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Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper?

Stefan Al · TED

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About

In 1956, architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a mile-high skyscraper, a building five times as high as the Eiffel Tower. While this massive tower was never built, today bigger and bigger buildings are going up around the world. How did these impossible ideas turn into architectural opportunities? Stefan Al explains how these megastructures became fixtures of our city skylines. [Directed by TED-Ed, narrated by Addison Anderson].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Stefan Al
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Engineering, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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