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A new apartment building in New York will be a 57-story residential complex housing 145 residences, each with its own unique floor plan and private outdoor space. Each floor will be a seperate apartment. The 2 to 5-bedroom living spaces will range from $3.5 million to $33 million per floor and it looks like they
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The China Central Television in Beijing has finished its facade just in time for the Olympics. Construction of this 600,000 square meter project began in September 2004 and is due for completion by the end of 2009. So how did they design this building to be structurally sound? Lots of steel. More can be seen at Dezeen.
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This is the Sinosteel International Plaza in Tinajin, China, designed by Beijing-based architects MAD. What will make this skyscraper different is that unlike a traditional building structure, the Sinosteel International Plaza carries its support on the outside, similar to the exoskeleton of a bee. Construction has already begun on the plaza and should be complete in 2012.
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Architect David Fisher has designed the first ever rotating skyscraper. Each floor can rotate up to once an hour, changing the overall look of the building daily. According to the plans, the rotation of the floors will be powered by wind turbines placed between the floors. Each floor will be pre-made and lifted to the top and work its
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You are staring down a stairwell (Notice the door handle below). That’s right, someone in London made this stairwell with 270 degrees of books. Seems like a good way to utilize space and be creative at the same time. I wonder how DVDs would look in place of the books.
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The Door Close button is mostly there to give passengers the illusion of control. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority. The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945 when a B25
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Here’s something pretty amazing. The Gatehead Millennium Bridge is located in Newcastle/Gateshead, England and goes over the Tyne River. It was designed by Wilkinson Eyre and was built and lifted into place on November 20, 2000. It cost about $14M to make. It features six 450mm diameter Hydraulic rams which rotates the bridge 40 degrees
