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View at the museum ↗TRIZEK 60-Story Office Building Proposal, Kansas City, Design Sketches
Harry Weese Associates1981
- Attribution
- Harry Weese Associates (American, 1947–2000) Robert Eugene Bell (American, 20th Cent.)
- Medium
- Black ink on paper
- Physical dimensions
- 27.9 × 21.5 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert E. Bell
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In the early 1980s, architect Harry Weese and structural engineer Charles H. Thornton collaborated on an experimental project for a supertall skyscraper with a 45-degree torque from the base to the top of the tower, providing wind resistance in a manner similar to guy lines, the steel cables employed to stabilize broadcasting towers and telephone poles. Although Weese was not known for designing tall buildings, this high-profile study led to a widely publicized, unrealized design of 1982 for a 210-story building for the World Trade Center Chicago. Since then his ideal of the twisted rectangular column has become a standard type for contemporary tall buildings, including the design for the 1 World Trade Center in New York.
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