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  • #91
    Originally posted by Chilean President
    Yeah Fez, the smog in Santiago is horrible

    here some other pics.
    Yeah it is..

    But those two pictures you posted, especially the first one, is awesome..

    Lonestar, it seems like San Diego has more buildings since the last time I was there in 97 I think it was... where many of those built very recently?
    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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    • #92
      You're kidding... right?
      urgh.NSFW

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      • #93
        Originally posted by Azazel
        You're kidding... right?
        Just to see if my memory is testing me right.

        Edit: To think of it. Sorry Azazel. I got mixed up with the posts... you were responding to lonestar.
        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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        • #94
          Originally posted by Fez


          Yeah it is..

          But those two pictures you posted, especially the first one, is awesome..

          Lonestar, it seems like San Diego has more buildings since the last time I was there in 97 I think it was... where many of those built very recently?
          This isn't a very recent picture...I can think of no less than 3 skyscrapers under construction downtown, and there are several Highrise hotels on the waterfront.

          Azazel

          Nope.
          Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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          • #95
            well, ok then. It's kinda cute, actually.

            Now get this, we're a capital of one of Israel's 6 districts, namely the district of Haifa. So the government has, as a part of a nationwide effort to locate all of its' offices in a single part of the city, built a Government district in Haifa. This is the flagship building: 29 floors, 430 ft high. The Sail Tower. ( but often referred to as "The Rocket" ).

            EDIT: fixing image.....
            urgh.NSFW

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            • #96
              There it is! And it won the 8th place in the new skyscraper award of 2002.
              Attached Files
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              • #97
                Oh Lord, is that ugly.
                Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                • #98
                  Actually, it looks much better from the other side.


                  But that doesn't say much, does it?
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                  • #99
                    Another excellent site:
                    http://www.skyscraperpage.com

                    Jeez, you'd think a site about the world's tallest skyscrapers wouldn't make a mistake about THE world's tallest skyscraper, but they did! On the Shanghai page they list the Shanghai World Financial Center (now under construction), which, when completed, will be the world's tallest, but on the home page they forgot it!

                    Cool site, but some terrible drawings! I had a hard time recognizing some of Shanghai's most prominent landmarks!
                    Official Homepage of the HiRes Graphics Patch for Civ2

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                    • #100
                      I thought Eurocoms enforced some zoning rules because of the churches there are something.

                      Interestingly, Washington DC has low rises zoning enforced. DanS isn't it like 10 stories is the limit? But then when you get to the surrounding areas (Crystal City, etc.) the heights go up. Makes for a cool city, Washington with it's traditional landscape and then surrounded and the periphery by all these high rises. Sort of the opposite of having the big ones in the middle.

                      Well, I have a big one in the middle but that is another story!!!
                      We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                      • #101
                        My white Ashdod.

                        Our highest building is only 20 stories high, and it's not in the pic.

                        "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                        • #102
                          Originally posted by Azazel
                          It seems that europeans are against progress. sigh.
                          I'm not against skyscrapers per se, but they seldom look nice next to much lower buildings.

                          And they cast bloody huge shadows. Take a look at the beach in Surfers Paradise Australia, not much sun in the afternoon.
                          CSPA

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                          • #103

                            I'm not against skyscrapers per se, but they seldom look nice next to much lower buildings.

                            that's why you have to work it out with both the city design ( not too many big buildings near small buildings ), as well ass with the building design ( that it would fit the area )

                            And they cast bloody huge shadows. Take a look at the beach in Surfers Paradise Australia, not much sun in the afternoon.

                            Take this from a person living in a hot and humid country: This is a good thing!

                            Eli: I like Ashdod. You guys have lots of potential. So, is is true what I heard? is the government planning to build another university there?
                            urgh.NSFW

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                            • #104
                              Eli: I like Ashdod. You guys have lots of potential. So, is is true what I heard? is the government planning to build another university there?




                              The same as with the Hospital. They're planning to build it for couple decades now.
                              "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                              • #105


                                As soon as I become supreme ruler, I promise you that this will be done.
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