The most innovative Skyscrapers of the world

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Chinese Architecture

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Skyscrapers of Shanghai-China

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The port city of Tianjin (Mainland china third largest city behind Shanghai and Beijing) is adding another

skyscraper to its skyline. Nicknamed the pile of boxes by local residents, is set to be underway.

The design features three towers made up of stacked and slightly rotated eight-story blocks. Each tower will use a geothermal heating/cooling system and feature

sky-gardens in rotating corners of the glass blocks. The gardens will light up the corners of each tower, creating

an illusion of glowing lanterns rising up into the sky.

Each of the buildings will also be crowned with mesh-like blocks that house vertical wind-powered turbines to

help supply electricity.

• Tianjin's 'Pile of Boxes' skyscraper

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• Also known as: Tower of Dubai Built: 2004-2009, Cost: US$900,000,000.00, Designed by: Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (USA) Type: Skyscraper Stories: 189 Maximum height: 2683 feet / 818 meters.

• W hen completed, this building is intended to be the tallest in the world.

• On the flat plain of Dubai, it is a shock to behold, likely to be visible for miles and miles. One can only imagine the views possible from those living and working inside. Floors one through 37 are expected to be a hotel. The 45th through 108th floors are expected to be residential, with the remaining 52 floors being offices, except for floors 123 and 124, which will hold the observation deck.

• FYI: state of the art technology is currently being used to ensure that this skyscraper is straight - transmitters have been attached to the walls which communicate with satellites in outer space.

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Building on a man-madeIsland!

New Dubai Tower Clocks The Sun• As global leader of the bizarre world of upscale development,Dubai has yet another

feat of both engineering and excess in the works.The latest spire to be added to the desert landscape will be the TimeResidences building in the City of Arabia, a 200-unit apartment tower -that will rotate! The complex will turn a full 360 degrees over thecourse of a week, utilizing stored solar energy to power the turningmechanisms. $109 million dollar project

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