www.geocities.com/PicketFence/5192/ The address above is actually a really nice metaphor. The "picket fence" it refers to is the chain formed by the world's tallest buildings. Add "center_of_india.html" to the end of the address and take a look at an artist's rendering of what some day might be the world's tallest structure, at 677 meters. There's a definite whoa! factor in the depiction that'll make you surf off in pursuit of more information about the Center of India Tower. But so far all it is is the day dream of the guy whom the Beatles once traveled to India to meditate with.
www.klcc.com.my/Showcase/PTT/ps_ptt3.htm This is the rather down-to-earth home page of the Petronas Twin Towers, the buildings that currently reach highest into the sky. But it only lists raw data to describe the wonder, passing up mankind's only opportunity to nest a Web cam on a 452-meter perch -- and let the whole world sigh a collective whoa! while looking down on Kuala Lumpur.
www.som.com/html/7_south_dearborn.html The S, O and M in the address above are the initials of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architecture firm whose Sears Tower was beat out as the world's tallest by the Petronas Towers. But SOM's architects plan to climb back on top of the world in 2004 with another Chicago structure. Check out the new design concepts and architectural advancements that will help 7 South Dearborn, at 610 meters, make the term "skyscraper" less figurative.