Today, building cranes dot the skyline of this sprawling low-slung city.

Another is a wasteland of new construction and wide dirt avenues lined with building cranes.

Wherever one walks in the east, however, one is struck by the jungle of building cranes that rise over the city.

She cruised downtown, noting the huge building cranes that loomed like giant, hovering birds.

The city has been turned into one vast construction site, with building cranes rising every few hundred feet along the gray waters of the Pearl River.

Permanently affixed building cranes enabled walls and floors to be constantly rearranged, like Tinkertoys.

All those building cranes swiveling confidently on the skyline proclaim City on the Move!

The dredgers needed cranes on board, and these were supplied by Figee, which became a specialist in building cranes.

In 1983 Hydrema started producing their own dump trucks and in a short period in the late 1980s they also produced mobile building cranes.

Confronted with forests of building cranes and spanking new factories many visitors say the China they encounter does not resemble the image of China shaped in the West.

Large construction sites throughout New York City, including the Freedom Tower at ground zero, were shut down yesterday after the union that runs the building cranes began a strike.

"Look out the window, there are no building cranes," said Thomas P. Falus, the president of Cushman & Wakefield of New York, speaking of most of the city.

The obverse of Warri is Abuja, a city of new villas and wide traffic-free streets, where the building cranes in the sky point to the destination of the delta's oil money.

I wonder, in short, at the naturalness and self-generaticity of Dennett's cranes building cranes building cranes in biospheres, perhaps planetary geologies, and beyond.

Price's 1962 "Fun Palace," a combination art center, amusement park and open university, featured rooms and walls that could be moved about by building cranes, and this became a familiar fixture in many Archigram projects.

The high-rise condos that stretch past Boca Raton, the glamorous South Beach hotel guests chattering in English, Spanish, German and Portuguese, the building cranes dotting the skyline all suggest a mind-boggling, global prosperity.

A media and political circus gathered in York Road as inspectors made a site visit on 16 February: media hired building cranes to gain vantage over the property; Leung Kwok Hung led a protest outside Tang's residence.

Ten building cranes looming over North America's largest energy construction project here are the visible peaks of a $22 billion mountain range of oil investments that are quietly transforming this patch of Canadian wilderness into what may soon be the continent's leading oil producing area north of the Gulf of Mexico.