http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/08/better-faster-taller-how-big-can-buildings-really-get/ Keeping You Current Sun, 19 May 2013 12:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/08/better-faster-taller-how-big-can-buildings-really-get/comment-page-1/#comment-474 John DeCarlo Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:15:57 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=2813#comment-474 Back in the early 70s (had to have been before 1976), my class went on a field trip to the Corcoran, in Washington, DC. There we saw architectural models for buildings of the future. One was labeled something like a city-building, a mile high, taking up a fair amount of land (my memory says the base was 1/4 or 1/5 as wide as the city-building was tall). There was lots of discussion about the need for many elevator structures, systems to get enough food and water into the building, remove waste from the building, get sunlight in, etc. Lots of engineering design work. Back in the early 70s (had to have been before 1976), my class went on a field trip to the Corcoran, in Washington, DC. There we saw architectural models for buildings of the future. One was labeled something like a city-building, a mile high, taking up a fair amount of land (my memory says the base was 1/4 or 1/5 as wide as the city-building was tall). There was lots of discussion about the need for many elevator structures, systems to get enough food and water into the building, remove waste from the building, get sunlight in, etc. Lots of engineering design work.

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