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NY skyscrapers adapt to climate change

The city is embracing resilient architecture because its exorbitantly priced real estate drives up the financial stakes

New York

WITH a skyline crowded with ever-more luxury towers, the construction of another Manhattan skyscraper wouldn't normally be remarkable. But the American Copper Buildings going up on the East River - a complex of two towers with 764 apartments, panoramic views and a huge entrance hall with a doorman - is different.

Planned just after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York in October 2012 - sounding another alarm about the mounting effects of climate change - it was designed with new threats in mind, reflecting how the real estate world is evolving to account for global warming, in contrast to President Donald Trump's moves to roll back environmental protection.

The huge storm killed more than 40...

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