skyscraping

The resort is not a large skyscraping hotel type of place.

But now, there are plans to line the square with new skyscraping corporate towers.

"Amazing animals," he says, as he admires a skyscraping waltz.

A skyscraping shard of glass, in an otherwise low rise city, the building is loved by some and loathed by others.

And when the city's lawyer asked what he had in mind, a skyscraping building or a broad, sprawling campus, he gave the best answer - both.

The skyscraping age brought rooftop lunch clubs to the Wall Street area, but with land so valuable social institutions were generally tenants, not builders.

A screen grab showing the Avant-garde Tower, a skyscraping apartment block under construction in London.

LONDON — Bad news: a skyscraping apartment block is being built near my home.

Streets Are Often Empty For now, the area hews to a different and older rhythm than its skyscraping neighbors.

That building, now known as Sony Plaza, was instantly likened to a skyscraping Chippendale highboy.

"Choose the chip!" bawls one of the float's outriders, her headdress a skyscraping affair of fries in newspaper.

(As-Sahab means "the clouds" in Arabic, a reference to the skyscraping mountain peaks of Afghanistan.)

The 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, which the developer Larry A. Silverstein will build, is to be its skyscraping emblem.

Before that we had dropped in on Samoa, and on the way back we'll have a skyscraping spendfest in Hong Kong.

He lives in a smartly minimalist Manhattan apartment, and he works for a firm which does something unspecified, but clearly lucrative, in a skyscraping office block.

The most prominent building in the Iron City is Dispater's tower of iron and lead, a skyscraping edifice that constantly changes shape.

The Wallabies will fight fire with fire against the powerful Italian forward pack this weekend by making skyscraping lock Rob Simmons a shock back-row starter.

There is no hope for New Yorkers, for they glory in their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

Americas Tower, a skyscraping distress signal in mid-Manhattan that has been frozen for more than a year while its developers battled one another, may finally be completed as a result of a settlement.

Thus today's low-slung imperial Washington, its monumental heart clustered around the open space of the Mall, punctuated by the 555ft obelisk of the Washington Monument, the city's one skyscraping edifice.

There might also be a building boomlet in the West 60's that would complete the transformation of the Lincoln Center area into a skyscraping range quite unlike the rest of the Upper West Side.

But even Goodman had his roadside attraction: Shaarey Zedek, capacity 3,500, parlays a skyscraping Ark and an erupting eternal flame into a concrete Sinai on the shoulder of Interstate 696 near Detroit.

New York Times architecture critic Philip Nobel described it as a "roadside attraction" that "parlays a skyscraping Ark and an erupting eternal flame into a concrete Sinai on the shoulder of Interstate 696".

London, England (CNN) -- World-renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor has been chosen to design a skyscraping sculpture that will be a main attraction at London's Olympic Park in 2012, city officials announced Wednesday.

By the early Nineties he was earning $50 million a picture, a skyscraping pay grade that even a lead role in Brian De Palma's disastrous adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities couldn't tear down.