Tall buildings challenge stirs rivalry from East to West
17 June 2005

With the rebuilding process well under way in Lower Manhattan, the
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat based at the Illinois
Institute of Technology is working on a program of presentations and
visits for an international conference on ‘renewing the urban
landscape’, to be held fittingly this year in New York City.

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There are however two fresh contenders for the height record: the Burj
Tower in Dubai and a record breaking skyscraper in New Delhi. The first
is under construction, the second still at the design stage. The
architect for the New Delhi tower is Hafeez Contractor and if this
50-storey hotel with 40-storey atrium is ever built, it will presumably
be undertaken by an Indian firm of property developers. The New Delhi
building will, its promoters claim, top 700 m; the Burj Dubai developers
declare that their tower will the tallest in the world when completed
but refuse to disclose the height.

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Skyscrapers Flourish Despite 9-11

Delegates at the 8th Venice International Architecture Exhibition say
the skyscraper is flourishing around the world despite 9-11 and security
concerns.

Sep 18, 2002, 02:00 pm PDT

Contributed by Abhijeet Chavan

"The exhibition flaunted 1:100 scale mock-ups of towers reaching 100
floors or more. These models echoed the works in progress of established
architects such as France's Jean Nouvel with the Agbar tower in
Barcelona, Italy's Renzo Piano's model for the future headquarters of
The New York Times and Britain's Norman Foster for the 283m, 40-storey
Swiss Re Tower in London, billed as the world's first ecological
skyscraper. "

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