How Engineers Are Building Skyscrapers That Seem Physically Impossible

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Gizmodo
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 1:40pm

Stephen DeSimone, president of DeSimone Consulting Engineering in New York, is engineering a new kind of skyscraper. He’s working on structures unlike anything else in the world: Supertall buildings with unusually small footprints.Read more...

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