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2. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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   The bundle tube design was not only highly efficient in economic terms, but it was also "innovative in its potential for versatile formulation of architectural space. Efficient towers no longer had to be box-like; the tube-units could take on various shapes and could be bundled together in different sorts of groupings."

3. Kremenets Castle - Wikipedia

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   Kremenets Castle's complex design was conceived on the principles of early Gothic defence architecture that implied two dead-end lower decks, minimum of decorations, simplicity of geometrical spans, merlon battlement with its crenelated parapet of 2-metre-high (6.6 ft) wood scaffolding covering the whole length of fortress walls.

4. Scaffolding - Wikipedia

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   Scaffolding for rehabilitation in Madrid, Spain [1] Scaffolding for renovation on the Virgin Mary statue, Santiago de Chile, Chile.. Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, [2] is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other human-made structures.

5. Contractor behind WTC scaffold collapse cited in previous ...

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   A 2008 incident involving a scaffold collapse 47 floors over Manhattan, which occurred only months after Tractel repaired the faulty equipment, resulted in the death of one of two window washers ...

6. 2 World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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   Tower 2 foundation work began on June 1, 2010, but construction was halted in August 2012. [62] The street-level foundation was finished by November 2012 [63] and construction of everything up to street level was completed in mid-2013. [2] [64] The rest of the building, however, has yet to be built unless tenants for Tower 2 could be found. [65]

7. A look at the world's skinniest skyscraper: Steinway Tower - AOL

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   The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of ...

8. List of visionary tall buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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   Phare du Monde, was a project for a 701 metre tall observation tower for the world exhibition in Paris, 1937. It was planned as a concrete tower similar to a modern TV tower, but also with a ramp for drive up access. Fanhai Centre: 699 m (2,293 ft) 2017: Skyscraper: Residential and commercial China: Wuhan: 2027 (cancelled in 2020)

9. List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers

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   2 towers collapsed during an ice storm. [50] SBA Communications Tower, [51] Houston, Texas, USA October 20, 2024: Guyed steel lattice mast 304.5 Helicopter collision Helicopter crashed into the tower, killing four people on board, including a young child. [52] The aircraft warning lights on the tower had a history of not working. [53]