The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...
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Chicago's new all-electric high-rise could test geothermal's future in big-city apartment buildings
Instead of generating heat by burning fuel, the system transfers heat to and from the ground.
Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...
Local groups in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan opposed the plan, saying designs for two apartment buildings did not ...
grabowski.spork architektur is designing "The Change," Eschborn, Germany's first timber-hybrid high-rise office building, on behalf of PE Merhenthaler GmbH—a joint venture between Bauwens and Ampure, ...
The structural failure of a Midtown Manhattan high-rise being converted into apartments is a “one-off” and shouldn’t deter future repurposing projects aimed at addressing housing shortages, some ...
The SOP lays down a comprehensive framework for independent structural and geotechnical scrutiny of all such proposals ...
MPD 2047 paves the way for 100-plus-storey buildings, but with the Capital in seismic Zone IV, experts debate whether such ...
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