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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (أبو ظبي) is the capital and the second most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the UAE's seven emirates.
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Adrian Smith (architect)
Adrian D. Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect who has designed numerous notable buildings, including the world’s tallest structure, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), an architecture firm and design firm based in Chicago, is engaged in the design and development of energy-efficient and sustainable architecture.
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Alain Robert
Alain Robert (born as Robert Alain Philippe on 7 August 1962) is a French rock climber and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France.
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Almas Tower
Almas Tower (برج الماس Diamond Tower) is a 68-storey,, supertall skyscraper in the Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Antenna (radio)
In radio, an antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.
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Apartment
An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.
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Arabian Business
Arabian Business is a weekly business magazine published in Dubai and focusing on the Middle East.
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Arabtec Holding PJSC
Arabtec Holding PJSC, together with its subsidiaries, provides construction services for residential, commercial, oil and gas, infrastructure, power, facilities management, and property development sectors in the United Arab Emirates and internationally.It operates through Construction; Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing; Oil & Gas, Infrastructure and Power; and Other segments.The company is involved in the construction of high-rise towers, buildings, and residential villas, as well as undertakes drainage, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, contracting and related, and civil and infrastructure construction works.
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Architectural glass
Architectural glass is glass that is used as a building material.
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Armani
Giorgio Armani S.P.A. is an Italian fashion house founded by Giorgio Armani which designs, manufactures, distributes and retails haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, eyewear, cosmetics and home interiors.
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ASHRAE
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (doing business since 2012 as ASHRAE) is a global professional association seeking to advance heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems design and construction.
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Augmented reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whose elements are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory.
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Australian dollar
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
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BASE jumping
BASE jumping, also sometimes written as B.A.S.E. jumping, is parachuting or wingsuit flying from a fixed structure or cliff.
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Bauer Group
BAUER Aktiengesellschaft is a stock-market-listed construction and machinery manufacturing concern based in Schrobenhausen in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
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Bedrock
In geology, bedrock is the lithified rock that lies under a loose softer material called regolith at the surface of the Earth or other terrestrial planets.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.
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BESIX
BESIX Group is the largest Belgian group, operating in the construction of buildings, infrastructure, environmental projects and roads.
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Big, Bigger, Biggest
Big, Bigger, Biggest is a British documentary television series which began airing in 2008.
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Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Building (magazine)
Building is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest business-to-business magazines, launched as The Builder in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom Cab.
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Building maintenance unit
A building maintenance unit (BMU) is an automatic, remote-controlled, or mechanical device, usually suspended from the roof, which moves systematically over some surface of a structure while carrying human window washers or mechanical robots to maintain or clean the covered surfaces.
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Bur Dubai
Bur Dubai (in Arabic: بر دبي) is a historic district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located on the western side of the Dubai Creek.
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Business Standard
Business Standard is the third largest Indian English-language daily newspaper published by Business Standard Ltd (BSL) in two languages, English and Hindi.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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Canton Tower
The Canton Tower or Guangzhou Tower, formally Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower, is a tall multi-purpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton), in Guangdong, China.
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Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.
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Cathodic protection
Cathodic protection (CP) is a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the cathode of an electrochemical cell.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Cityscape Abu Dhabi
Cityscape Abu Dhabi is a real estate event, taking place in Abu Dhabi every year since 2007.
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Cityscape Global
Cityscape Global is the world's largest networking exhibition and conference on property development.
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CN Tower
The CN Tower (Tour CN) is a concrete communications and observation tower located in the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
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Concrete pump
A concrete pump is a machine used for transferring liquid concrete by pumping.
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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings and sustainable urban design.
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Crane (machine)
A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally.
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CTLGroup
CTLGroup is an internationally recognized expert consulting engineering and materials science firm that provides engineering, testing and scientific services to clients in the following markets: Building & Facilities; Emergent Solutions; Energy & Resources; Litigation & Insurance; Materials & Products; and Transportation.
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Current TV
Current TV was an American television channel from August 1, 2005 to August 20, 2013.
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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.
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Davit
A davit is any of various crane-like devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering equipment such as boats and anchors.
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Docklands, Victoria
Docklands (also known as Melbourne Docklands to differentiate it from London Docklands) is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km (1.2 mi) from Melbourne's Central Business District.
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Double-deck elevator
A double-deck elevator or double-deck lift is an elevator with two cabs attached together, one on top of the other.
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Downtown Dubai
Downtown Dubai, previously known as Downtown Burj Dubai, is a large-scale, mixed-use complex under development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Dubai
Dubai (دبي) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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E 11 road (United Arab Emirates)
E 11 (شارع ﺇ ١١) is a highway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Elevator
An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.
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Emaar Properties
Emaar Properties is a real estate development company located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Emirate of Abu Dhabi
The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (or; إمارة أبوظبي), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Emporis
Emporis GmbH is a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
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Engineering News-Record
Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is an American weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide.
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Fazlur Rahman Khan
Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান, Fozlur Rôhman Khan) (3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers.
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Financial crisis of 2007–2008
The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Fireworks
Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
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Free solo climbing
Free solo climbing, also known as Soloing, is a form of free climbing and solo climbing where the climber (or free soloist) performs alone and without using any ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, relying entirely on his or her ability instead.
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Geostorm
Geostorm is a 2017 American disaster film directed, co-written, and produced by Dean Devlin as his feature film directorial debut.
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GHD Group
GHD Pty Ltd (formerly known as Gutteridge Haskins & Davey) is a multinational technical professional services firm providing engineering, architecture, environmental and construction consulting and management services.
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Good Design Award (Chicago)
The Good Design Awards is an industrial design program organized annually by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
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Great Mosque of Samarra
The Great Mosque of Samarra is a ninth-century mosque located in Samarra, Iraq.
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Grocon
Grocon Pty Ltd, or more commonly Grocon, is Australia's largest privately owned development, construction and funds management company.
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Grollo Tower
The Grollo Tower was a proposed skyscraper development in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Australia.
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Gsmprjct°
GSM Project is a Montreal-based group specialized in the design and production of thematic installations and exhibitions mainly for museums.
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Gulf News
Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Hyder Consulting
Hyder Consulting was a multi-national advisory and design consultancy with particular specialisation in the transport, property, utilities and environmental sectors.
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Hymenocallis
Hymenocallis (US) or (UK) is a genus of American plants in the amaryllis family.
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Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of lead vocalist Dan Reynolds, lead guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman.
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Independence Day: Resurgence (also known as ID: R) is a 2016 American science fiction action film written and directed by Roland Emmerich with co-writers Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, and James Vanderbilt.
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Institution of Structural Engineers
The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom.
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International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) is a non-profit organisation with mission to promote the exchange of knowledge and to advance the practice of structural engineering worldwide in the service of the profession and society, taking into consideration technical, economic, environmental, aesthetic and social aspects.
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Islamic architecture
Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the early history of Islam to the present day.
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Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa (born 1955) is a Spanish artist and sculptor.
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Jeddah Tower
Jeddah Tower (برج جدة), previously known as Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة) and Mile-High Tower (برج الميل), is skyscraper under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Jumeirah Lake Towers
The Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) (أبراج بحيرات الجميرا) is a large development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which consists of 80 towers being constructed along the edges of three artificial lakes (Lake Almas West, Lake Almas East, JLT Lake) as well as the JLT Embankment of 8 tower facing Jumeirah Islands.
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Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times (KT) is a daily English language newspaper published in United Arab Emirates. Launched on April 16, 1978, KT is the UAE's oldest and remains the country's longest running English daily.
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Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (خليفة بن زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان; born 7 September 1948; referred to as Sheikh Khalifa) is the President of the United Arab Emirates, the Emir of Abu Dhabi and the Supreme Commander of the Union Defence Force.
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Konstantynów, Płock County
Konstantynów is a village in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland with population of 38 people.
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KVLY-TV mast
The KVLY-TV mast (formerly the KTHI-TV mast) is a television-transmitting mast in Blanchard, Traill County, North Dakota, United States, used by Fargo station KVLY-TV channel 11.
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Lake Point Tower
Lake Point Tower is a high-rise residential building located on a promontory of the Lake Michigan lakefront in downtown Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Drive.
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Le Journal de Montréal
Le Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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LEAF Award
The ABB LEAF Awards is an annual international architectural prize.
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Lerch Bates
Lerch Bates is an international consulting services company specializing in the design and management of building systems with 36 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and India.
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List of buildings in Dubai
This is a list of buildings in Dubai.
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List of buildings with 100 floors or more
This is a list of buildings with 100 floors or more above ground.
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List of development projects in Dubai
The government's decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and to make Dubai the main hub of tourists in the world, has made and other developmental projects such as Dubailand, more valuable, resulting in the property boom from 2004 to 2007.
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List of tallest buildings
This list of tallest buildings in the world ranks skyscrapers by height.
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List of tallest buildings and structures
The world's tallest artificial structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (of the United Arab Emirates).
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List of tallest buildings in Dubai
Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, is home to 911 completed high-rises, 88 of which stand taller than.
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List of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates
This list of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates ranks skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates based on official height.
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List of tallest freestanding structures
This is a list of tallest freestanding structures in the world past and present.
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List of tallest structures
The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Maktoob
Yahoo! Maktoob (مكتوب) is an online services company founded in Amman (Jordan).
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Marshall Strabala
Jay Marshall Strabala is an American architect who has participated in the design of skyscrapers and other buildings.
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MEED
MEED, abbreviated from the former name Middle East Economic Digest, is a business intelligence tool for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), providing analysis and commentary on Middle Eastern markets, companies, people and data on the regional projects market.
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Mega Builders
Mega Builders is a documentary television series appearing on the Discovery Channel and Science Channel.
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a 2011 American action spy film directed by Brad Bird and written by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec.
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Mixed-use development
Mixed-use development is a type of urban development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.
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Mohamed Alabbar
Mohamed Alabbar (محمد بن علي العبار), is an Emirati billionaire and the founder and Chairman of Emaar Properties, one of the largest real estate development companies in the world with annual revenue of $5.83 billion USD and a market cap of over $9.7 billion USD, known for developing the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa and the world's largest mall Dubai Mall, which are part of Emaar's 500-acre flagship mega-development Downtown Dubai, as well as The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour, set to be over 3,000 feet tall upon completion in 2020, the 2,000-seat Dubai Opera, Dubai Marina, the world's biggest man-made marina, Emirates Hills, regarded as "the Beverly Hills of Dubai", and King Abdullah Economic City, established with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia as one of the largest private developments in the region spanning 64 square miles.
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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (Arabic: محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم;; born 15 July 1949), is the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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Nakheel Properties
Nakheel (Arabic: نخيل palms or palm trees) is a property developer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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National Council of Structural Engineers Associations
The National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) is a professional association in the United States, with member organizations in 40 states.
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Neo-futurism
Neo-futurism is a late 20th to early 21st century movement in the arts, design, and architecture.
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New Year
New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Observation deck
An observation deck, observation platform or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure such as a skyscraper or observation tower.
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One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center (also known as 1 World Trade Center, 1 WTC or Freedom Tower) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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Otis Elevator Company
The Otis Elevator Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets elevators, escalators, moving walkways and related equipment.
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Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (lit), (الخليج الفارسي) is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.
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Petronas Towers
The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: Menara Petronas, or Menara Berkembar Petronas), are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Planes (film)
Planes is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy film produced by DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Putzmeister
Putzmeister is a German manufacturer of concrete pumps.
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Ramadan
Ramadan (رمضان,;In Arabic phonology, it can be, depending on the region. also known as Ramazan, romanized as Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (Sawm) to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief.
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Real estate bubble
A real estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets, and typically follow a land boom.
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Rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), collectively known as reinforcing steel and reinforcement steel, is a steel bar or mesh of steel wires used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and hold the concrete in compression.
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Restaurant
A restaurant, or an eatery, is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money.
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Samsung C&T Corporation
Samsung C&T Corporation (Construction & Trading Corporation) (formerly Samsung Corporation) (Korean: 삼성물산), was founded in 1938 as a parent company of Samsung Group to engage in overseas sales operations.
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Samsung Tower Palace 3 – Tower G
Tower Palace Three, Tower G, or simply Tower Palace Three, is a 73-floor luxury residential skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea.
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Seoul
Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.
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Setback (architecture)
A setback, sometimes called step-back, is a step-like recession in a wall.
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Shanghai Tower
The Shanghai Tower is a, 128-story megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai.
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Silverstein Properties
Silverstein Properties, Inc. (SPI) is a family held, full-service real estate development, investment and management firm based in New York City.
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm.
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Sky lobby
A sky lobby is an intermediate interchange floor where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator which stops at every floor within a segment of the building.
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Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the UK that started as a 24-hour television news channel.
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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.
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South Asia
South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.
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Spandrel
A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a 2012 third-person shooter video game developed by the German studio Yager Development and published by 2K Games.
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Speirs and Major Associates
Speirs + Major is a UK lighting design practice founded by Jonathan Speirs (1958-2012) and Mark Major in 1993.
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Spire
A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, often a skyscraper or a church tower, similar to a steep tented roof.
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Stainless steel
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French inoxydable (inoxidizable), is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by mass.
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Storey
A storey (British English) or story (American English) is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation).
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Stroboscope
A stroboscope also known as a strobe, is an instrument used to make a cyclically moving object appear to be slow-moving, or stationary.
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Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
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Taipei 101
The Taipei 101 / TAIPEI 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center – is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan.
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The Address Downtown Dubai
Address Downtown, (فندق العنوان داون تاون) formerly The Address Downtown Dubai, is a 63-story, supertall hotel and residential skyscraper in the Burj Dubai Development Area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Dubai Fountain
The Dubai Fountain is the world's largest choreographed fountain system set on the 30-acre manmade Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Dubai Mall
The Dubai Mall (دبي مول "Dubai Mall") is a shopping mall in Dubai and the largest mall in the world by total area.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.
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The Illinois
The Mile High Illinois, Illinois Sky-City, or simply The Illinois is a visionary skyscraper that is over high, conceived and described by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his 1957 book, A Testament.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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The National (Abu Dhabi)
The National is a private English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Thunder (Imagine Dragons song)
"Thunder" is a song by American rock band Imagine Dragons.
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Topping out
In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Tsunami
A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
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Tube (structure)
In structural engineering, the tube is a system where, to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, impact), a building is designed to act like a hollow cylinder, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground.
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Turner Construction
Turner Construction Company is an American construction company.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة), sometimes simply called the Emirates (الإمارات), is a federal absolute monarchy sovereign state in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.
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USA Today
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.
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Vanity height
Vanity height is defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) as the height difference between a skyscraper's pinnacle and the highest usable floor (usually observatory, office, restaurant, retail or hotel/residential).
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Video game
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.
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Warsaw radio mast
The Warsaw Radio Mast was the world's tallest structure from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991.
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WET (company)
WET, also known as WET Design, is a water feature design firm based in Los Angeles, California.
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William F. Baker (engineer)
William Frazier Baker, also known as Bill Baker (born October 9, 1953), is an American structural engineer known for engineering the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building/man-made structure.
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Willis Tower
The Willis Tower, built as and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.
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World Trade Center (1973–2001)
The original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa
