Chicago enjoys a rich architectural heritage. The city is known worldwide for its outstanding buildings. No single style prevails; Chicago thrives on diversity. The city uses a great variety of old...doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-6581-5_5Brubaker, C. William...
根据"People first used the word "skyscrapers' to talk about a building in Chicago, the USA in 1885."可知.世界 上第一座摩天大楼位于芝加哥。 故选A 根据"The Empire State Building... was the world's tallest skyscraper for 41 years, but there are taller and more modern skyscrapers in the ...
For much of the 20th century, New York City and Chicago competed to build the world’s tallest skyscrapers. Other cities around the world watched the race between these two cities. From 1913 to 1930 New York’s Woolworth Building was the tallest (241m). From 1931 to 1972, the Empire ...
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16、 structural system was probably used for the first time in the 43-story reinforced concrete DeWitt Chestnut Apartment Building in Chicago. The most significant use of this system is in the twin structural steel towers of the 1l0-story World Trade Center building in New YorkFramed tubeDe Wi...
Tapering a building as it rises also breaks up the uniformity that causesvortexshedding. 建筑物在上升过程中逐渐变细,也打破了导致涡流脱落的建筑物均匀性。 Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers and TheShardin London, both use this technique toreduce...
Why not build the Home Insurance Building with steel? But in the early 1880s, buildings were still rarely taller than six or seven stories, and it wasn't just because people hated slow elevators or climbing stairs, Bricks, the standard construction materials of the time, were too heavy to ...
The old central post office in Chicago, which is nine stories tall, is several blocks southwest of Chicago’s Loop, the downtown central business district. A particularity of the building is that it was built over railroad tracks that end several blocks to the north, at Union Station, and ...
In his latestphoto series,Paul Clemenceturns his lens towards the newest addition to Chicago’s famed skyline: the undulating shapes ofSt. Regis Tower, formerly known as Vista Tower. Designed byStudio Gang, the 101-story supertall skyscraper makes its mark asChicago’s third tallest building. ...
Supertall definition: a very tall building, officially one taller than 984 feet (300 meters). See examples of SUPERTALL used in a sentence.