Dubai, UAE
Shanghai, China
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Shenzen, China
Seoul, South Korea
New York City, USA
Guangzhou, China
Tianjin, China
Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings are Reshaping our Cities and our Lives
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In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al — himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world — reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom. Using examples from the past (the Empire State Building, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower) and present (Dubai's Burj Khalifa, London's Shard, Shanghai Tower), he describes how the most remarkable skyscrapers have been designed and built. He explores the ingenious technological innovations-in cement, wind resistance, elevator design, and air-conditioning-that make the latest megastructures a reality. And he examines the risks of wealth inequality, carbon emissions, and contagion they yield while arguing for a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable built environment for everyone.
SOM: Iconic Architecture as a Result of Structural Solutions: from Sears Tower to Burj Khalifa
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With nearly 80 years of experience in integrating architecture and engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's (SOM) work remains groundbreaking, especially when it comes to designing supertalls. Besides addressing the question of "how high can you go", as well as the issues of efficiency and economy, this fourth volume of the DETAIL engineering series presents the theoretical background of SOM's structural group. On the basis of a variety of projects with their general structural concept or their specific details, the book explains the process of finding corresponding solutions. These solutions illustrate the company's core values: simplicity, clarity, hierarchy, efficiency and continuous reseach. In addition, the projects - from James Turrel Skyspace to Burj Khalifa - are also placed in the context of SOM's work as a whole using anecdotes from a number of other well-known SOM projects as John Hancock or Sears Tower.
high density
vertical urbanism
supertall skyscrapers/supertall buildings, megatall
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