WhenAdrian Smithwas conceiving the project at SOM, he looked out his office window toward Lake Point Tower's curved three wing layout and thought, "There's the prototype". According to Strabala, Burj Khalifa was designed based on the 73 floor Tower Palace Three, an all-residential building i...
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Tom Cruise’s signature franchise has had a lot of great posters, including the moody Cruise profile from the original film and a vertiginous shot looking down the Burj Khalifa from ‘Ghost Protocol.’ This one, though, from last year’s ‘Rogue Nation,’ tops them all because it’s the ...
In addition, he was also the first person to taste it and learn about its hallucinogenic (勾起幻觉的) effects. He was deeply connected to the nature and argued that LSD, besides being useful for psychiatry(精神病学), could also be used to promote awareness of mankind’s place in nature....
mayors that prioritize the environment seem to be making changes in their cities that please constituents. The positive election results in 2018 were not an anomaly – all 15 mayors who signed the covenant and sought re-election in the last two years have been victorious at the ballot box, us...
designed. the whole load-bearing structure had to be different. to reduce the overall weight of the building, it used less concrete in the floors; that in turn enabled it to cut down on structural steel. the result was the t30, 90 percent of which was built inside the factory. and ...