughtful choice of perspective.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Golden blood, immortal ichor, spewed from the wound, making a waterfall taller than a skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Commerce is lined with skyscrapers covered in navy blue mirrors, making me look crazy tall. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I mean, Chicago had some impressive skyscrapers, but this was incredible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The year before, he and his wife and Monique had gone on a trip to Hong Kong, which struck him, mostly, as a pincushion of gleaming skyscrapers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the only reservation skyscraper, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, the drakon slithered down the side of a skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She looked up at the skyscraper and reeled, wondering how far she had traveled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Each group has to build a skyscraper strong enough to support a golf ball. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z They’d spent the next two weeks in that skyscraper, realizing quickly that they couldn’t search for loved ones yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was always night on Neonoir, the world over, and its surface was an uninterrupted grid of interconnected cities packed with impossibly large skyscrapers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Steeples and skyscrapers and bridges tumbled in and out of my vision. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was a far cry from the towering skyscrapers and concrete landscape of where he’d grown up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A wave the size of a skyscraper crashed over the forward deck, washing the front crossbows and half the port railing out to sea. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Tourists never go to downtown Orlando, because there’s nothing there but a few skyscrapers owned by banks and insurance companies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z By solving it, he helped the city become the birthplace of skyscrapers despite terrain that could not have been less suited to the role. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The Communications Corporation had a skyscraper office overlooking the East River in downtown New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The top of the skyscraper was lit up as usual, but the lights seemed to be malfunctioning. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Freeway bridges curve in toward the city’s heart, the dense, gleaming skyscrapers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A plume of water as tall as a skyscraper spewed into the moonlight. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Their “safety” was in schools, portfolios, and skyscrapers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The endless skyscrapers taunted the sky, but there was dirt on the building windows. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Out of the darkness above, an enormous form appeared—a squid larger than any skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The skyscrapers have been replaced by small, closely packed stores with bright awnings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Behind her, the skyscrapers of New York waited for us like a crowd held back, straining, ready to pounce. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But I was in no way prepared for the massive skyscrapers, gorgeous beachside drives, and awesome monuments I saw on our initial trip in the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Others, not as tall, close the gaps between skyscrapers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Overhead, my photo appears, covering the entire side of a skyscraper. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It looks like a prehistoric polar bear, except as tall as a skyscraper—and its jaws are open wide, revealing a row of sharp teeth, each one as long as the nearest towering ice structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I am walking through New York City with Kim, the skyscrapers casting shadows on our faces. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the earth is flat and there are hardly any trees, the trailers rise out of the landscape like skyscrapers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people that are built up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A column of dust rose from a mound of rubble, which I realized was a collapsed skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z This is not such an easy task when the snowdrifts are piled high as a Chicago skyscraper! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z What about skyscrapers made with moving parts, so they could rearrange themselves when they had to, and even open holes in their middles for planes to fly through? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A flock of pegasi descended from the sky, swooping between the skyscrapers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z So what about skyscrapers for dead people that were built down? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His mind leaps from violent imagery to sex to people jumping out of burning skyscrapers to very practical issues, such as how to get a duvet to stay on a bed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I stared out the window in silent apprehension as the corporate headquarters of Innovative Online Industries Inc. came into view: two rectangular skyscrapers flanking a circular one, forming the IOI corporate logo. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It consisted of three mirror-surfaced towers—two rectangular skyscrapers on either side of a circular one. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Chrysler Building fights for air, wedged between an uninspired tall black monolith and a truly ugly skyscraper with a pyramidal top. Travels with My Weather App 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And one super car crashes through windows, sailing from one Abu Dhabi skyscraper to another and then another, like Doc Brown's DeLorean. 'Cars can't fly' (Yes, they can! See: 'Furious 7'!) and other falsehoods 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z He and his band, the Attractions, were coming down from New Haven on their first tour of the United States when the skyscrapers came into view. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Each topping 700 feet, these would be the first skyscrapers in the largely low-rise Arts District. A big Herzog & de Meuron design for the Arts District bets that L.A. will get comfortable with density 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Night life in the valley consists of gazing at the riot of stars in the sky, made visible because of the lack of streetlights and skyscrapers. Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Streb asks her dancers to throw themselves off bridges, to climb down skyscrapers, to knock themselves against walls. The stylish imagination behind Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z I suppose you could ding it for lack of night life, though that seems a bit like criticizing its lack of skyscrapers. Frugal Traveler Blog: Litchfield County, Easy on the Wallet 2011-10-04T17:28:19Z We were alone in the parking lot, surrounded by the skyscrapers. Why I outed a Christian star 2012-08-12T16:00:00Z “ParaPivot’s” visual interactions with the Manhattan skyline, Ms. Kwade said, were partly inspired by the fact that the city’s skyscrapers were symbols of a capitalist system she views with mistrust. On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of Faith 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “This is the stuff of `Mission Impossible,' not skyscraper construction,” Barowitz said. Willis Tower could remain America's tallest 2012-05-10T20:02:00Z It was a marvel — a medieval skyscraper, built upon a rock crowned by a gilded statue of Saint Michael. France’s stunning Mont St-Michel inspires 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s perhaps the oldest tavern in New York, now surrounded by skyscrapers. Concierge Dwight Owsley on New York City 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The city's renovated Art Nouveau and Islamic-era architecture increasingly competes for attention with constructions like the wavy, glass-fronted Flame Towers complex, whose three skyscrapers light up at night in a playful LED display. Azerbaijan basks in glitz, fears exposure 2012-05-23T12:06:15Z But understanding how these white-collar workers occupy themselves when they get to their desks in skyscrapers and office parks across America takes a little imagination. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In the process, they’ll learn how skyscrapers light up, how drawbridges move and other cool things. Top STEM toys are hands-on fun 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z These were followed by canvases, some of them spray-painted, inspired by the roads, bridges and skyscrapers of Manhattan. Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100 2011-04-12T02:27:12Z The clip shows George Clooney, who plays a former child genius, alongside Britt Robertson and Hugh Lawrie as they enter a world filled with huge skyscrapers, flying trains and strange machines “where nothing is impossible.” Watch the New Trailer for Disney's Tomorowland 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Called Hudson Yards, it will feature a skyscraper headquarters for Time Warner. Can D.C. build a $45 million park for Anacostia without pushing people out? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Most of the Art Deco buildings are smaller than the modern skyscrapers rising in the area, but they still soar. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Downtown still sparkles, but many of the innovative skyscrapers are struggling with high vacancy rates. In a Year of Abrupt Transitions, a Trip to Tahiti. And Calgary. 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Climbing beans are like city dwellers, inhabiting different floors of the same skyscraper. Why beans are the pandemic comfort veggie 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Expect to see ’dos that look like urns and wedding cakes and — who knows? — maybe even skyscrapers, firehouses and suspension bridges. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z The vignettes, timed to play at the golden hour, are casual, edifying and candid, asking us to consider the overlapping landscapes of the cemented-over wetlands, the skyscraper canyons, the storm surges. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Sunny days are spectacular, with light bouncing off the gold-domed State House and the city’s skyscrapers casting shadows on the intricate architecture of the Back Bay. 36 Hours: Boston 2010-08-06T05:00:00Z They protested in front of parliament as lawmakers debated a law allowing a private company to build a new theater on the site of the 78-year-old building and several skyscrapers close by. Albanian actors protest as parliament backs National Theatre... 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A Hungarian circus performer who clambers up a skyscraper and ties himself to the wing of an airplane. 2010-02-11T22:46:00Z He has a lair, an old-fashioned boardroom high up in a skyscraper, decorated with adulatory front pages about public figures. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z He had seen a photograph of the 22-floor skyscraper taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1903 and reproduced in a French magazine. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z You can imagine them as sci-fi architectural parasites strung buoyantly between the skyscrapers of a Miss Haversham city, its rigid glass and steel gradually returning to the chaos of nature. Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 ? review 2011-02-17T09:51:50Z Activities include directing traffic, erecting a skyscraper and “ice skating” in their socks and investigating urban tales on the steps of the New York Public Library. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Another glittery piece is his replica of Taipei 101, a 1,671-foot skyscraper that briefly made Taiwan a winner in the audacious tower arms race. The world’s greatest buildings, built from Legos 2014-01-30T21:01:45Z In the heart of the city, near the central train station, rises a monument from a different era: Giò Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi’s Pirelli skyscraper, the symbol of Italy’s postwar economic boom. New Venues Put Milan on the Contemporary Art Map 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Theater review People love seeing a wrecking ball smash into a skyscraper. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z Stroll another 20 minutes and you end up in an ultramodern neighborhood anchored by the neo-futuristic Turning Torso, a mesmerizing skyscraper that twists a full 90 degrees from base to roof. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The production features a stage that doubles as a massive projection screen, transporting audiences from Manhattan's skyscrapers to the far-flung desert while heroes and villains fight battle after battle. Marvel unleashes superheroes for stunt-filled live shows 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Coach is building the first of the skyscrapers that will hem in the sky, as the 26-acre, $15 billion Hudson Yards district proceeds. Unruly Final Section of High Line to Open 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Kreuther’s dishes look as unmistakably man-made as a skyscraper, and his sauces were obviously produced in a stockpot, not an udder. Restaurant Review: Gabriel Kreuther in Midtown 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z One morning this March, Payne—wearing a trucker’s cap and carrying a backpack—approached the Verizon Building, a skyscraper adjacent to the World Trade Center, to scout for a new project. Exploring the Lost Grandeur of New York City’s Verizon Building 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s organic and architectonic, a seascape and a skyscraper. Art Review: ?Big Bamb?? by Doug and Mike Starn at the Met 2010-06-03T21:22:00Z “The skyscraper is the dominant male that forces the city, or the woman, into submissiveness; or the skyscraper, which represents modernity, fertilizes the historic city center.” Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The move follows concerns that several famous views of Westminster will be threatened by the development of a series of skyscrapers. Westminster's world heritage status at risk as Unesco condemns plan for skyscrapers 2013-06-08T23:05:43Z And “Resident Evil: Afterlife” opens with this needle-dive sequence, where it’s in this underground skyscraper. Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich: A Marriage Built on Monsters 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z There, hidden until now at the end of the street, was a modernist skyscraper, the Tour Evasion 2000, rising awfully, dejectedly, above its surroundings. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z The Play Lawn is a gigantic field with a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline’s skyscrapers and high-rises. On New York’s Governors Island, the living is mellow and the water is every shade of blue He hoped to include "What My Dad Gave Me," a 65-foot-tall skyscraper made of toy parts that debuted at Rockefeller Center in 2008 as well as beehive bunkers from "Extreme Measures." LACMA to show Chris Burden's last finished work, 'Ode to Santos Dumont' 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The artist paradoxically calls his skyscraper “Point of Infinity,” and, even more than the beautiful sliver of mirror-finished stainless steel itself, he hopes to showcase that Zen koan-like notion. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It promised so much – at least as much as a film about a man with a burning head riding a motorbike up a skyscraper can promise – but it was bungled at almost every turn. Ghost Rider 2 2011-08-04T11:29:11Z Hong Kong also has the world’s tallest vertical malls — “mall skyscrapers” that rise up to 26 levels, with crisscrossing “expresators” that shoot shoppers high up into soaring atriums. The mall isn’t dead — it’s just changing 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z That harmless encounter in a midtown skyscraper shocked a long-slumbering willfulness into being, a Frankenstein lightning bolt of energy and resolve. Poker for girls: In New York’s male-dominated world of underground poker, I found my true strength 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z When you look at some of the massive pieces just right, you’d swear they’re holding up the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan in the distance. Newest New Yorkers at Play 2011-08-11T22:00:11Z Santa Claus climbing down a skyscraper in Berlin. Germany's skyscraping Santa, monsters top unusual Christmas celebrations 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z As a young teacher in Texas, O'Keeffe depicted the state's "wide empty country"; in New York she painted angular skyscrapers and the busy East River. New Mexico on Thames: Georgia O'Keeffe gets big London show 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The rich are ensconced in their skyscrapers, but everyone else lives in some form of commune. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z In 2011, the top of the skyscraper was illuminated in red in recognition of the dolphin slaughter that was the focus of “The Cove.” Illuminating the Plight of Endangered Species, at the Empire State Building 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Is the capital's rash of new skyscrapers the result of lazy, unimaginative designs waved through by council planners for political and commercial gain? Tall buildings 2013-04-16T08:11:11Z Aluminum composite panels were also at the heart of a fiery skyscraper fire in Dubai last year. Essential Arts & Culture: About Julius Caesar, the Ojai Music Festival, inequity and tower design 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Spider-Man can swing through the skyscrapers of Manhattan with ease, while the Incredible Hulk is no longer just an enormous bodybuilder covered in green paint. Kick-Ass: changing comic book films in a single blow 2010-03-29T13:41:00Z Refreshingly, Egan and her characters turn their backs on a Manhattan interior defined by subways and skyscrapers, Broadway and Wall Street, to look outward to sea. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The stomach drops, as if you’ve been shoved backward from a skyscraper and are flailing through space. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Inventiveness prevails, perhaps nowhere more strikingly than in Aedas’s twin Abu Dhabi skyscrapers, whose smart façades adjust to changing light conditions. Ten Daring New Buildings Around the World 2014-01-09T05:00:00Z With skyscrapers becoming an inescapable fact of modern life, miniature ones turned out to be the best way for Kingelez’s imagination to confront reality. Fantastical Cityscapes of Cardboard and Glue at MoMA 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Need a scary skyscraper or a massive mathematician? Nick Gillett's top 10 games of 2010 2010-12-18T00:07:43Z Although the Persian Gulf country is found just south of the famed emirate, it boasts no glittering skyscrapers. This Persian Gulf country may be the anti-Dubai — and that’s a good thing 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Unesco is taking the first steps towards taking away 's World Heritage Site status because of a multi-billion pound skyscraper scheme that will dominate the waterfront. Unesco meets to discuss Liverpool's world heritage status 2012-06-20T13:54:39Z For his recent commission “Creative Courts,” Ilori designed a Technicolor basketball court set against the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, one of London’s main financial districts. The Artist Who Dreamed Up a Kaleidoscopic Basketball Court for London’s Canary Wharf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The train station will pump people into the skyscrapers, who will lunch under the trees and shop in the mall. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z He thought maybe a handful of babies falling from a skyscraper might do the trick. Watch a Falling-Baby Rescue in ‘The Flash’ 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z It is all quite a brittle foundation upon which to build this fame skyscraper. The Harry Styles Show (and Some Music) Comes to New York 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Since the Sept. 11 attacks, many cubicle dwellers have been haunted by fears of being stuck in a skyscraper when disaster strikes. How to Survive the Apocalypse 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z There is perhaps no more visible symbol of the city’s transformation than the Zifeng Tower, a 1,480-foot skyscraper that opened its doors last May. The Asia Issue: Next Stop: In Nanjing, China, Art and Youth Help a City Recover From Its Tragic Past 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z Clark also constructed a chess set whose pieces include skyscrapers and for-sale signs. In the galleries: Heading home 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z While the reflecting tower would still leave a dark footprint, the public space between the two skyscrapers would be illuminated throughout the day. Architecture Firm NBBJ’s Skyscrapers Erase Each Other’s Shadows 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It falls to Bahadur’s mother to be the breadwinner, working as a nanny for a family in one of the skyscraper condos Jai calls “hi-fi buildings” that loom luxuriously over the shacks of the basti. Who Cares About One Missing Child in an Indian Slum? Another Child 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It features a Mao-like dictator who crushes the hands that applaud him, after which the countryside is obliterated by backhoes and derricks, leaving peasants and animals wandering among skyscrapers to the sound of upbeat music. Chinese Life as Child?s Play 2011-06-04T23:45:24Z Chengdu might look like a typically gray Chinese metropolis of skyscrapers and chaotic traffic, but beneath the concrete exterior is one of China’s most inviting, charming cities. 36 Hours in Chengdu, China 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It was once envisioned as a new Rockefeller Center, a great urban ensemble where low-rise theaters and cultural centers would rub shoulders with skyscrapers. Gravity's Rainbow: The 9/11 Memorial Manages a Delicate Balance Between Grief and Consolation 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z The same cool, surface-level gaze falls upon the windows of London skyscrapers, the water of pools and oceans, and the great love of his youth, the painter Jochen Klein. The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z For a long time the land on which this park now sits, not far from the forest of skyscrapers downtown, was a rail yard known as the Cornfield. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z “The strings shoot up to the top of the skyscraper, so the building becomes both the bridge and the structure for the instrument,” says the Malibu-based artist. The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world's longest stringed instrument 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “I made a big skyscraper with a few persons jumping from the roof,” he once wrote. Books of The Times: ‘Saul Steinberg,’ a Biography by Deirdre Bair 2012-12-13T23:12:59Z Along with “Orange Light” and three other spectacular cityscapes the size of skyscraper windows, “Martha Diamond: 1980-1989” includes two striking large still lifes and 22 tiny Masonite studies. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z I know, I know — we need another novel about New York City the way New York City needs another skyscraper. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z If you told me this event took place in the basement of a skyscraper in Dubai or an underground casino in Romania, I wouldn’t blink. Anatomy of a scene: how Steve Harvey destroyed Miss Universe 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z He falls from the top of a skyscraper and dies horribly after mistaking his adult human base-jumping son for a man attempting suicide. The most disturbing talking animals in film – ranked! 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Richard Nickel, a photographer in Chicago, started working on it as a graduate student, focusing on early skyscrapers by Louis Sullivan. Antiques: A Decades-Long Study Is Finally Published 2010-12-30T22:05:55Z That is in a different category because it's classed as a skyscraper – habitable and designed for office and commercial use. Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower, opens to the public 2012-05-22T07:40:33Z The tour that began in the boxy red Weedpatch gym, surrounded by vineyards, will end in the shadow of skyscrapers. Cornerstone Theater Company gives local flavors to Shakespeare 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Others are visual production numbers, as when two guys, hero and villain, rapidly rappel the sides of adjacent skyscrapers. A B-Plus for The A-Team 2010-06-12T19:55:00Z In his last decade, he produced luminous, pixelated images of skyscrapers by applying paint in tiny daubs on sheets of cardboard. Review: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, ‘King of Lesser Lands’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z New skyscrapers are rising, and planning applications for more are under way. Architecture: Debate the race for the sky 2013-03-10T00:05:40Z In Hong Kong, the city’s tallest skyscraper will become home to a hotel. Openings: Miami to Jaipur: New Rooms That Stand Out 2011-01-12T20:09:48Z The Empire State Building's owners saw those remarks as a continuing threat to trespass at the storied skyscraper. Court bars stunt jumper from Empire State Building 2010-06-15T23:35:00Z Safdie says that a penchant for skyscrapers and the privatization of public space are creating cities that are “not worthy of our civilization.” Round-Up: Ancient graffiti, 3-D selfies and Norway's cool abstract money 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Working in the shadow of Beijing's looming skyscrapers, Yin Xueqiang weighs a pile of cardboard and old shoe racks in a dusty scrapyard, the latest casualty of a crackdown on migrant workers in China's capital. Beijing's scrap collectors swept up in latest crackdown on migrants 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The beds face soaring windows, which in my case offered a beautifully composed Charles Sheeler-like view of the city’s landmark 1930 skyscraper, Terminal Tower, and the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway’s jutting steel and concrete. Check In: Hotel Review: Aloft Cleveland Downtown 2013-12-10T19:37:25Z "Mycelium connects even the rooftop of the tallest skyscraper to the plants, to the grass, to the ground, to animals, and to human beings," the show notes read. Year of the mushroom: Why 2022 was defined by fungi 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z In 2001 the images that terrified us were of skyscrapers on fire and then collapsing. For architecture in 2015, the world's 'soft targets' prompt a reevaluation 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z And one thing somewhat specific about the site, a terrace framed by skyscrapers and overlooking the East River, is its exposure to the elements. Dance Review: Silas Riener Presents ‘Reveal’ at the Elevated Acre 2013-07-04T22:40:44Z Downtown, elegant prewar skyscrapers that had sat hauntingly empty for years had begun to fill up with luxury apartments and hotels. Shinola Takes Its ‘Detroit Cool’ Message on the Road 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z All the passengers looked to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, Hans says, as “their surfaces brightened ever more fiercely with the sunlight.” The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z That's just what the tiny cars do in "Metropolis II," a colorful contraption composed of 1,100 miniature vehicles, 18 miniature roads, a tiny commuter rail line and dozens of small skyscrapers and other buildings. Chris Burden's new work: art imitating the future 2012-01-14T16:35:15Z Its perimeter is lined with variations of twisted, colored steel rising from the ground like skyscrapers. Green Lantern Roller Coaster Ride at Six Flags in New Jersey 2011-08-25T21:09:49Z The scope of the film will also broaden to encompass locations ranging from the heartland of America to the vertical playground of Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. Michael Bay On How He Somehow Made the New Transformers Even More Bombastic 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Inside illegal Chinese warehouses where skyscrapers of shark fins are bloodily stacked, and to an Indonesian village where manta rays are butchered for their gills, he provides gory proof of breathtaking wastefulness. Review: ‘Racing Extinction’ Charts the Slaughter of Vital Species 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z “I like the architectural shapes,” Ms. Giannini said, “especially the New York skyscrapers of the period.” | Trendspotting: Why Deco Now? 2011-11-22T16:37:08Z In “Mothership,” a cow stands atop a spaceship, with well-known buildings atop the animal’s back in a sort of skyscraper theme park. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ The hero of this production is more likely to tilt at skyscrapers than at windmills. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Over the course of the film, these men expand into low-grade pranks and vandalism, and eventually form a terrorist cell called Project Mayhem that plants bombs in skyscrapers. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Set in the law offices, restaurants and pricey hotels of Chicago, this half-hour drama is in love, or lust, with glass-walled dining rooms, translucent office partitions, shimmering skyscraper exteriors. Review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ a Window Into Upscale Transactional Sex 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s why Marling retreated from the skyscrapers of Wall Street for the life of an actress in the first place. Brit Marling on Feminist Civil War Movie 'The Keeping Room' and Writing Honest Roles for Women 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z After the necessary introductions and plot basics, there’s the climactic conflict: at least one extraordinary individual doing battle with something evil, ricocheting around skyscrapers and vanquishing foes in the center of a bustling city. When Superheroes Battle Evil, Why Does Washington Always Lose? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Where corporate earnings had previously been spent on skyscrapers and company planes, it now poured into the personal bank accounts of executives. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z As the Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr Jr. observed of Hopper, “His indifference to skyscrapers is remarkable in a painter of New York architecture.” Edward Hopper’s Fantasy Island 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z On the long pre-dawn drive from her Queens apartment to her Manhattan office, the film captures her huddled sleepily in a company car, a small, pale figure dwarfed by rearing skyscrapers. ‘The Assistant’ Review: Screaming on the Inside 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is fitting that the only city in the Western Hemisphere to commission a Hadid skyscraper, Miami, was the place where she died of a heart attack this morning. Postscript: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Here she is at the center of all this, a tiny dynamo in skyscraper heels who gives off an aura of calm — how real it is is anyone’s guess — while everything spins around her. T Magazine: Victoria Beckham, Working Girl 2013-08-22T13:00:43Z It is a giant lair in a futuristic skyscraper, with enough room for both a desk and a big table, along with an expansive view of Central Park. Olaf Olafsson, ?Restoration? Author and Time Warner Manager 2012-03-05T16:16:53Z The ramshackle industrial quarter to the east is rapidly being redeveloped into a forest of skyscrapers. Bratislava: Slovakia’s capital makes a remarkable comeback 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z And its problems are not unique: As white-shoe law firms shrink and expanding tech companies in L.A. increasingly move into restored warehouses or historic buildings, commercial skyscrapers around the country are struggling to find tenants. Ride the US Bank Tower's glass Skyslide with 70 floors of nothingness below you 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Admire the stately evergreens and wildlife, which includes spotted geese, ducks, swans, turtles and raccoons all within a golf-swing of downtown skyscrapers. 36 Hours in Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-06-20T15:46:07Z Her Aqua skyscraper, completed in 2010, rises 859 feet above Chicago, its wavelike facade a gorgeously undulating contrast to its modernist and art deco neighbors. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z However, Mr Barr’s careful statistical analysis indicates that over the long sweep of history, skyscraper construction is rational: bursts of activity tend to follow an increase in land values, but not the other way round. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Iowa is not just a reminder that America is more than the sum total of its skyscrapers and safe spaces. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z A skyscraper crumbles in the distance and everyone cheers. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z More than 30 new skyscrapers are rising or soon will in this city. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z Those glamorous chorines, with their skyscraper legs flapping away, are a New York institution worth cherishing. Review: ‘New York Spring Spectacular’ Barrels Into Radio City 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Rise above the din of Friday rush hour by heading to one of the city’s rooftop bars, built atop sparkling skyscrapers that provide a mesmerizing view of the city’s broad boulevards and chaotic traffic circles. 36 Hours in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2014-05-08T17:13:04Z In the same speech he criticised the plans of his friend Lord Palumbo to replace the Victorian Mappin & Webb building in London with a skyscraper. Prince Charles accused of pressurising Qatari royal family over residential development 2010-05-17T22:34:00Z At this time of year, the setting sun reflects off the spire of 1 World Trade Center before the glimmer of skyscraper lights pierces the darkness after intermission. Review: Donald Berman Balances Fire and Rhapsody at Bargemusic 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Her feed is filled with pictures of skyscrapers and iconic locations of New York; cafes, parks, scenes from inside a yellow taxi cab. The First Family of Instagram 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z His New York Times skyscraper, in contrast to the Shard, goes almost too far in its reticence, appearing grey and anonymous from a distance. The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator 2012-06-13T17:43:50Z “Balloons inflate. That doesn’t mean they’re skyscrapers. I always tell guys: ‘Don’t get too caught up on how many seats you’re playing. Aziz Ansari Prepares for Madison Square Garden 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “Driving between skyscrapers” was her title for a photo from beneath soaring glass towers and billowing clouds. In New York, searching for the reclusive and elusive Melania Trump 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Masterly, all of this detail is made to appear extremely flat, like the front of a sleek skyscraper. | Fashion Review: Exit Paris, Winking 2011-03-10T23:42:03Z The old model of urban economics, agglomerated vertically in a clutch of downtown skyscrapers, has gradually ceded to a broader vision of mobility, remote access and live-work neighborhoods. Rebuilding Ground Zero Was a Mess. Lower Manhattan Bloomed Anyway. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Quake footage was available almost instantly: Office workers running outside as building chunks slam to the ground; skyscrapers swaying like evergreens in a windstorm; pictures falling off walls; store stock spilling to the floor. Images of disaster in Japan lend visual power 2011-03-20T23:16:04Z But as unloved and forgotten as this little river junction appears, it has been as central to Chicago’s history as the skyscrapers piled up theatrically in the distance. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z Laborers struggle in a dank, cavernous underground world to support a civilization of plutocrats who live in deco luxury atop elegant, organically shaped skyscrapers. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z Related’s skyscrapers at the yard would rise beside and on top of that. Hudson Yards Promised a Park. They Didn’t Mention the Giant Wall. 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z That visual enticement was transported to a show set in an airy, empty Manhattan skyscraper, with patches of spring flowers on the uncovered floor. Fashion Review: Jason Wu Debuts at Hugo Boss 2014-02-16T11:53:10Z Listening to Pusha T rap is like watching a skyscraper get built one steel girder at a time: Every step is carefully programmed, every angle is crisp, and the sum total effect is overpowering. The 28 Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Cobb and Ariadne arrive on a shoreline rimmed with crumbling skyscrapers. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z I saw myself on gum-flecked sidewalks among skyscrapers, sliding my hands into the pockets of my crimson coat, my right finger poking through the familiar hole in the silk lining. Driving 2,130 Miles for a Haircut 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z They settled in Chicago, a city that has a much-lauded architectural history and calls itself, not unjustly, the birthplace of the skyscraper. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z What skyscrapers should I be looking for that are located in Central Park? Grant Achatz, Science-Minded Chef, Turns to Cloning 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The China that Ms. Wang depicts is a megalopolis of gleaming skyscrapers and breakneck economic growth. Review: ‘Maineland’ Considers America With Help From Chinese Students 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Two paintings show Central Park bordered by skyscrapers, but Sediles’s pictures are rarely so urban or so specific. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The iconic film “Fight Club” ended with the Pixies’ original electric guitars scoring the collapse of Wilmington, Delaware’s skyscrapers. Best TV of 2015: The best pop-music cues, from “Where Is My Mind” to Fleetwood Mac 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s strange honeycomb of platforms and staircases, partially ringed by skyscrapers, offered striking views of the waterfront and quickly became an Instagram favorite. A struggle to prevent suicides at soaring NYC sculpture 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z But, paradoxically, the seasoned adventuress feared becoming lost in the metropolis and got her bearings by imagining skyscrapers as summits along a trail. A Pioneering Photographer, Bare in the Back Country 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z A skyscraper lobby installation “is pretty darn unusual,” he said. Antiques: Panoramic ?Vision? Back From Tour of Spain 2010-03-04T22:22:00Z But what would something more modern, like a skyscraper or a tower, look like on wood? Turning Your Vacation Photos Into Works of Art 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Urban development really got going here at the turn of the 20th century, and the tour takes in key modern architecture including railway stations and skyscrapers. 10 of the best architecture tours 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The satirist Stephen Colbert stares out at a towering "telecommunications skyscraper whose peak bristles with microwave transmitters" and thinks mostly about cancer. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z The second season appeared just as another tranche of impossible-to-understand financial instruments pushed the global economy out the skyscraper window — bankrupting such enterprises as General Motors, the colossus of Don Draper’s world. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z "Every time a movie shows skyscrapers in Shanghai instead of secret police arresting people, China has scored another propaganda victory." Be nice to China: Hollywood risks 'artistic surrender' in effort to please 2013-05-30T14:40:50Z He was born in 1908 in New York, at a time when the first skyscrapers were just appearing on the skyline, but milk was still delivered by horse and cart. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z The show moves in a glitter-zone of skyscrapers, luxury apartments, expensive restaurants and family horse ranches. Review: Manufacturing Reality in Netflix’s ‘Made in Mexico’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Extell sought the additional air rights to build a cantilevered section of its skyscraper 30 stories above the league’s roof. At Art Students League, Air Rights and Airing Grievances 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z This part of the design, providing views of the Bois de Boulogne treetops and the skyscrapers of La Defense, is a coup in itself, suggesting a kind of open-air village. Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation epitomizes Frank Gehry's genius 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The first lady bent down from atop her skyscraper snake pumps to greet Jenny Morrison with a kiss. Perspective | At second state dinner, Melania Trump’s dress is as quiet and dutiful as her 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z After a boozy, oozy lunch, vengeful Don rigs it so that Roger is forced to climb a skyscraper's worth of stairs in a rush to meet important clients back at the office. Rogue male 2013-04-07T17:00:01Z How do you create an alligator the size of a skyscraper? The Thing That Ate Saturday Night 2011-01-14T20:17:29Z A few imported motifs did seep into the era’s furnishings and accessories: Constructivist slashes on drinking glasses, cropped flapper hairstyles on porcelain statuettes and movie ads, and skyscrapers printed on kimonos. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z I like well-designed skyscrapers, but if you were to compare San Francisco to New York or Chicago, let alone Shanghai, you would be pretty underwhelmed. Mark Ulriksen’s “Towering Wealth” 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The iconic skyscraper, known for its soaring clock tower and festive walls of white terra cotta, for nearly a hundred years. Groupon backers cut deal for Wrigley Building 2011-09-16T20:11:00Z “An empty skyscraper is just about an ideal place for it — with the volume it has,” Agee wrote. Mourning the Letters That Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones That Were 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Then use that lofty inspiration to design and build your own sturdy skyscraper with directions from Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry: bit.ly/design-towers. 5 fun ways to lift your kids’ spirits this week | The Weekly Wonder 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z A new batch of skyscrapers is going up all around the park. Two downtown L.A. parks and the tricky task of designing them to best serve the city 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A small gallery of vivid Hollywood references are hidden in the skyscrapers that panel the horizon. Pack Your Bags, We’re Moving to ‘Roku City’ 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z People see the crowds, the skyscrapers, the development as the physical manifestations of the revival. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The Hotel Monaco’s new rooftop beer garden is another spot with an interesting view, this one of the surrounding skyscrapers. The little Burgh that’s catching food critics by surprise 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Livingstone, convinced of the virtues of skyscrapers after being dazzled by a visit to Shanghai, made the new City skyline a major source of section 106 agreements. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Manhattan West, a shiny new skyscraper development by Brookfield Properties directly across 10th Avenue from Hudson Yards, will have several major food components when it opens next October. A Tour of the Japanese Table at Chikarashi Isso in the Financial District 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Just before sunset, a French skyscraper climber who calls himself "Spiderman" started to pull his way up the side of the world's tallest tower in . French 'Spiderman' in bid to scale world's tallest building 2011-03-28T19:16:19Z While thwarting the theft of a tightly guarded biohazardous substance from the Institute for Infectious Diseases, in Lagos, Nigeria, they accidentally set several floors of a skyscraper on fire, resulting in fatalities. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z First we see the unwelcoming city, with its new skyscrapers, construction sites and busy traffic. Movie Review: ?Jean Gentil,? by Laura Amelia Guzm?n and Israel C?rdenas 2012-04-20T00:28:13Z But its centrality was cemented on June 16, 2015, the day Mr. Trump descended in the gilded escalator at his Manhattan skyscraper to announce his intention, then quixotic-seeming, to run for president. Breaking Up With Twitter 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Under normal circumstances, your expertise might be signaled to the public by a gaudy photograph of skyscrapers superimposed behind your head. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z This spinoff series borrows that approach, focusing on six metropolises with landscapes and skyscrapers best seen from above, beginning with Las Vegas. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Killing Eve’ and ‘Howards End’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z It’s not clear how long “Lone Star” can keep Bob’s phony lives aloft, and that suspense is the allure of a drama that straddles the oil rigs of Midland and the skyscrapers of Houston. Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z The sun was still above the treetops, and silhouetted skyscrapers in downtown Montreal 10 miles northeast looked like penciled-in shadows. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Going there today still reminds me of a time when Asian cities were not clogged with traffic, pollution and skyscrapers. Kuching, Malaysia: what to see plus the best restaurants, hotels and bars 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z They also suggest skyscraper skeletons, somehow ripped whole from buildings and tossed into the sky. Review | In the galleries: Noelle K. Tan’s photos develop interest with obscurity 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Familiar landmarks – delis, skyscrapers, the Guggenheim cloaked in snow – seem oddly unreal and old-fashioned. Cow-dung toothpaste? Taryn Simon's book Contraband unloads America's baggage 2011-01-03T17:51:54Z Twelve years later and out of power, Livingstone still evidently sees the Shard, like the Olympics, as one of his triumphs; as a more apparently inclusive and public-spirited skyscraper than most. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Built as the headquarters for the energy company Statoil, the prefab project comprises five identical volumes that suggest stacked horizontal skyscrapers—crisscrossing and boldly cantilevered to create overhangs of up to 100 feet. A Gravity Defying Office Complex in Oslo 2013-12-24T05:00:00Z “There is no question the board and I had differences over where the company should go,” he said, sounding wistful as the sun slipped behind the vertical forest of skyscrapers outside his living room window. An Environmentalist?s Latest Laundry List 2011-02-23T22:32:55Z The bookshelves were full of biographies about vaguely naughty Georgian duchesses with skyscraper hair and a bad gambling/drink/marriage habit. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z “Younger” has always been escapism at its fantastical best: A New York of dazzling Manhattan skyscrapers and tastefully grungy Brooklyn lofts. ‘Younger’ Departs a Covid-Free New York, a Fantasy to the End 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Largely bloodless, if at times extreme, violence, including gunplay and a fatal push from a skyscraper. | 'Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol': ?Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol? - Review 2011-12-16T00:00:15Z Other targets include the chief executive of a bank, a row of parked cars, a gilded equestrian statue and a skyscraper with the word “global” conveniently displayed near its crown. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z At last count, KPF, as the firm is known, had designed more than 250 skyscrapers around the globe, including some of the tallest. Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Ambitions, Dies at 92 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z At UCLA, the stage set was packed with stacks of books, like precarious literary cairns or metaphorical stand-ins for skyscrapers on the cityscape. An unforgettable trip through L.A. from its 'Ambassador' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Steel frames were required for new buildings, including some of the world’s first skyscrapers. Revisiting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The first thing Wilson shows us is a jarring image of a wire toppling over a Mercedes-Benz on the streets of New York and the final shot is of a skyscraper being blown up. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The structural use of steel made the Chicago skyscraper and its epigones possible at the turn of the 20th century. Hanging 104 Floors Above Chicago, There?s No Time for Vertigo 2011-05-30T12:00:00Z Although deeply rooted in tradition, it was not a return to roots, she insisted, but an innovative approach for the Africa of skyscrapers. Germaine Acogny on Choosing to Be the Chosen One 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But the growing shadow of supertall skyscrapers and luxury offices has prompted the dealer to finally uproot. Marian Goodman Joins TriBeCa Gallery Throng 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The skyline of central Hong Kong, with closely packed skyscrapers rising in front of lush hills, is stunningly reflected in Victoria Harbour. 9 Cities Where Public Transit Offers Eye-Popping Views 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Bustle may be an understatement here, where sweet and spicy street food perfumes the avenues and gilded Buddhist temples stand in dramatic juxtaposition to slick skyscrapers. These Are the 10 Best Cities to Visit Around the World 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Ni told me there was a rumor that a Hong Kong property developer planned to replace the complex with skyscrapers. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In a story as old as the skyscrapers themselves, urban dwellers reach the age of 40 and suddenly grow weary of long work hours followed by chatter over cocktails. "The Fabulous Beekman Boys": Can farming cure a midlife crisis? 2010-06-16T12:01:00Z And here we are, standing on what was once the tallest skyscraper in the world, and we’re looking up at the new tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. Brian Unger on ‘the Big American Story’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Set to open in December, it occupies the top floors of the International Commerce Centre, a skyscraper that is home to financial giants like Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. The World's Highest Hotel 2010-05-19T04:00:00Z But the place with the highest concentration of skyscraper hotels is Dubai. The World's Highest Hotel 2010-05-19T04:00:00Z Part of the series BAMkids Movie Matinees, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this famous caper features Lloyd as a salesclerk whose adventures include climbing a skyscraper and dangling from a clock. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z I’m looking forward to the gorgeous stage pictures that Ms. Taymor created — the women swinging on enormous gold ribbons, the skyscrapers unfolding over the stage. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2013-12-26T21:06:11Z A 9:30 red carpet arrival to a cocktail party that had begun at 6, she teetered up the museum stairs on skyscraper platforms, wearing a corset-like vest lettered with the phrase “Peg the Patriarchy.” ‘Stick It to the Man’ and Other Lessons From the Met Gala Cocktails 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Surrounded on two sides by some of the city's finest skyscrapers, My Morning Jacket responds with dazzling architecture of its own. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z A quick look at the city’s SoHo area or the centuries-old brownstones that line the streets of quiet Brooklyn neighborhoods reveals there’s much more to the Big Apple than towering skyscrapers and new buildings. Discover 50 Years of New York City’s Historic Landmarks 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The latter saw the New Yorkers play against a backdrop of Austin's fast-sprouting skyscrapers, with new songs from album Angles and encore fireworks thrown in. SXSW: The Strokes, the Vaccines, Odd Future and the best of the rest 2011-03-20T22:00:02Z Rebuilding Ground Zero will chronicle the engineering and building of the skyscraper being built on the site of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. 2010-01-15T10:39:00Z And they wanted to live in low- and mid-rise blocks, between three and 12 stories, not skyscrapers. New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Or if Chicago started filling the Loop with a collection of ungainly skyscrapers, each more of an eyesore than the last. Freeway design is a mash-up on newly expanded 405 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In this post-apocalyptic world, the few damp survivors cling to life atop skyscrapers. The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik ? review 2011-08-16T18:40:01Z It probably ends with the Tooth Fairy saving the day by pushing a stick into a thing on top of a skyscraper, too. Rise of the Guardians: too soft for superheroes? 2012-07-11T09:25:13Z But with its skyline already crowded with skyscrapers, and its place on the world stage firmly set, the city seems to be in the midst of a historical revival. Weekend in Sydney 2010-04-08T21:06:00Z There are sequences that seem intended to emphasize the ugly, alienating qualities of skyscrapers that ignore or distort Sullivan’s principles. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z After what seemed like a dozen hairpin bends in the river, the Glen Canyon Dam appeared suddenly like a misplaced skyscraper. The U.S. Issue: The Mighty Colorado at a Glide 2010-05-14T21:08:00Z And she makes clear that winning the commission was on Rivera’s mind as he worked on paintings like “Frozen Assets,” in which the skyscraper at 30 Rockefeller Plaza dwarfs the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. Art Review: ?Diego Rivera? Murals at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-11-17T23:10:25Z Unable to compete with the extravagant, steel-framed skyscrapers being constructed in the US, European cities developed their own style of streamlined building, with exotic facades combining art-deco geometry with national motifs. 10 of the best European cities for art deco design 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “It was only in the ’90s that Shanghai really started building highways and skyscrapers.” Scene/ Seen in ... Shanghai: Shanghai Biennales Whet the Appetite for Art 2010-12-10T18:13:00Z In counterpoint to this there was also a big run on romantic comedies, featuring Warsaw's three highest skyscrapers, newly built bridges, and the city's scruffy streets filled with nicely dressed extras. Poland's artists now speak to the world 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z Up close, it emerges that they are collages of hundreds of digital images of construction cranes, skyscrapers and streets signs — all elements of the new Chinese cityscape. Stars Shine East to West in Hong Kong 2010-06-01T11:00:00Z Emblematic of Astana’s rise, the tallest skyscraper in Central Asia is currently under construction here. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s a page from a biography of early 20th-century architect Adolf Loos that refers to the architect’s “column idea,” which was a proposal to build a skyscraper in the exact shape of a Doric column. Gene Weingarten’s most pathetic career moment? This column idea. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Forty acres immediately surrounding the site are being rezoned to create a Transbay District of residential and commercial development, including the city’s tallest skyscraper. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z It’s a nearly 100,000-square-foot space in the Fayette National Bank, the city’s first skyscraper, which was designed by McKim, Mead and White, the great masters of the Beaux-Arts in America. Deborah Berke Makes a Night at a Museum a Reality 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The dresses in the Marchesa collection are usually very elaborate and grand - best complemented by skyscraper heels. It's the season of newbies at NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T20:56:12Z GDS Architects designed an “invisible” skyscraper for a suburb of Seoul, which would use LEDs to project onto its surface the image that would be seen if the tower were not there. All that is unseen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z One animation combines old and new in a cartoonish contemporary style; it depicts waves and birds, as well as skyscrapers, as they move and grow. Review | In the galleries: ‘Misprints’ exhibition takes a purposeful approach 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The one feature that distinguishes it from a business center at a Four Seasons hotel is the backdrop – a New York skyline made of miniature wooden skyscrapers. The TV Watch: Jimmy Fallon Debuts New ‘Tonight’ Show in New York 2014-02-18T06:42:54Z When I did hike along the mountain range of glass towers, pyramids, Roman arcades and Manhattan skyscrapers on Las Vegas Boulevard, I kept seeing famous chefs used as advertisements for no-holds-barred indulgence. Las Vegas, Off the Eaten Path 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The crystals refract rainbow-like colors across the restaurant’s walls and ceiling during the daytime and then blend with the glittering Manhattan skyline after dark, as if the neighboring skyscrapers were melting into the firmament. A glorious revamp for New York City’s Rainbow Room 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The stiletto, much like the skyscraper, reached new heights in the early 20th century, when steel was added as a stabilizing agent to the heel’s core. Killer Heels debuts at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It was a medley of skyscraper dreams rolled into one magic morphing dress. Much Gilt, Little Guilt 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z And now it is appearing, with that quality of unarguable but implausible fact that often accompanies skyscrapers. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z Nevers from above is “city skyscrapers transformed into innocent children’s building blocks”; Professor Q spends his days “dumping dry, insipid words into research-paper-shaped molds.” ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z And when he leaps from skyscraper to skyscraper, the animation crackles with an energy it might otherwise lack. How the ‘Spider-Verse’ Animators Created That Trippy Look 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Before the discovery of vast natural gas reserves off Qatar's coast that crowned the small Gulf peninsular country with skyscrapers, bedouin roamed the desert and depended on meat and milk from camels to survive. Camels caught up in Qatar feud reunited with their owners 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The sprawl of new buildings — skyscrapers, hotels, apartment blocks — is almost unfathomable and seemingly endless. On the Runway: Luxury Shops in Beijing 2010-10-15T16:49:00Z Dams, skyscrapers and entire cities crumble while Johnson’s character, a helicopter rescue pilot, tries to save his family. How San Andreas is boosting California's earthquake industry 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The meadow surrounding the hut ran up to the base of a thousand foot-tall red rock pyramid — Colorado’s version of a skyscraper — which dominated the whole landscape. Biking the Open Road in Colorado, With a Few Bumps Along the Way 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “Not the kind that lies inert on the drafting table, but the kind that sets skyscrapers soaring, flings bridges into space and sends imagination spinning into orbit.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z At the Waldorf Astoria Chengdu, in the heart of the Chinese city’s high-tech zone, window curtains automatically open as hotel guests step into their room, revealing an impressive view of new skyscrapers. It’s all in the (fine) details for upscale hotels seeking to elevate guest experiences 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Up the coast, skyscrapers rose above tan sand beaches, cranes on their roofs. Overnighter: In Panama, a Respite for People and Pelicans 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z This is the eventual upshot of this realignment of local government's priorities, this doomed attempt to do good deeds by stealth – little more than skyscrapers in exchange for bus stops. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z “Cities are battlegrounds in the pandemic, and the ability to move agriculture into cities is no longer just a flight of fancy for agriculture students who want to put gardens on top of skyscrapers.” The Museum Is Closed, but Its Tomato Man Soldiers On 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z As 2.5 tons of paper floated down from skyscrapers during a parade after the 1969 moon landing, astronaut Neil Armstrong saw a spectator holding a sign he would remember: “Through you we touched the moon.” Parades are a joy and a nightmare — and somehow still the way we celebrate in 2018 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Where is the awe-inspiring skyscraper in the heart of Genoa? Why Renzo Piano's Shard is out of tune with London's historical heart 2012-08-09T11:46:06Z In the wake of the 1929 crash, desperate stockbrokers leaped to their deaths out of skyscraper windows, without a government safety net to break their fall. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z In the first four years, she created thirty skyscraper paintings, according to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Georgia O’Keeffe’s urban side 2012-07-25T16:42:00Z He is also known for designing the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco and Brookfield Place, formerly the World Financial Center, a downtown Manhattan skyscraper complex. Famed architect Cesar Pelli dies at 92 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Four-hundred-year-old churches nestled between skyscrapers — you just don’t see that on the West Coast. Money-saving ideas and kid-approved must-sees for a family trip to Boston — that won’t break the bank 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The dramatic venue was the 25th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper that overlooked the New Yorker hotel with floor to ceiling windows surrounding the runway, showcasing the New York skyline at sundown. Tory Burch mixes daywear and sportswear for luxury line 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z But it was also the 34-year-old singer's first visit to the summit of the legendary skyscraper. Yeah Yeah Yeahs become first band to shoot video atop Empire State Building 2013-06-24T11:21:20Z You can still see the skyscrapers, 9 miles across Elliott Bay, but then you drive along two-lane roads without a shoulder, through a tunnel of trees. Take a day trip to Bainbridge Island that goes beyond the usual tourist stops 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z A single man haunted by the memory of his dead sister, Laing moves into a futuristic skyscraper designed by a mysterious, idealistic architect. Review: In ‘High-Rise,’ Tom Hiddleston and Class War Hit a Low Point 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Nearly every skyscraper in New York is a monument to the wealth and power the city has created over hundreds of years and Hudson Yards is no exception nor anything new. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z To some, four extra inches and even higher “skyscraper” heels remain synonymous with authority. High Heels Are Ready to Stomp Out Crocs and Birks 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Though land reclamation projects have since filled in the waterfront and gleaming skyscrapers have sprouted around this narrow street, shrines and temples of many creeds have persevered in this faithfully preserved neighborhood. 36 Hours in Singapore 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Set in a world in which feds and crooks, both equally coldblooded, work in equivalent skyscraper offices, “Underworld U.S.A.” globalizes the post-Kefauver Committee mob films of the 1950s. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The glass-encased skyscraper, due to be completed in 2017, will include multiple types of spaces, such as a luxury hotel, apartment units, and shops. Vietnam’s Tallest Skyscraper Will Tower Over Ho Chi Minh City 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z He then compares the lit-up skyscrapers to the colored pencils of his childhood, and recalls the “brilliant yellow mess” that was one of the two World Trade Center towers. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Some day, the essayist mused, the Rainier “will give way to a modern skyscraper.” See Seattle’s first apartment house, ca. 1883 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z She next directed our gaze to the Solow Building, a skyscraper poking at the blue sky. Central Park: A green island in Manhattan It’s the perfect vantage point for taking in the city’s fast-rising thicket of skyscrapers. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Abu Dhabi 2011-04-07T21:18:51Z On Thursday, Bieber was in the middle of "secret" performance for fans, at a skyscraper in Paris. Justin Bieber suffers concussion after walking into glass wall 2012-06-01T10:13:00Z As Vietnam’s robust economy continues to grow and newly built skyscrapers devour blocks that once offered no-frills food options, finding decent dining in the central District 1 is becoming a challenge. Asia-Pacific Issue | Choice Tables: In Vietnam, Cauldrons on Every Corner 2010-03-17T15:21:00Z But its collection of overstuffed sofas, elaborate gold tea sets and pictures of colonnaded facades suggest that, for some at least, those soaring skyscrapers and tubular steel chairs were just an aberration. The Week Ahead: June 12 ? 18 2011-06-10T14:14:07Z The wave of pollution peaked Saturday with off-the-charts levels that shrouded Beijing’s skyscrapers in thick gray haze. Severe Beijing smog prompts government candor 2013-01-14T13:03:00Z The tower would also join another major skyscraper on Wilshire Boulevard -- the 73-story Wilshire Grand tower now under construction downtown -- in heralding a new era of high-rise architecture in Los Angeles. LACMA, Metro discussing new museum tower on Wilshire Boulevard 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Eyre, in the words of the Times book critic Dwight Garner, “attached himself to this story the way a human fly attaches to a skyscraper.” New in Paperback: ‘Squeeze Me’ and ‘The Inequality Machine’ 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Summon your urban Arnold Palmer by shooting golf balls through a block of skyscrapers at Aroma Spa & Sports, a 150-yard driving range surrounded by acres of green netting. What to Do in Koreatown, Los Angeles 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z There’s no one around to kill him and no skyscraper window to fall from. The Weird Agelessness of Don Draper 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Made with the awkward yet exacting touch of a visionary folk artist, they picture flying cylinders and cubes, stars, spirals, colorful patchworks and a giant robot looming over skyscrapers. Art in Review: H. C. WESTERMANN: ?A Human Condition? 2011-11-17T22:18:15Z Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of skyscrapers, and Grand Central, here was a computer-animated red robot and green monster waging an air war against flying metal animals. Avengers Spoiler Alert: All Sound and No Fury ? Or How Marvel Botched a Nuclear Apocalypse 2012-05-07T10:45:29Z Helicopters fly overhead, to and from landing pads atop skyscrapers. David Bezmozgis: My desktop 2013-05-21T11:30:02Z Looming skyscraper backdrops are constantly scrolling into the wings, with the neo-Classical bank buildings of Wall Street neatly evoking antiquity. Music Review: Even as Financial Fears Mount, Real Love Outweighs Gold 2011-08-01T22:54:07Z When we first met, he almost tripped on his untied shoelaces while admiring skyscrapers in Manhattan. Oh, Dewey, Where Would You Put Me? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z His radically angled photographs of America’s traffic jams, skyscrapers, fire escapes and power lines found their way into “Amerika,” the German architect Erich Mendelsohn’s photographic essay of American cityscapes. Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’ 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Up until this week’s episode of Mad Men, I assumed the man falling between skyscrapers in opening credits was strictly a metaphor. 'Mad Men' Recap: 'Lost Horizon' 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z In video clips and in his songs, Usher situates himself in an Atlanta of skyscrapers and strip clubs, and he can be as brazenly materialistic as his hip-hop contemporaries, singing about luxury cars and champagne. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The film — about a blaze that traps a group of dignitaries at the opening of the world’s tallest skyscraper — was best remembered for its special effects and its slick handling of stunts. John Guillermin, director of “The Towering Inferno,” dies at 89 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Across the way in a skyscraper was a guy in a suit, sitting at his desk on a conference call. The East star Brit Marling is a Hollywood connundrum 2013-06-28T13:00:00Z When Abdul has had enough at the Chicago reception, he rips off his tuxedo, hurls himself through tall picture windows, and is seen leaping from one miniature skyscraper to another. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z Characters preached about freeing the mind, ran up walls, leapt between skyscrapers and pulled off gymnastic feats all while carrying pounds of artillery and wearing heavy leather and latex. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z In 2009 her boutique firm, Studio Gang, completed the 82-story Windy City skyscraper, whose ingenious rippling façade of irregularly shaped and spaced balconies made it—and her—an instant sensation. AD Innovator: Jeanne Gang 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The stately brick building nestled among the Financial District skyscrapers dates to the 18th century but is largely reconstructed. From his gravesite to where he met his end, fans are flocking to Hamilton’s New York 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It ended with most of the area sold privately and turned into luxury skyscrapers set amid landscaped gated gardens. In space-starved Mumbai, docklands provide room for a view 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth, the novel tells the story of her country’s evolution from slavery to skyscrapers through the prism of one family. Women Dominate Shortlist for Booker International Prize 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z I myself once faced a similarly dire crisis while working alone one Sunday, many years ago, in a completely empty skyscraper in New York. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Don’t tell me to ‘Have a nice day’ 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Some economists reckon that a boom in skyscraper construction artificially forces up the price of land; developers want to build an even taller building than their rivals, so they furiously compete for plots. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Nearby hung the designer and architect Joseph Urban’s murals of skyscraper girders and Niagara Falls. Trove of Forgotten Steichen Photos Heads for Auction 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Right after the event, images of the imposing skyscrapers were even scrubbed from already filmed scenes in several movies. Mexican soap opera takes close look at 9/11 2011-08-26T14:22:08Z The wardrobe of a city that once was, filling skyscraper boardrooms and ballrooms, typist pools and art collectives, and may never be again. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It will be located in a 5-acre public space on Manhattan's west side overlooking the Hudson River and surrounded by the skyscrapers of the massive development project. NYC unveils massive new sculpture for public space project 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z I mean the top of most skyscraper can be modified to support wind cylinder turbines that can be used as secondary electrical supply for lighting during flooding, brown outs and for shelter in place. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Jean Nouvel, for instance, has just finished his striking new red, white, and blue skyscraper La Marseillaise. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s been played at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign events, and it was blaring last summer when Trump floated down the escalators of his eponymous skyscraper to announce his candidacy for president of the United States. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Hudson’s department store, where Mr. Gilbert is starting to build what is to be the tallest skyscraper in Detroit, a mixed-use tower. Hotel Review: Shinola Hotel, Detroit 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z To explore them is to witness a grandeur that inspires you, unlike many skyscrapers, which merely surprise you. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z In an equivocal flash of clairvoyance he visualizes the composer as a clean-shaven Brooklynite with “coal-black eyebrows” and “ringed fingers” writing down the tune on the 21st floor of a skyscraper. Review: ‘Nausea,’ by Jean-Paul Sartre 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Her creative direction of the Langham Chicago, which opened in 2013 in a skyscraper built by Mies van der Rohe, won praise, but burnishing that brand felt insufficient as a calling. Eaton, a Liberal Clubhouse, Opening Close to Trump’s 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “Building skyscrapers is a capitalist logic, it’s an ideal of modernity for many people inside the country,” Ms. Bissenova said. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The Blade Runner skyscrapers lining the harbor light up with images of snowflakes and reindeer and candy canes. My atheist Christmas in China 2013-12-24T00:00:00Z First on my list is a skyscraper next to a downtown park known as the Alameda Central, which because it was carved out in 1592 happens to be the oldest public garden in the Americas. In Mexico City, an itinerary built on modern architecture 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The restaurant is on the second floor of the New York Edition hotel, which opened in the skyscraper at the foot of Madison Avenue in May. Restaurant Review: The Clocktower in Midtown South 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z "The White Tiger" portrays this shift in Balram's fortune with the young man's wide-eyed gaping at the city's skyscrapers and luxury. "The White Tiger" is a terrifically cynical tale of an ambitious man who games the system 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z That the gallery, as well as the skyscraper it’s located in, is owned by Daim Zainuddin, a former finance minister and one of Mr. Mahathir’s closest allies, only adds to the intrigue. A Malaysian Art Scene, Under the Radar 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Strata, the first of three skyscrapers planned for here, is a symbol of the dynamism and energy the project demands. Spin city: London's Strata tower 2010-07-18T20:31:00Z Commissioned in 2003, this – like most Manhattan skyscrapers – is a design built to a demanding budget, and one required to pay back the investment made in it many times over. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z The Marseilles-born architect, who set up her own practice in Paris in 1993, is designing a skyscraper to be situated here. Digital love: Manuelle Gautrand and the Ga?t? Lyrique 2011-03-20T21:31:01Z Astoria Park Spanning 60 acres along the East river, the park has views of Manhattan’s skyscrapers and the striking Hellgate bridge. Manhattan transfers: New York’s boroughs by ferry 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z New York’s first skyscraper, the 11-storey Tower Building, went up in the 1880s. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z They see a looming skyscraper as a tasty target, not an intimidating, indomitable symbol of power. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z After terrorists attack a skyscraper, two young African-American executives find themselves trapped in an elevator. ‘Lift,’ by Walter Mosley, From Crossroads Theater Company 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z In 2012, he became the first person to walk a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, and in 2014, he walked blindfold between two skyscrapers in Chicago. Wallenda stunt siblings to walk 25 stories high across Times Square 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z I got to build a skyscraper right by the Woolworth Building. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z At the end of the 50s, this was Manhattan's newest and most glamorous skyscraper. Tate Modern's rehang cannot diminish the majesty of Mark Rothko 2012-08-22T14:22:27Z As the sun’s last rays illuminate the columns of skyscrapers, Jeffrey reflects: “I didn’t need heaven’s light. I had the boy’s cries of wonder.” The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The hotel and the train station coexist in one long, outstretched building, which was completed in 1914 and offers a refreshing prewar architectural counterpoint to the glittering glass-and-steel skyscrapers Tokyo is now known for. A $1,000 Day in Tokyo for $100 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z I’m not an explosives expert, but couldn’t a blast like that damage the structural integrity of a skyscraper to the point where it could collapse? 12 Hours Watching John McClane: The Diary of a Die Hard Marathoner 2013-02-14T20:44:04Z “Don’t impale yourself,” he warned, as he maneuvered past chunks of skyscrapers, boutiques, churches, hotels, libraries, factories, restaurants, armories, bridges, airports, train stations, banks and theaters. A Monk’s Interests Captured on Camera 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I was better equipped for my expedition to Tottenville, Staten Island, where the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company manufactured architectural ornaments for skyscrapers and cultural attractions, including the Woolworth Building and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Collectors Find Historical Value in Broken Glass 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Despite their seclusion, the skyscraper’s residents did not devolve into the anarchic violence of J. G. Ballard’s masterpiece “High Rise.” A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z And listen to how the melody dips when she yearns for “skyscraper love.” Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Instead, I was signing a release form on the 14th floor of a Tribeca skyscraper. My unreal reality TV romance 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Pei’s Fountain Place, a box-cutter-shaped skyscraper, and “Pegasus,” a neon red winged horse leaping over the Magnolia Hotel. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z At 15 stories, it’s no skyscraper, but it is taller than the buildings immediately around it, the tower cutting a profile far more distinguished than, say, the Walkie-Talkie. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z “I think New Yorkers are tired of glass skyscrapers that offer nothing but bland reflections,” he said. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Livermore, in his fourth consecutive La Scala premiere, set the Shakespearean tragedy in a contemporary city of skyscrapers, with video images projecting a dystopian fate as it falls to Macbeth’s tyranny. Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Christ was immediately infatuated with the flashy Y2K album artwork of the genre: colorful, sci-fi dreamscapes that featured skyscrapers or hovercrafts from the 22nd century. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z At South Street Seaport, the tall-masted ships docked there reminded Mr. Kriskiewicz that the word “skyscraper” was once used to describe the masts. 3 Day-Cruises Worth the Trip 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z While listening at the source, the city seems to become a vast, unruly orchestra, the skyscrapers like pipes and the bridge its vibrating centerpiece. Turning Bridges Into Music 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z With a Manhattan skyscraper to his name, Frank Gehry is increasingly part of the myth and legend of modern America. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z It’s in an early skyscraper downtown, close to the lakefront and bike paths. | Q&A: Jeanne Gang, the Chicago Architect ? Q&A 2011-09-29T00:04:54Z Those skyscrapers are a cliff face; Liberty is a mere comma. Statue of Liberty, Viewed From Afar With Affection 2012-07-03T17:57:32Z And Paris debates its first skyscraper in 40 years. Roundup: Greek crisis hits museums, Shepard Fairey arrested, Cosby's art controversy 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z You’re best known for Aqua, a skyscraper that is not just gorgeous and practical but gorgeous because it’s practical. | Q&A: Jeanne Gang, the Chicago Architect ? Q&A 2011-09-29T00:04:54Z The Shard, on London’s south bank, is Britain’s tallest skyscraper. Tea for one! Enjoying London’s top afternoon tea spots on a solo trip. 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Ordinary skyscrapers excite the imagination – all that anonymous humanity, in steel cradles high above us, what stories they must hold. Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011-12-21T15:15:09Z THE world is in the middle of an unprecedented skyscraper boom. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Never seen a "Transformers" movie but want to see Chicago skyscrapers wrecked in 3-D? 'Transformers' jumpers up in birdland 2011-06-29T21:47:00Z As we swirl around, I spot Charlotte's skyscrapers and Crowders Mountain, a solitary peak 40 miles away. Skydiving Over Carolina 2010-09-29T21:00:00Z New York is a city of landmarks: world famous skyscrapers, grand monuments and cultural icons. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z “Whether the concept materializes is unclear,” acknowledges Coop, whose firm also recently dreamed up a plan for a shadowless skyscraper. London’s Underground Circle Line Could Have a Completely New Look 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z There should be protests, tormented editorials, parliamentary questions about the monster skyscraper that is unstoppably rising up near London Bridge. Shard attack: why don't we rise up against this monstrosity? 2011-04-12T12:07:04Z "He was struck of course by skyscrapers and all the muscularity and growth of our infrastructure downtown and he was also fascinated by the cowboy legend," said Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the museum. Exhibit shows Grosz's take on Dallas in '52 2012-05-18T20:25:15Z Burnham’s foil, and Mr. Kirchheimer’s hero, was another Chicago architect: Louis Sullivan, a brilliant draftsman and theoretician often identified as the father of the modern skyscraper. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It was an ideal setting for a singer who began many of her songs in a delicately reflective mode and built them up to Liza Minnelli-like skyscrapers. Review: Julia Murney in Honesty Mode at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Last year he plopped down $12.6 million for the tallest building in Buffalo, a vacant skyscraper called One Seneca Tower. Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The fires were expected to burn through the Victorian mansions to reveal images of Chicago's resurgence inside each structure: a blown-glass Chicago flag, two 40-foot firefighters' ladders and a 60-foot model skyscraper. Chicago fire festival organizers seek redemption 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, the city is presently imagining the new jails as skyscrapers rising near borough courthouses where detention complexes already exist. After Rikers Island Closes, What Will Jail Look Like? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Batman's shortest scene comes in Batman Begins – a mere 15 seconds "perched on a skyscraper" – by far the most beautiful and memorable shot of the entire series. The Amazing Spider-Man and the iron law of the superhero genre: less is more 2012-07-04T19:29:29Z Forty skyscrapers on both sides of the harbor project green lasers into the sky and flash their exterior lights in programmed patterns. Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Again and again the camera swoops and soars above the doll-like houses, rushing past ribbons of freeway and nearly skimming the tops of silver skyscrapers. | 'Source Code': Don?t Know Who You Are, but Don?t Know Who I Am 2011-03-31T21:49:12Z We identify with the superheroes vigilantly perching atop skyscrapers, capes billowing. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z All we know about her is that she “returns after a hard day at the skyscraper office,” wearing high heels that make hostile clicking sounds on the floor. Books of The Times: ‘Hikikomori and the Rental Sister,’ by Jeff Backhaus 2013-01-29T22:33:33Z There's a desert, and then suddenly there's a skyscraper, with very little intermediary development. DJ /rupture: how to sing like a sufi 2013-03-26T18:59:01Z Both are hyperdense, fluently assonant, working with car crashes of syllables and making them sound like regal skyscrapers. Run the Jewels, Still Insisting on Old Hip-Hop Values 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The island’s highest point offers a stunning view of a densely packed sea of skyscrapers. How to ace your Hong Kong flight stopover 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside. What Will Become of a Tycoon’s Art Gems? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Architects took mass-produced sheet glass and combined it with structural steel to produce skyscrapers that invented a new city life. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z By June 2002, he had committed to a huge memorial occupying the footprints of the fallen towers, surrounded by new skyscrapers. Rebuilding Ground Zero Was a Mess. Lower Manhattan Bloomed Anyway. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z From a jet’s window, the city looks more like a thick forest punctuated by pockets of skyscrapers than the opposite — a mass of skyscrapers with chunks of open space set aside. Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z At the Bethesda fountain, he contemplated the skinny skyscrapers that needle the sky. Finn Wittrock of ‘Judy’ Visits His Old Juilliard Haunts 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the view from the roof garden — a rare public aerie along the Gold Coast — is changing; super-tall skyscrapers with mile-long shadows are shooting up along the southern edge of Central Park. Art Review: ‘Hedge Two-Way Mirror Walkabout,’ at the Met Museum 2014-04-29T21:35:08Z Outdoor spectacles work best of all in dense urban centers, where skyscrapers provide scores of spectacular viewing areas. REVIEW: Great Chicago Fire Festival by Redmoon 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Note the topography of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, how Lower Manhattan and Midtown are entirely distinct skylines. Personal Journeys: Viewing the World From an Airline Window Seat 2010-03-24T21:25:00Z It is just a short drive from the downtown skyscrapers rapidly being built along Abu Dhabi's Gulf corniche. Abu Dhabi museum island hit by more delays 2011-10-29T11:31:06Z Blending with the neighborhood’s corporate-riche style, the new building overlooks the High Line and offers views of greige luxury apartments to the south and Hudson Yards skyscrapers to the north. Art Crowd Flocks to Pace’s Giant Gallery in Chelsea 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The film introduces and surrounds the ballet’s five movements with many views of the city, familiar and unfamiliar: bridges, beaches, skyscrapers, playgrounds. Television Review | 'N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz': Reimagining Jerome Robbins? ?Ballet in Sneakers? 2010-03-23T22:17:00Z Today, the airport sits right off the bay—complete with sailboats and cruise ships—and the descent into San Diego glides past the downtown skyscrapers. These Are the World's Most Accessible Airports 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z So many need new homes that you can expect a small construction boom — although, to these residents, a skyscraper is a tree branch. Spare Times for Children for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Across the road from the Cave of the Devil, a narrow stairway led to the ruins, where a broad pyramid base provides views of downtown skyscrapers, majestic boulevards and planes landing at the airport. In Mexico City, Exploring a Volcano Sacred to the Aztecs 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z There was the baby raccoon who scaled a skyscraper in St. Paul, “Mission Impossible” style, stopping occasionally for naps in window ledges along the way. The Not-So-Uplifting Year in the Animal Kingdom 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z He began his career as an apprentice to William Le Baron Jenney, who contributed to the invention of the modern skyscraper. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z At the top of the ‘'Gherkin,'’ the Norman Foster skyscraper in London’s financial district, Hardy Amies showed its smart-casual wardrobe, finished off with a streamlined tuxedo in stylish midnight blue. In London, All Hail the Suit 2013-06-17T11:37:36Z On arrival at a warehouse in the shadow of the wharf's skyscrapers, we entered a teeming reconstruction of Blade Runner's time and place: China Town, Los Angeles, November 2019. Secret Cinema 2010-06-23T20:45:00Z The Art Deco building, one of the first skyscrapers built outside of the Loop, opened in 1929 and was geared toward professionals with offices for doctors and lawyers. In Chicago, Landmark Hotels Where the Views Are Enchanting 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Later, shattering neon highlights an eye-popping clash among and through the skyscrapers of a heavily-stylized Hong Kong. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’; A heavyweight bout with a light touch 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Collins, Mr. Caren and the visitors pulled out images of presidential campaigns, athletes, unfinished Manhattan skyscrapers, North African markets, railroad stations and starlets. Recalling Blind Tom, an Autistic Pianist Born to Slavery 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Growing up in New York City in the 1970s, Griffin tries to get closer to his father by helping pilfer architectural ornaments from the city’s tenements and skyscrapers. Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The biggest party, however, takes place at Victoria Harbour: The city’s magnificent fireworks display shoots off from almost every skyscraper. The Best Places to Celebrate the New Year 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. 2010 TV characters we lost: We'll miss you 2010-12-30T21:23:14Z Inside its gates, weatherworn headstones — some dating from the 1680s — stand in the shadows of skyscrapers. After the Broadway Show, a Trip to Hamilton’s Grave 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z The tops of the skyscrapers are sculpted in such a way as to form Batman's "bat" symbol. Batman: The Dark Knight Rises poster suggests apocalypse as usual 2011-07-13T10:35:00Z He was once lowered from a skyscraper in a bosun’s chair, interviewing office workers on every floor as he descended. Art Linkletter, TV Host, Dies at 97 2010-05-26T21:10:00Z She was on the 83rd floor of One57, the gargantuan new skyscraper and residential building on West 57th Street, one of those towers responsible for the terrible shadows hitting Central Park. Perched in the Sky, Rihanna Toasts Fendi 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z At the end of Sunday’s program, Mr. Wallenda said that for his next stunt, he hoped to walk “between two skyscrapers in New York City.” High-Wire Canyon Walk Drew 13 Million Viewers 2013-06-24T22:02:59Z Injecting an essential sense of wonder into his catalog of social and environmental tragedies, Mr. Arthus-Bertrand circles the skyscrapers of Dubai and plunges into the Grand Canyon, his high-definition cameras clinging to helicopters. | 'American Grindhouse': Exploitation 101 2011-02-04T01:23:01Z The moviemakers had an enormous heads-up — one bigger than the absurd skyscraper the fictional Mr. Grey resides in — about these issues. “50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Now, inside that building, lives a man who has spent his whole life glorifying himself, ostentatiously, with gold, with skyscrapers, with beauty pageants, his own line of branded steaks, a fraudulent university named for himself. Scenes from the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s also true of his urban nocturnes, which feature gray, stripped-down houses, apartment buildings and skyscrapers in whose windows tiny silhouetted figures enact terse domestic dramas against bright yellow light. The Keeper: Roger Brown, the Artist as Voracious Collector 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z As the train makes its way, you yourself have the feeling of being threaded into the thicket of skyscrapers at the foot of the island. Frame: City Views From Q Train and Other Unexpected Urban Art 2012-01-05T23:26:55Z After our conversation she rapidly crafted a concept for a 31-story skyscraper atop the cloverleaf. Critic's Notebook: A Vision to Avoid Demolition for ’70s Pioneer 2012-10-17T19:46:04Z Here the metropolis is brisk and orderly, if still a bit alienating, epitomized by the neat scaffolding of a fast-rising skyscraper in the distance. Art Review: Photography: A Coming-of-Age Story 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z Stripped of its grand décor, the Italian Renaissance-style tower was abandoned in 1986, becoming, like its skyscraper neighbors, a home for squatters. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: The Westin Book Cadillac, in Detroit 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z During the visit, the inspectors warned that unless radical changes were made to a plan to build a series of skyscrapers along Liverpool's famous waterfront, the city could lose its world heritage status. Unesco meets to discuss Liverpool's world heritage status 2012-06-20T13:54:39Z And now, while America will get the first run of the finished article, the restored account of skyscrapers and subterranea is to be given a spin in UK cinemas too. The view: Why Metropolis will be this year's real summer blockbuster 2010-04-30T09:19:00Z She worked high in a skyscraper with a staff of dozens. The garden evolves over time, but so does the gardener. Margaret Roach should know. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Snazzy skyscrapers, in other words, were not the main point. An Architectural Cruise Around Manhattan 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z It was there, on a skyscraper balcony 60 floors up, looking over a misty downtown Chicago and sipping champagne, that Ross proposed. On Love: ‘I want to fight for you’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Our destination was a pop-up gallery that had opened the night before inside an unfinished retail space at the bottom of a new white skyscraper. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z Before "Inception" was the year's breakout head-scratcher, it was the movie with that shot of skyscrapers crumbling into the sea, or the one with two nattily dressed men fighting in zero gravity. "Jackass 3D": The ultimate action spectacle 2010-10-15T18:50:00Z Then a digital sign suddenly appears on the side of a nearby skyscraper that directs them to their first game where they quickly learn by doing and barely surviving. Forget "The Stand" – "Alice in Borderland" is the wild dystopian ride we've been waiting for 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z If your plot omits a scene in China, insert one – preferably with gleaming skyscrapers. Be nice to China: Hollywood risks 'artistic surrender' in effort to please 2013-05-30T14:40:50Z These days, the term is more fitting for a largely unregulated boomtown like China’s Chongqing, its population exploding past 32 million, with “an urban jungle of hundreds of skyscrapers” looming over squalid shantytowns. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z On a recent trip to Detroit, I did the one thing that I would never attempt in New York: I stood on a busy sidewalk and looked up at a skyscraper. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Anonymous International style skyscrapers still dominate many African cities. Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The movie doesn’t show anybody in any of the pulverized skyscrapers facing a deluge of concrete shards, a shower of flames, or a terrifying lurch into the void. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z I find myself in arguments against preservationists over issues like regulation of skyscraper heights. Do not even think about putting chocolate in pecan pie 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Above this cluster of parked rail cars, a 28-acre development named Hudson Yards is in the process of becoming a mini-city of skyscrapers. Why New York’s High Line is the perfect source of gardening inspiration 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z It’s a thrilling and fascinating film, and a quiet valentine to the vanished skyscrapers. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Slate looks at an innovative architectural concept that would use new skyscrapers to increase sunlight in London. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z He was walking a high wire at the top of a skyscraper, and fans morbidly wondered not if but when he would fall. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Back in Style 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z For the adventurous eater there’s the 10-scoop Terminal Tower sundae, named after the landmark Cleveland skyscraper. In Cleveland, Adding Life Where Grit Once Prevailed 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z That includes the sides of skyscrapers, which broadcast the exploits of Montag and his crew as a kind of pyromaniacal propaganda reality show. Review: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Has Fire and Fury but Sheds Little Light 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Schofield also revealed he plans to climb to the top of the Shard skyscraper in London for the appeal. Schofield nears end of TV marathon 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Leaping off a 63-story skyscraper in Panama certainly borders on insane. ‘Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D’: Crazy Stunts Turn Slick 2012-08-07T23:32:21Z You and your pup are but a short walk from that Art Deco skyscraper as well as the Flatiron Building and, should you venture a little farther, the Gramercy Park neighborhood. Hotels Roll Out the Red Carpet for Pets 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s hard to recognize Lady Gaga out of her usual get-ups: the meat dresses, seashell bikinis, towering stilettos and skyscraper hair. Crooning the Classics 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Builders could create structures that are both far taller and far wider than current skyscrapers — and people could move though them much more easily than we do in cities today. Reengineering elevators could transform 21st-century cities 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z If you’re one of those ignorant souls who thinks New York City is limited to Manhattan and its cold, imperious skyscrapers, you should hop aboard. The Out of Towner: A Borough?s Pizza-and-Movie Tour 2012-03-08T23:30:07Z DC just felt like they were speaking to the fans in the way that guys in suits in a corporate skyscraper in Manhattan would -- which is what they were. Stan Lee has departed our universe, having “surpassed his wildest dreams” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Asked about the new skyscraper, he was skeptical though not completely opposed. Changes to the Paris skyline? Non merci 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z He estimated that the useful life of skyscrapers like 40 Wall Street was at most 40 years. Streetscapes: Streetscapes - Yasuo Matsui: A Career Collides With War 2012-09-09T04:47:06Z When I stepped off a wheezing bus in Port Louis, I found a mix of clapboard neighborhoods, colonial mansions, large French-style squares and a few gleaming skyscrapers. On Mauritius With a Non-Jet-Set Wallet 2010-04-03T03:02:00Z There's no lovely architecture there, just a megacity of 16 million people and counting, with a hub of skyscrapers surrounded by polluted shantytowns. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z Prior to the first plane striking the twin towers, the initial estimate of how likely it was that terrorists would crash planes into Manhattan skyscrapers is given as 0.005%. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver – review 2012-11-09T22:55:11Z He proposed instead a tower that mixed pieces from contemporary American building types with the “beautiful simplicity of the skyscraper type,” resulting in a design of unexpected hybrid vigor. ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z She’s perched on the edge of a skyscraper, with busy city streets hundreds of feet below her. Photographer Jun Ahn’s images place viewers on the precipice 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z In such a realm of skyscrapers, its 10 metres is nothing, just a squat linear scrap of rubble fit to be cleared. Alone in the City: a Christmas Day walk around London 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z To the east, it’s a world financial center, with glittering skyscrapers proclaiming the names of banks, brokerages and law firms. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z You can see reflections in skyscraper windows before they shatter, then watch steel girders bend and break before they finally collapse. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Godzilla’ bigger, louder than predecessors 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As a fiction writer, Mr. Robinson told stories set in burning skyscrapers, sinister hospitals and Utopian spaceships drifting a thousand generations into the future. Frank M. Robinson, speechwriter for Harvey Milk, dies at 87 There are whole rows of skyscrapers in Dubai that match that description. Our edifice complex: 'High-Rise' and its dystopian architecture hit the big screen 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I saw the Brooklyn Bridge, with its wonderful arc, and the skyscrapers, which looked to me like they were floating. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z We learn how new zoning regulations shaped the cityscape and why and how skyscrapers were built. The 20 Years That Made New York City 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z A vendor selling roasted nuts on a New York street is surrounded by people, traffic, skyscrapers. Alone, yet together: photos of isolation in a connected world 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Above me, the skyscrapers of West Bay glittered, as if to say, “Not that. This.” What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr Barr tackles another popular myth, often referred to as the “skyscraper curse”. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Providing contrast are shots of the luminous nocturnal beauty of skyscrapers under construction that will do nothing to succor the lives below. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Lately, it had fallen vacant, a relic of an age when giant businesses commissioned whole skyscrapers for themselves. For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z This metropolis, still under construction, consists of mostly empty skyscrapers. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The skyscrapers there are impressive, but so are the underwater grasslands, which all sorts of sea creatures depend on for survival. Television Review: ‘Wild Arabia,’ a Two-Hour Special on Animal Planet 2013-08-05T20:35:21Z Or will Jerusalem be miraculously rid of sectarian division, its barricades levitating into space and replaced, perhaps, with Dubai-like skyscrapers or a rash of commercial branding? UFOs and hope: films probe "future" Jerusalem 2011-01-04T11:25:01Z At the end they shake hands as businessmen in front of shiny skyscrapers. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z He resents the Tower, now that it is dwarfed by skyscrapers. 'Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart,' by Christopher Fowler 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The company was not squeezing opera buffs into the aisles of its Art Deco opera house, which sits at the base of a 45-story limestone skyscraper on the Chicago River. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Photograph: Grant Smith/Alamy The Gherkin was clearly the first of these new cuddly skyscrapers. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z There’s no cell reception, no monitors, no skyscrapers, no commuter trains. These 6 Wilderness Retreats Will Have You Dreaming of the Great Outdoors 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Walter Gropius, an architect of the skyscraper, was a founder of the Bauhaus — the storied German art school where Albers studied and taught. Once Removed and Destroyed, a Modernist Mural Makes Its Return 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The imposing skyscrapers of Caracas are a testament to decades of oil wealth, adding to the sense of bewilderment now at barren shelves and near-worthless bundles of cash. Venezuelans find solace in comedy amid economic travails 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z "GTA IV" offers a huge cityscape packed with traffic, people, skyscrapers, businesses — all the stuff of a modern American metropolis. Video game: 'Red Dead Redemption' is a shoot-em-up Western 2010-07-10T01:47:00Z The prolific skyscraper architects at Shreve, Lamb & Harmon turned to their advantage the development team’s insistence on simplicity of detail in order to erect the building quickly. Renewing an Affair With the Empire State Building 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z As one of the most stringently modern skyscrapers in New York, Lever House is an outright snub to the 19th century. | A Snow Queen for Our Time 2011-02-02T19:17:16Z The Hollywood sign, the skyscrapers of Downtown and the Pacific Ocean were all glistening as the sun set and tourists jockeyed for prime spots overlooking the valley. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “The city is for working,” he says, and the dominance of dark skyscrapers overhead serves as testament. IHT Luxury Conference: Pedro Louren?o on S?o Paulo, His Home Town 2011-11-09T12:21:19Z He has been thrown out of helicopters and off skyscrapers, buried inside drainpipes and underneath highways, dumped in hot wax and sealed in coffins. Case closed: Dick Tracy artist retires 2011-02-24T20:55:10Z Police got unexpected help talking a suicidal man down from an Atlanta skyscraper on Wednesday when rapper T.I. showed up. Atlanta police: T.I. helped talk down jumper 2010-10-13T23:00:00Z The miners told relatives Thursday their rescue ride was as smooth as a skyscraper elevator. Chile miners do not disclose ordeal details 2010-10-15T14:09:00Z “I saw the skyscrapers as the forest and the billboards as the moonlight,” he said. ‘Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars’ Arriving at Morgan Library 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z As she spoke she fashioned her body into an arrow, rooting her torso down into the couch and jutting her arm up like a skyscraper’s spire. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z The fact that Miles and Gwen also shoot webs and swing around skyscrapers is incidental to their emotional arcs in the film. ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Review: Worlds Wide Web 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Or by the never-ending ingenuity with which restaurant menus and cocktails are constructed; or by the glittering, joyful residential skyscraper that Frank Gehry has put up downtown. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z When Paul looks up, the sky's blue deepens and skyscrapers turn grey, "as though withdrawing information". Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Perhaps surprisingly, there are also schemes for several unrealized skyscrapers, the very icons of the cities he held in such noisy contempt. | Frank Lloyd Wright’s Love-Hate Relationship With the American City 2014-01-29T20:24:54Z I recently spent a day observing the creative process at the salon’s new location, a 9,000-square-foot swath of a skyscraper at Lexington Avenue and 57th Street. A Salon With All the Trimmings 2010-09-03T22:30:00Z The metropolis, a mash-up of San Francisco and Tokyo, is situated on a shimmering bay and teems with towering skyscrapers and pulsing neon lights. Software behind 'Big Hero 6' pushes envelope on computer animation 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I opted for the Chicago Line Cruises architectural tour of more than 50 skyscrapers dotting the Chicago River, which everyone told me is a must. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z KPF also designed numerous skyscrapers in Shanghai, and the tallest buildings in Paris and Montreal. Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Ambitions, Dies at 92 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z At the northern end of the High Line you can glimpse New York’s shiny future: supertall skyscrapers under construction in Hudson Yards and the shiny, climbable Vessel sculpture just beckoning for your selfies. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z “If we want to talk about influence, talk about educators,” she told me of de Blois, who taught skyscraper design at the University of Texas at Austin for more than a decade. The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In this workshop for ages 3 through 10 at the Skyscraper Museum, participants will explore the exhibition “Woolworth Building @ 100” and design their own skyscrapers with fanciful decorations. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z His “Sweatermen” outfits are more suitable for lounging around the house than vaulting past skyscrapers. Galleries: ‘The Art of Comic Books,’ ‘Wait,’ ‘Vivid’ Bright murals showcase the work of local artists, and buildings range from historic “log skyscrapers” to sleek, new condos. Chasing Yukon magic: Fall under the spell of the northern lights and all northwestern Canada has to offer 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z To the east, across City Hall Park, are two early landmarks of skyscraper design, Cass Gilbert’s 1913 Woolworth building and McKim, Mead & White’s 1912 Municipal building. Architecture Review: Downtown Skyscraper for the Digital Age 2011-02-10T00:03:54Z Here, he takes on something different: the luxury skyscrapers that now dominate New York, and which seem to exist in an eternal state of construction. Mark Ulriksen’s “Towering Wealth” 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z One might expect the crisp new skyscrapers in Bocagrande to be in the midst of a vital, cosmopolitan downtown. 36 Hours in Cartagena, Colombia 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It takes a whole book to take a skyscraper down, and that was part of the point. Saving Buildings with Social Media 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The result, though, means the audience is drowning alongside Daddario as the San Francisco Bay floods the 14th story of a skyscraper. 'San Andreas' aims to shake up audiences with an up-close catastrophe 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Inside David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton’s “Consolidated Life,” a free-standing box painted to look like a skyscraper, are endless rows of desks seemingly plucked from the corporate offices of “The Apartment.” Art Review: Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny 2011-06-16T23:06:49Z It begins with the top corner of a solidly painted brick apartment building and then gives way to an expanse of New York skyscrapers that float like a vision. Tabboo! Paints a Valentine to New York City 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z These touches, set against the skyscrapers and bustle of a metropolis, create an effect that is both hyperrealistic and otherworldly. How ‘The Incredibles’ Got an Upgrade 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In some ways, Worldwide Plaza, the slice of space amid the skyscrapers from 50th Street to 49th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Midtown, is an outdoor plaza like any other. A Warm-Weather Guide to the City 2011-04-22T21:09:06Z Nik Wallenda will next attempt a tightrope walk across the skyline of Chicago's skyscrapers for a live event on 2 November. In pictures: Discovery Channel marks 25 years 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Donald Trump’s last name glows on skyscrapers and hotels in several major cities. Smart Watch: "Valley of the Boom," "Corporate" returns, and "The Dictator's Playbook" on PBS 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z "Here" was an empty building on Beekman Street, an early skyscraper near City Hall whose scarred walls and cavernous rooms contained unimaginable stories. On the Runway Blog: Proenza Schouler: Modern Excavation 2012-09-13T03:13:53Z The twin 1,483-foot-tall skyscrapers are among the world’s tallest buildings. Famed architect Cesar Pelli dies at 92 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z You can also think of it as a skyscraper laid on its side — an ideal monument for a horizontal city. I told my mother-in-law I'd plan an L.A. architecture tour for her 80th birthday. But what buildings to choose? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The whole of London lies below you, showing this city of contrasts, from skyscrapers to St. Paul’s. A tour of Amy Winehouse’s former stomping grounds, London’s Camden 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Built for the carmaker’s bosses in the mid-1960s—when what was good for the company was said to be good for America—the white-marble tower was never New York’s tallest or most beautiful skyscraper. Reason not the need 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Best viewed at night, the twinkling cityscape — pulsing highways, soaring skyscrapers, desert sprawl — is a powerful introduction to Dubai’s vertical ambitions and outward push. What to Do in Dubai 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z She washes skyscraper windows, directs traffic and delivers mail. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z I previously wrote about the use of 3D in The Avengers, where the single best shot of the film was an Iron Man joyride through the skyscraper canyons of New York City. The Amazing Spider-Man Crafts Hollywood's Greatest 3D Sequence Yet 2012-07-09T12:00:15Z “But for the most part, ‘Maus’ is like this giant skyscraper.” Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’ 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Distant skyscrapers are intimated; the bulk of a new grain elevator in Weehawken recurs several times. Art in Review: JOHN MARIN: ?The Weehawken Sequence? 2011-02-17T23:26:12Z A former architect, Ms. Yeh is now the executive chef at State Grill and Bar in one of the world’s most architecturally significant skyscrapers, the Empire State Building. Hachibei, Specializing in Eel, Opens in Midtown East 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, an auto body mechanic named Marino Auriti created the exhibition’s largest object, an 11-foot-tall model of a tiered, cylindrical skyscraper called “Encyclopedic Palace.” Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Unesco’s world heritage committee is concerned that views of Westminster will be marred by the development of a series of skyscrapers. Westminster's world heritage status at risk as Unesco condemns plan for skyscrapers 2013-06-08T23:05:43Z In August, Ganti and Associates won an international competition to design temporary housing in Mumbai with a skyscraper made of containers. ‘The best thing since the brick’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z He even tried dressing up that ziggurat-shaped, art deco appliance with stickers of a skyscraper on the sides and King Kong on the handle, and it still didn't sell. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z Behind her some kind of skyscraper is shattering under the influence of beams of cosmic energy. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z The harbour, the din, even the skyscraper shanties that clambered from the sea's edge upward to the Peak: after Saigon, Luke had ravenously embraced the whole scene. Top 10 books set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z As for the characters, Tess gets her office, but then Nichols zooms out to show the whole skyscraper, as if to say that her triumph is merely becoming one of thousands of anonymous drones. Working Girl at 30: the workplace comedy that changed the game 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The place also affords unusual and spectacular views of Madrid, with its cluster of skyscrapers shimmering in the distance as the sun starts to set. Bringing Home the Spanish Civil War 2013-06-28T14:37:52Z But after years of rapid economic growth fueled by Kazakhstan’s oil and gas riches, the skyline of Astana — which means capital in Kazakh — is now punctuated by gleaming skyscrapers and Western-style shopping malls. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z They were like illuminations on a light box, or the skin of a skyscraper. Fashion Review: Review of Couture Fashion Week: Raf Simons, Dior, Versace and More 2013-07-03T19:39:15Z In a show last spring, Jennifer Bartlett showed a smaller painting: a lone fireman in an abstracted street scene, perhaps New York, perhaps downtown, the dots diffusing the skyscrapers into vapor. Why Art Struggled to Address the Horrors of 9/11 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Or as environmental justice activist Majora Carter writes in the book's foreword: "If the skyscraper farm is like a 747 jetliner, we are now at the stage of the Wright Brothers." 'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming 2010-10-28T10:01:00Z How would towering skyscrapers holding a hundred thousand people create a sense of freedom and space? How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z A century later, it remains a throwback to the early glamour days of skyscraper living: a dozen brick towers fancifully decorated with half-timbered lobbies, stone crests and other mock-Tudor details. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Curbed examines renderings of a new downtown NYC skyscraper, set to be just 12 feet shorter than One World Trade Center. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z There’s a view of blue skies and Bunker Hill skyscrapers; Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, with its luminous swoops and curves, is almost next door. The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z “The American way of life in the postwar world was a product of Chicago,” he argues, “from the steel in its new Miesian skyscrapers to its sacks of golden crispy McDonald’s French fries.” Books of The Times: ‘The Third Coast,’ a History of Chicago by Thomas Dyja 2013-05-16T20:11:15Z He wrote plans and rulebooks for how skyscrapers should be built and cities designed, trying to find the right amount of space between structures and over all. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z This peaceful park, framed by Shimbashi’s soaring skyscrapers, spans more than 60 acres of green meadows and placid ponds. 36 Hours in Eastern Tokyo 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The mirrored invitation was a foretaste of reflection, seen in the show venue, a shiny high-tech banker’s paradise with its view of London’s skyscraper buildings — and in brief dresses in metallic brocade. Special Report: Fashion: Peter Pilotto Illuminates London Fashion Week 2011-09-19T17:48:59Z Bridges, skyscrapers, entire cities sprang up in unexpected places in state-of-the-art graphics you'd expect to see in a Hollywood film. Is this a golden age for science on TV? 2013-07-25T12:50:51Z Back in New York, the conflict soars from one abandoned skyscraper to another — a spectacular clash that looks ready-made for Ridley Scott. Review: Justin Cronin’s long-awaited ‘City of Mirrors’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Mission: Impossible 4 proved that there's nobody better in the game at flinging themselves around the outside of a skyscraper. Has One Shot blown it by changing its name to Jack Reacher? 2012-06-01T17:06:35Z Photograph: Alamy In contrast to the towering, illuminated skyscrapers and hi-tech infrastructure of Japan’s major cities, the Iya Valley is perhaps one of the most isolated regions of the country. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Ahead of us rose Old Panama’s modern replacement: a forest of green, blue and yellow glass skyscrapers that sifted the metallic Central American sky into great vertical columns. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z The show is an overview of precisionism, the modern American movement that fetishized factories, ball bearings, silos and skyscrapers in an attempt to merge American realism with European abstraction. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Shiny skyscrapers loom on the horizon; their squat, worn building, home to their clan since 1902, marks a contrast, nestled within a crowded complex astir with chatter and dust. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z But that was just the warm-up for Rock’s main riff on the Freedom Tower, the new One World Trade Center building that’s now America’s tallest skyscraper. Chris Rock’s “SNL” monologue put 9/11 jokes back on the table 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The playthings form elaborately ornamented chateaus, skyscrapers taller than most children, rudimentary cabins, houses of worship with gilded finials, gas stations, bunkers and intergalactic transit hubs. Hand-Me-Downs and Discards from Design History’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z One day, you’re the king of the world in a golden skyscraper. Trump: You’re fired! 2012-11-07T20:54:00Z There’s no CGI-spectacle set piece to speak of here, no crumbling skyscrapers or civilians screaming their way through incineration. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The pink granite facade of the US Bancorp Tower has earned it the nickname Big Pink, and the skyscraper is one of Downtown’s most distinctive landmarks. Portland city guide: what to see plus the best hotels, bars and restaurants 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Besides the uprooted paving stones, there is a boulder of Manhattan schist, the bedrock supporting most of New York City’s skyscrapers. Review: Pierre Huyghe Mixes Stones and Water for Roof Garden at the Met 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z While my wife, Tina, likes the Jin Mao Tower for its combination of Chinese pagoda architecture and Art Deco skyscraper design, I would never choose a recent building over an exquisite historic design. Wm Patrick Cranley Loves the Art Deco Buildings of Shanghai 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Away from the glittering skyscrapers and monster shopping malls the social consequences are grim. After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher M Davidson 2012-12-28T22:55:04Z So perhaps the applause was ecstatic neighborhood reverb, off low-rise storefronts and the offices of the New York Fed and the skyscrapers that were turned into apartments after the financial crisis of 2008. Perspective | The nightly ovation for hospital workers may be New York’s greatest performance 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Stephenson’s story in the new collection is about an engineer’s effort to build a 20-kilometer-tall skyscraper. Science Fiction Writers Take a Rosier View 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z From the forest canopy to skyscrapers, the whole human story can be told from the perspective of wood. Three New Books on the Predigital Technologies That Shaped Our World 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Hadn't I once woken up in a city facing skyscrapers and gone to bed in the shadow of the Gila Mountains? "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z It looks right, too, thanks to Libby Watson's clever design that gives us glimpses of Broadway skyscrapers, a wild Cuban fiesta and a New York sewer. Guys and Dolls ? review 2011-03-16T18:45:00Z Now, over a billion tonnes of steel are produced each year: they're turned into everything from skyscrapers and ships to fridges and bayonets. Iron Man v Man of Steel: who will dominate? 2013-04-29T12:07:01Z Three oval openings perforate one of the blocks, while another has five pairs of floor-through windows that turn it into a skyscraper writ small. Marvelous or maddening? In Cameron Platter's show, it depends on which way you face 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z This may not be anyone’s ideal way to address the city’s affordable housing crisis or finance a cultural touchstone or build a skyscraper or a neighborhood. A Billion-Dollar Battle Over a Parking Lot at the Seaport 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z He realized that nothing like that existed in Hong Kong — executives jet in to spend a few days in the city’s skyscrapers and never see the beauty of the mountains and the outlying islands. In Hong Kong, History at a New Hotel 2012-11-28T00:06:36Z That said, Bangkok, with its crowded and labyrinthine streets, is an exhilarating city that juxtaposes modern skyscrapers with ancient temples. Q&A: Side Trip From Singapore, With Two Boys 2010-09-23T17:00:00Z Six architecture projects are vying for the prestigious award this year including the Shard skyscraper and Zaha Hadid's London Aquatics Centre. Stirling Prize 'goes beyond aesthetics' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But the quintessential architectural unit of the city, the skyscraper, isn’t always the greenest method of building. “Farmscrapers” could turn future cities green 2013-04-03T16:53:00Z In her Watergate Gallery show, “The Break of Rules,” Miguel partly fractures people, animals, still lifes and skyscrapers. Review | In the galleries: Cutting, pasting and creating dazzling order out of chaos 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z A mirrored elevator whisks visitors to the observation level of this new Midtown skyscraper. Sobre Masa Tortilleria, in Brooklyn, Will Showcase Heirloom Corn 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z A floating, translucent marble cube, it nestles at the foot of One World Trade Center, just eight stories high, a runt in a herd of mega-tall commercial skyscrapers but impossible to miss. A Spectacular Marble Cube Rises at Ground Zero 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Low buildings sort of look old and shabby and these shiny skyscrapers are being built. Same difference: Photographs of 32 hotel rooms in 32 countries reveal few variations 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Topics: , , Culture, domino sugar factory, , Museums, , , The massive Domino Sugar Factory that faces the East River with its iconic yellow sign is expected to soon be dwarfed by towering skyscrapers. Can Brooklyn’s sweetest landmark be saved? 2013-06-08T12:00:00Z In the rebuilding, which included the world’s first skyscraper, Chicago gained a reputation for architecture and engineering. Chicago Fire Festival Theme: Renewal 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In 2012, Michael Green proposed another wood skyscraper for the city of Vancouver, simultaneously releasing an open-source manual for constructing such towers. See the Design for the Tallest Wood Building in the World 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Turning my back on the gleaming skyscrapers, I headed to Jaffa, the ancient walled town where the city originated. Trendy Tel Aviv is a hearty foodie find 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Out of the shadow of skyscrapers, this is one of the neighborhoods that make Chicago a more breathable city than New York. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z In one photograph, the 15-story building is shown to be predominantly vertical — a skyscraper being the definitive urban building type in the modern world. Making photos, not taking them; the distinction in 'Perfect Likeness' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Malouff recently blogged about the skyscraper boom taking place in these areas, with planned buildings towering as tall as 400 feet. Invasion of the faux cities 2012-09-22T15:59:00Z Today the skyscraper is associated more with mobile devices than with motor vehicles. Reason not the need 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Accompanied by Steve Sterner on live piano, the movie features Lloyd as a salesclerk whose adventures include climbing a skyscraper and dangling from a clock. Spare Times for Children for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But people still don’t really live in skyscrapers the way futurists had envisioned, for one reason: Elevators go only up and down. Reengineering elevators could transform 21st-century cities 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z A new book by an urban agriculture visionary aims to change the way people think about farming, offering a look into a future where city skyscrapers - not rural fields - produce the world's food. 'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming 2010-10-28T10:01:00Z Trump sketched the skyscraper at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for a charity auction, where it sold for less than $100. Art of the deal: Trump's Empire State Building doodle fetches $16,000 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Her specialty was crystalline black-and-white images that lavish equal attention on steel skyscrapers and crumbling brick tenements. Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Below, World Service's Robin Banerji asks what it's like to live near skyscrapers. What’s it like to live near a skyscraper? 2012-06-15T10:48:56Z Bodies are now at the service of image, whether plunging downwards from the 19th floor of a skyscraper or as skeletons at a celebrity opening. Photography's bodies of evidence | John Perivolaris 2010-04-04T14:00:00Z “I only took one government class at Cornell,” he said as he approached the new skyscraper. Have liberals found their combative new leader in … Keith Olbermann? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In Abu Dhabi, Dom and Brian jump a car from the penthouse in one skyscraper to the next building, and then repeat the stunt to a third skyscraper. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Her husband’s job as a corporate lawyer and the skyscrapers in her new home city inspired much of Ms. Weber’s most noted work. Idelle Weber, Who Stretched the Meaning of Pop Art, Dies at 88 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z This summer they are off to Singapore, to an artificial island with swimming pools built on top of 50-storey skyscrapers. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z In 1925, the year they took up the new address, forty-five skyscrapers were constructed in New York, the most in one year. Georgia O’Keeffe’s urban side 2012-07-25T16:42:00Z "When I started playing my own music, I wanted it to be as tall as a skyscraper," he says. New band of the day - Woodkid (No 1,437) 2013-01-23T17:08:03Z On the ride home with her recruiter to Belton, Tex., about an hour north of Austin, she listened in disbelief to news of planes piercing skyscrapers. She says she was harassed by superiors. Now she protests outside the TSA for hours. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z A confident lawyer—one of the senior partners—working for a New York law firm was entertaining a group of interns at a party in the skyscraper where the firm’s offices were located. The homeless couple living in Walmart and 7 other urban legends that won’t die 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Eventually, the apartment buildings are replaced by skyscrapers and the Little House lies abandoned, shabby and forgotten in their giant shadows. 'The Little House' and 'Brown Bear' chalk up big anniversaries 2012-03-24T04:14:31Z Remember how Lady Bunny, practically a child drag queen at the time, used to park herself at designer presentations, her skyscraper bouffant ruining sight lines for everyone in the rows behind? When Fashion Shows Were Fun 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The Chrysler Building is a good name for a skyscraper but a bad name for an SUV. Style Invitational Week 1140: Give us a bad name 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The western windows show why Chicago was the birth place of the skyscraper. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z One of the more bewitching video effects shows a Manhattan skyscraper canyon as if glimpsed through the decayed back wall of Radio City. | 'Zarkana': Radio City Is Transformed Into a Cirque Tent 2011-06-30T02:01:16Z Today, LED panels on the sides of the new skyscrapers have transformed Times Square into a cataract of moving images with which the subdued radiance of neon cannot compete. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z Their suite connected to the Sand’s famous rooftop pool that straddles the resort’s three skyscrapers like a flying saucer. In Southeast Asia, Luxury Hotel Bargains Aren’t Hard to Find 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z A counterpoint to the Far West Side’s skyscrapers, it was a triumph of sculpture and urban design. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The first big battle in the action game Bayonetta 2 — against a giant dragon wrapped around a skyscraper — would be the mind-blowing finale elsewhere. Reviews: Fifa 15, The Sims 4, Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Murasaki Baby and Bayonetta 2 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Panama City, with its glistening skyscrapers, is a towering reminder of the canal’s significance to world trade. In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Hong Kong has more than 300 shopping centers, but most of the city’s malls don’t sit on asphalt parking lots; rather, they’re above subway stations or underneath skyscrapers. The mall isn’t dead — it’s just changing 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z I've been back several times since becoming an adult, and have some great photos of the wonderful skyscrapers in the center of the city. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z From ottomans to skyscrapers, the Saarinens brought us some of the most important models of modernist design, suggesting that, perhaps, sometimes talent just might run in the family. AD remembers the extraordinary work of Eliel and Eero Saarinen 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Trump’s most recent instigation involves his new skyscraper in Chicago that has his name plastered on it in large letters that light up at night. Must-see morning clip: Go away, Donald Trump! 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Actually, scratch that: The best views are from any of the skyscrapers facing Lake Michigan, so find yourself a friend with a condo on the lakefront. Chicago's Best Summer Festivals 2010-06-25T22:00:00Z In the 160 or so years since the first skyscrapers were built, technological innovations of many kinds have allowed us to build them to reach astonishing heights. Reengineering elevators could transform 21st-century cities 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Here, there’s a coffee shop and an outdoor public terrace that opens to views of the main library and the skyscrapers that hem in Bryant Park. A Glowing Shrine to the Printed Word 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z This revised view of China's historical progression helps to link the events of 100 years ago to the skyscrapers and blogs of contemporary China. A new chapter in Chinese history 2011-07-15T15:53:27Z His son-in-law, Jason, is in a financial hole after his ill-advised purchase of a Park Avenue skyscraper. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z In the second episode, also being broadcast on Wednesday, he tries to climb a glass skyscraper using ordinary vacuum cleaners to create suction cups. Review: ‘Outrageous Acts of Danger’ Makes Science Life-Threatening 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps the neighborhood’s quirkiest new addition is the penthouse apiary established in June at the pinnacle of Smith Tower, Seattle’s first skyscraper. In Seattle, It’s Almost Normal 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Rebecca Mead enters the world of Santiago Calatrava, whose twisting, flowing skyscrapers begin as watercolor sketches. Sunday Reading: Cityscapes 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z We are given an exhaustive account of the life of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, whose 27-floor skyscraper home in Mumbai—occupied by his family alone—is “designed to keep India at bay.” ‘The Billionaire Raj’ Review: Gatsby on the Ganges 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It isn’t just today, when tall buildings have become commonplace and 57th Street has become a boulevard of glittery glass condominiums taller than the Empire State Building, that people complain about skyscrapers. Not Your Grandfather’s Skyscraper 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The nation's capital is about to see its skyline become a jumble of badly designed skyscrapers, in an amnesiac destruction of its architectural identity. Blue plaques are crucial cultural landmarks 2013-01-07T12:27:42Z The film opens on a view of the tops of clean-cut skyscrapers clustered around a clear blue sky. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Collage is equally central to Nancy Hacskaylo, whose rusted-paper collages in green and brown evoke earth and forest, and to Kathleen Anderson, whose “Cityscape” conjures skyscrapers with lengths of handmade paper. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z That loft building is now hemmed on all sides by glass-walled skyscrapers that form the Hudson Yards development. Men’s Wear Flies Its Freak Flag 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Also, immediately upon arriving in China, Shang is caught in a fight to the death on the bamboo scaffolding of a skyscraper. "Shang-Chi" is an unapologetically Asian triumph about an unapologetically Asian superhero 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The super-rich live uptown, in a forest of skyscrapers near the Cloisters. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Jeb Corliss was permanently barred from the skyscraper as part of a ruling last week in a lawsuit filed by the building's corporate owners. Court bars stunt jumper from Empire State Building 2010-06-15T23:35:00Z For shoes, she put models in lower kitten heels, made in collaboration with Manolo Blahnik, which was a bit of a surprise for a woman known for skyscraper stilettos. Beckham weaves some English influences into fall 2013-02-10T17:26:11Z You also felt: This writer, born in San Diego and now living in Georgia, is constructing a new skyscraper on the literary horizon. Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z This last item puts me in mind of 30 St Mary Axe, aka the Gherkin, the Zeppelin-like London skyscraper that bears witness to Foster's passion for engineering marvels – a passion that began in childhood. Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests 2010-06-29T20:31:00Z The construction of a skyscraper in New York City entails, among many other concerns, protecting pedestrians walking past the building zone. Zaha Hadid’s High Line Installation 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z “Young men learning skyscraper design from this woman was powerful and transformative.” The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In the 1920s and ’30s, Art Deco skyscrapers and Streamline Moderne movie theaters sprang up, while after World War II, the International Style and its modernist tenets held sway. The incredible modern architecture of Havana 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The drawings of Neo-Tokyo by night are so intricately detailed that all the individual windows of huge skyscrapers appear distinct. Akira: the future-Tokyo story that brought anime West 2013-07-10T13:23:35Z Describing New York, he writes: “The sun had sunk out of sight, but the glass sides of the skyscrapers downtown gave back its old lion face.” From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z The underlying pictures usually depict older buildings, including art deco skyscrapers as well as low-slung desert structures that suggest Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Arizona. In the galleries: In ‘Everyware,’ new-technology photo pieces exhibit nostalgia We surrendered to a skyscraper with a green mansard roof and two stark chimneys. Books of The Times: Gary Shteyngart?s ?Super Sad True Love Story? 2010-07-26T19:00:00Z Tourists walking in New York look up at the skyscrapers and blinding billboards. For ‘Public Morals,’ Edward Burns Exhumes the ’60s From Manhattan Streets 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z If there are humans inside those skyscrapers and helicopters, they’re not visible. In the galleries: Looking back on a century of Iberian and Latin American works 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The suspension bridges are strung with necklaces of light; the skyscrapers aspire to the sky and, at night, create a firmament all their own. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z In Davide Livermore’s production, the Macbeths live in a rotating penthouse that looks out on a skyscraper city projected as if in an urban fantasy video game. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Completed in 1945, the building affectionately called El Moro was one of Mexico City’s earliest skyscrapers, and is still one of its finest examples of art deco design. In Mexico City, an itinerary built on modern architecture 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z She argues that London should consider copying Paris by designating specific areas for skyscrapers. Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects 2013-02-17T00:06:12Z It is also a horror movie, with disaster lurking like an unseen demon outside the skyscraper windows and behind the computer screens. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z It is taken from the title of a symbol of 1950s-era Futurism — an 11-foot-tall architectural model of a 136-story cylindrical skyscraper that was intended to house all the knowledge in the world. Massimiliano Gioni, of Venice Biennale 2013-05-23T12:00:01Z We have skyscrapers and apartments houses for rich people, and we have no space for stories and tales and myths and legends. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z After the hijackers died while attacking the New York City skyscrapers and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., '101 Theory Drive': a scientist's search to understand memory 2010-04-15T20:43:00Z There is unfilled space between images of taverns and farms and their skyscraper replacements because he had prepared to keep collecting. Antiques: Anti-Semitic Artifacts, New York History and Greek Coins 2011-12-22T23:04:32Z The signature image of the artist Agnes Denes shows her standing in a field of golden grain, with skyscrapers in the background. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Dinosaurish creatures as big as skyscrapers do battle with equally gigantic robots on land and sea, pulverizing familiar cities and churning up geysers of spume. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z Domed Orthodox churches and tiny stalls with tin roofs and painted signs are interspersed with brand-new skyscrapers, glass-fronted malls and the spaceship-like complex that houses the headquarters of the African Union. In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Two Australians won this year's race up Taiwan's tallest skyscraper on Sunday, climbing 2046 steps in the annual "Taipei 101 Run Up". Australians win race up Taiwan's tallest skyscraper 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Radiant skyscrapers in golden morning light descend inverted from the top of the windows running 268 feet long and 42 feet tall. Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z "I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper," she said. Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects 2013-02-17T00:06:12Z Dim sum joints and illicit massage parlors gave way to gleaming shopping malls and faceless skyscrapers. 2010-01-09T01:05:00Z Looking to the future, Close is working to organize a skyscraper tour, with hopes of stringing up such icons as the 110-story Willis Tower in Chicago. The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world's longest stringed instrument 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in the cities, vast immigrant armies were mobilized by ruthless and often violent “robber baron” capitalists to build vast industries that made things: steel, railroads, ships, cars, skyscrapers. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z In a nighttime panorama of sleeping city skyscrapers, Sempé, as he signed his work and was known universally, illuminated a ballerina in a window. Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The trailer features scenes of Los Angeles skyscrapers tumbling and a massive tsunami bearing down on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. 'San Andreas' Will Be Released in May Despite Nepal Quake 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Just check out "Whopper Vase" which, at 61 inches high, looms above the rest of the show like a brightly colored, Popsicle-shaped skyscraper. Urns, ferns and cabinets full of wonders ? Dante Marioni makes marvels out of glass 2010-08-12T20:28:00Z But there's a sophistication to the band that also reflects our scrubbed post-Microsoft urban landscape — glassy skyscrapers with clouds reflected in the windows. Seattle's Fleet Foxes poised to sprint with new album 2011-05-01T00:42:00Z It even has white sandy beaches beneath all those skyscrapers. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z She was dwarfed by the skyscrapers of the financial district and seemed almost inert compared with the bustle of cars and people on the waterfront. Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z If the old council towers and office blocks were functional and egalitarian, these are skyscrapers, hierarchical, private and instantly recognisable, half-a-dozen little logos. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Like skyscrapers, rising up, floor by floor, not giving up. Everyone needs an anthem 2012-09-02T17:00:00Z The skyline is a forest of skyscrapers; below them nestle private golf clubs and shopping centres devoted to luxury brands. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z It is home to glittering skyscrapers, innovative fashion and the ubiquitous cuisine of the street cart. Q&A: Side Trip From Singapore, With Two Boys 2010-09-23T17:00:00Z The architectural treasures scattered throughout the city are no skyscrapers, but they still soar. 7 Great Reads to Distract You From the Election 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Over the course of his book, he names just two examples of proposed skyscraper projects intended to help repopulate the city and, in one case, to help stem its rising waters. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z As if on cue, an enormous airport in India and a diminutive public garden behind a skyscraper in Manhattan envelop us with nature where we least expect it. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Pyrotechnics will be fired off near the Kowloon peninsula and from the tops of seven skyscrapers on Hong Kong Island. Revelers start ringing in 2014 with fireworks 2013-12-31T13:58:40Z Despite all those glass skyscrapers, capturing an early ’60s look wasn’t as hard as you might think, Mr. Burns said. For ‘Public Morals,’ Edward Burns Exhumes the ’60s From Manhattan Streets 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But it's packed with enough anxieties about government surveillance and the steamrolling growth of digital culture to fill a skyscraper. 'Citizenfour's' paranoid spaces echoed in other Oscar nominees 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z It tapers as it rises through a cutout in the floor of the second story skyscraper gallery to graze the 26-foot-tall ceiling. The Second City Claims First in Architecture 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z How best to build a new skyscraper in an ancient city? The Libeskind-Designed Skyscraper Will Be the Second Tallest in Jerusalem 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z But there remains intrinsic danger, and a tacit acceptance that the worst case scenario is death, when it comes to swinging between skyscrapers or getting clotheslined by an SUV. 'It's a terribly fine line': the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Few people would consider a 40-foot-tall building to be in skyscraper territory, but it really depends on your context. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z His habit subsides, but returns in college and gets dangerous when he moves to Chicago; one page shows bottles rising from the bottom edge to the same height as the surrounding skyscrapers. Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z They burst from the skyscraper while synchronized with R&B star Alicia Keys singing "Empire State of Mind" on nationwide radio. Empire State Building surprises NY with new lights 2012-11-29T14:22:19Z Compared with modern superheroes who barely wince when a skyscraper falls on their head, his frailty makes him human — and his survival more thrilling. Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z But hell, what are fireworks when you have an entire skyscraper? Cable News Tackles the Midterms With Flash and Fireworks 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z To the east, there’s the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral and all the glittering skyscrapers that signal the newest era in London’s ancient and enduring history. A love letter to London’s 139 bus, from an adoring day tripper 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But whatever your persuasion, after reading this book you will never look up at a skyscraper the same way again. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z An artist’s rendering of the skyscraper is reproduced in this engaging coffee table book. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z One purpose of landscape art can be to evoke awe, to make the viewer feel as small as a carpenter ant at a skyscraper construction site. Paper Gallery: Art Books: ?Spider-Man,? ?Supercell? and More 2012-03-08T22:24:41Z Here’s the long and short of it: Los Angeles still hasn’t produced a skyscraper that qualifies as a great work of architecture. Wilshire Grand Center, the new tallest building in L.A. and a schmoozer in the skyline 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s called “Bright Lights,” and it tells the story of a big dreamer who catches a Greyhound to the big city to find the meaning of “skyscraper love.” Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Comparing Dubai and Portsmouth is a stretch, but Portsmouth’s iconic Spinnaker Tower is a sail-shaped monolith reminiscent of a Dubai skyscraper. 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Rereading Stephen King: week 12 – The Running Man 2012-11-22T10:13:57Z It is not enough that the drive and ambition of our overachievers have built our skyscrapers and created out of guilt or generosity what has lined our museums and public places. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Set in the 1950s, Towles’s exhilarating novel follows four boys on a trip across America, from rural Nebraska to the skyscrapers of New York. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The vistas include Mondrian-inspired constructions and a surrealistic cityscape whose gridded map is the base for industrial metal pieces set upright to impersonate skyscrapers. Review | In the galleries: Works of art emerge via waking up with a word in mind 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z |
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