So complex is this 768-foot-tall anti-skyscraper that the architects,
the Netherlands-based Office of Metropolitan Architecture, chose to show
off the structural seams for visual effect. The building is a
continuous loop (resembling a twisted doughnut to some, “big shorts” to
others), a shape that would normally be too stiff to stand up against
the region’s famously epic earthquakes. Inventive engineering provides
the solution.
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