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Vibrations of the TAIPEI 101 Skyscraper Induced by Typhoon Fanapi in 2010
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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Skyscraper indicator and its application in the UK
Objective: The research examines Skyscraper Indicator and its application in the UK. Until more recently, it was thought that this indicator was not suitable in gaging trajectory of Britain’s economy.
Arvydas Jadevicius
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Building on the Border: Architecture as a Meeting Place [PDF]
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]
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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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
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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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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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]
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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Wulff construction in statistical mechanics and in combinatorics
We present the geometric solutions to some variational problems of statistical mechanics and combinatorics. Together with the Wulff construction, which predicts the shape of the crystals, we discuss the construction which exhibits the shape of a typical ...
Shlosman, Senya
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