Why are skyscrapers built thin, instead of stacking 100 arenas on top of each other?
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I think it is because they often build around a massive core pillar or set of pillars, so as you go up the strongest material is on the inside instead of the walls, and that way they don’t have to keep the increased effort of reinforcing any joints of a square box shell, they don’t get an inward collapse and they have more room for creativity with the shape, as you go up you have to taper eventually because of you catching more wind, the building is supposed to catch a little slack instead of being rigid and breaking having a core is better for that as well. I’m not an engineer but I saw that design in a documentary one day and this what I deduced from it.
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