1. And where are the building cranes, and the techies wandering aimlessly into the intersection with cell phones jammed in their ears? 2. Another is a wasteland of new construction and wide dirt avenues lined with building cranes. 3. All those building cranes swiveling confidently on the skyline proclaim City on the Move! 4. I noticed Wednesday that the San Francisco building cranes are flying south. 5. Painted orange, the sculpture also draws attention to a yellow building crane across the river and to the gilded statues on the bridge behind the esplanade. 6. 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. 7. The state bird of Georgia right now is the building crane, as the city prepares to host the Centennial Summer Olympics this July. 8. Building cranes are visible from nearly every vantage point in the city. 9. Forty people were evacuated from an apartment house in the northern port city of Hamburg when high winds threatened to topple a building crane. |