An overview of development of high-rise buildings is presented. Key advancements leading to highrise buildings of today are discussed. Structural analysis and design considerations for modern highrise buildings are presented and trends in design of tall buildings of the future are discussed.

Tall buildings are a significant feature of many urban skylines. The visual complexity of the tall buildings that make up the urban skyline can vary according to the degree of silhouette complexity and the extent to which the façade is articulated. This article reports a study in which 60 undergraduate psychology students ranked a set of 9 synthetic skylines according to either the perceived co...

This paper presents initial results of a study on the application of evolutionary multiobjective optimization methods in the design of the steel structural systems of tall buildings. In the paper, a brief overview of the state-of-the-art in evolutionary multi-objective optimization in structural engineering is provided. Next, conceptual design of steel structural systems in tall buildings is ov...

Many competent speakers initially judge that (i) is true and (ii) is false, though they know that (iii) is true. (i) Superman leaps more tall buildings than Clark Kent. (ii) Superman leaps more tall buildings than Superman. (iii) Superman is identical with Clark Kent. Semantic explanations of these intuitions say that (i) and (ii) really can differ in truthvalue. Pragmatic explanations deny thi...

Of the many horrors of September 11, 2001, the sight of people falling and jumping to their deaths from the Towers of the World Trade Center will not be soon forgotten by anyone watching. The sight brutally expressed the desperation of those trapped above the raging fires, unable or unwilling to descend through the wounded structures. Even in light of the eventual collapse of the structures, th...

in this research, an innovative numerical simulating approach for time domain analysis of multi degrees of freedom structures with uncertainty in dynamic properties is presented. a full scale finite element model of multi-story and multi bays of three sample structures has been constructed. the reduced order model of structure with holding the dominant and effective gramians in the balanced sta...

Structural systems for tall buildings have gone through an evolutionary process. The rigid frame became popular in the first half of 20th century but proved to be structurally inefficient beyond a certain height buildings. invention tubular structure 1960s allowed built taller with low material consumption. Due obstructive nature closely spaced exterior columns framed tubes and bracings braced ...