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Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper? - Stefan Al

Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper? - Stefan Al

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In 1956, architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a mile-high skyscraper, a building five times as high as the Eiffel Tower. While this massive tower was never built, today bigger and bigger buildings are going up around the world. How did these impossible ideas turn into architectural opportunities? Stefan Al explains how these megastructures became fixtures of our city skylines. Lesson by Stefan Al, directed by TED-Ed
Date: 2020-08-22

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They always say if they ever built something that's all it would have to have cables to stabilize it which would mean it would not be classified as a building to be classified as a building and has to be free-standing with no cables to stabilize it
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Active support allows objects to exceed their compressive and tensile strength limitations. The elevator paradox would be the bigger issue, but if theyre connected to other buildings with bridges then youd reduce elevator use to ground floor.
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I vastly prefer the beautiful architecture of buildings made with traditional stone masonry (which rarely are more than a few stories high) over these glass, steel, and concrete monstrosities.
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It's crazy because I immediately thought that there had been mile high skyscrapers given how ridiculously tall they can be. Turns out there isn't yet a mile high building. Face palm T_T
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A much more substantial question would be: Do we (anybody in the world) actually NEED a mile high skyscraper? What purpose would such a building fulfill?
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Waste of money to build these. The engineering knowledge can be applied to projects that benefit humanity. No need to build such phallic nonsense
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1: 25 why are you referring to architects? When in reality it's the engineers who really know about structural integrity
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