They hammered and climbed until the frame rose into a skylight's deep recess.
As the steel goes up, the frame rises at a rate of two floors a week.
A dozen broken umbrellas hung in a neat row from the bed frame, rising from the rubble like the mast on a shipwreck.
Compared with the infill wall with rigid connection, the strength, the stiffness and the energy-dissipation capacity contributed by the infill wall with flexible connection drop significantly, but the displacement ductility ratio of the frame rises up.
"We did in 10 days what other administrations do in two and a half months," she said, her round frame rising with a heavy sigh, followed by a chuckle at the inanity of the deadline.
Yet the tower, with its beautifully expressed, zig-zagging steel frame, rises out of the density of Hong Kong with a confidence and elegance that places it above the brutal nature of politics.
"It's way too big for us," Dr. Miller said, gazing over what was still just a stick frame, rising in a race with the colder weather that has already started to settle in here at 6,600 feet on the southern Utah plateau.
He lifts the cat off his lap, ignoring a plaintive meow, and silently stands, tottering unsteadily as his thin frame rises in the afternoon light.
Viewers see the structure take shape before their eyes, with the frame rising from the vacant lot, exterior cladding applied and finishing touches added, until the image looks more like a photograph than an artist's rendering.
By 1999, the negative framing of cycling conveyed the message that it is a 'risk to cyclists' (55.6%) and the proportion of the 'risk to non-cyclists' frame rose to 11.1%.
