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Exploring High-Rise Architecture

This quiz explores various aspects of high-rise architecture, including historical examples, definitions, and construction materials.

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1 The residential ________ numbered between 80 to 100 at a time, the largest of which still rise to 97.2 m.

2 The 16th century Yemeni city of Shibam is made up of over 500 tower houses,[16] each one rising 5 to 11 storeys high,[17] with each floor having one or two ________.

3 ________, United States General Laws define a high-rise as being higher than 70 feet (21 m).

4 Most American style ________ have a steel frame, while residential tower blocks are usually constructed out of concrete.

5 Buildings taller than 492 feet (150 m) are classified as ________.

6 The materials used for the structural system of high-rise buildings are ________ and steel.

7 High-rise buildings became possible with the invention of the ________ (lift) and cheaper, more abundant building materials.

8 Currently, the tallest high-rise apartment building in the world is ________'s John Hancock Center, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1969.

9 [4] Because of the destruction caused by poorly-built high-rise insulae collapsing,[5] several Roman emperors, beginning with ________ (r.

10 [18] The city has the tallest mud buildings in the world, with some of them over 30 ________ (100 feet) high.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Society for Savings Building (pictured), a high-rise building in Cleveland, is widely considered to be the first modern skyscraper in the state of Ohio.
  • when the Woodside Plaza (pictured) opened in 2004, it was the first high-rise office building to be constructed in Perth, Western Australia, in eight years.
  • the Praetorian Building, a high-rise in Dallas, is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States.
  • during the construction of Samsung Hub (pictured), a high-rise commercial building in Singapore, the building sank on one side from 3 mm to 39 mm in just four months.
  • 6 Battery Road, a high-rise in Singapore, was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company.
  • bay mud is a significant estuarine ecological resource, but went unstudied until humans began building high-rise structures near bays.
  • 1801 California Street, a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver, Colorado, was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building.
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