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Around the room are models and drawings of many of the some 60 civic sculptures Mr. Garten has made and is working on, each of which take between three and six years to complete and include a 40-foot stainless-steel sculpture tower in Dallas and a 16-foot-tall curvy stainless-steel sculpture in Long Beach.
In New England the claims of the mysterious melted steel from Tower Seven has been unravelled at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute near Boston.
In addition, PNC is currently building the greenest skyrise in the world in steel town, The Tower at PNC Plaza, that will be certified LEED Platinum and is slated to open in 2015.
Inside the 76-story tower's rippled steel exterior lies a lifeguard-manned swimming pool and sun deck, a boxing studio, a children's library, a grilling terrace with "dining cabanas, " a billiards room, a squash court and a golf simulator, just to name a few.
As for the Freedom Tower, no one expects steel to arrive for at least a year.
And it was on hand at the early stages of rebuilding, as it won a contract to put up steel for the site's signature tower, One World Trade Center, in 2006.
As much as 150, 000 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel and about 12, 000 gallons of other petroleum products are on board the Kulluk, a double-hulled steel vessel with a helicopter landing pad and tower in the middle designed for drilling in Arctic waters.
Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a biotech facility owned by the former steel magnates.
Instead of a single lattice tower, the cables are supported by two elegant steel poles up to 65 metres high.
In addition to holding the steel contract at One World Trade Center, DCM is putting up steel for 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story tower.
In the newly-opened Marwa Tower mall, a gleaming structure of glass and steel skyscraper next to the Grand Mosque, you may find Puma trainers, Chanel fragrances, gold jewelry, mobile phones and dozens of other gadgets -- alongside religious books and traditional calligraphic art.
People who think thermite was used to demolish Tower 7 have also claimed that the one section of steel from the building that was kept reveals that it was melted by some strange substance.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit, conceived by sculptor Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond, is a competition-winning 377-foot observation tower largely funded by Britain's richest man, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, at the behest of London Mayor Boris Johnson.
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Obama also visited with workers representing over 60 labor unions working on the site as he signed one of the final steel beams to be installed as part of the building's framework at the top of the tower.
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