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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"skyscraper"”.
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Analysis of a skyscraper
This analysis will involve the skyscraper as a building type. It is my premise that in order to achieve a successful building which has the qualities of place-making, character, and prominence, the issues of formal resolution, contextual response, and symbolic performance must be addressed. The …
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Form follows flow : re-imagining the skyscraper
Skyscraper is a by-product of 19th century American industrialism. spirit, and disaster. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophe that necessitated dense and rapid reconstruction, both of which the high-rise provided. The accidental discovery of this new typology forever changed the …
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The living skyscraper : mapping the vertical neighborhood
The rise of the skyscraper was not driven by programmatic needs or artistic desires, but rather economic conditions coupled with turn-of-the-century technological innovations. As it evolved, systems matured to provide comfort and safety while economic efficiency was always prioritized. The …
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The "Skyscraper problem" and the city beautiful : the Woolworth Building
The "skyscraper problem" challenged the thought and practice of civic designers and architects prior to World War I. It referred to the incompatibility of City Beautiful principles with economically propelled land development, and to the contradiction between the notion of architecture as an art …
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Louis H. Sullivan: The Aesthetic Movement, Classical Monumentality and the Skyscraper
This dissertation looks at some of the most famous structures by talented and cryptic American architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) for fusions of Aesthetic Movement surfaces and two-part Classical Monumentality. For architects, the Aesthetic Movement allowed for a greater amount of freedom when it …
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One Adderley plaza constructing an urban responsive skyscraper in Cape Town's city bowl
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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The Skyscraper And The Suburb: Architecture, Capitalism, And The American Metropolitan Landscape, 1929–1940
… that supported them were being reshaped by skyscrapers and suburbanization. This dissertation examines these two works with a twofold aim: to reevaluate the terms on which they have been understood in architectural history and to consider the perceived limits, possibilities, and conditions …
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A Barometer of High and Low: Re-defining the Skyscraper as a Vertical City
… megacities have witnessed the rise of skyscrapers as central social hubs. However, the predominant design approach for these towering structures has primarily focused on practical considerations, often overlooking the spiritual well-being of individuals. This oversight has led to …
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SIlver Tower - A New Paradigm for Tall Building Design
… 2001, seemed to many to presage the end of the skyscraper as an urban form. Some 15 years later, the skyscraper is more prevalent than ever before, owing to its unique advantages over other building forms in an urban, environmental, and sociological context. Skyscrapers are rising ever higher, …
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The corporate plaza and the office tower: The potential for a mutualistic space-form relationship
Within the context of a site/place on which a skyscraper is developed, the role of the corporate plaza is usually limited to providing a base to glorify the unique form of the skyscraper (the office tower). In such case, the potential for a symbiotic relationship between the skyscraper and the …
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The vertical form of public ground : the typological reimagination of a skyscraper through the reinterpretation of relationship between the architecture and urbanism of Manhattan
The 20th century's notion of a skyscraper in Manhattan, a symbolic object aloof from a city, should be redefined due to the reinterpretation of the grid to accommodate more public amenity and facilitate the cultural contexts of Manhattan. These Days, pedestrian plazas, transportation …
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Embedding methods for massing and detail design in computer generated design of skyscrapers
… system to construct the massing and details of skyscrapers. It extracts underlying rules and design conventions from significant projects in contemporary skyscraper design practice. These rules and conventions are translated into digital data and embedded in a system. The thesis demonstrates how …
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Skyscrapers in context
… thesis is a study of the expressive quality of a skyscraper. Because of their size and conspicuousness, skyscrapers are simultaneously exposed to several different levels of"contexts, which are mainly defined by the distance between the viewer and the tall buildings. Awareness of these contexts is …
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TALL : rethinking the systems of the contemporary high rise
… generic environments. In other words, the skyscraper is typically conceived as a homogenous container for heterogeneous activity. This thesis hypothesizes that the typology of the skyscraper can be redesigned to accommodate a more complex series of spaces designed around the needs of modern …
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The Temple of Justice; A New Federal Courthouse for the City of Baltimore
… was to be a high performing, bioclimatic skyscraper and its stewardship to the environment would be as literally transparent as the courtroom would be figuratively. The procession of would be a heightened experience of majesty for the public, who would visit the courthouse out of civic …
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INVESTIGATING THE METABOLIC PROFILE OF RUN-UP RACES AND THE MECHANICS OF WOBBLING VISCERAL MASS IN VERTICAL JUMPS.
… the metabolic and mechanical analysis of ‘skyscraper running’, and the estimation of the visceral mass displacement in vertical jumps. Skyscraper running is a novel sport activity, in which the athletes run on emergency stairs of the tallest building of the world, during the ‘run up’ races …
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Parade Square : discursive surface of post-socialist Warsaw
… project. It became the site of a monumental skyscraper commissioned by Stalin, called the Palace of Culture and Science. Today, having been used as a parking lot for the past quarter of a century, Parade Square is about to be reconfigured again, this time by the neo-liberal economic forces. …
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Experiencing Sustainable Architecture
… design through the development of an office skyscraper. The driving force behind the project is the design of the sensory oases, which are vertical extensions of the ground plane that contain features intended to stimulate the senses.
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Vertical School of Art
Vertical Buildings (skyscrapers) challenge our perception of space, our perception of scale, our idea of movement, they challenge the way we live. Currently urban cities are becoming more and more dense. Lack of space is a big issue and now buildings are being torn down and are replaced by …
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Urban in the sky: a vertical transition
… This thesis attempts to explore the image of the skyscraper through vertical transitions. Architectural transitions may be viewed as the result of combining different conditions which thrive to co-exist. The horizontal layering of floor planes, combined with the support of various vertical …
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