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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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Names, 2017 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
Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2020 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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IEEE Access, 2019 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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Design automation of load-bearing arched structures of roofs of tall buildings
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 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?
Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2011 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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Ain 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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The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis [PDF]
Journal of Urban Economics, 2020 This paper provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge on the economics of skyscrapers. First, we document how vertical urban growth has gained pace over the course of the 20th century. Second, we lay out a simple theoretical model of optimal building heights in a competitive market to rationalize this trend.
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Jason Barr
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City, Territory and Architecture, 2022 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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