The GLA planners said: "[It will] provide a striking skyline feature and distinctive focal point that could contribute to local legibility".
Adrianne Lobel's set -- a romantic backdrop of the city skyline featuring layered silhouettes of ziggurat skyscrapers soaring to the theater's significant heights -- is simple and appealing.
FROM a skyline featuring both minarets and church spires to the call to prayer competing with lounge music in a hip cafe, Istanbul is the only major city to span two continents.
Viewranger has a vast store of free routes and its Skyline feature is fun: hold your phone up and it labels mountains and other interesting stuff live on screen.
Through interviews, analysis and photography the interactive issue explores the history and future of the city's skyline, featuring the high-rise residents and businesses with their heads in the clouds (almost), and learning what daily life is like for a skyscraper construction worker.
The skyline featured a sprawling forest of tall, decorated mud-brick wind catchers, just like the badgirs of Na'in.
And we pass scores of impressive, oversized buildings, from the library to museums to the notorious 105-story, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, the dominant skyline feature, unfinished more than 20 years after construction began (it seems, from some angles, to list a bit, like the Tower of Pisa).
Banksy unveiled one of his most controversial pieces of the series on 15 October, with a depiction of the Lower Manhattan skyline featuring the former Twin Towers, with a burnt-orange chrysanthemum in place where one of the hijacked airplanes struck the North Tower.
The building offers views of the Manhattan skyline and features a fitness center, children's playroom, sauna and rooftop terrace.
Dubai's name has become synonymous with grand, headline-grabbing projects – the country's skyline now features the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa; passengers flying into Dubai airport, one of the largest in the world, can see manmade islands in the shape of palm trees from the air; and the city inaugurated a metro system in 2009.
