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SunTrust Plaza is a 265 m (869 ft) 60-story skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. Built as part of the Peachtree Center complex, construction was finished in 1992, and has been the second-tallest building in Atlanta since then. When completed, it was the 28th tallest building in the world, and 21st tallest building in the United States. It is the headquarters for Atlanta's World Trade Center. Since Atlanta's tallest, the Bank of America Plaza, is located in nearby Midtown, SunTrust Plaza is the tallest in the downtown area. The light rotates.
Architect and developer John C. Portman, Jr. originally conceived this building in the 1980s commercial real-estate frenzy as a speculative office building. Its basic design elements, a postmodern square tower with an elaborate base and crown, represented a departure for Portman from his earlier International-style work, and are said to have been inspired by Philip Johnson's wildly successful design for midtown Atlanta's One Atlantic Center.
Ground broke in 1989 with great fanfare, but by completion in 1992, the bottom had fallen out of Atlanta's real estate market and the building sat largely empty, nearly forcing Portman into bankruptcy and causing him to lose control of most of his real estate holdings. His architectural firm, John Portman & Associates, located their headquarters in the building.
In the mid-1990s, Portman sold half his interest in the building to SunTrust Bank, which then moved its headquarters to the building, prompting a name change from One Peachtree Center to its current name.
The two-level lobby is filled with many works of art, sculpture and furniture designed by John Portman.
Building facts courtesy of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunTrust_Plaza
When you walk in Chicago you have to keep your neck up!! Skyscrapers all around...Taken from Wabash Ave Bridge over Chicago River at Blue hour..I intentionally left the image AS-IS without any distortion correction..as I liked the feel on this ...please feel free to share what you feel about it..would like to see your opinion
At Bryce Canyon, hoodoos range in size from that of an average human to heights exceeding a 10-storey building. Formed in sedimentary rock, their shapes are affected by the erosional patterns of alternating hard and softer rock layers. The name given to the rock layer that forms hoodoos at Bryce Canyon is the Claron Formation. This layer has several rock types including siltstones and mudstones but is predominantly limestone. Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colours throughout their height.
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in south-western Utah. Despite its name, Bryce Canyon is not actually a canyon, but rather a giant natural amphitheatre created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
The area shows a record of deposition that spans from the last part of the Cretaceous period and the first half of the Cenozoic era. The Claron Formation, from which the park's delicate hoodoos are carved, was laid down as sediments in a system of cool streams and lakes that existed from 63 to about 40 million years ago (from the Paleocene to the Eocene epochs). Different sediment types were laid down as the lakes deepened and became shallow and as the shoreline and river deltas migrated. Hoodoos are composed of soft sedimentary rock and are topped by a piece of harder, less-easily-eroded stone that protects the column from the elements. Bryce Canyon has one of the highest concentrations of hoodoos of any place on Earth.
The formations exposed in the area of the park are part of the Grand Staircase. The oldest members of this supersequence of rock units are exposed in the Grand Canyon, the intermediate ones in Zion National Park, and its youngest parts are laid bare in Bryce Canyon area. A small amount of overlap occurs in and around each park.
Seen from Sunset Point in a late-afternoon photograph, scanned from a negative.
Shiodome City Center is in the middle, with Nippon TV Tower on the left and Royal Park Shiodome Tower on the right.
"A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper. One common feature is that skyscrapers tend to make use of a steel framework structure from which walls are suspended, rather than having load-bearing walls as seen in conventional buildings."
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A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many storeys, usually designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper. One common feature is having a steel framework from which curtain walls are suspended, rather than load-bearing walls of conventional construction.
In context, a relatively small building may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes well above its built environment and changes the overall skyline. The maximum height of structures has progressed historically with building methods and technologies. Also lacking an official definition, the term 'Supertall' has arisen for the current generation of exceptionally tall buildings.
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Arranha-céu ou arranha-céus é a denominação popular de edifícios dotados de uma altura singular frente aos seus demais. Estes prédios normalmente possuem caráter multifuncional, sendo capazes de abrigar estabelecimentos residenciais, comerciais, de serviços, entre outros. A sua presença no espaço urbano, quando destacada de tecidos urbanos dotados de menor gabarito (altura média das edificações), constitui-se em geral como uma referência ou marco para a cidade, embora ele também possa gerar problemas vários ligados à mobilidade urbana, consumo de energia e segurança.
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超高層建築物（ちょうこうそうけんちくぶつ）は、高層建築物の中でも特に高い建築物である。超高層ビル（ちょうこうそうビル）ともいう（以下、「超高層ビル」を用いる）。どの程度の高さ以上の建築物を超高層ビルと呼ぶかについては、統一された明確な基準はない（#定義参照）。
After four years of construction, Detroit's Renaissance Center was dedicated on April 15, 1977. The center now (since May 16, 1996) houses the world headquarters of General Motors Corporation, as well as a hotel and other commercial enterprises. The Detroit People Mover opened in 1987, operated by third-rail electrification. One of the trains plying the 2.9 mile circuit is seen here from the Cobo Center, with the Renaissance Center towering beyond.
Photographed March 2, 2018 during my visit to Detroit Autorama at the Cobo Center.
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