Naum Granovsky/TASS; Sjaak Kempe (CC BY 2.0) This building for scientists was designed by Latvian architects in the style of the Moscow skyscrapers. It still houses various institutes of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and centers for the study of the Latvian language and culture. There is als...
The dining scene is particularly impressive – Hong Kong boasts the world’s most affordable Michelin-starred restaurant – with a cosmopolitan population that ensures you can find cuisine from almost any country across the globe. There are ample opportunities to get to know the cultures and ...
Like many who visit Oman, I arrived via a transfer in Dubai, and I’d wondered if Muscat would resemble that hypermodern phantasmagoria of skyscrapers next door. The two towns do have certain quirks in common (malls where you can go sledding indoors, for example) and both have grown expone...
designed by “father of skyscrapers”Louis Sullivan. Chicago-based Sullivan spent the early years of his career strewing the landscape with steel towers. But in his later years he took to designing small Midwestern banks he called
Where are the world's coolest skyscrapers(摩天大楼)? Now let's visit some of them together.Petronas Twin Towers In Kuala Lumpur(吉隆坡),the towers stand like two twin brothers. Theyare 452 metres tall. And they each have 88 floors.On the 41st and 42nd floors, there is a skybridgebetween...
the stock market crash of 1929 put an end to that. Zoning laws in 1923 limited the height of skyscrapers, allowing for towers as long as they didn’t take up more than one quarter of the lot size. Therefore, this building has a 23 story base and a 15 story tower. There’s something...
Let’s start at the top. Hong Kong’s Central district is the high-rent district, with the swankiest shops and malls squeezed among the city’s skyscrapers when it comes to shopping in Hong Kong. This is the place to go for a more upscale shopping experience and international designer bran...
You can book a maximum of 9 passengers per booking. Class Search flights Flights to Hong Kong Hong Kong is made up of three distinct regions: Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories, each with its own distinct charm. On Hong Kong Island, modern skyscrapers and wo...
Thousands of social media accounts, dedicated to showcasing daring teenagers hanging off of cranes or doing backflips on top of skyscrapers, further... Continue Reading → November 30, 2017 0 Respecting the culture is what villanova’s african dance company strives for in their student choreography...
Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain) through a wall ofhalf-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insula-tion board. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers...