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Cross Des Veoux Road just south of Statue Square and you'll find the 180-meter-high HSBC Main Building, whose unconventional modular design — by architect Sir Norman Foster — is something people either love or hate.
Hong Kong's Second World War Euan McKirdy 2011
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In the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Tacita Dean has upended a 13-meter-high Cinemascope screen onto which is projected an 11-minute loop of analog "film in its purest form" says the press handout, mostly banal images, both black-and-white and color, framed by unmoving sprockets, and with no soundtrack.
An Artful Treasure Hunt Paul Levy 2011
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Photos of a 30-meter-high work from Romania, meanwhile, give an impression of what Brancusi actually tried to produce and what Serra can still achieve.
Fondation Beyeler Show Places Brancusi and Serra Head to Head Goran Mijuk 2011
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The 116 meter-high dam will submerge a 47 kilometer stretch of the Subansiri River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra.
Peter Bosshard: People's Power Blocks Dam Construction in Northeast India Peter Bosshard 2011
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As its contribution to the Klimt Year, the Kunsthistorisches has erected a temporary 12-meter-high walkway that will allow visitors to get within a few meters of the murals.
A Golden Kiss for Klimt J. S. Marcus 2012
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Caches carved out of the live rock of the walls resembled two meter-high intaglio of scallop shells.
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Aftershocks continued to hit northeastern Japan Sunday, several days after a 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting 10-meter-high tsunami devastated the coastline.
Japanese Struggling to Find Food and Water in Disaster Area 2011
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Dubbed Future Flower, the 14 meter-high bloom has giant petals of perforated galvanized steel, each one of which (if you take a look at the pics in our gallery) is almost the length of a grown man!
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Aftershocks continued to hit northeastern Japan Sunday, several days after a 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting 10-meter-high tsunami devastated the coastline.
Japanese Struggling to Find Food and Water in Disaster Area 2011
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The 116 meter-high dam will submerge a 47 kilometer stretch of the Subansiri River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra.
Peter Bosshard: People's Power Blocks Dam Construction in Northeast India Peter Bosshard 2011
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