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Centro Financiero Confinanzas (English: Confinanzas Financial Center), also known as Torre de David (the Tower of David), is an unfinished abandoned skyscraper in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is the third highest skyscraper in the country after the twin towers of Parque Central Complex.
It took a month for taggers to focus on other balconies of the unfinished building. But one month later, 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise burst with color, the graffiti art now demanding ...
In 2002, there were 150 abandoned apartments. [2] At that time, there were plans to change the building's name to Bulevar Palace. [3] Also, 65% of the apartments were in debt in 2002. [3] More people started not to pay the bills when Marta Suplicy announced the implosion of the building in 2003, [2] again with no practical results.
Goldin Finance 117, also known as China 117 Tower (Chinese: 中国117大厦), is an unfinished supertall skyscraper in Xiqing District, Tianjin, China.The tower was topped out in 2015 at a height of 597 m (1,957 ft).
Ponte City [1] is a skyscraper in the Berea district of Johannesburg, South Africa, just next to Hillbrow. It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567.6 ft), and was the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa for 48 years, until overtaken in 2023 by Building D01, in Egypt's New Administrative Capital. The 55-storey building is cylindrical ...
The abandoned city is a military base called Camp Century, built in 1959 by cutting a web of tunnels under a near-surface layer of the Greenland ice sheet. Abandoned in 1967, snow and ice have ...
The smaller 22-storey rear tower was built in 1970 as The Tollman Towers hotel, owned by the prominent hotelier Stanley Tollman.. The property was purchased by Sol Kerzner's Southern Sun Hotels in the early 1980s and totally rebuilt at a cost of R100 million, with the addition of the 40-storey main tower, linked to the older building by a four-story podium with a pool deck and a running track.
A “potentially hazardous” asteroid about the size of a large skyscraper is predicted to zoom past the Earth at a distance of 1.7 million miles away from the planet on Friday, according to Nasa ...