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Skyscrapers 2010 – The World’s Tallest Buildings

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:46:22 +0000

Skyscrapers 2010 – The World’s Tallest Buildings

Third installment of my skyscraper video featuring the tallest buildings in the world, completed and under construction.

Height criteria from CTBUH’s first method.

I eventually decided against adopting the Sears Tower’s revised name, “Willis Tower”. Personal preference.

Information and imagery: (A-Z)
burjdubaiskyscraper.com
commons.wikimedia.org
flickr.com
google.com
skyscrapercity.com
skyscraperpage.com
wikipedia.org

Music: (presentation order)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Cdnalsi – The Queen of Goth’arde (Prelude)
Moby – Novio
Air – Run
Arcana – Wings of Gabriel

File Format:
Video: MPEG-4 720p @ 30fps (H.264 @ ~14Mb/s)
Audio: MPEG-4 (AAC @ 256Kb/s)

Duration : 0:9:15

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Building the World Trade Center and Twin Towers – 1 of 2

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:28:48 +0000

This documentary was made in 1983 by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Part 1 of 2).

It contains footage of when the twin towers were constructed from the mid 60’s through early 70’s.

20 World Trade Center Facts at 01-Apr-2002 – Courtesy of Carl Taylor, more at…

http://www.theharrowgroup.com/articles/20020401/WTC_facts.htm

1. The WTC opened in 1970 after 8 years of construction.

2. The WTC was the dream of David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Nelson Rockefeller, former Governor of New York.

3. The Rockefellers wanted to name the towers after themselves, but the mayor of NY, John Lindsay, insisted on the World Trade Center.

4. The City chose to build the WTC instead of building a new tunnel and large bridge over the Hudson River.

5. The World Trade Center was designed by architect Minoura Yamasaki.

6. According to Yamasaki, downtown Manhattan was the perfect place to erect the towers because there wasn’t “a single building worth saving in the neighborhood.”

7. Owners of nearby buildings disagreed, and delayed demolition by three weeks with their protests.

8. Sixteen blocks were cleared to house the completed WTC.

9. More than 10,000 workers involved in building the complex.

10. More than 60 of them died during construction.

11. The excavation work displaced enough soil to create Liberty Park, where four 60-floor towers and four apartment buildings were constructed.

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Please note “Fact 11″ is disputed – YT member “opusbeme” claims it should read Battery Park City !!
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12. The WTC’s foundations were laid at 60 feet below ground level.

13. The complex covered 16 acres when finished.

14. In addition to the towers, five other office buildings made up the WTC complex
The WTC had 12 million square feet of space.

15. Each floor was 50,000 square feet.

16. The buildings had their own ZIP codes – 10047 and 10048.

17. The towers were designed to look like a futuristic sculpture.

18. The structure was revolutionary. Its main supports were external, lining the four corners of each tower.

19. Critics condemned the completed buildings as “boring.”

20. Completed, the buildings were 100 feet taller then the Empire State building.

Duration : 0:9:24

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MARILYN MANSON MySpace YOUTUBE “ART” (New Drawings)

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:18:32 +0000

Pictures of the new drawings … .. . Beauty Lily

Duration : 0:2:20

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So you want to be an architect – Part 4

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:28:03 +0000

Hi. I’m Doug Patt and this is So you want to be an architect, Part 4. What does an architect use? Aside from the wide variety of items an architect uses to physically create the drawings, specifications, models, and paperwork necessary to make buildings the architect uses elements of style to create buildings. Narrowed from a gamut of items I believe you could say the elements of style, when it comes to buildings are scale, form, complexity, and material. Lets look at examples of each. Much has been made throughout the history of art and architecture over proportion from DaVincis canon of proportions to Le Corbusiers modular man. How buildings reflect & accommodate human scale is a key component of architects work. From the beginning architects like Palladio used ratio and proportion found in nature to create harmonious buildings. From Frank Lloyd Wrights cozy interiors to the grand palace of Versailles. to the Hancock skyscraper of Boston who’s scale overwhelms the famous trinity church but was designed to reflect it’s beauty nonetheless building can be scaled to the human figure or scaled in a more ambiguous manner. Ambiguity is key for Jean Nouvels Arab world institute where the elements of the elevation make scale extraordinarily vague. So scale is one way architects relate a building to the user. In the last few decades architecture has increasingly been able to take advantage of advanced technologies that have allowed them to build with incredible freedom of form. From Norman Fosters Hearst tower in New York city or his Gherkin skyscraper in London to the Millau viaduct in France, from Rem Koolhaas seattle central library to his CCTV building in china. From Santiago Calatravas Milwaukee art museum to his Hemispheric in Spain. With Herzog and de Meurons birds nest arena in China or Renzo Pianos Nemo museum in Amsterdam, architects today work within a realm of form perhaps never imagined before. A buildings aesthetic complexity is also an element that portrays a certain idea or ethos. From the classicism of Bernard Maybecks palace of fine arts, or Louis Sullivans intricate ornamental stone detailing, the work reflects the spirit of an era. Theres detail that might emphasizes verticality as in Raymon hoods Chicago tribune building or Cesar Pellis Patronis towers in Malaysia, or horizontality as in Frank Lloyd wrights prarie style homes. A building can also be ornamental in a unique way like Antonio Gaudis buildings or simplified to only steel and glass as in Mies Van Der Rohs aesthetic. They can also be free of detial like Le Corbusiers La tourette or Louis Kahns Salk institute. Lastly, every building ever made is made from something. The material an architect chooses to build with is affected by both cost and intent. From IM Peis Louve pyramid and Hong Kong towers of steel and glass to the concrete work of Zaha Hadid, from the cold steel exteriors of Sir Richard Rogers in the Lloyds of London to the cool white porcelain tiles of Richar Meier or the stone facades of Herzog and de Meuron. architects continue to work with great freedom in the realm of material, which only promises to become even more advanced and unlimited. Its up to the architect to take the meaning and intent of their commission and have the architecture reflect that in some way. Using scale, form, complexity and material the architect creates a framework for style. And that concludes the fourth part of the video series so you want to be an architect. Im Doug Patt. See you next time.

Duration : 0:4:8

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Tallest building in the world – View from the top of Burj Dubai tower…

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:45:24 +0000

Highest point in the world in man-made structure – View from the top of Burj Dubai tower.

Burj Dubai (Arabic: برج دبي‎ “Dubai Tower”) is a super-tall skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 818 m (2,684 ft). Construction began on 21 September 2004, and the tower is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy on 4 January 2010.

The building is part of the 2 km2 (0.8 sq mi) flagship development called “Downtown Burj Dubai” at the “First Interchange” along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai’s main business district. The tower’s architect is Adrian Smith, who worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) until 2006. The Chicago-based architecture and engineering firm SOM is in charge of the project.[6] The primary builder is South Korean Samsung Engineering & Construction, who also built the Taipei 101 and Petronas Twin Towers. Turner Construction Company was chosen as the construction manager.

The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about US$4.1 billion, and for the entire new “Downtown Dubai”, US$20 billion. Mohamed Ali Alabbar, the CEO of Emaar Properties, speaking at the Council on Tall buildings and Urban Habitat 8th World Congress, said that the price of office space at Burj Dubai had reached US$4,000 per sq ft (over US$43,000 per m2) and that the Armani Residences, also in Burj Dubai, were selling for US$3,500 per sq ft (over US$37,500 per m2).

Duration : 0:2:27

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ASP.Net Web Service – Hello World (With Audio)

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:32:44 +0000

The original, high-quality video is available at http://www.mastergaurav.com/tutorials/webservices/ASPNet-51.avi

Creating your first web service – Hello World – in C#/ASP.Net using Visual Studio 2005 (with audio)

Duration : 0:5:13

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Michael Tsarion – Architects of Control Program 1 part 1 of 16(HQ)

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:32:01 +0000

http://www.architectsofcontrol.com/
recently availble to the public, this film is interesting to say the least. wake up to the reality of the world we live in!

Duration : 0:10:57

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The Largest Building In The World

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:26:06 +0000

KVLY-TV Mast in North Dakota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVLY-TV_mast

Previous episode on the ‘Tallest Buildings In The World’

Taipei 101
http://www.archiplanet.org/buildings/Taipei_101.html

Burj Dubai blog

http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/

As world’s economy crumbles, Dubai keeps on building

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/09/middleeast.construction

The Aerium Artificial Tropical Resort

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerium

Venetian Macao

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venetian_Macao

Beijing Capital International Airport

http://galeria.elarq.com/main.php?g2_itemId=12771

Kansai International Airport

http://www.focchi.it/projects/kansai-international-airport/

Great Wall of China

http://www.greatwall-of-china.com/

Qinhuangdao

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinhuangdao

Lop Nur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lop_Nur

Crystal Island

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/News/324/Default.aspx

Worlds Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/12/26/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-coming-to-moscow/

“Crystal Island” in Nagatinskoy floodplain
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=17143128&postcount=47 Distributed by Tubemogul.

Duration : 0:2:39

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Skyscrapers 2009 – The World’s Tallest Buildings

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:08 +0000

Skyscrapers 摩天大廈 2009 – The World’s Tallest buildings 世界最高的大樓

Cramped into 10 minutes, i present you an update of my Skyscraper video. A lot has changed in the skyscraper world since April. New stats, new construction photos, and a recession, delaying several projects.

I put quite a bit of effort into eliminating the moire patterns from the 2008 video, the overall image quality greatly improved. However, due to the larger format of my composition (960×720), i couldn’t always take the “best” photos, since many come in very small resolution.

If i ever make an update, it’ll have to be a two-part video, unless YouTube changes their policies. So this better stay accurate for a very long time

I didn’t attempt to include Nakheel Tower and the various Korean supertall projects, as their construction is unpredictably far in the future (~2020), and i didn’t have any room left anyway, hah.

I didn’t have room for the credits this time, so here they are:

Information and Imagery:
Flickr
Google Image Search
Skyscrapercity.com
Skyscraperpage.com
Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia

Music:
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Cdnalsi – The Queen Of Goth’arde (Part One Prelude).
Moby – Novio
Air – Run
Arcana – Closure
A. R. Rahman – Mumbai Theme Tune

Enjoy!

Comments apprechiated.

Duration : 0:10:0

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