A few nice United images I found:

Rockefeller Plaza, exhibit [for] United Nations by OWI, New York, N.Y. Between photographic displays is [the] Atlantic charter in frame with transmitters at each end and where voices of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek are heard each half hour; su




Image by The Library of Congress

Collins, Marjory,, 1912-1985,, photographer.

Rockefeller Plaza, exhibit [for] United Nations by OWI, New York, N.Y. Between photographic displays is [the] Atlantic charter in frame with transmitters at each end and where voices of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek are heard each half hour; surrounded by statues of the four freedoms

1943 March

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
United States.--Mission to the United Nations
United States.--Office of War Inform aiton
Rockefeller Center
World War, 1939-1945
Exhibitions
Plazas
United States--New York (State)--New York

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-65 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc. pnp/fsac.1a34586

Call Number: LC-USW36-793



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Image by UggBoy♥UggGirl [ PHOTO : WORLD : SENSE ]

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* Tallest extant structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast â€" 628.8 m/2,063 ft)
* Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously CN Tower â€" 553.3 m/1,815 ft)
* Building with most floors: 160 (previously Willis Tower â€" 108)
* Building with highest occupied floor in the world: 160th floor
* World's highest elevator installation, situated inside a rod at the very top of the building
* World's fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s) (previously Taipei 101 â€" 16.83 m/s)
* Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)[23] (previously Taipei 101 â€" 449.2 m/1,474 ft)
* Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 606 m (1,988 ft)[23] (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant â€" 532 m/1,745 ft)
* The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space
< /a> * Highest outdoor observation deck in the world (124th floor) at 442 m (1,483 ft)
* World's highest mosque (located on the 158th floor)
* World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 m (1,680 ft)
* World's highest swimming pool (76th floor)

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Thoughts about skysrapers.....

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

- Roland Barthes, 1915 - 1980


and about BURJ KHALIFA:



Towering high at 828 metres, the world's tallest building also has the worlds first Armani Hotel and At the Top, Burj Khalifa, the highest observation deck with an outdoor terrace located on level 124.

ENJOY THE HIGH OF HEIGHTS.....


United Neon 3 of 3 - "The sky's the limit"




Image by Today is a good day

I flew into United’s terminal at O’Hare this afternoon.

I’ve long been impressed by the light sculpture in here (see the blurb below) â€" but this is the first time I’ve stopped to try and capture it “on film”. Quite tricky. Not sure which of the three I’ve posted I like best!

What do you think?
See them side by side here


And the blurb is:
The passenger corridor features a 744 foot neon sculpture by California artist Michael Hayden. The sculpture, entitled "Sky's the Limit" is the largest light sculpture in the world. It is composed o 466 colored neon tubes of 14 foot and 8 foot 8 inch lengths. They run the length of the ceiling above the two moving sidewalks. The first and last sections of the three-section sculpture beg in with white neon tubes. The center section starts with indigo and proceeds through the spectrum from shades of blue to green to yellow to orange to bright red. The light sculpture is computer generated. The pattern of light pulses never repeats itself