The ever increasing population and urbanization has led to construction of high rise structures and demolishing existing old low rise ones.
The ready mixed concrete industry has been developing rapidly as a result of technological improvements, especially for skyscrapers and high rise structures.
The architectural footprint of some of the high rise structures are contemporary.
Much of the high-rise structure was reduced to rubble Tuesday by the wind-driven flames.
Thus, under wind forces there are several performance criteria that a high-rise structure must meet.
N.Y.U.'s proposals south of the square for a massive student center and replacement of the Poe house (85 West Third Street) with a high-rise structure behind the church will irreparably encroach upon and damage White's masterpiece of composition.
Leslie E. Robertson, the man charged with designing the guts of the twin towers, had a certain disdain for the reliable but uninspiring confines of the traditional high-rise structure.
The design, by Mr. Todd and Robert Cabrera, called for 45-story, red-brick apartment buildings on each end of the long block, with a low-rise structure between them.
While architects and urban planners debated whether the towering high-rise structure that became such an iconic feature of C.H.A. housing was actually beneficial for residents or not, policymakers missed something else altogether.
The quake went on an awfully long time, and was scary as hell, but Samoans build their houses simply, so the danger of being injured by a collapsing high-rise structure is practically nonexistent.
