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Skyscrapers

A skyscraper is not a tall building. It is a tall building made possible by three specific 19th-century inventions — the steel frame, the safety elevator...

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A skyscraper is not a tall building. It is a tall building made possible by three specific 19th-century inventions — the steel frame, the safety elevator, and the central HVAC system — that together permitted occupied space to rise hundreds of metres above the ground. Key sections include: Sky scrapers.; Opening Up.; Chapter I What counts.; Chapter II The Chicago school.; Chapter III "Form follows function."; Chapter IV New York learns.; Chapter V The Empire State.; Chapter VI The Chrysler.; Chapter VII The postwar tower.; Chapter VIII The tube structure..

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  1. 01Sky scrapers.
  2. 02Opening Up.
  3. 03Chapter I What counts.
  4. 04Chapter II The Chicago school.
  5. 05Chapter III "Form follows function."
  6. 06Chapter IV New York learns.
  7. 07Chapter V The Empire State.
  8. 08Chapter VI The Chrysler.
  9. 09Chapter VII The postwar tower.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The tube structure.
  11. 11Chapter IX The World Trade Center.
  12. 12Chapter X The Asian shift.
  13. 13Chapter XI The Burj Khalifa.
  14. 14Chapter XII The pencil tower.
  15. 15Chapter XIII The Chinese supertall boom.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The engineering, in detail.
  17. 17Chapter XV The climate question.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Why build them?
  19. 19Chapter XVII The residential supertall.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The world's skyline cities.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Working at altitude.
  22. 22Chapter XX How they fail.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The supertall practices.
  24. 24Chapter XXII The shelf.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV The pilgrimage.
  27. 27Chapter XXV What's coming.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI The case for and against.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII How to read one.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII The next century.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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