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Building tall does not immediately mean an increase in density. Actually, the contrary is true; as buildings get taller, they must be set further apart and take up more land. Knowing this, it is not ...
The City of Glasgow is on the cusp of a new era. With the recent publication of the Tall Buildings Design Guide, the city ...
Viral Patel, director of design for structures at Walter P Moore (WPM) and the Austin tower’s structural peer reviewer, thinks PBWD will be the “standard way of engineering tall buildings in ...
Location: Shanghai, China Height: 2,073 feet Completion date: 2014 Twisting to the sky with 128 floors that make the Shanghai Tower one of the tallest in the world, the design from Gensler ...
Tapered Form: A design configuration in which the building’s cross-sectional area diminishes with height, thereby improving aerodynamic performance and reducing wind forces. Tall Building Design ...
And nothing proves that more than the tallest buildings in the world. Their striking design plays a part, no doubt, but their seemingly physics-defying existence is what really draws a viewer’s ...
DENVER — A newly proposed 673-foot observation tower could become one of the tallest structures in Denver — if it ever gets ...
As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. "For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense," said ...
Tall buildings are SOM’s specialty. It designed New York’s One World Trade Center, Chicago’s Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, and the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj ...
And a new second-tallest building in the world is set to be finished this year—it’s the angular Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and measures a megatall 2,233 feet tall at the tippy top.
The tallest timber building until recently was the 85-metre-high Mjøstårnet in Norway, made entirely of CLT and glulam. It lost its title to Ascent , an 86-metre, 25-storey, timber-concrete ...
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