"Completion is now scheduled for September next year but the Burj Dubai is almost fully clad and the next stage will be to add the final spire to the top, which is under construction in Jebel Ali. What a statement about the brash, bold self-confidence of this amazing city...
"What, you might well enquire, have Hollywood movie stars Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson got to do with the launch of the world's tallest residential building?
Stunning in a brown-lacy mini and thigh-high brown suede boots and with the smooth unlined skin of a woman half...
"Voting has opened for the first ever world edition of the board game Monopoly.
The manufacturer of Monopoly, Hasbro, has set up a website where people can vote for cities from a prepared list or nominate a city to feature in the game.
Just 22 cities will make it on to the...
One-of-a-kind
tower looks to fetch up to $15 million a unit as it opens sales office;
experts anxiously await results as they watch real estate deals and
prices slideIn
today's troubled housing market the...
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""The Chicago Spire is a remarkable building on an exceptional site," said Garrett Kelleher. "We've brought together a world class team to create what will not only become an amazingly beautiful home for its residents but a building that will be a dynamic new symbol for the...
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Over the June bank holiday it cost the taxpayers of Ireland 40 thousand Euros to clean the €5m Spire Of Light.
At the time of its erection on O'Connell Street in 2003 the Spire Of Light was described as ...
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A powerful storm hit the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., killing one person and knocking over the spire of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.""That's a fairly significant amount of damage to one of...
Chicago officials have given the green light for the construction of the Chicago Spire, which will be the United States' tallest building. The next step will be funding, as the proposed budget for the project...
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From a Canadian standpoint, this story is flummoxing: my hometown recently celebrated it's 100th birthday. Oxfordshire is a young 1000. It could probably teach my town a thing or two... "Oxford's showpiece Broad...
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