12/31/2020
Tonight we'll shout Hooray! at midnight and celebrate Manhattan's magnificent skyline from a social distance. And we'll look forward fervently to a New Year when we'll see our urban life burst forth again like fireworks.
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12/30/2020
Christmas may be over, but there's still time to write #holiday cards to loved ones for the new year! Our skyscraper-shaped card activity is available here: https://tinyurl.com/y7h8zadf
Check our Museum From Home Page for other videos & activities! https://tinyurl.com/yddwr93n
12/23/2020
Thank you to everyone who contributed and connected with The Skyscraper Museum this year! We wish you a happy and healthy #holiday season.
"Building Candles" is based on Michael Miscione's view from One World Observatory, 12/12/20.
12/16/2020
Thanks to Michael Miscione who sent us his photo of the view on Dec. 12 of One World Trade Center’s observatory. It shows the tips of NYC’s 6 other supertalls! Skyscraper.org/supertall/
12/13/2020
One World Trade Center accented by today's beautiful sunset, bringing a close to this weekend!
#newyorkcity #skyscraper #skyscrapers #oneworldtradecenter #supertall #sunset #sunsets
12/01/2020
Help us reach new heights by supporting our virtual programming! Find 16hrs of the fall course Rewriting Skyscraper History on our website & join us on Dec. 8 for our final talk with our director, Carol Willis! #GivingTuesday
Email us at [email protected] or head to our website to RSVP for Dec. 8th!
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11/27/2020
"#NY gets credit for developing the skyscraper," argues Gerald Larson, Chicago-School scholar, as experts debate in our series Rewriting Skyscraper History Q+A. Watch the talk & dialogue here: https://tinyurl.com/y6gbrqnb
#SkyscraperSeminar #architecture #MuseumFromHome
11/12/2020
Congratulations to the #LakhtaTower in St. Petersburg, Russia on their #Emporis Skyscraper Award win! Completed in 2019, the Lakhta Center is #36 on our #SUPERTALLCountUp and is the tallest skyscraper in Europe at 462m/ 1,516 ft.
11/12/2020
Materials and Cost
Brick or steel? Which high-rise construction was cheaper in the 1890s? Expert Donald Friedman has an answer. Explore the entire #RewritingSkyscraperHistory series here: https://skyscraper.org/rewriting-skyscraper-history-looking-back-from-the-21st-century/
11/08/2020
ELEVATORS (Passenger) & ELEVATORS:| NEW YORK & CHICAGO, FROM THE 1870s:| Thinking About Tall Buildings and New Technologies - The Skyscraper Museum
What were "Chicago's Other Skyscrapers?" In the 1890s, giant grain elevators rivaled the Loop's tallest buildings, Thomas Leslie explains. https://tinyurl.com/yxtgkqhs
#RewritingSkyscraperHistory
Part 1: Thomas Leslie, Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957 Part 2: Lee Gray, Elevator Office Buildings, New York and Chicago from the 1870s For Week 1, a pair of lectures by two historians, Thomas Leslie and Lee Gray, focus on complementary talks on very different...
11/07/2020
ELEVATORS (Passenger) & ELEVATORS:| NEW YORK & CHICAGO, FROM THE 1870s:| Thinking About Tall Buildings and New Technologies - The Skyscraper Museum
Myth-busting #2 Prof. Lee Gray debunks the history of the first passenger elevator in Broadway's Haughwout Building, NYC in 1857.
https://tinyurl.com/yxtgkqhs
#RewritingSkyscraperHistory
Part 1: Thomas Leslie, Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957 Part 2: Lee Gray, Elevator Office Buildings, New York and Chicago from the 1870s For Week 1, a pair of lectures by two historians, Thomas Leslie and Lee Gray, focus on complementary talks on very different...
11/05/2020
ELEVATORS (Passenger) & ELEVATORS:| NEW YORK & CHICAGO, FROM THE 1870s:| Thinking About Tall Buildings and New Technologies - The Skyscraper Museum
Want to know about: EARLY ELEVATORS? Listen to expert Prof. Lee Gray myth-bust and explain the technology of New York's first elevator office buildings in our series #RewritingSkyscraperHistory. #NYC #History #MuseumFromHome
https://tinyurl.com/yxtgkqhs
Part 1: Thomas Leslie, Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957 Part 2: Lee Gray, Elevator Office Buildings, New York and Chicago from the 1870s For Week 1, a pair of lectures by two historians, Thomas Leslie and Lee Gray, focus on complementary talks on very different...
11/03/2020
Plan to vote! Floor plans left to right: National Commercial Bank, 1983; Hirshhorn Museum, 1974; Sears (Willis) Tower, 1974; and Manhattan House, 1951. All images provided by SOM.
10/29/2020
Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave - The Skyscraper Museum
"Do you travel 7,500 miles a year to get to work?" Konrad Wos recalls his favorite advertisement that embodied real estate developer Fred French's "branding;" "the separation of home vs. work." Watch the entire Q+A for Larry Samuel's book, Tudor City. https://tinyurl.com/y4qnbbk9
In Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave, Lawrence R. Samuel recounts the history of Midtown Manhattan’s “urban Eden.” Created by the innovative developer Fred F. French from 1925 to 1929, Tudor City is arguably the world's first skyscraper apartment complex and remains an idy...
10/29/2020
"Tudor City had a major influence on both architecture and design across the country. It helped usher in the Neo-Tudor style" said Lawrence R. Samuel during his virtual book talk at the Museum on Monday, Oct. 24th. #MuseumFromHome
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10/29/2020
It's the #StatueOfLiberty's birthday weekend! The statue's internal structure of wrought iron trusses is an early ex. of the skeleton frame engineered by A. Gustave Eiffel. The frame, which at 151 ft = the height of a 15-story building, supports the "curtain wall" of garments.
10/23/2020
#42 At 472 m/1,550 ft., Central Park Tower is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere and the highest rooftop in NYC. Mixed-use, with retail and a hotel on lower floors, the slender tower adds 179 condos to “Billionaires Row.” #SUPERTALLCountUp tinyurl.com/y65axt3r
Other Names: Stairway to Heaven, Steinway Tower, 105 West 57th Street, 107 West 57th Street
Location: New York City, USA
Urban Area Population: 8,622,698 (2018)
Proposed 2012
Construction started 2015
Completion 2020
Height: 435 m / 1,428 ft / 82 floors
Developer: JDS Development Group
Architect: SHoP Architects
Structural Engineer: WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff
MEP: Jaros, Baum & Bolles
G.F.A.: 29,357 m² / 315,996 ft²
10/22/2020
#41 The tallest structure in Hudson Yards and the largest private real estate development in New York and U.S. history, 30 Hudson Yards is gigantic, 1.6 million sq ft larger than the Empire State Building. Designed by @KPF, the skyscraper’s triangular form has a cantilevering observation platform, the Edge.. #SUPERTALLCountUp tinyurl.com/y65axt3r
10/21/2020
#40 At 101 stories, LCT The Sharp Landmark Tower is the tallest of a complex of three residential skyscrapers that dominate the skyline of Haeundae Beach, a popular and affluent resort town in eastern Busan. It is the second tallest skyscraper in South Korea after Lotte World Tower. Surrounded by a multi-level retail podium with a waterpark, casino, banquet hall, the three sister towers enjoy sweeping views of the island and sea. #SUPERTALLCountUp
Location: Haeundae Beach, Busan, South Korea
Urban Area Population: Busan: 3,500,000 (2018)
Haeundae: 412,000
Year: Construction Started 2015
Completed 2019
Height: 412 m /1,350 ft/ 101 fl
Developer: Busan Metropolitan Corporation & Triple Square (LCT) Consortium
Architect: SAMOO + SOM
Structural Engineer: Dong Yang Structural Engineers
MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
G.F.A.: 54,800 m2/ 589,862 ft2
10/19/2020
#39 Located at Wuhan, a fast-growing capital of China’s Hubei Province, Wuhan Center Tower stands on a beautifully landscaped site, closely linked to the city’s public facilities, next to the Mengze Lake. The mixed-use 438-meter tower is enclosed by 10,935 curved glass panels that maximize sun exposure and minimize energy consumption. #SUPERTALLCountUp
Location: Wuhan, China
Urban Population: 7,980,000 (2018)
Proposed 2008
Construction Started 2011
Completed 2018
438 m / 1,437 ft / 88 fl
Developer: Wuhan CBD Investment Development Company
Architect: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
Structural Engineer: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
MEP: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
G.F.A: 343,900 m² / 3,701,709 ft²
10/18/2020
#38 Centerpiece of a new financial center, Tun Razak, Exchange 106 in Kuala Lumpur, completed in 2019, at 446 m/1,462 ft, is only 5m shorter than the 1998 Petronas Towers, Malaysia's first supertalls, which will soon be surpassed by Merdeka 118 at 644 m. #SUPERTALLCountUp
Other Names: Tun Razak Signature Tower, TRX 106 Tower, TRX Signature Tower
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Urban Area Population: 1.76 million
Proposed 2012
Construction started 2016
Completed 2019
446 m / 1,462 ft / 96 fl
Developer: Mulia Group
Architect: Peter Chan Architect
Architect of Record: Mulia Group
Structural Engineer: EDP Consulting Group SDN BHD
MEP: Beca Group; Primetech Engineers SDN BHD
G.F.A.: 256,246 m2/ 2,758,209 ft2
10/17/2020
#37 Suzhou IFS, at 450m/1,476ft., is located in Suzhou, China, famous as an ancient water town of canals, pagodas, and stone bridges. Designed by @KPF, the tower’s curving form extending toward the lake emulates the graceful arc of a fishtail, a Chinese symbol of prosperity known as the Fish Jumping the Dragon’s Gate. #SUPERTALLCountUp
Other Name: The Wharf IFS, Suzhou International Finance Square
Location: Suzhou, China
Urban Population: 11,547,491 (2017)
Construction Started in 2012
Completion in 2019
450 m / 1,476 ft / 98 fl
Developer: Suzhou Gao Long Property Development Co., Ltd.
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Architect of Record: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute; Wong Tung & Partners
Structural Engineer: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute;
MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
G.F.A: 250,095 m² / 2,692,000 ft²
10/16/2020
#36 The tallest skyscraper in Europe at 462 m/ 1,516 ft., Lakhta Center has a twisting, tapering form that sparkles like ice as it rises on the Gulf of Finland, distant from the historic center of St. Petersburg. The tower anchors a mixed-use development of public facilities and offices and is intended to become the new headquarters of Russian energy company Gazprom.
#SUPERTALLCountUp
Other Names: Gazprom Tower, Okhta Centre
Location: St Petersburg, Russia
Urban Area Population: 5,208,690 (2015)
Proposed 2011
Construction started 2012
Completed 2019
Height: 462 m / 1,516 ft / 90 floors
Developer: Gazprom
Architect: Gorproject
Architect of Record: RMJM
Structural Engineer: Gorproject, Inforceproject, WSP
MEP: Environmental Systems Design, Inc.
G.F.A.: 163,000 m²/ 1754517.4 ft²
10/15/2020
#35 At 530 m / 1,739 ft, CTF Finance Centre in Tianjin is the exact height as the CTF tower in Guangzhou: both are the tallest in their city and tied for 3rd tallest in China. Dominating the new development zone, the curvaceous tower designed by @SOM, houses office space, serviced apartments, & a hotel. The dynamic form reduces wind forces, and In response to seismic concerns, eight sloping columns increase the strength and stiffness of the structure. #SUPERTALLCountUP tinyurl.com/y65axt3r
Other Name: Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Binhai Center
Location: Tianjin, China
Urban Population: 13,655,000 (2015)
Proposed 2011
Construction Start 2013
Completed 2020
530 m / 1,739 ft / 97 fl
Developer: Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Ltd.
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Architect of Record: Ronald Lu & Partners; East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
Structural Engineer: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
MEP: Parsons WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
G.F.A: 252,144 m² / 2,714,055 ft²
10/12/2020
#34 China Resources Tower in the Houhai District in Shenzhen, China rises above a lake and park as a bowing form that mimics an emerging bamboo shoot. At 393m /1,288 ft., the tower’s tube structure is formed by a ring of exterior columns that taper at the top and meet in a soaring sky hall. #SUPERTALLCountUP
Other Name: The Spring Bamboo
Location: Shenzhen, China
Urban Population:12,905,000
Proposed in 2012
Construction Start in 2014
Completion in 2018
393 m / 1,288 ft / 67 fl
Developer: China Resources (Holdings) Company Limited
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Architect of Record: CCDI Group
Structural Engineer: Arup
MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
G.F.A: 2.9 million sq ft.
10/10/2020
#33 Nanning Logan Century 1 rises above the business district of Nanning, a central city of more than 4 million in southern China. The tower’s glass & aluminum curtain wall culminates into a sprouting top with four parts, each resembling a blooming flower petal. Its 390 m./1,279 ft. form encloses office space, an observation deck, and a hotel. #SUPERTALLCountUP
Location: Nanning, China
Urban Population: 4,037,000 (2014)
Proposed in 2010
Construction Start in 2013
Completed in 2018
390 m / 1,279 ft / 82 floors
Developer: Logan Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Architect: Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (HK) Ltd.
Structural Engineer: A+E Design
MEP: A+E Design
Development G.F.A: 396,490 m² / 4,267,783 ft²
10/09/2020
#32 Changsha IFS Tower T1 is located at a prime twin-tower development in Changsha, China, serving as the city’s new landmark and to attract financial institutions in Hunan Province. The building’s 94 levels houses office space and a premium hotel. Its ground level block-sized podium contains a mega retail mall, with over 2.5 million sq.ft. #SUPERTALLCountUP
Other Name: The Wharf IFC Tower 1
Location: Changsha, China
Population: 7,918,100 (2017)
Proposed in 2011
Construction started in 2013
Completed in 2018
452.1 m / 1,483 ft / 94 floors
Developer: The Wharf (Holdings) Limited
Architect: Wong Tung & Partners
Architect of Record: Hunan Architectural Design Institute
Structural Engineer: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
MEP: Arup
G.F.A: 300,000 m² / 3,229,173 ft²
10/08/2020
#31 At 461m./1,513 ft., Vincom Landmark 81 in Vinhomes Central Park Complex, Ho Chi Minh City is the tallest building in Vietnam. The mixed-use building’s offices, retail, residences, and entertainment facilities are grouped in a form inspired by traditional bundles of bamboo, which represents strength and unity in Vietnamese culture. Its blue glass facade is equipped with colorful lights to ensure it stands out day and night. #SUPERTALLCountUP
Other Names: Landmark 81
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Urban Area Population: 8.45 million
Completed in 2018
Height: 461 m / 1,513 ft / 81 floors
Developer: Vingroup
Architect: Atkins
Architect of Record: none
Structural Engineer: Arup
MEP: Aurecon
G.F.A.: 241,000 m² / 2,594,102 ft²
Photo by Toanvungtau - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76260565
10/07/2020
#30 Located at the heart of the CBD of Chaoyang, Beijing, CITIC Tower, is the capital city’s tallest skyscraper at 528m/ 1,732 ft. The mixed-use tower’s profile gently rises and curves around a square structural core, while its floor plates are squares with rounded corners. Popularly known as China Zun, the building resembles an ancient Chinese wine vessel. #SUPERTALLCountUP
Other Name: China Zun
Location: Beijing, China
Urban Area Population: 21,250,000 (2018)
Proposed in 2010
Construction started in 2012
Completed in 2018
Height: 528 m / 1,732 ft / 108 floors
Developer: CITIC HEYE Investment CO., LTD.
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox
Architect of Record: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
Structural Engineer: Arup
MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
G.F.A: 437,000 m² / 4,703,829 ft²
10/05/2020
#29 At 425 m/1,394 ft. – the same height as NYC's 432 Park Ave., – Marina 101 is Dubai’s second-tallest building. Rising from the dense cluster of “the world’s tallest block,” the 101-story residence and hotel has more than 500 units – nearly 4x the number of 432 Park Ave! #SUPERTALLCountUp
Other Names: Dream Dubai Marina
Location: Dubai, UAE
Urban Area Population: 3,117,982 (2018)
Proposed in 2005
Construction started 2006
Completed in 2017
Height: 425 m / 1,394 ft / 101 floors
Developer: Emaar Properties
Architect: National Engineering Bureau
Architect of Record: NA
Structural Engineer: National Engineering Bureau
MEP: SDT International
G.F.A.: 120,706 m² / 1,299,269 ft²
#SUPERTALLCountUp
10/03/2020
#28 At 555m./ 1,819 ft., Lotte World Tower is the tallest building in Seoul, South Korea & the 5th tallest in the world. Its sleek tapered form designed by @KPF is tipped by a vertical seam inspired by Korean ceramics and calligraphy. The 123-story tower contains a mixed-use program of shops, offices, "office-tel" (spaces for living and working), luxury hotel, observation decks, entertainment, and restaurants.
#SUPERTALLCountUp
Other Names: Lotte Jamsil Super Tower, Lotte World Premium Tower
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Urban Area Population: 10,349,312 (2018)
Construction started in 2011
Completed in 2017
Height: 555.7 m / 1,823 ft / 123 floors
Developer: Lotte Property & Development
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Architect of Record: BAUM Architects
Structural Engineer: Leslie E. Robertson Associates
MEP: SYSKA Hennessy Group
G.F.A.: 304,081 m² / 3,273,101 ft²
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TEN TOPS
Featured Exhibition: In March 2015, the Museum exhibited TEN TOPS, which created a simple category of buildings 100 stories and higher, focusing on one aspect of their identity—the topmost floors. #NYC #skyscrapers #CultureFromHome #MuseumFromHome https://tinyurl.com/y5frca47
HIGHLY Recommended: One of the best skyscraper shows in the world is free! Ride the #StatenIsland Ferry and take in the breathtaking views. Check out our virtual exhibit SKYLINE for a history of the #NYC skyline: https://old.skyscraper.org/skyline/
Fireworks from the Empire State Building
Firework display from the Empire State Building captured on the 4th by one of our Museum staff!
Skyscraper Seminar
"To be perfectly frank, the scissor stairs was one of the two things that made the building work," explained Rafael Viñoly about the luxury of the 15.5 ft ceilings of 432 Park Ave. #skyscraper #nyc #MuseumFromHome https://tinyurl.com/ybxs8jr3 SKY HIGH exhibit: https://tinyurl.com/yb53fsx2
New York Icons: Madison Square Garden
In 1890, "At 319 feet, the Madison Square Garden Tower was the tallest spot in the tallest city, the loftiest tower in the U.S." notes Suzanne Hinman in her book talk from Sept. 2019. @MSG #MuseumFromHome #NYC https://tinyurl.com/yag4shlx
New York City Icons
"These are the first ever NYC taxi cabs, which were introduced to New Yorkers on the Plaza's opening day" on Oct. 1, 1907 said Julie Satow in her talk about The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel (recently released in paperback!). https://tinyurl.com/ybdhgxta
Historic Preservation Series
Fifty-five years ago last month, on April 19, 1965, Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. signed the law that established the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). This week's series of talks explore the values of Historic Preservation and the incremental, often political, and frequently litigious actions that expanded the protections that today extend to more than 31,000 properties. In July 2015, Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia's GSAPP, offered an insightful history of the earliest years of the Commission and its initial judgments and biases for designations, distilled from his essay for Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, the book that accompanied the anniversary exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. Andrew also reviewed the meager history of skyscraper designations in the first quarter-century of the LPC and highlighted the harrowing threat of the proposal for a towering slab designed by modernist Marcel Breuer intended to rise straight above the concourse of Grand Central Terminal. The proposal ultimately led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the Landmarks Law. #museumfromhome #skymusfromhome #culturefromhome Full video here: https://tinyurl.com/y8tahhpm
"This book was a 'recovery operation' into lost chapters of Brooklyn history" said Thomas Campanella about Brooklyn: The Once and Future City. Tom's illustrated lecture spans from the borough's ice-age topography to Coney Island and schemes of Robert Moses. #MuseumFromHome For full talk: https://tinyurl.com/y9kuqc9m
“I do think that people have an emotional connection to New York,” mused Ken Jackson on why The Encyclopedia of New York City has become a classic and bestseller. In February 2011, the Museum hosted an insiders evening with Ken and Lisa Keller who shared insights into editing the 2nd edition at 2 million words and 5,124 entries. #museumfromhome #culturefromhome #skymusfromhome Full talk here: https://skyscraper.org/programs/the-encyclopedia-of-new-york-city-second-edition/
Greater Gotham by Mike Wallace
“Authoritative” and “encyclopedic” are adjectives that must be earned, and this week’s reprise of talks on New York City history definitely qualify. We start the series with a lecture by Mike Wallace, who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History for the sweeping survey Gotham, written with the late Edwin G. Burrows. In November 2017, he spoke about his new book, Greater Gotham, which doubles down on detail to cover just two decades – from the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 to the end of WW1. Wallace favored the audience with a lively narrative overview of the 1200 pages of his tome, as well posed a series of questions and speculations about the emergence of the skyline as an expression of the “consolidation ethos.” #museumfromhome #skymusfromhome #nyc Full talk: https://tinyurl.com/ybcw8avo
“Authoritative” and “encyclopedic” are adjectives that must be earned, and this week’s reprise of talks on New York City history definitely qualify. We start the series with a lecture by Mike Wallace, who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History for the sweeping survey Gotham, written with the late Edwin G. Burrows. In November 2017, he spoke about his new book, Greater Gotham, which doubles down on detail to cover just two decades – from the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 to the end of WW1. Wallace favored the audience with a lively narrative overview of the 1200 pages of his tome, as well posed a series of questions and speculations about the emergence of the skyline as an expression of the “consolidation ethos.” #museumfromhome #skymusfromhome #nyc Link in bio for full talk!
Peter Laurence on Jane Jacobs
It's Jane Jacobs's birthday! We collect a series of talks that explore the evolution of her genius and insights. Peter Laurence unearths her earliest writings: “If Joseph McCarthy had a list of State Dept. employees suspected of Communist sympathies, Jacobs would have been on that list." https://tinyurl.com/ycq94ccl
Thomas Leslie on the glass box
Love the “Glass Box” skyscrapers of postwar Park Avenue like Lever House or Seagram? Trace the origins of the “triumph of transparency” with Thomas Leslie. https://tinyurl.com/y9homdml
Judith Dupre Book Talk
Join Judith Dupre next Wednesday, June 8 at 6:30 as she presents her new book One WTC: Biography of the Building.
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This is a building revolution!
The future of building and skyscraper construction is here!
Today,tall buildings are being built using technologies in the USA-Upbrella Construction,in Austria-Hickory Building Systems,in the UK-Jump Lift,in China their technologies ..
They all build by lifting materials to the floor under construction and only marginally improve the performance of traditional technology.
ConstructionWithoutCrane-Builds by raising the building under construction to a floor height ..always builds the "first" floor.And then,
having a "permanent work site",we robotize the main construction work and build the floors of the building like cars on an assembly line.
ConstructionWithoutCrane builds buildings twice or more,faster (calculation on the site),builds any building .."on the ground" without a crane
And yet the main thing for business is profit ..a project without proper commercial potential,for business is like a wedding night without a bride!
Let's say that I'm right,we have mastered the technology,and we are building buildings (skyscrapers) twice as fast.
Then we will winthe construction of all skyscrapers in the world,more than 120 of them are built a year.
The capital turnover of our company will be over $ 120 bn very soon!
The turnover will increase by an order of magnitude if the new technology is “sold” all over the world.
Colossal business!
I propose to master a new technology,having mastered all the methods of lifting a building under construction.
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Original rare documents on the way to be donated to the 911 Museum shortly!! This is a proposal for instillation of the North Tower of the Original World Trade Center TV Antenna!!
Do you still have on exhibit large models of the Twin Towers which were destroyed in 2001? I used to visit often until I got a stroke in 2017. I have always been fascinated by skyscrapers although I am afraid of heights. I never made it to the new One Trade Center but I often visited the roof of World Trade 2. It was awesome.
Hi there, does anyone perhaps recognise the building shown on the cover of Henry Millers book "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" (1945). I can see from the sleeve that the photo is by Hubert Creekmore., but no idea where. It seems to be very similar to the Metropolitan Life North Building, in NYC, but that's not it! Any help appreciated!!
Lever House 1952 architect was Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The Look Building 1950 architects were Emery Roth & Sons
Union Carbide Building 1960 architects were Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. This building will replace the Singer Building as the tallest building ever to be demolished which is nothing to brag about.
Summit Hotel 1962 architect was Morris Lapidus
Tower East Apartments 1962 architect was Emery Roth & Sons
Eldorado Apartments 1930 designed by architect Emery Roth
Bowling Green in lower Manhattan in 1941
Beekman Tower Hotel 1929