CTBUH Journal Tall buildings: design, construction and operation | 2009 Issue III Trump International Tower & Hotel A Humanist Approach To Tropical High-rise Shaping the High-rise Framework Non-orthogonal high-rise buildings 40 years of the CTBUH: Chairman Reflections Tall Buildings and Embodied Energy 2009 Chicago Skyscraper Summer Tours Editor’s Message Editor The first, like the Trump Tower, opened its Zak Kostura, Arup doors long before it reached its current height. t: +1 212 896 3240
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[email protected] in Issue 3 of the 2008 CTBUH Journal. The © Arup second phase of BCBS is due to be complete Editoral Board Zak Kostura, Editor next year. Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Samsung Corporation Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University In this issue, the Council jubilantly celebrates Mir Ali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The second project, widely known as Aqua, is Richard W. Bukowski, Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc the opening of the 92-story Trump an undulating 82-story mixed-use residential Mahjoub Elnimeiri, Illinois Institute of Technology International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, USA. skyscraper. Designed by Jeanne Gang and Gary C. Hart, Weidlinger Associates The structure was completed to great public Peter Irwin, RWDI Studio Gang Architects, Aqua again Tim Johnson, NBBJ fanfare on January 3, 2009, when a Sikorsky implemented flexible, modular formwork to Gary Lawrence, Arup S-61 helicopter delivered the final steel rapidly set out and cast each unique floor slab, Simon Lay, WSP Buildings Ltd.