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This study examines 89 presentation names of skyscrapers in mainland China and shows how skyscraper names collectively relate to the region’s economic status.
Lindsey N. H. Chen
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Postwar Heuristic Strategies of Exclusion and Inclusion in Moscow Architecture
Moscow is a city of a thousand faces, constantly changing over the centuries and its high-rise buildings has been forming the shape of the city for centuries.
Leila Tavi
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As the demand and market for building maintenance are increasing, automated building façade cleaning has become essential. Robots are replacing human workers because cleaning work on high-rise buildings using gondolas can be dangerous. Several fa
Jooyoung Hong +5 more
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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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Design automation of load-bearing arched structures of roofs of tall buildings
The article considers aspects of the possible use of arched roofs in the construction of skyscrapers. Tall buildings experience large load from various environmental factors.
Kulikov Vladimir
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The Image of Vienna: City as Museum or Dynamic Developed Metropolis?
The article discusses trends of Vienna’s architectonic spatial development. Vienna is a city that, one the one hand, lives in its historical arhitecture and city planning and, on the other hand, has allowed innovative building in certain areas ...
Mara Liepa-Zemesa
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Starting from Comprehensive or Interpretive Sociology and the Sociology of skyscrapers, this article proposes as basic objectives to verify how the North American economic culture is showed in the symbolism of the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York and ...
Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel +1 more
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Skyscapers and greenery. An unprecedented symbiosis
An appropriate use of natural resources, combined with the choice of innovative materials and the reduction of the consumption of non-renewable sources, increasingly contribute to the sustainability of skyscrapers.
Simona Talenti, Annarita Teodosio
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Characteristics of Iconic High-rise Buildings [PDF]
Iconography is a degree given to a building and an objective of its architectural design. The iconic high-rise buildings are important in various fields.
Tarek Gaber +2 more
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