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Recent Examples of skyscrapers
In recent years, the government has flattened entire neighborhoods – including some of the city’s most historic – to make way for new skyscrapers, mega shopping centers, wider roads, and parks.
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Samuel Getachew, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
Who doesn’t want to watch gigantic creatures and metal men the size of skyscrapers go at it?
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Away from the skyscrapers in Doha, some 100km north-west of Qatar’s buzzy capital city, a new hotel opening is making ripples across the sand.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars, cellphones, paper towels and bobblehead dolls.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
From skinny housing that fits into small inner-city areas, to an extraordinary pair of skyscrapers joined by a bridge, here's our selection of the best buildings from the past 12 months.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Someone invented the elevator, and so skyscrapers happened, and cities changed forever.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2024
Now, the centerpiece is a skating rink in which skaters can glide over the ice while admiring the views of the Financial District skyscrapers, East River and the Brooklyn Bridge.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Picture transport ships from China facing incoming anti-ship missiles; missile strikes blowing holes in airfields and key military installations; hilltop-to-hilltop fighting over rugged mountainous terrain; and urban warfare amid the skyscrapers of densely populated cities.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 16 Dec. 2024
Samuel Getachew, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
Who doesn’t want to watch gigantic creatures and metal men the size of skyscrapers go at it?
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Away from the skyscrapers in Doha, some 100km north-west of Qatar’s buzzy capital city, a new hotel opening is making ripples across the sand.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars, cellphones, paper towels and bobblehead dolls.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
From skinny housing that fits into small inner-city areas, to an extraordinary pair of skyscrapers joined by a bridge, here's our selection of the best buildings from the past 12 months.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Someone invented the elevator, and so skyscrapers happened, and cities changed forever.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2024
Now, the centerpiece is a skating rink in which skaters can glide over the ice while admiring the views of the Financial District skyscrapers, East River and the Brooklyn Bridge.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Picture transport ships from China facing incoming anti-ship missiles; missile strikes blowing holes in airfields and key military installations; hilltop-to-hilltop fighting over rugged mountainous terrain; and urban warfare amid the skyscrapers of densely populated cities.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Skyscrapers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyscrapers. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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