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Frank Lloyd-Wright's Proposed Mile High Skyscraper

(Twice the Hight of The Burj Khalifa)

Although Wright is known for his criticism of skyscrapers, he remained fascinated by the possibilities of taller buildings in novel forms, according to material released by the foundation. 

One such design was The Illinois, a mile-high tower planned for the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago. When it was unveiled at a press conference in 1956, Wright envisioned the tower as the centerpiece to his Broadacre City master plan that he had originally revealed in 1932.

Designed with a deep “taproot” that extended 15 stories underground, much like an upside-down Eiffel Tower, the central concrete-and-steel core of the above-ground portion of the skyscraper would have extended upward from this foundation. 

The antennalike central structure would have been a steel frame with four winglike buttresses from which concrete floors would have cantilevered. 

Wright believed that such a deeply rooted structure would be able to withstand the wind-induced oscillations that steel towers tend to experience.

At 528 stories, it would have been four times as tall as the world’s tallest building at the time, with Wright reported as saying, “The Empire State Building would be a mouse by comparison,” according to the foundation.

As a “city in the sky,” according to Wright, the design called for 18 million sq ft of workspace for 100,000 people. The structure would have had 76 elevators, with hypothetical five-story-high cabs that served five floors at a time. Wright imagined that the elevators would be powered by atomic energy with a capacity to move up to 1 mi in just a minute, according to the foundation.

This article first appeared on Civil Engineering Online as “Visualization unveiled for unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright tower.” It appeared in the March/April 2023 issue of Civil Engineering as “Mile High.”

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Robert Miles - Children 1995

"Children" is an instrumental composition by Italian composer Robert Miles. It was first released in Italy in January 1995 as part of the EP Soundtracks on Joe Vannelli's DBX label, but it did not chart. Vannelli brought the track to a nightclub in Miami where it was heard by Simon Berry of Platipus Records. Berry worked with Vannelli and James Barton (of Liverpool's Cream nightclub) to release the composition in November 1995 as the lead single from Miles's debut album, Dreamland (1996). "Children" was certified gold and platinum in several countries and reached number one in more than 12 countries and held that position for several weeks; it was Europe's most successful single of 1996. "Children" cost £150 to record. It earned Miles a Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act 1997, a World Music Award as World's Best Selling Male Newcomer, and various other awards.

Miles gave two inspirations for the writing of "Children". One was as a response to photographs of child Yugoslav war victims that his father had brought home from a humanitarian mission in the former Yugoslavia; and the other, inspired by his career as a DJ, was to create a track to end DJ sets, intended to calm rave attendants prior to their driving home as a means to reduce car accident deaths. "Children" is one of the pioneering tracks of Dream house, a genre of electronic dance music characterized by dream-like piano melodies, and a steady four-on-the-floor bass drum. The creation of dream house was a response to social pressures in Italy during the early 1990s: the growth of rave culture among young adults, and the ensuing popularity of nightclub attendance, had created a weekly trend of deaths due to car accidents as clubbers drove across the country overnight, falling asleep at the wheel from strenuous dancing as well as alcohol and drug use. In mid-1996, deaths due to this phenomenon, called strage del sabato sera (Saturday night slaughter) in Italy, were being estimated at 2000 since the start of the decade. The move by DJs such as Miles to play slower, calming music to conclude a night's set, as a means to counteract the fast-paced, repetitive tracks that preceded, was met with approval by authorities and parents of car crash victims.

"Children" received a total of 82,5% yes votes!

[ecstarry]

imagine regulus’ bachelor trip were he made pandora best woman and she makes everyone wear pink team groom shirts and pink cowboy hats with sparkles and honestly reg doesn’t mind because the sight of all of them with matching shirts in the airport is fucking hilarious they are in the american express lounge waiting for their flight and parents are keeping their children close and covering their ears because barty ‘bad mouth’ crouch can’t stop talking about all the absolutely not family friendly activities they will be doing that weekend

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shiny boy

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[246bce]

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