Why gravity-defying landmark buildings never fall
Overhanging façades, twisted towers and cantilevered boxes may look like gravity glitches, yet they are products of strict structural logic. What appears to float is usually just the visible end of a precisely calculated load path, quietly sending forces back down to the foundations.At the core is structural mechanics: every slab, beam and truss is modeled so that compressive stress, tensile stres...More
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