Answers To: Edifice Complex (Size Does Matter)

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
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  1. True. This oil rig is some 3,250 feet tall, compared to the World Trade Center, which reaches 1,728 feet (including antenna).

  2. A. It was built as a bell tower in the Romanesque style.

  3. True

  4. C. Brazil has no common border with Chile or Ecuador.

  5. False. However, when completed, New Zealand's Auckland Sky Tower will be taller than any extant structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

  6. C. Yokohama's Landmark Tower is not even in the top ten.

  7. True. However, this building may soon be eclipsed by the under-construction Emirates Tower, also in Dubai.

  8. True

  9. A,2; B,3; C,1

  10. False. Greenwich will have the largest dome in the world.