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the tip reaches 828 meters (Alfred 2010, 66), and the Burj Khalifa was inaugurated January 4, 2010 (Baker 2010, 46). Like the Burj Al Arab, the Burj Khalifa was designed by a western architect, Adrian Smith, and the architecture firm, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (Ingersoll 2013, 937). In this industrial age of mega development, in the nondemocratic United Arab Emirates, mega projects are hastily and irresponsibly built with little consideration of their regional negative impacts or sustainability

Tozzoli felt he found his team because he stated “If you were going to build the world’s biggest project, you have to have a tough team” (Gillespie 41). He went on to find a new architect for the project after firing the architectural firm Skidmore, Owens, and Merrill. The Port Authority had finally found Minoru Yamasaki from Settle to lead the program for the trade center. They gave him free range on the construction and design but this was his first tall creation. Yamasaki has done some project before

15th September 2017, Writing Project 1 The Picasso It was my first day in the United States of America, travelling all the way from Nepal to witness this amazing city. I was mesmerized by the skyline and obviously the food. I was carving for my native Nepali food and to my amazement, there are many restaurants of nearly all the cuisines. Chicago is a city with over 2.7 million residents (Wikipedia, City of Chicago), living in the biting cold weather still happy and trying to cope up with the hustle

ARC 5205 Advanced Theory Professor Neil Leach STUDENT NAME: Deborah Wintringer Ariosa BOOK TITLE: Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techniques DATE: 11/03/2016 PAGES READ: 60-87 The book presents the methods behind digital fabrication in a very clear way, the method this chapter is focused on is folding. For most people “folding” seems pretty obvious, it is a term often used in design studios and architectural projects and could be considered a design principle. This chapter gives

Frank Gehry Quote “When everybody else is ready for the ending, I’m just ready to begin,” Frank Gehry once wrote. “It’s been the story of my life” (qtd. in Templer, 1999, pp.1) Laying the Foundation Born on 28 February 1929 in Toronto, Canada, Frank O. Goldberg entered a household with a strong Polish and Jewish heritage. Twenty years earlier, Thelma Caplanski left Poland with her parents, a couple with deep religious morals. Once they settled in Toronto, the two decided

BURJ KHALIFA: THE WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING Prepared for: Prof. Sylvia M. Basilio Prepared by: Aranda, Gilbert Austria, John Mark De Ocampo, Gerald Garcia, Jason Gomez, Philip Meer, Sarah Jane R. Ponio, Kyle David Regacho, Keith Torrente, Gerwin TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract Introduction Burj Khalifa Definition Claiming as the Tallest Structure in the World Breaking other World’s Record Location and its Environment Part of Downtown Dubai Downtown Dubai Evolution, Timeline and Construction