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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Horizontal Cantilevers
Chapter 1 Cantilevered Furniture
1.1 Cantilever Chairs
1.2 Cantilever Tables
Chapter 2 Cantilevered Building Components
2.1 Cantilevered Stairs
2.1.1 Early Cantilevered Stone Stairs
2.1.2 Cantilevered Stairs of Modern Materials
2.2 Cantilevered Balconies
VM House, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Ledge at Willis Tower, Chicago, USA
2.3 Cantilevered Canopies
Trumpf Campus Gate House, Ditzingen, Germany
One Central Park, Sydney, Australia
Voest Alpine Office Center, Linz, Austria
Chapter 3 Cantilevered Buildings
3.1 Cantilever Proportioning
3.2 Jettying
3.3 Large One-Sided Cantilevers
ICA Boston, USA
Former Lamar Construction Company Corporate Headquarters, Hudsonville, Michigan, USA
Milstein Hall at Cornell University, New York, USA
Ataria Nature Interpretation Centre, Vitoria, Spain
Wozoco Apartments, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Crane Houses in the Rheinauhafen, Cologne, Germany
3.4 Large Two-Sided Cantilevers
Creative Valley, Utrecht, Netherlands
Busan Cinema Center, Busan, Korea
The Cultural Center, Castelo Branco, Portugal
The Sharp Center for Design, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
3.5 Merged Cantilevers
CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China
Nanjing Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Technological Park, Obidos, Portugal
3.6 Stacked Multiple Cantilevers
Halifax Library, Halifax, Canada
Pierre Lassonde Pavilion at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Canada
Capital City Towers, Moscow, Russia
Statoil Oslo Office Building, Oslo, Norway
Part II: Vertical Cantilevers
Chapter 4 Structural Systems for Tall Buildings
4.1 Interior Structures
4.1.1 Moment Resisting Frames
Tokyo Marine Building, Osaka, Japan
4.1.2 Braced Frames
4.1.3 Shear Walls
4.1.4 Shear Wall Frame Interaction System
Seagram Building, New York, USA
4.1.5 Staggered Truss System
4.2 Exterior Structures
4.2.1 Framed Tubes
One and Two World Trade Center Towers, New York, USA (Demolished)
Aon Center, Chicago, USA
DeWitt-Chestnut Apartments, Chicago, USA
4.2.2 Braced Tubes
John Hancock Center, Chicago, USA
780 Third Avenue, New York, USA
4.2.2.1 Braced Tubes of Varying Column Spacing
4.2.2.2 Braced Tubes of Various Bracing Configurations
4.2.3 Bundled Tubes
Willis Tower, Chicago, USA
4.2.4 Diagrids
Hearst Headquarters, New York, USA
Lotte Super Tower Project, Seoul, Korea
Capital Gate Tower, Abu Dhabi, UAE
0–14 Building, Dubai, UAE
4.2.4.1 Uniform Angle Diagrids
4.2.4.2 Varying Angle Diagrids
4.2.5 Space Trusses
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
4.3 Interior-Exterior Integrated Structures
4.3.1 Outrigger Structures
Taipei 101, Taiwan
Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, China
4.3.2 Tube-in-Tube System
4.4 Comparison Between The Systems
Chapter 5 Damping Systems for Tall Buildings
5.1 Passive Damping Systems
5.1.1 Energy-Dissipating-Material-Based Damping Systems
5.1.2 Auxiliary Mass Dampers
5.2 Active Damping Systems
Chapter 6 Integrative Design of Complex-Shaped Tall BUILDINGS
6.1 Aerodynamic Forms
6.2 Twisted Tall Buildings
6.2.1 Twisted Braced Tubes and Diagrids
6.2.2 Twisted Outrigger Structures
6.3 Tilted Tall Buildings
6.3.1 Tilted Braced Tubes
6.3.2 Tilted Diagrids
6.3.3 Tilted Outrigger Structures
6.3.4 Strength Consideration for Tilted Tall Buildings
6.4 Tapered Tall Buildings
6.5 Freeform Tall Buildings
6.6 Conjoined Tall Buildings
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