CHF Chicago Humanities Festival

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• leaders & thinkers

  Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat studies and reports on all aspects of the planning, design, construction and operation of tall buildings.
  Tall Buildings Teaching and Research GroupThe Tall Buildings Teaching and Research Group, founded 2004, brings together international experts in the field of Tall Building design, construction and management, across both practice and academia.

• good reads

  World's Tallest BuildingsA list of statistics for the tallest buildings in the world, as reported by skyscraper databases and Web sites.
  Sckyscraper CityRead threads on this forum all about skyscrapers.
  Evolution of Concrete Skyscrapers: from Ingalls to Jin maoThis paper has provided a broad overview of different historic developments for concrete high-rise buildings. The evolution of concrete skyscrapers from the first reinforced concrete high-rise, the Ingalls Building, which was 15 stories high to modern skyscrapers Petronas and the Jin Mao is discussed. How new innovations in construction technology such as the advances in formwork, mixing of concrete, techniques for pumping, and types of admixtures to improve quality have all contributed to the ease of working with concrete in high-rise construction is also briefly discussed in the paper.

• online resources

  The Skyscraper Museum Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines.
  Tall Buildings Teaching & Research GroupTARG's YouTube Channel
  The Skyscraper PageThe world's finest resource for skyscraper and urbanism enthusiasts.