New York's skyscrapers are some of the largest contributors to the City's greenhouse gas emissions, but they can be re-conceived to efficiently use energy with passivedesign strategies, and actively generate electricity. As the City moves beyond mandates to a near zero greenhou...
It's very fascinating and easy now. Imagine the future New York City, about 100 years of now. It's full of flying vehicles which moves through traffic lanes set at multiple levels rising up between the imposing skyscrapers with elevators and flickering lights. The high-velocity trains crosses...
NYC was a major source of American innovation in 1880. Skyscrapers, subways, stock exchanges — and it was doubling in size every 10 years. The experts were concerned by this growth, because they projected by 1980, you’d need six million horses to transport all the people who would live ...
James von Klemperer Discusses The Future of Skyscrapers and 5 WTC with DezeenContinuing its 9/11 anniversary series, the outlet considers the next twenty years of skyscraper design, with the KPF President predicting an increase in the use of masonry and craft, as well as a greater mi...
Before skyscrapers first touched the sky in New York and other cities over 100 years ago, most buildings were built of wood. The structural limitations and fire risk of wood kept buildings short, to perhaps five or six stories at most. Steel and concrete allowed architects to blow past those...
(The Economist), title=Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Itsfuture, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans ...
the global population is expected to grow by 2.2 billion people, and 90% of that growth is expected to take place in cities that are in dire need of new housing. In China, one company has figured out how to deal with this challenge by prefabricating components for skyscrapers inside of ...
The World Trade Center in New York 1350 feet high and Chicago’s Sears Tower 1450 feet high. No one can say how much higher skyscrapers will go in the future. Early skyscrapers were built with thick heavy walls of solid brick stone or concrete. Now the new skyscrapers are built with a ...
Battling upward through the interior of skyscrapers, perhaps even zip-lining from one tower to another, it would be Nakatomi space taken to its logical, militarized extreme. Recall Mike Davis’s observation from more than a decade ago that so-called Third World cities were being viewed as ...
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