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But we took the air conditioning out of the tower.
But many critics laughed at the architect, arguing that people would have to wait hours for an elevator, or worse, that the tower would collapse under its own weight.
Most engineers agreed, and despite the publicity around the proposal, the titanic tower was never built.
The concrete in the world’s tallest tower, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, can withstand about 8,000 tons of pressure per square meter– the weight of over 1,200 African elephants!
To prevent the roughly half a million ton tower from sinking, 192 concrete and steel supports called piles were buried over 50 meters deep.
To prevent the wind from rocking tower tops, many skyscrapers employ a counterweight weighing hundreds of tons called a “tuned mass damper.”
Skyscrapers have come a long way since Wright proposed his mile-high tower.
(Applause and cheers) Reaching heights of over 100 meters, Californian sequoias tower over Earth’s other estimated 60,000 tree species.
In the "Chronica Majora," Matthew Paris summarized a scandal of his day, in which the Welsh prince Griffin plummeted to his death from the tower of London.
When play is about building a tower out of blocks, the kid begins to learn a lot about towers.
Alexander Rose came up with this idea of a spiraloid tower with continuous sloping ramps.
I was so angry that the CEO was far away, in a tower or somewhere, looking at the spreadsheets and closing the factory.
In short, Asia's water tower will be broken, and that will be disastrous for one-fifth of humanity.
And it allowed us to go back to first principles, and redefine fly tower, acoustic enclosure, light enclosure and so forth.
And it turns out that the way AI tends to solve this particular problem is by doing this: it assembles itself into a tower and then falls over and lands at Point B. And technically, this solves the problem.
So seeing the AI do this, you may say, OK, no fair, you can't just be a tall tower and fall over, you have to actually, like, use legs to walk.
They're like a stealth tower installation program.
It just changed to the cellular tower in mid-call.
And the idea was to build a tower, high-rise, residential tower, but not a box.
After we finished designing the first tower, they told us, you know, "You don't have to design the second one, you just repeat the same design, and we pay you twice."
The architect spent hundreds of hours designing the burnished brass switchplates for his new office tower.
There’d been many attempts to right the tower during its 800 year history, but this team’s computer models revealed the urgency of their situation.
They projected the tower would topple if it reached an angle of 5.44 degrees— and it was currently leaning at 5.5.
No one knew how the tower was still standing, but the crisis was clear: they had to solve a problem that stumped centuries of engineers, and they needed to do it fast.
To understand their situation, it’s helpful to understand why the tower tilted in the first place.
In 1173, construction began on a free-standing campanile, or bell tower.
All these failed attempts, along with the ever-sinking foundation, moved the tower closer to its tipping point.
With this data and new computing technology, engineers could model how stiff the soil was, the tower’s trajectory, and the exact amount of excavation needed for the tower to remain standing.
More than six centuries after its construction, the tower was finally straightened… to a tilt of about four degrees.
No one wanted the tower to fall, but they also didn’t want to lose the landmark’s most famous feature.
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