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(Eagle News) — Police on Tuesday, Jan. 29, arrested Alain Robert, known as the French “Spiderman,” for climbing a skyscraper in Makati. According to the police, Robert faces charges for alarm and scandal and other forms of trespassing for climbing the 47-storey GT Tower on Ayala Ave. past 10 a.m. He did not use any safety equipment, to the horror of bystanders, who watched him from the ground. “This is my path, this is my way of […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese court is auctioning a skyscraper on the country’s largest e-commerce website — with a sky-high starting price of 553 million yuan ($84.2 million). The 39-floor building in Taiyuan, northern Shanxi province, along with the land on which it sits, goes on the block January 2 on Taobao, Alibaba’s e-commerce platform. Construction on the skyscraper began in 2006. Standing 156 meters high and with over 76,000 square meters of […]
MADRID, Spain (Reuters) — The second lunar eclipse of the year was seen around Madrid’s “Four Towers” skyscrapers on Monday (August 7) evening at the moment the moon rose and the sun set. Due to the eclipse the moon acquired a reddish brown color that lasted two hours and slowly receded afterwards. The effect is generated when the sun, earth and moon become aligned and the moon crosses the shadow projected by the earth which […]
HONGKONG, China (AFP) — A Hong Kong property developer has confirmed the near-completion of its almost $1.5 billion purchase of London’s “Cheesegrater” tower, as it takes advantage of the pound’s slump to snap up addresses in the British capital. C C Land’s acquisition of the 224-meter-high Leadenhall Building, which earned its nickname from its wedge shape, is the biggest single property purchase in the United Kingdom since 2014 when a Qatari wealth fund bought London’s HSBC Tower […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The newest skyscraper in New York’s World Trade Center complex was topped off with a final bucket of concrete Thursday as several hundred people looked on, at a ceremony highlighting the area’s rebirth nearly 15 years after the 9/11 attacks. The 80-story 3 World Trade Center, which is located next to the new WTC rail station opened in March and across from the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, is […]
Thousands of spectators have watched the demolition of a skyscraper in Frankfurt that once formed part of the university. The collapse took all of ten seconds. Almost one ton of explosives inserted into 1,500 drilled holes were used on Sunday to raze the so-called “AfE Turm” (“AfE Tower”), standing at 116 meters (381 ft). Police estimate that more than 10,000 people gathered in the center of Germany’s financial hub Frankfurt to watch the spectacular demolition. […]
