Did the Singer Building contain more stories than 520 West 41st Street is proposed to contain?
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Singer Building The Singer Building or Singer Tower, at Liberty Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan's Financial District, in the U.S. state of New York, was a 47-story office building completed in 1908 as the headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company. It was the tallest building in the world from 1908 to 1909. It was torn down in 1968, together with the adjacent City Investing Building, and is now the site of One Liberty Plaza. When it was razed, it became the tallest building ever to be demolished, and is still the third-tallest building ever to be destroyed (after the World Trade Center towers) and the tallest to be purposely demolished by its owner.
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520 West 41st Street 520 West 41st Street is a proposed 106-story supertall skyscraper. It would have been located in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. The building would have surpass all other skyscrapers on the island by floor-count. Upon completion, it would either have been the fifth or sixth tallest building in New York.
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United Western Financial Center United Western Financial Center is a 357 ft (109m) tall high-rise office building located at 700 17th Street in the city Denver, Colorado. It was completed in 1961 and has 24 floors. It is the 28th tallest building in Denver. It was designed by the architecture firm Raymond Harry Ervin & Associates in the modernist style.
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40 West 4th Centre 40 West 4th Centre is a 331 ft, 22-story office skyscraper located in Dayton, Ohio. Upon its completion in 1969, it was the tallest building in Dayton, but was surpassed by the Kettering Tower one year later. It was designed by architect Paul H. Deneau.
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Renaissance Plaza Renaissance Plaza (formerly named World Trade Square) is a proposed residential and retail complex to be built on a 5.5 acre site in the Delaware Riverfront region of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The previous World Trade Square complex design was to be developed by Carl Marks Real Estate Group and called for four high-rise office buildings: Old City Harbor Tower I, Old City Harbor Tower II, Old City Harbor Tower III, and the Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center. The tallest buildings would have been the Old City Harbor Towers II and III, which were planned as twin office skyscrapers that each rise 636 feet (194 m), with 37 floors. Old City Harbor Tower I was being planned as a residential tower, rising 435 ft (132 m), with 42 floors. The Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center would have been the shortest of all four buildings, rising 324 ft (99 m), with 17 floors.
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SunAmerica Center SunAmerica Center (formerly called the AIG–SunAmerica Center) is a 39-story, 534 ft skyscraper in Century City, Los Angeles, California. The tower was completed in 1990. Designed by Johnson Fain, It is the twentieth-tallest building in Los Angeles and the third-tallest building in Century City. On-site parking is available in an eight-level attached garage.
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Seventh at Westlake Tower Seventh at Westlake Tower was a proposed 31 story, 426 ft (130 m) skyscraper in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The lower 16 floors would have been used as office space, and the top 17 floors would have been 184 residential spaces. The project has since been cancelled. Amazon.com received approval in late 2012 to develop the block for office space. The office building located on the block, Doppler (also known as Amazon Tower I), opened on December 14, 2015.
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Chicago World Trade Center The Chicago World Trade Center was a proposed 2,500 ft (762 m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, United States. The building was designed in 1982 by American architect Harry Weese for Stanley Raskow and would have had 210 floors. The building was also supposed to look like the original World Trade Center towers in New York that were destroyed on September 11, 2001.
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1180 Peachtree 1180 Peachtree, commonly known as the Symphony Tower, is a 41-story skyscraper located at 1180 Peachtree Street in the Midtown district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Rising to a height of approximately 657 feet (200 m), the building includes office and retail space in its 351,616 square meter of floor area as well as a 1,200 space parking deck. Construction was completed in 2006.
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Broadway Plaza (Rochester, Minnesota) Broadway Plaza is a skyscraper located in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. It is 342 ft tall with 29 floors, and was completed in 2004. It is the tallest building in Rochester, and the tallest residential building in a US city with a metropolitan area with a population less than 200,000. It is the 30th tallest building in Minnesota.
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Shoreline Towers Shoreline Towers is residential high-rise building in Chicago, United States. It is 25 stories (75 meter/247 feet high), with 378 units. The building is located at 6301 North Sheridan Road, at the intersection of Rosemont Avenue (between Granville & Devon).
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MCI Center (Los Angeles) MCI Center is a 126.3 m skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. It was completed in November, 1973 and has 33 floors. It is 32nd tallest building in Los Angeles. The Class A building has 63,032 m2 of office space with a glass atrium and courtyard. On March 21, 2005 Jamison Properties bought the building for $150 per square foot totaling $101,770,500. This purchase included 925 West Eighth Street (originally known as the "Broadway Plaza" which became known as Macy's Plaza) and the 3,000 space parking garage. In 2013, the Ratkovich Company acquired the property, and after a redesign by Johnson Fain Architects, renamed the plaza “The Bloc.” Known for the fortress-like facade, the ground level is becoming more pedestrian friendly by removing brick walls and the glass atrium. The developer is also planning a sunken, sunlight-filled public plaza that directly connects to the 7th Street / Metro Center Station. This will be the first direct underground connection of a private development to a subway station on Metro's system.
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Four Seasons Hotel Denver Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Denver is a 565 ft tall skyscraper in Denver, Colorado. This makes it the 4th tallest building in Denver. It was completed in 2010 and has 45 stories and 766487 sqft of usable floor space. It is estimated to cost $350 million, or $456.63 per sq. ft., which would make it the most expensive privately owned building ever constructed in Denver. It is a mixed-used building, containing a pool, fitness center and amenities.
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Bellevue Towers Bellevue Towers is a high rise condominium complex in downtown Bellevue, Washington. Construction began in 2006 and was completed in 2009. The 42 and 43 story towers have 539 condo units, 17000 sqft of retail space, and eight levels of underground parking. The project is 85% sold as of January 2013. Bellevue Towers stands on a 2.43 acre site.
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Mandarin Oriental, Chicago The Mandarin Oriental Tower in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, is a canceled 74-story, 930 ft , mixed-use building which would have been the ninth-tallest building in Chicago if completed, assuming Waterview Tower had also been completed as originally planned. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, which did not have an equity stake in the project, lent its name to the development. After completion, the group was to have managed the hotel located within the building.
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Symphony Towers Symphony Towers is a 1.2-million-square-foot late modernist two-tower hotel and office complex located in the historic Financial District in downtown San Diego, California, on B Street. The mixed-use, high-rise building includes a 34-story office building with 530,000 square feet of rentable space, the 264-room Declan Hotel, a five-level parking structure and the 2,255-seat Copley Symphony Hall. In addition, the penthouse floor houses the exclusive University Club, and the tower has a helipad on the roof.
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Westin St. Francis The Westin St. Francis is a historic luxury hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets on Union Square in San Francisco, California. The two twelve-story south wings of the hotel were built in 1904, and the double-width north wing was completed in 1913, initially as apartments for permanent guests. The 32-story, 120 m tower to the rear completed in 1972 features exterior glass elevators that offer panoramic views of the bay and the square below, making the St. Francis one of the largest hotels in the city, with more than 1,200 rooms and suites.
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Seattle Civic Square The Seattle Civic Square is a proposed 572 ft tall, 43-story skyscraper in Seattle, Washington, that was approved by the city in 2009. The original building plan included space for retail, offices, and residences, as well as a 30,000 ft2 public plaza.
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Tower 12 Tower 12 is an apartment building in Seattle, Washington. The 34-story, 392 ft skyscraper has 314 apartments as well as 7,000 sqft of ground-level retail space. It is located at the northwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street near Pike Place Market and Victor Steinbrueck Park at the southwestern edge of the Belltown neighborhood.
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Aon Center (Los Angeles) Aon Center is a 62-story, 860 ft Modernist office skyscraper at 707 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California. Site excavation started in late 1970, and the tower was completed in 1973. Designed by Charles Luckman, the rectangular bronze-clad building with white trim is remarkably slender for a skyscraper in a seismically active area. It is the third tallest building in Los Angeles, the third tallest in California, and the 39th tallest in the United States. The logo of the Aon Corporation, its anchor tenant, is displayed at the top in red.
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The Parkshore The Parkshore is a 556 ft (169m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1991 and has 56 floors. Barancik Conte designed the building, which is the 53rd tallest in Chicago.
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AT&amp;T Center (Los Angeles) AT&T Center, formerly SBC Tower, Transamerica Building, and Occidental Life Building, is a 32-story, 138 m skyscraper in the South Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Built to house the offices and computer center of the Occidental Life Insurance Company, it was completed in 1965. It is the 32nd-tallest building in Los Angeles, and was the second-tallest (after the Los Angeles City Hall) when it was completed. The International styled building was designed by William Pereira & Associates.