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	World's Tallest Buildings — Infoplease.com
		NOTE: When a building is “topped out” (the point of construction when the structure has met its proposed structural top), the building is officially ranked and is placed on the list.
		A building differs from a tower in that the former is considered to be a structure that is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing purposes.
		Height The height of a building is measured from the sidewalk level of the main entrance to the structural top of the building.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001338.html (789 words)

	List of tallest buildings and structures by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Q1, tallest residential tower in the world when measured to its pinnacle (323 meters), second tallest when measured to its roof, 275 meters.
		Inco Superstack, tallest freestanding chimney in the Western hemisphere, 381 meters.
		International commerce centre, tallest building in the administrative special region of Hong Kong, on completion it would be Hong Kong's 6th 1,000 feet skyscraper at 490 meters, no other city in the world would have more 1,000 feet skyscrapers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tallest_structures_of_different_countries (725 words)

	Australia from A-Z
		Australia does not have an official national bird but the emu is featured on the Coat of Arms and is the largest bird in Australia and the second largest bird in the world.
		Australia has 6 principal LAKES There are not many natural lakes so many rivers have had dams constructed on them which make lakes and water storage reservoirs.
		Australia has 14 UNESCO National Heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef which has the largest collection of coral reef in the world, and Fraser Island which is the largest sand island in the world.
	www.geocities.com /australiaaz (2708 words)

	Australian Seconds! quiz -- free game
		Western Australia is Australia's largest state in terms of area.
		Sydney is Australia's largest city in terms of population.
		The tallest structure in Australia in 2004 is Sydney's Centrepoint Tower.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=176464&origin= (203 words)

	Tallest Buildings
		The worlds first metal-frame skyscraper, the ten-storey Nome Insurance Building (52 m, 171 ft), was erected in Chicago in 1884-5.
		It was then the tallest office block in the world - a title now held by the Sears Tower, also in Chicago.
		However, the world's tallest structure made of galvanised steel and completed in 1974 - is the Warszawa Radio Mast near the city of Plock in Poland.
	www.geocities.com /Axiom43/buildings.html (68 words)

	Sydney's tallest buildings safest in terror attack, says expert - smh.com.au
		Sydney's tallest buildings could be its safest in a terrorist attack, according to a senior structural engineer.
		Buildings like Sydney's Centrepoint tower, AMP building and MLC tower were mostly immune from the damaging effects of earthquakes because oscillations in tall buildings were longer than in lower buildings, he said.
		Tall buildings were also normally better designed and their workmanship of a higher standard than shorter ones because of the ramifications of mistakes, he said.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/21/1034561428150.html (375 words)

	Wikinfo \| World's tallest structures
		The tallest currently-standing structure is the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, at 629m (2,063 feet).
		The World Trade Center became the world's tallest buildings to be demolished - indeed, its site entered the record books twice on September 11, 2001, in that category, replacing the Singer Building, which once stood a block from the WTC site.
		The CN Tower is excluded from these categories because it is not a "habitable building", which is defined as a frame structure made with floors and walls throughout.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=World's_tallest_structures (616 words)

	Skyscrapers [Walking Melbourne]
		Today, Melbourne is home to 5 out of the 10 tallest buildings in Australia, and Australia's tallest since 1980 in the Rialto (as well as the title of tallest in the southern hemisphere).
		Regardless of whether this was an issue in the 1960s or not, tall buildings seem to always admired when first built and admired less as they grow older, until they dissapear into obscurity as they are dwarfed by their neighbours.
		The lower St James buildings that frame the tower could be demolished to make way for several towers, however the main tower and plaza should be preserved, as along with it's neighbour BHP house as one of the best examples of 60s corporate self-referential architecture in Melbourne - if not Australia.
	www.walkingmelbourne.com /scrapers.php (1098 words)

	Australia/New Zealand Jewish Heritage Tours with Joy Katzen-Guthrie
		Australia and New Zealand are glorious from any point of view, but visiting them with an eye toward Jewish Heritage will be an extraordinary and transformative experience.
		Later, Australia would become a blessed shelter for thousands of Nazi refugees, one of a handful of places on the planet where Jews could feel safe and not only survive, but flourish within their communities.
		Australia is home also to several museums of Jewish and holocaust history which we will see.
	www.joyfulnoise.net /JoyAustralia1.html (1222 words)

	Melbourne Buildings [Walking Melbourne]
		An artist, politician and theatre architect, William Pitt was one of the fathers of high-Victorian Melbourne, inspiring the grand Neo-Gothic skyscrapers of Collins Street, the ornate inner city factories and grand theatres until his death in 1918.
		With the central spire reaching 79.2 metres high, the building is a prominent landmark terminating Fitzroy's Brunswick Street and creating vistas from Bourke Street and the east end of the city grid.
		Even without it's former dome and cupola, this building is one of the most fanciful Victorian Mannerist designs in the Baroque tradition remaining in the country, a reminder of when Collins Street was the grandest thoroughfare in the southern hemisphere.
	www.walkingmelbourne.com /buildings.php (1033 words)

	Tallest Buildings Never Built - UrbanPlanet.org
		At the time it was proposed, it would've been the tallest building in the world.
		The shorter buildings behind the tower in the renderings are the Book Building and 36 story Book Tower, both of which still stand today.
		It was to be the tallest building in the world @ the time of its proposal.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=6148 (1194 words)

	Google Sightseeing » Buildings
		In fact, it’s the tallest building by far in North Korea, the 18th tallest building in the entire world, and if it were ever to be completed, would be the world’s tallest hotel.
		The Flatiron Building (actually the Fuller Building) is one of New York’s most distinctive sights, and when they finished constructing it in 1902, it was one of the city’s tallest buildings (although 87 metres seems pretty tiny these days).
		When Taipei 101 in Taiwan was completed on April 20, 2004 it took the first three of the four tallest building titles with an architectural height of 508m, a highest occupied floor of 438m and a roof height of 448m.
	googlesightseeing.com /category/buildings (1575 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As buildings grow ever taller, engineers are turning to stainless steel piping systems (S30400 and S31600) to meet these needs.
		Three of the newest and tallest buildings in the world, the Taipei Financial Centre in Taiwan, the Aurora tower in Brisbane, Australia and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, are prime examples of this shift to high-pressure stainless steel piping systems in certain circumstances.
		S30400 stainless steel pipes and Victaulic couplings are also used in the Petronas towers, the tallest buildings in the world, to accommodate high pressures and vibration.
	www.nidi.org /index.cfm/ci_id/14025.htm (592 words)

	Australia / New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Of course, an Aboriginal would argue that all of Australia was their land before the white settlers came, and due to the white population spreading throughout the years, most of Aboriginal land is now only in the hot, arid, harsh, and basically useless (for anything much) areas of Australia, such as the outback.
		Australia also aired similar (albeit less graphic) public service announcements on TV for the holiday season (concentrating more on speeding), but the problem is far less severe in Australia than in New Zealand.
		While in Australia, the radio and TV would keep constant tabs on the number of traffic fatalities, and the number of deaths was surprisingly small (about 10 for the entire country, with places like the Northern Territory -- where there is no speed limit -- reporting not one traffic death).
	www.tcp.com /~lgreenf/aust-nz.htm (24639 words)

	08/08/99 Long Day's Journey into Night
		Australia found America's ends in the war were closer to their own than Britain's were.
		They no doubt know that parts of Australia are still rainforest and they keep dreaming that upper management will recognize the value of the rainforest environment and will bring it back.
		At their tallest they are 200 meters taller than Ayers Rock.
	www.geocities.com /markleeper/australia.htm (24439 words)

	Art Deco Web Sites: Architecture : Buildings
		Building the Chrysler Building - "The Social Construction of the Skyscraper" examines whether New York City's Chrysler Building was an icon of the modern age, an aberation, or merely the next step in the evolution of past buildings.
		Yet this building is currently under threat of demolition, and replacement by a hugely unsympathetic building.
		The building was constructed in 1940 as an Art Deco Conoco gas station.
	www.adsw.org /resource/websites/Architecture/Buildings (632 words)

	Rich Burridge's Blog : Weblog
		The architects might have their ideas of what the buildings might look like, but by the time it's been built by engineers, it's probably nothing like what they originally envisaged.
		The best buildings are those designed and built by a single company that is responsible for all aspects of that building.
		The concern that some architects, after designing their buildings, aren't interested in how they're built or any problems arising from that construction (that's the builders/engineers problem), or revisiting the project to see if anything useful can be learned.
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/richb/20050526#how_buildings_learn (1383 words)

	Northern Territory Tourist Information Australian Bed and Breakfast & Farmstay Accommodation NT Australia
		A major attraction in the town is the Alice Springs Desert Park, showcasing the desert and semi-arid habitats of Australia.
		Central Australia abounds in wildlife: kangaroos, wallabies and threatened species such as bilbies and mala (rufus hare wallabies) not to mention the plethora of bird species and thousands of wild camels.
		Membership of Bed and Breakfast and Farmstay Australia (BBFA) is comprised of and represents the State and Territory BandB and Farmstay associations within Australia.
	www.australianbedandbreakfast.com.au /northern-territory-bandb (2421 words)

	Tsui Design & Research Inc. \| In The Media
		By introducing the beauty and functional benefit of buildings with moving parts architecture is forever liberated from the heavy-handed and monolithic constraints that have characterized it from the beginning of time.
		The “skin” of the building is made from reinforced glass, a layer of photovoltaic solar sheath panels, small, continuous windmills and a wind gate valve system that controls the flow of wind into the building.
		Tsui takes the building and the environment to the ultimate conclusion producing building of fantastic appearance that work like “living organisms” nurtured by their natural setting, their purpose and function and self-sustaining even in urban neighborhoods.
	www.tdrinc.com /media.html (7924 words)

	Beyond Stupidity: Defining the world's tallest
		WIth rule #2, I can build a 2 story building with a 5000 ft mast, that is a part of the design and I would have the tallest building in the world.
		As far as Im concerned When I was first interested in tall buildings it was the empire state building that was the tallest building in the world.
		From what I have been reading the tallest building will be in NYC.in a few years where the WTC was and it will be 1,776 feet like that 1 other guy said so bwaaaaaahaaaaaa Malaysia lol.
	www.646industries.com /mt/beyond_s/archives/000088.html (3088 words)

	Australia plans world's tallest tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		MELBOURNE: The world's tallest man-made structure could soon be towering over the Australian outback as part of a plan to capitalise on the global push for greater use of renewable energy.
		By 2006, Australian power company EnviroMission Ltd hopes to build a 1000m solar tower in southwest New South Wales state, a structure that would be more than twice the height of Malaysia's Petronas Towers, the world's tallest buildings.
		Set to be the tallest human-made structure on the planet, the proponents say the solar tower will cost $700-million to build and produce enough power to fuel a regional city.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/837532/posts (2819 words)

	Australia’s Tallest ?
		- The Rialto Towers are the tallest mostly occupiable buildings measured to roof height in Australia.
		Found your info re tallest buildings in Australia and how they compare to the rest of the world very interesting, was looking for some info to compare Rialto Tower in Melbourne with Central Park Tower in Perth.
		Please update your buildings with Q1 on the Gold Coast: the World’s 20th tallest building and at 322m, taller than all the ones listed for Australia on your page.
	www.simonhampel.com /australias-tallest (552 words)

	Melbourne Architecture • Victorian buildings, cathedrals, churches, jails, railway stations in Melbourne Australia
		The neoclassical bluestone and sandstone building was built to hold the gold that was pouring into Melbourne from the Ballarat and Bendigo mines.
		Architect J. Clark designed the building when he was only 19 years of age, incorporating subterranean vaults protected by iron bars and foot-thick walls.
		This Edwardian building circa 1903 still functions as a health and fitness center, containing a high calibre gymnasium and a plethora of other sporting facilities which complement the existing swimming pools.
	www.melbourneaustralia.org /arts-architecture.html (1115 words)

	Melbourne Buildings
		Francis Ormond building 1885 Terry and Oakden and Nahum Barnet Oakden, Addison and Kemp
		The Shrine of Remembrance 1927 Hudson and Wardrop
		My personal belief is that no city should demolish a previously tallest building, as they are bound to be a landmark of their era and are more often than not a representation of the finest in architectural and engineering achievements of their time.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbournebuildings.htm (1371 words)

	Emporis Buildings - Database about Buildings and Architecture
		The building was chosen by our jury for its innovative approach to structural expression, its energy-efficient features, its approach to the preservation of the older Hearst Building, and its stunning interior spaces.
		To access buildings in a specific city, either use the world map or search for the desired destination using the search boxes above.
		See the progress of buildings worldwide during their construction.
	www.emporis.com /en/bu (220 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| China shelves tallest tower plans
		The tallest building in the world at present is the CN Tower in Toronto.
		"The design requires the building to reach a height of 400m, 200m lower", the director of Guangdong province's urban planning department, Pan An, was quoted by the China Daily newspaper as saying.
		The new tower would also be cheaper to build and would better be able to resist typhoons and storms, he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4029763.stm (179 words)

	Neowin.net > World's 10 Tallest Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Sears Tower is the tallest out of all of them as the antennas on top reach 530m.
		If you look at the likes of the proposed London Bridge Tower or 30 st Mary's Axe you'll see buildings that are as much of a challenge to build as the taller buildings purely to attain a more pleasing building, and one that suits the 'olde worlde' feel of the city.
		There've been a couple of semi psycho-phallic designs that've been cancelled probably because of their lack of feasibility as much as bad design, especially green bird but other than that the skyline will be pretty much unchanged and flat for the time being.
	www.neowin.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t310240.html (1682 words)

	Eureka Tower clears Rialto height - National - www.theage.com.au
		From the top of Melbourne's newly crowned tallest building, you can see all the way to Warburton on a clear day - and the tower is not even finished.
		When completed at the end of next year the $500 million Eureka building will be 92 storeys and 297 metres tall, unquestionably one of the tallest buildings in Australia.
		Yesterday, Eureka reached 253.5 metres, half a metre higher than the Rialto building, although being on a slight hill means the Rialto currently offers a better vantage point to view the city.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/21/1100972254165.html (366 words)

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