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Singer Building
Building
Demolished
1908
Office
All-Steel
186.6 m / 612 ft
41
1
15
3 m/s
Proposed
Construction Start
Completed
Demolished
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
29 November 2018 - Event
4 June 2018 - CTBUH Research
16 May 2023
Jason Barr & Peter A. Weismantle
This paper reviews the development history of record-breaking skyscrapers to better understand their economics. Given how tall they are, the supposed reason for their construction...
16 May 2023
Jason Barr & Peter A. Weismantle
This paper reviews the development history of record-breaking skyscrapers to better understand their economics. Given how tall they are, the supposed reason for their construction...
27 April 2018
CTBUH Research
Although the world has more than 1,300 buildings of 200 meters or higher, no tall building of more than 187 meters has been demolished, with...
01 August 2011
Nathaniel Hollister, Jan Klerks & Antony Wood, CTBUH
New York’s dramatic skyline, over a century in the making, has for years been the envy of cities around the world. From the very birth...
12 June 2008
CTBUH Research
Over time, the average height of the 100 tallest buildings in the world has been steadily increasing. However, by 2010, this average height will have...
29 November 2018
The latest event in the Building Tall Lecture Series, hosted by the Chicago Architecture Center and CTBUH, featured a panel on revitalizing iconic skyscrapers.
4 June 2018
Following the planned demolition of 270 Park Avenue, the Council has conducted a research study on the Top 10 Tallest Buildings Demolished so far.
5 November 2014
The first meeting of the CTBUH Tall Buildings Demolition Working Group discussed an entire spectrum of possibilities for demolition.
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