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CESCES-- 5365 The Design of Tall Buildings 5365 The Design of Tall Buildings

Lecture 03 Lecture 03

Unusual Structural Types

© L. Prieto-Portar, 2008



The Flatiron Building was built in

1901 in the famous Times Square,New York City.

Its shape was determined by the small

and highly irregular lot available.

It became a world famous icon.



Habitat67 for Montreal’s Expo World’ Fair were 354 individual pre-cast concrete units were inter-

connected with post-tensioning cables, grouped into 158 apartments.



East River (New York City).

Santiago Calatrava’a proposed design of

twelve (12) glass town houses on New York’s

East River.

Each apartment is 45 feet square, attached

to a central vertical core, with a height of

835 feet. Each cube is cantilevered from the

vertical core truss, and provides full floor

terraces and gardens. Two exposed spines

will connect the cubes along opposite outer

walls.

When completed in 2007, each apartment

will cost 30 million dollars.



Construction has begun on Residence

Antilia despite opposition from those

who see it as an 'excessive' design in a

city where more than 65% of the

population live in slums.

This structure is following the very

popular trend of designing “green”

architecture.



CCTV Headquarters, CHINA



The 234m CCTV building is a modest height,

but its design and shape will be a crowd

stopper during Beijing 's 2008 Olympics.

The shape, described as a 'z criss-cross'

results in a very high, seemingly unsupported

corner at the front.



The REGATTA Hotel, JAKARTA



The developers wanted a nautical

theme. The 10 smaller towers

represent sailing boats whilst the

larger building is 'the lighthouse'.



The Russia Tower, RUSSIA



Topped with an Observation Deck over the city

of Moscow, The Russia Tower will become the

tallest building in Europe when completed in2012 at twice the height of the Eiffel tower.

Construction has already started on this angular

beast which was designed by Foster & Partners,

also responsible for the Gherkin and SpaceportAmerica, currently in development.



Gazprom Headquarters, Russia



This gigantic 300m tall glass flame of a building

will house the Gazprom Headquarters in St.

Petersburg, dwarfing all structures in its

vicinity.

It will change color up to 10 times per day

depending on the position of the sun. The

building has already been nicknamed 'corn on

the cob' by unhappy locals.



Penang Global City Centre, Malaysia



Following months of speculation and

sturdy opposition, this project is in the

final stages of approval and apparently

construction will start very soon.

The project it will take at least 15 years to

complete. Resembling a sci-fi city, the

area will be crowned by 2 x 200m towers

and completely transform the small island

of Penang.



Curitiba Tower, Brasil.

This 11-story tower was completed in

December 2004. Each apartment

occupies a complete story, with the

characteristic that each 3,000 SF

story can rotate 360 degrees every

hour. Note the central reinforced

concrete core that serves both as

structural support and axis of

rotation.



The Proposed Freedom Tower (New York City).

The actual building is only 50 stories in height, with anempty space frame raising to 1,776 feet.





The Bank of China, Hong Kong. Burj Dubai (Dubai).

The tallest tower in the world,

currently under construction (since

2005) and expected to reach 800 m.









The Burj Dubai is a super tall

skyscraper currently under

construction in the "New Downtown"of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

By February 2007 the Burj Dubai had

surpassed the Sears Tower as the

building with the most floors in theworld.

Rising at its current rate of 2 to 3

floors a week, the Burj Dubai

surpassed the Taipei 101 tower (509m) as the tallest building in the world

in the summer of 2007.

Its final height is officially being kept

a secret; however, a recent article bybuilding subcontractor Persian Gulf

Extrusions states a final height "over

940 metres", or at least 3,084 feet.



Burj Dubai (The Dubai Tower)



Al Burj was proposed in Dubai by developer

Al Nakheel.

When completed it will become the world's

tallest skyscraper and form the centrepiece

of the Dubai Waterfront, the world's largest

man-made waterfront which is also being

developed by Al Nakheel.



The Al Burj tower, will the world tallest.



AL Burj

Burj Dubai



Future tall buildings will grow in complexity of plan forms and will probably add

rigidity by tying several towers together.





A Japanese Future Building.



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