skyscrapers
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Watch The Incredible Force Of A Typhoon Move A Skyscraper’s 700-Ton Mass Damper
Mass dampers are designed to counteract the swaying of a skyscraper as it’s buffeted by strong winds or earthquakes. But it’s incredibly rare to see one of these huge devices moving more an a few inches. Unless, of course, there’s a typhoon nearby.
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The Architects Of The Burj Khalifa Are Designing A Competing Skyscraper
The world of record-breaking real estate is full of strange logic and magical thinking. Now, the city that built the world’s tallest building has commissioned the architects behind it to design a new skyscraper that will claim the title of the tallest commercial building in the world. It’s called the Burj 2020.
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How Engineers Are Building Skyscrapers That Seem Physically Impossible
Stephen DeSimone, president of DeSimone Consulting Engineering in New York, is engineering a new kind of skyscraper. He’s working on structures unlike anything else in the world: supertall buildings with unusually small footprints.
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The Schemes And Secrets Of Skyscraper Spires
To most of us, the spires that top tall building are an afterthought — a necessary extra, by no means interesting. But if you look closer, those spires are where all the drama has gone down, from the 1920s to this very week.