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| | Guardian | The sky's the limit |
 | | In between these demolished and up-and-coming towers, the skyline of central London has been punctuated by gimcrack, second-rate office towers, none of which is a patch on, say, the Empire State or Chrysler buildings in Manhattan. |
 | | Heron Tower is meant to be part of a cluster of office towers orbiting Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower. |
 | | La Défense may have saved central Paris from invasion by office towers, and it looked great by night in Godard's movie Alphaville, yet it suffered, and continues to suffer, from the fact that a Z-list of architects was chosen to design the individual blocks. |
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