I am not an engineer, but I am still a bit perplexed by certain questions. Some are as follows:
If the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be a model for the modern office tower, serving as a kind of a spine, how much weight and office space could be occupied beyond the halfway point in height? You will notice that beyond the ground level the Eiffel tower only has two platforms, the top one smaller than the lower one. After that the stairs cease, and only an elevator shaft is accommodated in the structure, apart from an obsevation deck at the top.
I worked and navigated in smaller towers, and recall that most people took the milkrun elevators serving the bottom floors and few seemed to be taking the express elevators higher up.
Were all the upper floors of the WTC towers really occupied? Could the upper floors realistically have had up to 40,000 square feet of office space?
Why did the perimeter columns appear to fall in sheets if fixed at the top and bottom? Was it stable?
2006-09-25
13:05:36
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