Essays on High-Rise

[City and State]

Introduction

Structures such as large buildings can create its own unique internal environment that can significantly impact the comfort and health of its occupants. After many years of investigating and studying building infrastructures, engineers and designers have increased their understanding and knowledge on the environmental conditions that exists within the building in relation to its physical properties. For the same reason, a solid background in building physics is an integral part of a building’s design, particularly in this modern era wherein green buildings are the rising trend. Most modern buildings integrate building physics prior to construction ...

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Introduction The Empire State Building is an engineering and architectural feat of its time. One of the most remarkable landmarks in New York City, the Empire State Building is the tallest building that was built in the 1930s and held that position for more than 40 years until it was surpassed by the World Trade Center building in 1972. The Empire State Building was constructed as the backdrop of the Great Depression that happened right after the stock market crash of 1929. But despite the economic challenges, the builders were able to finish the construction in a ...

Everywhere you go, you are likely to meet these very tall houses. Some of these mega structures run into hundreds of floors. It appears like a craze, some competition or sport. Investors with huge loads of cash are today investing in real estate. The idea is to come up with a fancy-looking and incredibly tall house. Unfortunately, the United States of America today houses some of the tallest buildings that the world has witnessed in its long history. Even in the face of the effects that these structures pose, it is surprising that the numbers are swelling. The authorities ...

Ningbo’s newly completed Central Business District (CBD) belies its status as one of China’s oldest cities. The austere downtown landscape is the equivalent of architecture’s white-washed wall: a place of erasure, forgetting, and dubious progress. With the completion of Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum in 2008, however, the Ningbo of the present is confronted by the forgotten landscape of its not too distant past. A craggy mountain of a building inspired by the region’s natural topographical features as well its unique crafts and architectural traditions, the Ningbo Museum is not simply an obligatory nod to ...

One of the major effects of industrialization in Southeast Asia is the emergence of the Utopian cities developed in order to cater the needs of the wealthy and the middle class citizens whose income allows them to purchase properties such as high-rise condominiums near the city centers near their workplaces. This paper explores some of the side-effects created by monopolizing the public spaces into a commodity marketed only to those people who belong to the rich and the middle class.

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Relevant Information Phu My Hung Area Located in the District 7 of Ho Chi Minh. Highly urbanized area created ...