Japanese researchers create app to predict earthquake damage to skyscrapers by floor
Japanese researchers have created an app to predict damage to skyscrapers by long-period ground motion from major earthquakes in distant areas, such as the swaying that hit Tokyo after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The app will make predictions by floor and issue them ...
New York's Climate Mobilization Act aims to make power-gobbling skyscrapers more energy efficient
It's a tall order indeed: How do you make aging, energy-hungry skyscrapers more efficient and less polluting? The city of New York, the historic capital of the skyscraper, is determined to do so by requiring the enormous buildings to drastically curtail their energy consumption. Traditional ...
At 55, 'French spiderman' keeps climbing world's skyscrapers, when he can get away with it
Alain Robert, sometimes known as the "French Spiderman" for climbing skyscrapers world worldwide, is still defying gravity at the age of 55. He scaled the summit of the fourth-tallest building in Paris' modern business district on Wednesday after evading security officers who had thwarted an ...
As cities build taller, they must keep three benchmarks for livability in mind — community, resilience and sustainability.
Tokyo's second-tallest building complex opened for business on Wednesday, presaging a series of development projects ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games. Developed by Mori Building Co., the 52-story, 247-meter Toranomon Hills complex is topped by Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s first Andaz brand hotel in Japan, a ...
About 30 million people have visited a high-end department store in Japan's tallest commercial building in the year since it opened. Kintetsu Department Store's flagship outlet in the 300-meter Abeno Harukas skyscraper in Osaka recorded an average of about 86,000 customers a day from its ...
Japan's tallest building will open Friday in Osaka, as Asia's third-biggest metropolitan economy aims to lure tourists and stem businesses from moving to Tokyo. Kintetsu Corp., one of the main railways in western Japan, spent ¥130 billion and four years constructing the 300-meter Abeno Harukas ...
