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I'll use the Library of Congress unit method.

The James Madison Memorial Building (only 1 of 3 buildings comprising the Library, but the largest) has about 17.4 million cubic feet of internal space (87 ft tall, 400 wide, 500 deep).

So 72 million cubic feet is about 4.14 Library's of Congress.

April Springs is not a unit of measure I am not familiar with.

James Madison building dimensions:
https://www.emporis.com/buildi...

Or just a few lightyears away in the center of our own galaxy.

God bless Slashdot, where ~26,000 light years is considered close.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to give that in standard units: Sagittarius A* is approximately 2*10^18 James Madison Memorial Building widths (ie. largest building in the Library of Congress complex) distant. I apologize for my initial faux pas.

It's a stupid metric, even stupider than normal:

Carlton Towers Apartments - 30 stories and 248 feet high.

Al Faisaliyah Center - 30 stories and 875 feet high.

It's a stupid metric, even stupider than normal:

Carlton Towers Apartments - 30 stories and 248 feet high.

Al Faisaliyah Center - 30 stories and 875 feet high.

Well unless ...

His name is Steve Smith (http://howmanyofme.com/people/Steve_Smith)

Born on October 5th (http://ask.yahoo.com/20061114.html)

From Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles (http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/nc/ne/?id=101575)

that's still a pretty big coincidence !

Sorry, wrong building. This is the one in the deal.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=35eastwackerdrive-chicago-il-usa

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/numbers/35EWacker.html

My father was chief architect for Royal Bank of Canada, when it had it's own architectural dept (wich they closed in the 90s). The department took the entire 7th floor of the Place Ville-Marie building in Montreal. It was a big department with lots of architects, engineers and dedicated drafting machinery like CalComps.

AutoCAD was the *only* thing they had internally. It was *very* big, and they had 3D extensions and bill management.

So, yes. Industry standard. Surpassed? Certainly with products such as Catia, but in the technical plan & drafting area, AutoCAD is still very big. Most small to medium architectural design firms still use it today.

Suite Vollard was the first rotating tower of the world, however it's not solar powered. Here's some facts (excerpts from the link):

The Post Tower in Bonn, Germany (headquarter of the Deutsche Post) had a system like this since 2002 for 10 or so elevators and it works like a charm.

From emporis.com (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100765), section facts:

"Most aspects of the design, layout and planning are consulted by a Feng Shui master."

Although it doesn't say that they took his advice, so... What do I know.

In the article is says it weighs 700,000 tons, when it actually a a weighs 800,000 tons (read the facts).

If you think that London is not urbanized, read this: London's urbanised area is rarely recognised as being a metropolitan region. In fact, the area known officially as Greater London is commonly referred to as the metropolitan district, but this accounts for only 7m of the 11.8m people living in a continuous urban area (agglomeration) at the centre of which is London. 1

the titles would tower 828 feet if you stacked them atop each other--almost as tall as the Empire State Building

Most Seattle communications antenna are mounted on top of the Bank of America Tower, the city's tallest building. All city law enforcement broadcasts use towers up there, as well as several TV stations.

Skyscrapers are tall because the land they sit on is valuable and the owners want to get the best possible financial return on the land... or because someone has a yen to own the biggest cement, steel and glass phallus.

(Answer: it's in Toronto)

Cheers,
Richard

This wouldn't have been Tower 42 which includes a bar and a restaurant ?

Although it doesn't give you the number of buildings over 500ft, you can easily count for yourself from their database. For example, NYC now has 180, while Hong Kong is close with 164 (much more than the 20 in the parent post).

Although it doesn't give you the number of buildings over 500ft, you can easily count for yourself from their database. For example, NYC now has 180, while Hong Kong is close with 164 (much more than the 20 in the parent post).