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17 October 2016
Megacities: Setting the Scene
Daniel Safarik, Shawn Ursini & Antony Wood; Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
The rise of the megacity presents unprecedented opportunities to understand the human urbanization phenomenon, and to observe the effects of multicore, polycentric cities growing together...
01 March 2016
High-rise Reinforced-concrete Building Incorporating an Oil Damper in an Outrigger Frame
Yukihiro Omika & Norihide Koshika, Kobori Research Complex; Yukimasa Yamamoto, et al. Structural Engineering Group
The reinforced-concrete multi-story shear-wall structure, which can free a building from beams and columns to allow the planning of a vast room, has increasingly been...
11 June 2014
Highest Helipads
CTBUH Research
In this installment of Tall Buildings in Numbers, CTBUH considers how helipads are used on skyscrapers, and which are the highest in the world. The...
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