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Skyscraper 1996 Parents Guide Skyscraper 1996 parents guide Continue Our friend joergermeister runs Windows 10 in this desktop, but as always, he's set up to look and work the way he wants, and the end result looks great. If you like to watch - or even just some of the look-here to get it for yourself. First of all, since it's a Windows desktop, Rainmeter is the order of the day and this top guide will help you get through the basics. It's a bit dated, but enough to get you started with the skins and tools below. Rainmeter is a powerful tool that allows you to create a beautiful, information-rich one-on-one display... Read moreOnce you have the basics down, here's what you need: All together, it's a beautiful picture. I especially like the visual style and taskbar and transparency of the start menu, this is something I could grab even if I didn't customize the rest of my desktop to the same extent, but it's still great together. If you have questions about how it's all done, or want to know how this skin looks exactly the way it does, hit the Flickr link below to head the joergermeister page and ask. Do you have a nice, functional desktop yourself to show off? Share it with us! Post it on your personal Kinja blog using the DesktopShowcase tag or add it to our Lifehacker Desktop Show and tell Flickr Pool. Screenshots should be at least 1280x720 and please include information about what you have used, links to wallpapers, skins and themes, and any other relevant details. If your amazing desktop catches your eye, you can get featured! Pimp My Desktop Part 70 Flickr Skyscrapers Are Killing Our Cities. Just like cookies, while one or two are fine, if you have too much, everything is thrown out of balance. The problem is that these huge buildings stand apart and don't belong to their surroundings, instead after an almost cookie cutter design and creating a semblance of the skyline of every large (and not so large) city. This is the argument of the writer Eric Reguli. Taking London as an example, he cites the tall behemoths who dwarf existing buildings in London's financial district. The square mile is known to be full of beautiful, historic (and short) buildings, but the entrance of tall status symbols quickly undermines the character of the city. The architecture of our great cities becomes homogeneous as the choice of shops on our streets in the city center, and in our shopping malls. Skyscrapers are also environmental disasters. You can't open the windows, so you need air conditioning for the whole summer, and no matter how big a multi glazed window might be on insulation, it doesn't beat a good foot or two stone walls to regulate the temperature. In summer, they keep warm and act as a heater for storage in winter. Too hot? Air a bit Open the window. These vertical islands are not only sucking out resources and surrounding streets in shadow, but they are disposable structures. Bank towers with huge open trading floors connected to the fastest communication networks cannot be easily converted into housing, factories or shops, says Reguli. In contrast, the old low-rise building can be remodeled, over and over again. Factories are becoming loft apartment buildings, like old red brick British schools. One of London's most famous art galleries, Tate Modern, is located in a former power station near the Thames, and its vast ground floor space of Turbine Hall has done much to bring art to the public, which usually won't bother. Skyscrapers, on the other hand, have more to do with the quick fashion clothes you find in the NSM than they do with the old wool coat you can pass on to your grandchildren. For the most part, Reguli writes, skyscrapers should be demolished when they have outlived their usefulness. And the more attention-grabbing Renaissance cod is, the more wasteful it is to demolish them. In the past, we have reported (with typical enthusiasm) about several skyscraper proposals that include trees in projects, including a farmscraper proposal for China and Milan Bosco Verticale back in 2011, which is now nearing completion. But an article on the architecture blog Beyond the Square Mile by Tim De Chant (who was reposted on the slate), argues that for technical reasons, we might not really ever see the kind of thriving vertical forest these drawings describe. De Chant kindly asks architects to please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers. From your post: Want a skyscraper to look fashionable and sustainable? Put a tree on it. Or better yet, dozens. Many of the skyscrapers with a high concept are decorated with trees. On the roof, on the terraces, in the nooks and crannies, on absurdly large balconies. Mostly anywhere horizontal and high off the ground. Now, I have to say, architects are drawing dozens because I still haven't seen one of these green skyscrapers in real life. [...] If- and it's the biggest if any of these buildings ever get built, chances are they'll be stripped of foliage faster than the developer can say return on investment. It's just unreal. I understand why architects paint them on their buildings. Really, I do. But can we stop? According to De Shant, who has studied plant physiology, there are many reasons why trees won't thrive on top of high-rise buildings, including fierce winds, extreme heat and cold, higher rainfall rates, and logistical problems like watering, fertilizer, and pruning trees. Trees just weren't made for such conditions, he writes, adding: 'It might all seem a bit funny coming from someone like me, a supporter of more trees in the city It probably comes from the fact that seen too much green vertical oasis, but too few of them are actually built. His post is an interesting reality check for idealistic, tree-loving townspeople and architects who fuel their fantasies. But the Milan Tower would be a good way to prove your theory right or wrong. Burj Mubarak al-Kabir in Kuwait. (Photo by Eric Kunet and Associates) Burj Khalifa, now the tallest tower in the world, officially opened in Dubai on January 4 amid an impressive pyrotechnic display that highlighted the tower's 2,716.5 feet of aluminum and steel, and its 26,000 hand-cut glass panels. The Burj Khalifa blows away Taiwan's nearest skyscraper, which is 1,670-foot Taipei 101, and the building has even surpassed ultra-high, terrestrial cable-backed radio.entanthese. However, the vertical leap of architects is unlikely to stop at the Burj Khalifa. While the tower will be hard to beat, it will probably remain on top for only about half a dozen years. Developers around the world have offered a lot of new skyscrapers. Some projects have jumped off the drawing boards, although plans for many record towers have been flooded due to global economic spasms over the past few years. (The original name of the Burj Khalifa, Burj Dubai, was changed at the last minute to recognize the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin saeed al-Nahyan, who as emir of Abu Dhabi gave the struggling Dubai $10 billion bailout last month.) So which buildings could be next to rise up and steal the Crown of the Burj Khalifa? Here are eight future contenders. Location /// (Photo by Eric Coone and Associates) This mammoth structure will rise exactly to 3,284 feet, or 1001 meters. The height, metres away, is an allusion to the classic collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales, A Thousand and One Arab Nights, says London-based architect Eric Coone, whose firm designed the tower. To break the kilometer mark (which is 3,281 feet), the $7 billion-plus Mubarak al-Kabir will have three interconnected towers that support the overall structure. These towers, or blades, wheel about a triangular central mine that holds elevators and mechanical equipment. Each blade spins 45 degrees as it rises, for strength, and expands slightly at the top. Thus, this Kuwaiti landmark will place more mass and usable space near its zenith compared to other towers, says Kune, to avoid structures having too thin and flexible a tip. To dispel high-altitude, towering storms that can blow at 150 miles per hour, Mubarak al-Kabir will see the first architectural deployment of vertical oilerons - usually horizontal flaps that airline passengers see on the back edge of the plane's wing- to help withstand the storm They will look like continuous tape running vertically along the six leading edges of the three blades, kuhne says. Says. The Eilerons are constantly moving, and catching the sun as they adapt, sunlight will move from their surfaces. This will add a gentle ripple reflection to the edges of the blades that will add dynamic shine to the tower, kuhne says. Burj Mubarak has a completion date in 2016. Location /// (Photo by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture) Building higher also means building wider. That's why the 3,280-foot-1 Dubai will be built with three towers. What usually happens as these buildings get taller, the base needs to be wider, but it gets to the point that it's just too wide to be one building and you start pulling things apart or separating them, says Peter Weismantle, director of supertall construction technology at Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture. The smallest tower 1 Dubai will come in about 1970 feet and the tallest is about 3280.
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