skyscraper
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Beneath the shadows of indigo-streaked clouds, a young woman strolls through a fog-covered city, stopping at the base of a skyscraper.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Steel beams holding up the skyscraper are exposed in various corners of residential units - an homage to what made the original building so innovative.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Her Private Hell” is an expressionistic sci-fi fantasy set in a skyscraper hotel that stretches into the clouds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The party was held at the Patriot’s Bar, a flag-filled watering hole at JPMorgan’s new skyscraper where Dimon has been hosting parties and social gatherings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It was worse than wrong; it was unbeautiful—an ugly, bulging, falling-apart catastrophe, a skyscraper after an earthquake.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Completed in 1902, the building was an architectural marvel with a pioneering steel-frame construction making it one of the city's first skyscrapers.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Work cleaning the Oceanwide Plaza skyscrapers — known informally as Graffiti Towers — will begin immediately, according to the $517-million sale agreement tentatively approved by a federal judge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
For Act 1, it featured bombed-out European cites; for Act 2, we got the building of skyscrapers and suburbia in the United States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Like the buildup of super-tall skyscrapers along the Asian rim in our own time, architectural gigantism followed the accumulation of sufficient money and political confidence to make such gestures.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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