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...adow anymore, but there isssomething new, the play of reflection. Both are determined by the nature of glass as material. Thesmateriality is made visible through the rendering the architect has done. =-=[4]-=- [5] [6].sAccording to L. Hilbeseimer [7] Mies van der Rohe was influenced by the model of the loadsbearing structure of a skyscraper in construction, when imagining a shape out of skin and skeleton.s...

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... scholar at the Romanian School insRome. In many cases contemporary digital reconstructions deal with scanning of such models, as itsis also the case for historical Liege (virtual Leodium) and Nantes =-=[1]-=-. In other cases, where the hardscopy model was not done as an effort in the second half of the 20 thscentury, the modelling based onsreconstruction from archives is preferred, as for the EUR exhibiti...

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... urban areas, but tosthe scale objects, to the city in the vertical, which is the contemporary pendant in what verticalssymbols of the city were, instead of the church from before, the skyscraper.sIn =-=[2]-=- we gave an overview of the games based on skyscraper building as toys. Such ones include:s“Collectors tumbling tower” (Cardinal Industries, 1999, which was to build in the height withspieces from bel...

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...en F. L. Wright was suggested to design a radiostower. He found that such a tower has to have some other building function, and so he designed asfuturistic skyscraper, a challenge for his imagination =-=[10]-=-.sWith its 528 storeys this building should be five times higher than the highest building in the world,sa city in the sky. Doubtlessly in this case the focus was on the rigidity of the structure. Wri...

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...stoodsdifferently, as they cannot be opened anymore, the contact between inside and outside is like in asplane. Finis Farr noted that „this is the only project of Wright which has something scaring”. =-=[13]-=-sAt such height conventional lifts cannot be used anymore. So the elevators should be operated withsnuclear energy. The exterior parapets, the exterior horizontal and vertical elements as well as thes...

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...es which can be combined, asskyscraper building game instead of a city building game, the vertical city in the utopias.sIn an approach we did ourselves to digitally represent landmarks in urban areas =-=[14]-=-, we built on ansown concept to digitally represent the impact of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake mentioned in thesintroduction [15]. For this, landmarks are represented as strategical objects with respect...

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...pproach we did ourselves to digitally represent landmarks in urban areas [14], we built on ansown concept to digitally represent the impact of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake mentioned in thesintroduction =-=[15]-=-. For this, landmarks are represented as strategical objects with respect to the urbansarea which is seen as a zone. They are derived with the same method spaces are expression of asfeeling in a cube,...