Research
29 July 2019
Hanging Out With Façade Inspectors
Amy DeLuca & Julie Foster, Consulting Associates of New York (CANY)
Among the hazards of cities with tall buildings is the prospect of objects falling to the streets below. After a woman was killed by a...
16 October 2016
Debating Tall: Regional Governments for Megacities?
James Parakh, City of Toronto Planning Department; Thomas Wright, Regional Plan Association of New York
The 2016 CTBUH Conference, “Cities to Megacities,” explores the phenomenon of already large cities merging together to form megacities, in parallel with many cities and...
24 August 2015
World’s Highest Observation Decks
CTBUH Research
Perhaps no element of a tall building is more closely related to the pure pleasure of standing high in the sky and taking in the...
24 August 2015
Myth-busting: The Incredible “Shrinking” Washington Monument
Dru Smith, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
In February 2015, the Washington Monument “shrunk” almost 10 inches (248 millimeters), when the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Geodetic Survey...
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