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The spatialization of time and history in the skyscrapers of the twenty-first century in Shanghai
City, Territory and Architecture, 2021 This article aims to find out to what extent the skyscrapers erected in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in Shanghai, follow the modern program promoted by the State and the city and how they play an essential role in the construction
Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel
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Green Retrofitting Skyscrapers: A Review
Buildings, 2014 This paper investigates innovative trends, practices and goals of tall building retrofits while illustrating green design techniques and implementation strategies.
Kheir Al-Kodmany
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Space Efficiency in North American Skyscrapers
BuildingsSpace efficiency in North American skyscrapers is crucial due to financial, societal, and ecological reasons. High land prices in major cities require maximizing every square foot for financial viability.
Özlem Nur ASLANTAMER +1 more
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"A comparative analytical study of the evolution of the construction of tower buildings according to the different technology of the era" [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2023 Egypt is now witnessing a wide architectural and urban renaissance. Starting a new century with a new republic full of developments in the construction and architecture field and a new capital full of skyscrapers that is been classified as one of the ...
Lameess Abdulqadir
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The relationships between the macroeconomic situation and European skyscrapers
International Entrepreneurship Review, 2021 Objective: The aim of this paper is to verify if economic prosperity is related to the number of skyscrapers built and their average height. It was done by examining the dependencies between GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, the Gini coefficient and ...
Bartłomiej Pilch
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Agglomeration and innovation: Evidence from skyscraper development in China
China Economic Quarterly International, 2023 The effects of skyscraper development on surrounding firms' innovation in China is assessed in this paper, and empirical results show that skyscraper development significantly promotes the innovation of firms within 1 km of skyscrapers.
Songlin Li, Xiuyan Liu, Qiao Wang
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Budownictwo 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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Lever House, el rascacielos de cristal. La canonización del tipo
ARQUISUR Revista, 2021 This article assumes modern architecture as a nodal issue in the conformation of the discipline, still in permanent review and debate[1]. It is proposed to reflect on the materials of the project, understood as the specific resources of a doing, from ...
Ignacio Damián Montaldo
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Young vs. Old Population: Does Urban Environment of Skyscrapers Create Different Obesity Prevalence?
BioMed, 2023 This study investigates the impact of more densely populated urban environments proxied by the number of skyscrapers on the obesity prevalence among young vs. old populations at a US statewide level.
Yuval Arbel +3 more
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