« Lunch Atop a Skyscraper » : le cliché mythique fête ses 80 ans by Frédéric Perrier

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The Formation and Evolution of Interorganisational Business Networks in Megaprojects: A Case Study of Chinese Skyscrapers by Yujie Lu, Wei Wei, Yongkui Li, Zhilei Wu, Hao Jin

“…Here, we chose Chinese skyscrapers over 300 meters that were built from 1996 to 2015 as typical megaproject cases and analysed the formation and evolution of megaproject business networks from the perspective of interorganisational coopetition. …”
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From skyscrapers to sky savers: how New York City’s Local Law 97 advances climate resilience and public health by Ethan Chervonski, Ethan Chervonski, Marisa A. Guerrero, William N. Rom, William N. Rom

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Innovative Integration and Optimization of RE and Smart Energy Management Systems in Skyscrapers: Enhancing Sustainability and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Vertical Cities by Yan Bingzhuo

“…Skyscrapers have become a vital part of modern urban development, offering efficient space utilization in increasingly dense cities. …”
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Skyscapers and greenery. An unprecedented symbiosis by Simona Talenti, Annarita Teodosio

Subjects: “…Italian skyscrapers…”
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New York, le désespoir du peintre dans The American Scene by Marie-Odile Salati

“…The chaotic welter of impressions, as well as the substitution of uniform expressionless skyscrapers for the picturesque vestiges of the past under the pressure of the economic law, make the megalopolis an eminently non pictorial object and the task of the painter of life an impossible one. …”
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La Défense / Zone B (1953-91): Light and Shadows of the French Welfare State by Pierre Chabard

“…In the shadows of the crystalline skyscrapers of La Défense, Zone B was not only a kind of ‘back-office’ of the business district, but also an urban laboratory for public housing ‘paved with good intentions’. …”
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The Elusiveness of Welfare-State Specificity by Tahl Kaminer

“…Trivial, because the evidence of the tight relationship is ubiquitous, screaming its existence from the tops of skyscrapers, from the basements of gloomy panopticon prisons, and from the doorsteps of Levittown houses. …”
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Deformation Characteristics of Ultrahigh-Strength Concrete under Unrestrained and Restrained States by Joo-Ha Lee, Kwang-Mo Lim, Doo-Yeol Yoo, Nam-Hyoung Lim

“…As structures like skyscrapers and long-span bridges become larger, the demand for higher strength of concrete is increasing. …”
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Research on Dynamic Monitoring and Early Warning of the High-Rise Building Machine during the Climbing Stage by Xi Pan, Zibo Zuo, Longlong Zhang, Tingsheng Zhao

“…High-rise building machines (HBMs) are commonly used for the construction of super-high skyscrapers. Monitoring and early warning are critical to ensure the safety of giant HBMs during dynamic climbing. …”
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Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife by Frances Hsu

“…This essay contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between the respective authors’ treatments of the nineteenth century arcade and the Manhattan skyscraper to examine how the strategies and definitions suggested by Benjamin and Koolhaas address the function of images as tools for critical architectural analysis and knowledge.…”
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Outposts. Design inventories for a possible future between biology and the artefact by Vincenzo Moschetti

“…The essay makes use of the examples offered by Giorgini’s Casa Esagono in Baratti and Perugini’s Casa Albero in Fregene, together with the more recent Horizontal Skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron, to manifest a preferable advance, parallel to that of forests which, according to the evidence available, will continue to expand in the future and within which it is desirable, if not necessary, to ‘work’ using the figure of the outpost.…”
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Adaptive sensing scheme using naive Bayes classification for environment monitoring with drone by Yao-Hua Ho, Yu-Te Huang, Hao-Hua Chu, Ling-Jyh Chen

“…In many applications, sensors are deployed in locations that are difficult and dangerous to reach (e.g. mountaintop or skyscraper roof). To collect data from those sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles are used to act as data mules to overcome the problem of collecting data in challenging environments. …”
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Madrid selon Basilio Martín Patino : le charme discret de l’imperfection by Bernard Bessière

“…Though some critics think that Madrid has always wanted a global approach to its urban areas and its architecture – a criticism scathingly voiced by the intellectual in the movie (actually the philosopher Carlos Paris) when he discusses Madrid with Hans on the rooftop of a skyscraper - the German moviemaker is so enamored with the capital that he only sees charms and spells where others see an urban chaos and a lack of harmony and architectural coherence. …”
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Novel Visualization of Building Earthquake Response Recorded by a Dense Network of Sensors by Lichiel Cruz, Maria I. Todorovska, Mihailo D. Trifunac, Alimu Aihemaiti, Guoliang Lin, Jianwen Cui

“…It is demonstrated on novel data that have been recorded recently in a 50-story skyscraper, uniquely instrumented with multiple triaxial accelerometers per floor, approximately at every five floors above ground and at two basement levels, and with rotational seismometers and two borehole arrays measuring the motion of the soil very near the building foundation. …”
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