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26-08-2010 > Empire State Building Neighbour Gets Approval

15 Penn Plaza, New York CityFor decades the primacy of the Empire State Building, an international icon, on the skyline of Manhattan's Midtown has been respected and enforced through strict planning rules but all this has now changed with the approval of a new supertall tower just a few blocks from it.

16-08-2010 > Memorial Promises To Open Up WTC Foundations

National September 11 Memorial and MuseumMuch has been made of the plans for a mosque next to the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York but very little seems to have been mentioned of proposals that will see the foundations of the building opened up as part of a new museum and memorial.

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12-08-2010 > Small Texan Town To Get 39 Floor Tower

Kirana, South PadreYou probably won't have heard of South Padre Island in Texas, but relatively speaking it's the most high-rise place on earth thanks to the fact it has a population of barely 2,500 people making it technically a village by British standards.

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10-08-2010 > New Yorks Tallest Resi Gets Arab Kick-Start

Carnegie 57, New YorkWhat will be the tallest residential tower in New York looks like it is finally going to get underway after months of delays following the completion of the foundations.

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10-08-2010 > Couture To Dress Up Toronto Skyline

Couture Condos, TorontoCouture might be French for clothing, but in the Canadian city of Toronto it could soon mean something else entirely different - a new high-rise condo.

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14-06-2010 > Chicagos Consortinaed University Tower

Roosevelt University DormitoryRoosevelt University is planning a new high-rise tower that will accommodate hundreds of students in a new glass clad dormitory.

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24-03-2010 > New Hells Kitchen Skyscraper Rises

440 West 42nd Street, New YorkHaving been bogged down by problems caused by the 2008 financial crisis, one skyscraper that is now back from the dead and rapidly rising in New York's Hell's Kitchen is 440 West 42nd Street.

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10-02-2010 > Zoomorphic Mexican Museum Takes Shape

Soumaya Museum, Mexico CityWith an amorphous look, a new museum is currently rising in Mexico City in the heart of a new urban quarter, Plaza Carso.

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21-07-2010 > Borg-like Perot Museum

Perot Museum of Nature & Science, DallasIf you're an aging Texan billionaire there isn't much your children can get you as a present but for Ross Perot, a man worth $3.9 billion, his children have decided to give away $50 million to the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas.

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05-06-2010 > Calatravas Skeletal New York Station

WTC Transport Hub, New YorkAlthough work on the planned replacement World Trade Centre skyscrapers can be described as sporadic, at best, one part of the development that is under construction is the transport hub.

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25-02-2010 > Mexican Tower Takes Diagrids To New Heights

Reforma 432, Mexico CityReforma 432 is a newly planned residential skyscraper to stand in Mexico City with a façade that is nothing if not distinctive.

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29-01-2010 > New NASA Launch Facilities To Top Out

Ares Launchpad, Kennedy Space CenterHuman exploration of the stars is set to further expand with the construction of a massive new launch pad being built at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral.

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