Context: The state-of-the-art in highrise construction

structural system, “framed tube”, Guiyang World Trade Center, CN-Guiyang
completion 2018
Tall buildings are dreams rendered in steel and concrete. In addition to the economic, developmental and environmental justifications of tall building-driven urban densification, there is an innate desire in mankind to go higher and higher. Historically, this became apparent in the stories of the Tower of Babel or Icarus and Daedalus as well as artifacts such as the pyramids of...
structural system, “framed tube”, Guiyang World Trade Center, CN-Guiyang
completion 2018