| Sumario: | BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,029 TALL BUILDINGS ALTHOUGH Thom Mayne and his firm, Mor-phosis Architects, have designed several supertall buildings (towers more than 300 meters, or 984 feet high), Hanking Center is the first one to be constructed. In working out the design concept with Robert Halvor-son Associates of Chicago, the structural engineer, the architects came up with a slender tower coupled with a detached core, in which elevators, services, and mechanical functions are tucked. Hanking Center is not only taller but even farther detached, with a 35-foot gap between the main tower and its separate core, enabled by a mega brace-frame system that takes care of seismic and wind forces.
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