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5 days ago · Skyscraper, a very tall multistoried building. The term skyscraper originally applied to buildings of 10 to 20 stories, but by the late 20th century the term was used to describe high-rise buildings of unusual height, generally greater than 40 or 50 stories. Learn more about skyscrapers.
- Setback
setback, in architecture, a steplike recession in the...
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The building is divided vertically into subbuildings, each...
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curtain wall, Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry...
- Bessemer Process
The resultant volume of low-cost steel in Britain and the...
- High-Rise Building
high-rise building, multistory building tall enough to...
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A skyscraper is a very tall building with many stories, or...
- Students
Generally considered the world’s first skyscraper, the first...
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5 days ago · High-rise residential blocks offer a very different way of living compared to traditional street housing or even low rise flats. Studies of council tower blocks built in the 1960s and 70s identified several characteristics affecting residents’ wellbeing-both positively and negatively.
3 days ago · Tallest buildings in the world. As of 4 July 2024, this list includes all 86 buildings (completed and architecturally topped out) that reach a height of 350 m (1,150 ft) or more, as assessed by their highest architectural feature.
3 days ago · The building list uses architectural height (excluding antennas) and includes only buildings, defined as consisting of habitable floors. Both of these follow CTBUH guidelines. All supertall buildings (450 m and higher) are listed. Notes: Eight buildings appear on the freestanding structures category list with heights different from another ...
4 days ago · Under the Building Safety Act, high-rise residential buildings which are 18 metres tall or higher, or at least seven storeys, with two or more residential units are defined as ‘higher-risk’.
3 days ago · Quite how you define a high rise building is subjective, but for the purposes for this article, I have included buildings above 100m (328′). We know that conventional fire fighting equipment (ladders and hoses) are able to reach around about 7 floors (approx 30m), but frankly, trying to identify the number of buildings above 30m is impossible – there are tens of thousands of them!
4 days ago · Each of these authorities has at least one high-rise, or tall building or structure ≥35 metres in height. A number of sizeable settlements fall outside the morphological boundaries of the Birmingham Metropolitan Area but still form part of its economic and infrastructural hinterland.
