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| | The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Yoshimura, president of the 40-year-old Tokyo-based developer Mori Building Ltd., is watching the construction of his company's third property in China, after the tower where he sits with his staff of 80 and the Senmao Building in Dalian. |
 | | The 105 billion yen project, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates of the U.S. and built by two Chinese contractors, has no special Japanese characteristics or Japanese ingenuity, Yoshimura said. |
 | | The original Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates design, a circular breezeway on the top floors of the rectangular tower, was scrapped for its lack of utility, construction difficulty and cost relative to the current design, which replaces the circle with a trapezoid. |
| www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20060124a3.htm (679 words) |
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