Taiwan has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years, killing at least nine people, toppling buildings and even triggering tsunami warnings. But amid the chaos, eerie footage shows the island's tallest building – the $1.8 billion Taipei 101 skyscraper – gently swaying like a stick in the breeze. Taipei 101 is the tallest building in Taiwan and formerly …
Pisa-like, Garisenda Tower in Bologna, built around 1100 for a family of Ghibelline money changers, has been leaning for a very long while. Bologna – La Turrita, the city of towers – is fond of its 20 or so remaining medieval “skyscrapers” of which in Dante’s day it boasted as many as 80 and perhaps even 100. The same is …
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With the roof of the 65th floor, 42 Chowringhee has become the tallest building in India, defeating The Imperial in South Mumbai's Tardeo. It would have been the second-tallest had the additional four floors that were later sanctioned not been constructed," said AN Shroff of Alcove Realty, one among the three companies that formed a consortium to develop the ultra-premium …
