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The World’s Fastest Elevator Will Zoom Up The Shanghai Tower At 74km/h
The Shanghai Tower is still the world’s second-tallest building, just a few hundred metres shorter than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. It already has the tallest observation tower — not that that’s stopped people from climbing even higher. As if it needed more to brag about, Shanghai Tower will be equipped with the world’s fastest elevator.
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Why Today’s Architects Build Digital Cities Instead Of Scale Models
When I was a grad student in architecture school in the ’80s, one of our professors was on a mission. Every semester he’d give a design project in downtown Manhattan, asking his students to spend the first two weeks of the term building a beautiful wood model of the surrounding site. The next year he…