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Trends, Drivers and Challenges in Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

 Trends, Drivers and Challenges in Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
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Presented at 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, published in , pp. 126-133
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796292038
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This paper outlines the major influences on tall building design in the early stages of the 21st Century. At this unprecedented time in terms of the scale and number of tall buildings being built g...
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Author(s):
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008
Published in:
Page(s): 126-133 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 126-133
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796292038
Abstract:

This paper outlines the major influences on tall building design in the early stages of the 21st Century. At this unprecedented time in terms of the scale and number of tall buildings being built globally, the paper charts some of the recent trends in tall buildings, and suggests some of the drivers. It also looks to the growing challenges in the future and, through design-research case studies undertaken by the author at the Universities of Nottingham, UK and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, suggests design responses to face some of these challenges.

Keywords:
design sustainability tall buildings challenges trends