News (July 2009)
Read the Spring 2009 issue of Metals In Construction
The latest issue contains articles on recent projects The Cooper Square Hotel, Eleven Times Square, Museum of Arts and Design, Rego Park II, One Bryant Park Lobby, High Line, One Northside Piers, and the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building ...
Survival of the Fittest: Skyscrapers Evolve to Stay Alive
As building projects slow to a standstill across globe, some may wonder if skyscrapers are destined to go the way of the dinosaurs—but a close look at history reveals that, as with nature, some great structures thrive against the odds.
A New Twist on Diagrid
Photo courtesy of www.enr.com.
Capital Gate tower is the first of its kind—a steel-framed building cantilevered around a concrete core pre-stressed to accommodate the gravitational, wind, and seismic forces resulting from the building’s distinctive lean.
