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Today, super tall skyscrapers, for example, like the Burj Khalifa, are mixed-use buildings. So you have malls on the ground floors, offices above that, residential and hotels above that.
The video includes 10 of the world’s tallest buildings currently standing as well as numerous “visionary” projects. It begins with the Leonardo in Johannesburg, which stands at 768 feet tall.
In May, RECORD peers upward for a survey of six singular tall (and not-so-tall) buildings that innovate in different ways. They include a bulbous, 650-foot-tall tower in Hong Kong’s central business ...
It’s predicted that the world’s first mile-high building could be completed within the next 30 years, also bringing in a new trend of buildings that stand over 3,200 feet tall.
Viral Patel, director of design for structures at Walter P Moore (WPM) and the Austin tower’s structural peer reviewer, thinks PBWD will be the “standard way of engineering tall buildings in ...
In a world beset by troubles, supertall buildings, which measure from 984 ft to 1,968 ft, would not seem to rate high on a list of priority concerns. The 173 completed supertalls—yes, there are ...