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Bloomberg offers up the year's best shots of skyscrapers and other significant buildings around the world

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One World Trade Center stands at the end of Fulton Street in New York on Sept. 7. Thirteen years after the trauma of 9/11, the memorial and museum are now open and tenants are moving into the office buildings.Ron Antonelli/Bloomberg

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The Burj Khalifa tower is surrounded by lesser skyscrapers in Dubai, one of seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, on Nov. 11. The Burj Khalifa is the tallest mixed-use tower in the world at a height of 828 metres.Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

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The Shard skyscraper is reflected in the roof of 1 Plantation Place at dusk in London on July 3.Jason Alden/Bloomberg

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The U.S. Capitol Building, which is covered with scaffolding while it undergoes repairs, is seen in the Senate reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 5.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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Laborers watch a movie on a mobile phone near a demolished residential building in the Zhujiang New Town district of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, on March 26.Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

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Residential buildings are reflected on the facade of the One Island East building at Taikoo Place, in the Quarry Bay district of Hong Kong, on Jan. 15.Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

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A visitor enters an elevator in the lobby at the headquarters of software maker SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany, on Feb. 24.Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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The pinnacles of the Petronas Twin Towers protrude through low clouds in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 18.Charles Pertwee/Bloomberg

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In the financial district of London, the glass windows of the Leadenhall Building, also known as the Cheesegrater, reflect the neighbouring skyscraper called the Gherkin, left, on Sept. 3.Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

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