The city still exhibits many remnants of its historic prosperity , but the most striking has to be its cathedral , whose 528ft high spire is said to be the world 's tallest .
The phenomenal chicago spire , when completed in 2010 , will be the world 's tallest residential building and the tallest building of any kind in the western world .
芝加哥尖塔在2010年完成后,将成为最高的住宅楼,也会是西方世界最高的建筑。
The spire is allegedly planned to sit on the edge of the caspian sea and overlook baku 's major new development : khazar islands .
据称,这座尖塔将建在里海的海边,守望着哈扎尔群岛项目巴库的新发展起点。
They worked up two ideas in 1959 that had some merit in graham 's eyes : a balloon-inspired dome held up by stay wires , and a thin space-disk restaurant on a slender spire .
Palmer 's subjects were golden fields of corn , fruit trees with bursting white blossom , rosy ripe apples , trees with unnaturally large leaves , plump sheep and thin peasants ; a church spire often sits in the background .
Many of its newer buildings toppled this time , along with the spire of the anglican cathedral , crushing visitors .
然而此次却有不少新建筑倒塌,单单圣公会教堂的塔尖就压死了不少游客。
And , most emblematic of all , is the fuss over the four metres at the building 's spire .
而且,最具争议的是,其塔顶高达四米的尖顶。
Although the game takes you outside of the city and into the surrounding countryside , the menacing spire of the citadel looms in the distance , a constant reminder of the oppressive weight of the combine 's rule .