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...morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Adrian D. Smith, a well-known architect in the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, was in a meeting with Donald Trump. The hyperbolic New York City developer was in Chicago to go over the design of a proposed Trump residential tower in that city that he had decided should be--what else?--the tallest building in the world, around 2,000 ft. In the midst of their meeting, the two men got word of the first plane that hit the World Trade Center. "When the second plane hit, we all rushed to the television...
...skyscraper was born in the U.S., and for most of the 20th century, it flourished here. Fifteen years ago, nine of the world's 10 tallest buildings were in the U.S. (The 10th was in Toronto.) Now just two are: the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building in Manhattan. All the rest are in Asia. A combination of factors--a sluggish commercial real estate market, skepticism about the profitability of very tall buildings even in good times, the rise of urban thinking critical of skyscrapers and the psychological fallout from 9/11--has discouraged today's American developers from...
...developer, who were determined not to let their least favorite neighbor get ahead in the vertical space race, not only green-lighted a much delayed project, the Shanghai World Financial Center, but insisted on additional stories so that the building will have more occupiable floors than the tower in Taiwan...
...close next year--funneling more shoppers to the discounters where they can just as easily pop a Harry Potter DVD in the cart and scrap the toy altogether. To help keep Toys "R" Us afloat, manufacturers are supplying it with more exclusives this year, like a Big Air Ball Tower from K'nex, though Target, for one, is also selling more exclusive toys...
...speech based on his new book Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos, Gold said that although its original purpose was to “nick aggression in the butt,” the U.N. fails to distinguish between aggressor and victim in international conflicts...