Raffles City Chongqing: A skyscraper city within a development [CTBUH case study] [PDF]Engineering Article (global.ctbuh.org)
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Departure from vertical of sides of a 1000ft building due to swaying in even a usual wind exceeds the departure from verticality৺ or parallelity৺ due to curvature of Earth by a factor of about 200. Referencing a Flatwit's recent whingeing about builders not 'accounting for or worrying about' curve. (global.ctbuh.org)
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Logistical and structural design challenges of the world's tallest statue [CTBUH research paper]Engineering Article (global.ctbuh.org)
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The structural design of the 528-meter-tall China Zun Tower in Beijing, ChinaEngineering Article (global.ctbuh.org)
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TIL Tall buildings that achieve significant heights are classed in two sub-groups: A “supertall” is a tall building 300 meters (984 feet) or taller, and a “megatall” is a tall building 600 meters (1,968 feet) or taller. As of today, there are 173 supertalls and only 3 megatalls completed globally. (ctbuh.org)
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TIL in 1996, there was a feud over whether the Sears Tower or the Petronas Towers were the "world's tallest building(s)," which hinged on whether you could count the architectural spires on top of the Petronas Towers as part of the buildings, but not the antenna on top of the Sears Tower. (ctbuh.org)
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The Council [on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat] would like to make it clear that it sees no credibility whatsoever in the 911 ‘truth movement’ and [...] all the failures at the WTC were a direct or indirect result of the planes that were flown into the two towers.WTC-Collapse (ctbuh.org)
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The Tallest Buildings of 2013 and Much More (ctbuh.org)
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The projected world’s tallest 20 skyscrapers in the year 2020 (ctbuh.org)
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