Am 19.08.2011 17:19, schrieb Darren New:
> On 8/19/2011 1:34, Invisible wrote:
>> From time to time, somebody builds something that's truly
>> ground-breaking.
>> The world's tallest building, perhaps. Or the longest bridge. Or
>> whatever.
>
> Even the world's tallest building is essentially the same story, using
> the same structural characteristics, repeated 200 times.

Most bloody likely not.

The lower floors need to be as strong as possible so they can carry the 
weight of the whole tower. The upper floors need to be as light as 
possible so they can all be carried by the lower floors.

But yes, it might be the same basic design with some parameters varying. 
Plus a few special floors in between (for instance a shopping mall 
halfway up the tower).

Then again, modifying the design for a different number of floors takes 
more effort than just adding more floors at the bottom of the stack. 
Wind speed, resonances and other dynamic stuff has to be taken into 
account on a whole-building basis.

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