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Discussion: Icons of Progress – High-Rise Buildings, Their Motivation, Aesthetics and Effects
What Kafka wrote in 1920 still holds true today: “The main aspect of the whole undertaking is the idea of building a tower that reaches up to the sky....
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Discussion: The Origins of the High-Rise Building
High-rise buildings have their origins in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. In 1871, a fire destroyed the city centre at a time when Chicago was...
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Typological Aspects of High-Rise Buildings
Towers on churches, town halls and otherpublic buildings were once a crowning architectural feature and emblematic of many different aspirations. Time...
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Torre Cube in Guadalajara
The client wanted an office building with a distinct character. In view of the fact that only the total storey area (4,800 m 2 ) was stipulated, with ...
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Woermann Plaza in Las Palmas
Situated in one of the most sensitive locations of Las Palmas, on the narrow isthmus that links the island of Gran Canaria with the small Isleta penin...
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Torre Agbar in Barcelona
This 142-metre-high headquarters of a water-supply undertaking was designed like a “fluid mass that shoots out of the ground under constant pressure”,...
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