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CTBUH Journal About the Council The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is the world’s leading resource for professionals CTBUH Journal focused on the inception, design, construction, and International Journal on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat operation of tall buildings and future cities. A not-for-profi t organization, founded in 1969 and based at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, CTBUH has an Asia offi ce at Tongji University, Shanghai, and a research offi ce at Iuav Tall buildings: design, construction, and operation | 2015 Issue II University, Venice, Italy. CTBUH facilitates the exchange of the latest knowledge available on tall buildings around the world through publications, Special Issue: Focus on Japan research, events, working groups, web resources, and its extensive network of international representatives. The Council’s research department Case Study: Abenos Harukas, Osaka is spearheading the investigation of the next generation of tall buildings by aiding original Advanced Structural Technologies research on sustainability and key development For High-Rise Buildings In Japan issues. The free database on tall buildings, The Skyscraper Center, is updated daily with detailed Next Tokyo 2045: A Mile-High Tower information, images, data, and news. The CTBUH Rooted In Intersecting Ecologies also developed the international standards for measuring tall building height and is recognized as Application of Seismic Isolation Systems the arbiter for bestowing such designations as “The World’s Tallest Building.” In Japanese High-Rise Buildings Innovative Façade Systems of Japan Fire-Resistant Design of Tokyo Sky Tree Talking Tall: Hiroo Mori Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat S. R. Crown Hall Illinois Institute of Technology 3360 South State Street Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: +1 (312) 567 3487 Fax: +1 (312) 567 3820 Email: [email protected] www.ctbuh.org www.skyscrapercenter.com CTBUH Asia Headquarters College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) Tongji University 1239 Si Ping Road, Yangpu District Shanghai 200092, China Phone: +86 21 65982972 Email: [email protected] CTBUH Research Offi ce Iuav University of Venice Dorsoduro 2006 30123 Venice, Italy Phone: +39 041 257 1276 Email: [email protected] ISSN: 1946 - 1186 For complete membership listing go to: This Issue InsideCTBUH Organizational Members http://membership.ctbuh.org Editor The publication of this safety in The Fire-Resistant Design of Tokyo Sky DONORS Alinea Consulting M Moser Associates Daniel Safarik, CTBUH AdrianNews Smith and + Gordon Events Gill Architecture FeaturesAllford Hall Monaghan Morris22 Structural Engineering Maeda Corporation issue marks an Tree (page 48), which explains how substantial Advanced Structural Technologies Introduction of Advanced Seismic Design laminated rubber bearings in seismic- [email protected] Altitude Facade Access Consulting Mori Building Company isolation structures. This design produces ALT Limited For High-Rise Buildings in Japan Entering the 1970s, most high-rise buildings mainly elastic behavior during an were constructed using a seismic design earthquake, so that the seismic energy is This paper reviews the development and current status of seismic design for method that relied on the plastic rotation absorbed by the energy-absorbing members important moment in prudence in fi re engineering nevertheless gave 02 This Issue 52 Tall BuildingsAlvine Engineeringin Numbers high-rise buildings in earthquake-proneNabih Japan. Additionally, Youssef it briefly & Associatescapacity of steel-frame beam ends to incorporated in the framing of each floor. In describes two important areas of wind-resistant design for high-rise buildings provide energy absorption. However, several Japan, many kinds of passive damping American Institute of Steel Construction structural designers believed such designs devices, such as hysteretic dampers using in typhoon-prone areas of Japan. Third, through the example of three recently would leave these buildings with residual standard steel or low-yield-strength steel, oil completed high-rise buildings, Japan’s advanced structural technologies are Associate Editors AMSYSCO National Fire Protectiondeformations in frames subjected Association to large dampers, viscous wall dampers, friction Daniel Safarik, Japan: A History of Tall explored, focusing mainly on structural frameworks, high-strength materials plastic deformation, thereby making dampers, visco-elastic dampers, and so on, the history of the rise to an audacious glass-bottomed observa- Aon Fire Protection Engineering Masayoshi Nakai and response-control damping systems. post-quake restoration difficult. In response have been developed over four decades. to this, the concept of damage-controlled With respect to most recent high-rise Steven Henry, CTBUH Author Progression of Seismic Design Tanabashi’s confidence in this formulation was design began to grow (see Figure 3). buildings in Japan, several types of damping ArcelorMittal Masayoshi Nakai, General Manager National Institute of Standards and Technology In Japan’s High-Rises underscored when, in March of the same year, devices are combined and arranged in Takenaka Corporation CTBUH Editor Innovation 1-1-1, Shinsuna, Koto-ku he suggested that research should be started In Japan, following the implementation of highly integrated ways within their structural ARCADIS (US) Tokyo 136-0075, Japan In 1924, one year after the Great Kanto on the construction in Japan of high-rise the New Seismic Design Codes in June 1981, frameworks, in order to optimally control and Figure 2. Kasumigaseki Building, Tokyo. © Joe Jones. Council. For the past tion deck in the world’s second-highest t: +81 3 6810 5197 [email protected] f: +81 3 6660 6168 Earthquake that devastated Tokyo, Professor buildings like those seen in New York. extensive research has been conducted on reduce the building vibration due to seismic Source: Wikipedia architectsAlliance e: [email protected] Nikken Sekkei Toshikata Sano (1880–1956) added to the seismic-isolation structures. or wind load. It can be said that this a www.takenaka.co.jp Urban Building Law a new requirement: the In an article published in April 1963, Tanabashi uniquely Japanese innovation and and strength, made possible by the use of Arquitectonica International static horizontal seismic factor should be set insisted that high-rise buildings should be The Northridge Earthquake of January 1994, represents an advanced approach for the concrete-filled tubular (CFT) steel columns. Masayoshi Nakai After completing the master course at Graduate as 0.1 or more. Ten years later, Professor Ryo possible in Japan in light of the following Los Angeles, and the Great Hanshin structural design of high-rise buildings. Architectural Design & Research InstituteSchool of Engineering, of Kyoto University, Nakai joined Norman Disney & Young several year the CTBUH man-made structure. The nation’s history of tall Tanabashi (1907–1974) published an article examples. Earthquake of January 1995, Kobe, caused In addition, remarkable progress in Takenaka Corporation in 1984 and has been in Antony Wood, CTBUH/IIT/Tongji University charge of advanced structures such as large space in July 1934 stating that the seismic fracture phenomena in many steel-structure computer-aided structural analysis Arup structures, base isolation and vibration control. resistance of a structure cannot be Given that seismic motion works on small and beam-ends, resulting in considerable Enhanced Seismic Resistance technology has made it possible to use a Notable works include the Fukuoka Dome, Odate 04 CTBUH Latest 54 Talking Tall: Hiroo Mori Jukai Dome, Sapporo Dome and Kaohsiung Stadium adequately assessed simply by providing large structures with identical amplitudes, a concern about the feasibility of restoring dynamic response analysis that can Tsinghua University (Taiwan). In 2004, Nakai received three major ample strength against a static horizontalOMA flower vase might fall over in an earthquake, damaged buildings. In addition to the seismic designs mentioned accurately predict the dynamic behavior of Japanese awards for the structural design of an iconic [email protected] has been reporting on achievements since the early 1960s is base-isolated building, Prada Aoyama. Nakai leads force. Tanabashi contended that the seismic but a large high-rise building would not, above, the seismic safety of high-rise steel columns, beams, shear walls, and various Takenaka’s Advanced Structural Engineering division impact should be expressed using the Tanabashi argued, even if both objects were In 1995 a seismic-isolation structure was put structures is steadily being enhanced due to dampers. This, in turn, has resulted in the Aurecon and is responsible for structural scheme design, expert support for design/construction teams and energy squared by the maximum ground proportionally identical. Put another way, into practical use that adopted energy- following factors: higher strength and construction of high-rise buildings with Antony Wood, The VerticalArchitectus Garden City R&D activities relevant to special structures including velocity, and that the resisting capacityOmrania of a contrary to small boats, large ships& are Associatesabsorption members such as steel and lead sufficient ductility of steel materials, the complex framing. supertall buildings. In 2013, he received a PhD in engineering from Kyoto University. structure should be assessed by using the resistant to capsizing in rough seas. dampers,
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