Tall Stories
Beginning of paper
Picture in your mind the skyline of downtown Toronto. There's the CN Tower,
of course, and the 72-floor First Canadian Place, the city's tallest
skyscraper. Cascading from there are the assorted banks and hotels and
insurance towers.
Now, use your imagination to construct some new buildings, th ....
Middle of paper
.... How would you
do it? What are the obstacles you'd face? What materials would you use?
And where would you put it?
Building a superskyscraper, the first thing you would need is a
considerable slice of real estate. Tall buildings require a large base to
support their load and keep them stable. In general, the height of a
building should be six times its base, so, for a skyscraper 900-m tall,
you'd need a base of 150 square m.
That much space is hard to come by in, say, downtown Toronto ....
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