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Reaching New Heights
AIGUILLE DU MIDI
Man & Nature
It's the top station of the Aiguille du Midi cable car, and also one of the two end points of the Panoramic Mont-Blanc gondola, which runs across the Vallee Blanche and in to Italy. It used as both a panoramic viewing
point for tourists, and as a starting point for glacier hiking, parascending and climbing in summer...more
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CN Tower
The reason for its construction was to accommodate the communication needs of the city. By the 1970s, a tower with great height was needed as the tall
The art of Slipform
buildings in the downtown core were interfering with communication signals. The initial drawings for the CN Tower were created by the architectural firm of Baldwin and Franklin. However, the final designs were by Webb, Zerafa, Menkes, and Housden Partnership. Its cost was estimated to be between $50 and $60 million. more History of Toronto’s CN Tower - Historic Toronto (tayloronhistory.com) (youtube.com)
"Olga” the Sikorsky helicopter topping off the tower on March 23, 1975
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Burj Khalifa - Dubai
The world's tallest building, meeting the official three criteria required to earn the title. Called Burj Dubai during its construction, it was renamed after the leader
How tall can we go?
of the neighboring emirate, Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa ibn Zayed Al Nahyan. It was designed by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a Chicago-based architectural firm, with the construction commencing in 2004, led by architect Adrian Smith, with William F. Baker as the structural engineer. The tower's aimed height was a closely guarded secret until it topped off at 2,717 feet (828 meters) with 162 floors. more
Built to house a variety of commercial, residential, and hospitality venues, the tower was formally opened on January 4, 2010, although its interior was still incomplete. The building's modular design comprises a three-lobed footprint as an abstract rendering of the local Hymenocallis flower, with the Y-shaped plan serving to increase the tower's wind resistance. Its central core emerges as...
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Arata Isozaki
1931-2022
Isozaki travelled extensively in his
youth – “around the globe at least 10 times before I turned 30,”
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The Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha
From building heroic works of concrete brutalism in the 1960s, to pieces of playful postmodernism in the 1980s, and curious organic-tech structures in the 2000s, few architects have...
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William Lim
1932-1923
"Design and art are very closely
related — the way that I collect and the way that I look at art inform the way that I design."
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The Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) described him as one of the country's "architecture giants". He was also a prolific writer, having authored 13 books and published various articles on urban planning, architecture and his own...
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