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  • 10
    May
    2013
    1:08pm, EDT

    World Trade Center becomes tallest US building at 1776 feet

    Gary He / Insider Images via EPA

    The spire for the top of One World Trade Center is hoisted into place at the top of the building in New York City, on May 10, 2013. The spire has been put in place on One World Trade Center bringing the iconic structure to its full, symbolic height of 1776 feet.

    Anthony Quintano / NBC News

    WTC worker Tyler Brown taking in the view after the spire has been installed at the top of One World Trade Center.

    By Matt Murray and Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY

    A crane lifted the last of a 408-foot tall spire on top of One World Trade Center on Friday, a capstone to an emotional 12-year effort to replace the twin towers destroyed by terrorists.

    The 18-piece silver spire will top out the tower at a symbolic 1,776 feet, a nod to the year America signed the Declaration of Independence. The new building is just north of the original towers, now the hallowed ground known as Ground Zero. Continue reading.

    Mark Lennihan / AP

    The final piece of spire is hoisted in place on top of One World Trade Center, on May 10, 2013 in New York. The addition of the spire, and its raising of the building's height to 1,776 feet, would make One World Trade Center the tallest structure in the U.S. and third-tallest in the world.

    Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    Iron workers look at names signed inside of the final piece of the spire on top of the One World Trade Center in New York on May 10, 2013. Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet and helping fill a void in the skyline left by the September 11, 2001 attacks.

    Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    An iron worker takes a photograph of a crane as it places the final piece of the spire on top of the One World Trade Center in New York on May 10, 2013.

    Anthony Quintano / NBC News

    The skyline of Manhattan from the top of One World Trade Center on May 10, 2013.

    Gary He / Insider Images via EPA

    The spire for the top of One World Trade Center is hoisted into place at the top of the building in New York, on May 10, 2013. The State of Liberty is seen bottom right.

    Also on PhotoBlog:

    • World Trade Center observatory gives visitors views of NYC from 1,250 feet
    • 'Things from the heart': Workers at World Trade Center site scrawl graffiti of defiance, hope
    • Freedom Tower spire arrives in New York City

    Slideshow: The world's tallest skycrapers

    Feng Li / Getty Images

    Reaching for the sky, these buildings and towers compete for the world's attention.

    Launch slideshow

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    15 comments

    How do we get the people out if there an emergency I know I would have no desire to work above the 2nd floor. Im a chicken.

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  • 2
    Feb
    2013
    10:50pm, EST

    Power plant implodes in controlled demolition

    Sam Hodgson / Reuters

    The South Bay Power Plant implodes in Chula Vista, California on February 2.

    You can see a video of this demolition at NBC Los Angeles. 

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  • 26
    Oct
    2012
    11:34am, EDT

    The Shard: A view from London's tallest building

    Oli Scarff / Getty Images

    A woman admires the view from the 69th floor of The Shard skyscraper on the preview day to mark the sale of tickets for the 'View from The Shard' experience on Oct. 26, in London, England. The observation floors of The Shard skyscraper offer 360 degree aspect of London, and at 244m they are twice the height of any other viewing platform in the city. The 'View from The Shard' opens to the general public on February 1, 2013 and costs 24.95 GBP for adults.

    Slideshow: The world's tallest skycrapers

    Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images

    Reaching for the sky, these buildings and towers compete for the world's attention.

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  • 8
    Sep
    2012
    1:10pm, EDT

    Amit Dave / Reuters

    Laborers rest in India

    Laborers rest inside a newly constructed commercial building on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad Sept. 8.

    2 comments

    "Laborers?" These children look like they should be in school, posing there instead of here!

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  • 27
    Feb
    2012
    1:12pm, EST

    Stack of apartments collapses in Russian building after gas explosion

    Russian Emergency Ministry via EPA

    A handout picture issued by the Astrakhan branch of the Russian Emergency Ministry shows a general view of an apartment building after gas explosion on a lower floor in the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia on Monday. The collapse of entire section of a nine-storey residential house injured 12 people, and 10 people are missing.

    Vitaly Loyanich / Reuters

    Russia's members of Emergency Situation Ministry and Interior Ministry officers work at the site of a damaged nine-storey building in Russia's southern city of Astrakhan on Monday. The building collapsed after a household gas explosion, injuring 12 people according to preliminary information released by local media.

    Ministry of Emergency Situations via AP

    Rescuers inspect debris of an apartment building after an explosion on Monday.

    See more images from Russia in PhotoBlog.

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  • 8
    Jan
    2012
    6:06pm, EST

    Prudential Building in Houston is imploded

    A 20-story building that has been a Houston landmark since 1952 comes tumbling down when more than 1,200 explosives were used to implode the aging building. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.

    From the Houston Chronicle:

    “In its glory days it was an impressive building, but it was time for it to come down,” said Sarah Watson, a spokeswoman for MD Anderson.

    The aging foundation made the building costly to maintain. The structure was also sinking and had asbestos, officials said.

    Houston Chronicle story and video: Prudential Building in Houston destroyed in 17 seconds

    Nick de la Torre / Houston Chronicle via AP

    MD Anderson's Houston Main Building is imploded Jan. 8, in Houston, Texas. Opened in 1952, the 20-story building was the regional headquarters for Prudential Insurance Company. Prudential sold the building in 1975.

    1 comment

    Yeeeah right, way to go to dispose of asbestos!

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  • 25
    Apr
    2011
    3:40pm, EDT

    Murad Sezer / Reuters

    Residents' belongings are seen among the collapsed portion of a building in Diyarbakir, Turkey on April 25, 2011. Authorities evacuated 28 families living in the building last week after cracks began to form in the structure. A part of the building collapsed a day after the evacuation. The reason of the collapse is not clear, but shoddy construction, lack of building regulation and corruption have been blamed for past cases of building collapse in Turkey, according to local media.

    Early warning saves 28 families in building collapse in Turkey

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  • 30
    Mar
    2011
    6:24pm, EDT

    M. Spencer Green / AP

    Debris falls as demolition begins at the last high-rise of Chicago's Cabrini Green public housing complex, March 30, 2011, in Chicago. Cabrini-Green was built on Chicago's North Side starting in the 1940s.

    The final stage of demolishing Chicago’s Cabrini Green public housing project begins

    NBCChicago.com reports
    Demolition began Wednesday morning of Cabrini Green's last standing high-rise.

    It marks the final stage of a years-long initiative to raze the housing project and signals the last chapter in the development's storied, troubled history.

    The few remaining residents moved out of the now-vacated building in December. At one time, Cabrini Green was made up of 10 sections, built over a 20-year stretch that started in 1942, and was home to 15,000 people.

    The development became known for gang violence, deteriorating conditions and an unspeakable crime surrounding Girl X, a 9-year-old found strangled, raped and poisoned in a stairwell.

    Crime in the complex was so bad that Cabrini became know nationally as the worst housing project in the country.

    Read the full story here.

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  • 8
    Feb
    2011
    4:53pm, EST

    New museum in Singapore has intentional hole in the roof for rain to come in

    Chris McGrath / Getty Images

    Construction workers complete work on the roof of the Singapore ArtScience Museum on February 8, 2011 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 50,000 sqft, lotus- inspired building, is the worlds first ArtScience Museum and will house 21 galleries. The large roof dish collects rain water which falls through the center atrium of the building as a waterfall, at night the roof then transforms into an amphitheatre displaying a light and laser show with the Singapore skyline as a backdrop. The museum is set to open to the public on the 17th of February at 1.18 pm, the time chosen by the projects Feng Shui master.

    Chris McGrath / Getty Images

    Construction workers complete work on the roof of the Singapore ArtScience Museum on February 8, 2011 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 50,000 sqft, lotus- inspired building, is the worlds first ArtScience Museum and will house 21 galleries. The large roof dish collects rain water which falls through the center atrium of the building as a waterfall, at night the roof then transforms into an amphitheatre displaying a light and laser show with the Singapore skyline as a backdrop. The museum is set to open to the public on the 17th of February at 1.18 pm, the time chosen by the projects Feng Shui master.

    Chris Mcgrath / Getty Images

    Tourists take photographs as construction workers complete work on the roof of the Singapore ArtScience Museum on February 8, 2011 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 50,000 sqft, lotus- inspired building, is the worlds first ArtScience Museum and will house 21 galleries. The large roof dish collects rain water which falls through the center atrium of the building as a waterfall, at night the roof then transforms into an amphitheatre displaying a light and laser show with the Singapore skyline as a backdrop. The museum is set to open to the public on the 17th of February at 1.18 pm, the time chosen by the projects Feng Shui master. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

     

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    The Rhythm of the Rain: When in Singa, it pores

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  • 31
    Jan
    2011
    10:53am, EST

    Odd Andersen / AFP - Getty Images

    A man walks past the side of a building covered with posters that make it look distorted, in the south Spanish city of Malaga, on January 29, 2011.

    Building in Spain appears to be distorted

    By Mish Whalen

    Reminded me of a fun house mirror. Very cool.

    3 comments

    That is soo neat!!

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  • 27
    Jan
    2011
    6:00pm, EST

    LUCY NICHOLSON / Reuters

    Google Inc.'s new offices are seen in Venice, Los Angeles, California, January 27, 2011. Google is leasing more than 100,000 square feet in the building, which includes the Binoculars Building designed by Frank Gehry, and will move employees in this year, reported the Los Angeles Times.

    Google's new office space in Los Angeles

    Here's more on the building.

    1 comment

    Boodle for Google.

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  • 15
    Nov
    2010
    12:15pm, EST

    Fire ravages Shanghai skyscraper

    Aly Song / Reuters

    Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a building in Shanghai, on November 15, 2010.

    By Mish Whalen

     

    See more photos from this fatal blaze here. 

    China's state news agency reports at least 42 people have been killed after a 28-story apartment building caught fire in Shanghai, China. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.

    2 comments

    "Achilles' heel" of skyscrapers is a problem of evacuation of people from high-rise floors from a building facade. The most inexpensive and effective system for really safe and comfortable evacuation of people from skyscrapers is the Russian fire-evacuation system Automatic Rescue Climber - ARC (esp …

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