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Tall Buildings Contents

PART ONE: WHY BUILD TALL?

• Introduction
• A Transient Historical past of the Twentieth-Century Skyscraper 
• Aesthetics, Symbolism, and Standing within the Twenty-First Century 
• A Shopper’s Perspective
• Tall Constructing Economics 
• Is Refurbishment a Higher Possibility?

PART TWO: HUMAN, SOCIAL AND URBAN ISSUES

• Introduction 
• Tall Buildings within the Public Area 
• Masterplanning City Habitats 
• Constructing Tall: The Way forward for Cities 
• Islands within the Sky, Cities on the Floor: The Public Realm and Its Impression on Tall Buildings 
• Inner Atmosphere and Planning 
• Atria: A Important Ingredient of Sustainable Tall Buildings

PART THREE: SUSTAINABLE RESPONSIBILITIES AND RISK

• Introduction
• Sustainability and Power Concerns 
• In the direction of Power Independence 
• Current Advances in Applied sciences, Strategies, and Supplies
• Threat Concerns in Tall Constructing Design

PART FOUR: ENGINEERING THE TALL BUILDING

• Introduction
• The Limits of Supplies and Constructions 
• Structural Potentialities
• Foundations and Basements 
• Seismic Design 
• Designing for Wind

PART FIVE: ENCLOSURE, SERVICING, AND CONSTRUCTION

• Introduction 
• Curtain Partitions
• In the direction of a Double-Pores and skin Resolution 
• Hearth Security and Evacuation 
• Servicing the Tall Constructing 
• Vertical Circulation: Previous, Current, and Future 
• Logistics and Mission Administration 
• Afterword: The Way forward for Tall?

PART SIX: CASE STUDIES

• Aqua Tower, Chicago, USA 
• Financial institution of America Tower, New York, USA 
• Hearst Tower, New York, USA
• Manitoba Hydro Place, Winnipeg, Canada 
• One Madison Park, New York, USA 
• Veer Towers, Las Vegas, USA 
• Guangzhou Worldwide Finance Heart (GZIFC), Guangzhou, China 
• Worldwide Commerce Centre (ICC), West Kowloon, Hong Kong 
• Regent Place: Lumière Residences and Fraser Suites, Sydney, Australia
• Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 
• Lacking Matrix Constructing: Boutique Monaco, Seoul, South Korea
• Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers, Nagoya, Japan
• The Met, Bangkok, Thailand 
• Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China 
• The Troika, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
• Hegau Tower, Singen, Germany 
• Heron Tower, London, UK 
• Al Hamra Tower, Kuwait Metropolis, Kuwait 
• Bahrain World Commerce Heart, Manama, Bahrain 
• Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE 
• Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi, UAE 
• O-14, Dubai, UAE 
• One World Commerce Heart, New York, USA

Introduction to The Tall Buildings Reference Book

That there’s a want for this ebook is indeniable. The tall constructing typology has witnessed extra fast development up to now 20 years than within the previous hundred years, and but the overwhelming majority of present books on the topic fall into the shiny, coffee-table ebook class— excessive on the picture, low on content material, particularly technical content material.

All facets of tall buildings—kind and architectural design, relationship to city habitat, structural programs, elevating strategies, building strategies, environmental methods, attitudes in direction of facades— have seen a significant improvement within the first decade of the twenty-first century

And thus this ebook is extra than simply well timed in its meant seize of the “state-of-the-art”; it’s completely essential.

The growth in tall constructing building over the previous decade or so is unprecedented within the historical past of mankind. Though there have been intense intervals of tall constructing building in particular geographic areas all through historical past—late-nineteenth-century Chicago, artwork deco New York

Or put up–Second World Warfare Europe, for instance—the growth of the 1990s and 2000s has reached throughout nearly the complete globe—from Brisbane to Beijing, Rio to Riyadh, Toronto to Tokyo.

It appears that the majority cities globally have been growing their city habitat skyward. On the similar time, many traits of high-rise building have modified essentially from what they had been for many of the twentieth century. Quite a few emergent developments at the moment are evident.

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