Cristo Redentor vs Le Parc Tower

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Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [?k?istu ?eden?to?], local pronunciation: [?k?i?t?? xe?den?to?]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French scientist Albert Caquot. Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida fashioned the face. Constructed between 1922 and 1931, the statue is 30 metres (98 ft) high, excluding its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal.

The arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), and is located at the peak of this 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain at the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural symbol of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is recorded as one of the New7Wonders of the World. It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.

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Le Parc Tower is a high-rise Construction Situated in the block bounded by Avenida Cerviño, Gody Cruz, Demaria and Fray Justo Santamaria de Oro in the Area of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This luxury residential construction developed between 1991 and 1995 by RAGHSA SA was designed by Mario Roberto Álvarez and Associates. 51 floors and 158 meters (518 feet) tall, it was the tallest residential building in the nation between its completion in 1995 and the completion of the first of two El Faro towers in 2003.

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