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Selected design studies on office skyscrapers in Warsaw as examples of implementation of modern achievement of the global developmen of elevator technology [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Civil Engineering
The work is devoted to the definition of solutions for skyscraper office buildings in Warsaw against the background of the latest global technology of vertical communication systems. For this purpose, the paper presents the examples of research by design
Marcin Goncikowski
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Building on the Border: Architecture as a Meeting Place [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Architecture, 2021
To establish a border signifies defining a fixed point from which to start and to which to refer in order to circumscribe controlled and measured environments.
Francesco Del Sole
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Stability Conditions and Branes at Singularities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
I use Bridgeland's definition of a stability condition on a triangulated category to investigate the stability of D-branes on Calabi-Yau cones given by the canonical line bundle over a del Pezzo surface.
Bergman, Aaron
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Vibrations of the TAIPEI 101 Skyscraper Induced by Typhoon Fanapi in 2010

open access: yesTerrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2013
The TAIPEI 101 skyscraper (508-m) is comprised of 101 floors above ground and five floors below ground. It is located in the Hsinyi District of Taipei, Taiwan.
Kou-Cheng Chen   +4 more
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A study of optimal design process for complex-shaped skyscrapers’ structural systems in United Arab Emirates

open access: yesAin Shams Engineering Journal, 2022
Contemporary atypical skyscrapers in United Arab Emirates became the landmarks of the city and secured the urban competitiveness via innovative building design. These contemporary skyscrapers use non-linear geometry of structural frames, it is impossible
Chuloh Jung, Riyad Awad, Jihad Awad
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Living and Working in Tall Buildings: Satisfaction and Perceived Benefits and Concerns of Occupants

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2017
In the past few decades, tall buildings of 30 to over 100 storeys are becoming more common in modern cities around the world, especially in Asia and the Middle East, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Cheuk Fan Ng
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New York’s super-slender towers and European slender high-rise buildings: differences in the urban context

open access: yesBudownictwo i Architektura, 2023
The latest construction technologies have enabled the erection of very slender skyscrapers. This phenomenon is developing significantly in New York, but very slender high-rise buildings are also being designed on other continents.
Robert Musiał
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Skyscrapers and the redrawing of the London skyline: a case of territorialisation through landscape control

open access: yesArticulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2015
In a race for the sky marked by the proliferation of skyscrapers in cities of emerging market economies, the historic European metropolises are faced with intense debates on the relevance and significance of the return of towers.
Manuel Appert, Christian Montes
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The Soviet Skyscraper: Take-Off and Landing [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Architecture, 2019
Reviewing a number of radical designs for skyscrapers by Russian Constructivist architects operating in the 1920s, the paper researches how the notion of weightlessness can be identified as a common denominator to many of these projects, how this ...
François Blanciak
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Classification of certain continuous fields of Kirchberg algebras

open access: yes, 2013
We show that the K-theory cosheaf is a complete invariant for separable continuous fields with vanishing boundary maps over a finite-dimensional compact metrizable topological space whose fibers are stable Kirchberg algebras with rational K-theory groups
Bentmann, Rasmus
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