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NEWS ABOUT: buildings

buildings stories: 5 news summaries

 Goodbye, Sears Tower;  
 Hello, Willis Tower 

Iconic skyscraper gets rebranded with new lease

Mar 12, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sears Tower is to be rechristened Willis Tower in accordance with a new lease signed by insurance firm Willis Group Holdings, the Chicago Tribune reports. The company plans to move some 500 associates into multiple floors. It says its $14.50-per-square-foot move means big real-estate savings, and the name change... More »

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Chicago • buildings • Sears Tower • Willis Group Holdings • Willis Tower

Architect: Crunch Will Topple 'Wow Factor' Buildings

Architect believes financial meltdown will cause building 'mood shift'

Nov 4, 08 9:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Attention-seeking skyscraper projects are likely to be early victims of the financial crisis, architect David Chipperfield predicts in a Bloomberg interview. "Wow-factor" buildings like London's "Shard of Glass" have proliferated during years when there's been plenty of money around, but a shift in mood is likely to... More »

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architecture • skyscraper • buildings • architect • financial crisis

Behold, the Worst Building Ever

105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang draws Esquire's scorn

Jan 31, 08 9:38 AM CST
(Newser) - The Ryugyong Hotel in downtown Pyongyang is surely one of the worst architectural failures in history, Eva Hagberg writes in Esquire: Not only has the 105-story building—which sucked up an estimated 2% of North Korea’s annual GDP from 1987 to '92—never opened, but the pyramidal “hotel... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • buildings • Ryugyong hotel

Best New Buildings of 2007

BusinessWeek
profiles the top 10

Dec 6, 07 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Looks weren't all that mattered to BusinessWeek and Architectural Record in choosing their 2007 architectural awards. "Contribution to business" was important, too. Their top picks:
  1. InterActive Corp. Headquarters, New York—Gehry Partners
  2. Young Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto—Kuwabara
... More »

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architecture • green building • list • buildings • top 10

Dubai Tower is World's Tallest

$1B skyscraper at 1,680 feet; final height will be over 2,200 with 160 floors and 56 elevators

Jul 21, 07 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - An unfinished skyscraper in Dubai is now scraping the sky at 1,680 feet, surpassing Tawain's Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building. The Burj Dubai, which began construction in September 2004, will cost $1B and consist of more than 160 floors and 56 elevators when completed in 2008. More »

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Dubai • Burj Dubai • Al Jazeera • Tawain • United Arab Emirates • Taipei 101 • skyscraper • buildings • world's tallest building

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