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Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower

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Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Pham Hung Boulevard, Cau Giay district, Hanoi, Vietnam. The area is reserved for big companies to set up their headquarters there such as Agribank and VNPT. This tower is part of a complex of residences and office towers, including a 70-story office tower with the height of 336 m and two 47-story residence towers. The compound is located on an area of 46,000m2 and the total floor area is 579,000 m2, ranking 5th for the floor area of a single building in the world. The investor of this complex is a South Korea-based Keangnam. The investment capital for this complex is estimated US$ 1.05 billion.

According to the master plan, this complex features a 5-star hotel, offices, entertainment areas, retail spaces, clinics, convention centers, and is scheduled to be completed by 2010. Upon completion, Hanoi Landmark Tower will be the world’s 17th highest building, and will be the highest building in Vietnam. The second highest skyscraper in Hanoi and Vietnam will be the 65-story Hanoi City Complex.

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Triumph Palace

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Triumph-Palace (Russian: Триу́мф-Пала́с, transliterated as Triumf Palas) is the name of an apartment building in Moscow. It is sometimes called the Eighth Sister because it is similar in appearance to the Seven Sisters skyscrapers built in Moscow by Joseph Stalin through the 1950s. Construction began in 2001.

The 57-story building, containing about 1,000 luxury apartments, was topped out on 20 December 2003, making it Europe’s tallest building at 264.1 metres (866 ft) until the inauguration in 2007 of Moscow’s 268 metre Naberezhnaya Tower block C.

 

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Trump International Hotel and Tower

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The Trump International Hotel and Tower, also known as Trump Tower Chicago and locally as the Trump Tower, is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named after real estate developer Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 92-story structure, which reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). It is adjacent to the main branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower.

Trump announced in 2001 that the skyscraper would become the tallest building in the world, but after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the building plans were scaled back, and its design has undergone several revisions. When topped out in 2009 it became the second-tallest building in the United States after Chicago’s Willis Tower.

 

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Senayan City

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Senayan City (also often known as Sen C) is a mixed-use development located in Senayan area, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The complex comprises a seven-floor high end shopping mall, an office tower (mainly occupied by SCTV), an apartment tower, and a five-star hotel operated by Sofitel. Senayan City is built on a land area of 48,000 m² owned by the Bung Karno Stadium Authority. It is built and managed by Manggala Gelora Perkasa, a subsidiary of Agung Podomoro Group, under the BOT contract for 50 years which starts in 2005. DP Architects Pte. Ltd (Singapore) and P.T. Airmas Asri designed the sprawling shopping complex.

The shopping mall, opened in June 23, 2006, is anchored by Debenhams department store and Best Denki electronic store, the largest outlet outside Japan.

 

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Grand Indonesia

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Grand Indonesia is a mixed-use complex including a shopping mall and the Hotel Indonesia covering an area of about 640,000 m2 (6,900,000 sq ft), located on the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Jakarta in Indonesia.

The site of the current Grand Indonesia was previously occupied by Hotel Indonesia and Hotel Inna Wisata. Hotel Indonesia was the first five star hotel in the archipelago, being the most prestigious hotel at the time it was built. The development of the building was initiated by the first Indonesian president, Soekarno, who was also an architect. Hotel Inna Wisata was built in 1970s as a midclass accommodation, located behind Hotel Indonesia. All of the buildings in the complex except the original Hotel Indonesia building were torn down to make way for Grand Indonesia.

 

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