About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 123. Chapters: Column, Skyscraper, House, Cantilever, Wall, Hull, List of walls, Roof, Floor, Space frame, Triangle control frame, Timber framing, Truss, Bending, Tensile structure, Cordwood construction, Steel plate shear wall, Multi-storey car park, Hyperboloid structure, Tilt up, Mansard roof, Retaining wall, Beam, Airframe, List of commercially available roofing material, Staggered truss system, Tension fabric building, AHI Roofing, Tube, List of hyperboloid structures, Reinforced concrete column, Pre-engineered building, Form liner, Body-on-frame, Wall stud, Plate girder bridge, Box girder, Gambrel, Geodesic airframe, Falsework, Shukhov Rotunda, Base isolation, Standerhaus, Gridshell, Guastavino tile, Eyebar, Very large floating structure, Thin-shell structure, Domestic roof construction, Slurry wall, Reciprocal frame, Load-bearing wall, Tessellated roof, Wall plate, Pneumatic stabilized platform, Cranked eye bolt, List of roof shapes, Purlin, Subframe, Lattice girder, Low-rise, Cremona diagram, Anchor plate, Outrigger, Joist, Portal frame, Rafter, Diaphragm, Dwang, 80/20, A-Frame, Spar and membrane structure, Pitched roof, Lift slab construction, T-beam, Sill plate, Mullion wall, Trimmer, Floating raft system, Coachwork, Lookout, Section beam, Box truss, Birdsmouth joint, FAC-System, Girt, Framer, Pure bending, Bressummer, Rigid frame, Sleeper wall. Excerpt: A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition or height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper. Most cities define the term empirically; even a building of 80 meters (262 feet) may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes above its built environment and changes the overall skyline. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE is currently the tallest skyscraper in the world.The word "skyscraper" originally was a n...
