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New York skyscrapers adapt to climate change

by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — With a skyline crowded with ever-more luxury towers, the construction of another Manhattan skyscraper wouldn’t normally be remarkable. But the American Copper Buildings going up on the East River — a complex of two towers with 764 apartments, panoramic views and a huge entrance hall with a doorman — is different. Planned just after deadly Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York in October 2012 […]