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  2. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    Good structural design is important in most building designs, but particularly for skyscrapers since even a small chance of catastrophic failure is unacceptable given the high prices of construction and potential risk to human life on a massive scale, as seen in the Surfside condominium collapse of 2021. This presents a paradox to civil ...

  3. Tower block - Wikipedia

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    High-rise towers in Vilnius Central Business District, Lithuania The Majakka high-rise building in Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland A tower block , high-rise , apartment tower , residential tower , apartment block , block of flats , or office tower is a tall building , as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height ...

  4. Skyscraper - Wikipedia

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    An early modern example of high-rise housing was in 17th-century Edinburgh, Scotland, where a defensive city wall defined the boundaries of the city. Due to the restricted land area available for development, the houses increased in height instead. Buildings of 11 stories were common, and there are records of buildings as high as 14 stories.

  5. List of tallest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    189-unit luxury building will also be the world's the first residential high-rise in the world partially powered by the sun, the developer says, with 500 photovoltaic-integrated windows. Baccarat Residences Miami: 848 ft (258 m) 75 2028 Archaeologists discovered human remains and artifacts at the site in 2021. [250]

  6. Tube (structure) - Wikipedia

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    By 1963, a new structural system of framed tubes had appeared in skyscraper design and construction. Fazlur Rahman Khan, a structural engineer from Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan) who worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, defined the framed tube structure as "a three dimensional space structure composed of three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear walls, joined at or ...

  7. List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia skyline as seen from Boathouse Row in June 2019 (annotated version) The Philadelphia skyline as seen from the Delaware River in February 2023 Philadelphia, the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is home to more than 300 completed high-rise buildings and skyscrapers up to 330 feet (101 m), and 58 completed skyscrapers of 330 feet (101 m) or taller, of which 34 are ...

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  9. Highrise (documentary) - Wikipedia

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    The project focuses on two high-rise apartment buildings in Etobicoke. The webdoc allows users to navigate through their high-rise neighborhood, displaying the current state of urban decay, then activating features to show how residents would change their world, such as an animation showing where a new playground or garden would go.