How Engineers Are Building Skyscrapers That Seem Physically Impossible
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
5/27/15 4:40pm
Another of their clients, Zaha Hadid, is building a 62-story tower called 1000 Museum Tower in Miami right now. It took two years to work out the building’s structure. Originally, the sinuous metal arms that curl around its facade were purely cosmetic—the building was pretty normal, but it looked like an alien life form with an exoskeleton.
DeSimone figured out a way to make that decorative exoskeleton part of the building’s structural engineering. They’re made out of hollow precast panels (produced in Dubai) that are then filled with cement when they’re installed. It actually is an exoskeleton, just Hadid’s design implied from the beginning.
http://gizmodo.com/how-engineers-are...sic-1707104138
http://new2014.de-simone.com/project...al-park-south/