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When it opened in 2011 the Sapphire tower was the tallest building in Istanbul and among the tallest in Europe, and its observation deck near the top remains one of the highest public viewpoints in the city. Rising 261 metres in the Levent business district on the European side, the slender glass skyscraper was designed as a mixed development of luxury residences, a shopping mall and the viewing terrace, and was notable as the country's first ecological tower, wrapped in a double-skin facade tha...