--- In [email protected], Ron F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > World's tallest tower planned in India > > http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp? Article=117998&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=28130 > > World's tallest tower planned in India > > > > CHICAGO: A 224-storey pyramid shaped building, the tallest in the world, is being > built at Katangi, near Indian city of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh state. The > 2222-foot (677m) Center of India Tower scheduled for November 6, is being financed > by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (The Beatles former spiritual leader), and will be his new > world headquarters.
I read stuff like this and it makes me want to retch. > The firm designing this tower are known for a previous large > development, the Twin Towers in Battery Park City, New York. > > Meanwhile, a twisting 115-storey glass and concrete tower that would be the United > States' tallest building may soon grace Chicago's lakefront, its developer said > yesterday. > > Critics compared the proposed 2,000-foot (610 metre) Fordham Spire to a giant candle > fit for a cake, while others said it was out of place in a post- September 11 world > in which landmark skyscrapers could be terrorist targets. > > The tower, which would house condominiums and a hotel, is the brainchild of > Christopher Carley, chairman of Chicago-based Fordham. > > It was designed by award-winning Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava, who is > known for his curvaceous bridges, as well as for designing the winged addition to > Milwaukee's art museum and the transportation center to be built on the site of New > York's Ground Zero. > > The slender tower will soar 1,458 feet (444 metres) to its roof and then add a spire > to reach 2,000 feet (610 metres), topping the 1,450-foot-tall (442 metre) Sears > Tower, currently the nation's tallest, and New York's proposed 1,776-foot-tall (541 > metre) Freedom Tower. > > At least two previous designs to build the world's tallest building in Chicago fell > flat for lack of financing since the Sears Tower lost the title of world's tallest > building in 1996 to Kuala Lumpur's twin Petronas Towers. > > Current title-holder Taipei 101 in Taiwan is 1,670 feet (509 metres) tall but it > will soon be eclipsed by the Burj Dubai tower in the United Arab Emirates that may > reach 2,300 feet (700 metres). > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hkugai3/M=364397.6958316.7892810.4764722/D=groups/S=1705171145:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123710972/A=2915264/R=0/SIG=11t7isiiv/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34443/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs";>Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page</a></font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
