Russian Tower Plans Cause Alarm

Thursday, 24 September 2009
"The UN's cultural watchdog has called on Russia to stop a 400m (1,312 ft) skyscraper being built in historic St Petersburg's city centre."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8272401.stm
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Some big money wants to build the tallest building in the city. Lots of jobs & money can be generated from such a project. However, the people of St Petersburg aren't use to having a NYC or Chicago size tower in their city.
http://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html

The Chicago Civic Opera House: November 4, 1929

Chicago_Civic_Opera_House,

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/C/CivicOpera.html,

http://www.lyricopera.org/about/lyric-history.aspx,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Samuel_Insull,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Lyric_Opera

WTC-NYC

{"On 20 September 1962, the Port Authority announced the selection of Minoru Yamasaki as lead architect, and Emery_Roth & Sons as associate architects."}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_World_Trade_Center#Design

http://moneytowers.blogspot.ca/2009/08/index-page.html