Steel structure architecture combines the style and aesthetic feeling of classical and modern architecture. Steel structure technology is widely used in many large buildings around the world. What are the steel structure buildings in the world? Please follow the footsteps of Xiaobian to enjoy the elegance of the world's top ten steel structure buildings.
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower stands in the Champ de Mars Square in Paris, France, is the world architecture, is also one of the cultural symbols of France, one of the landmarks of Paris city, is also the tallest building in Paris, 300 meters high, antenna height 24 meters, total height 324 meters, built in 1889, named after the architect and structural engineer Gustave Eiffel designed it. The design of the tower is novel and unique. It is a technical masterpiece in the history of world architecture and an important scenic spot and outstanding symbol of Paris, France. The tower is steel structure and hollow, which can effectively reduce the influence of wind. It is a frame structure, with stability, and small on the big, light on the heavy, very stable.
The Empire State Building in New York
The Empire State Building is located in Manhattan, New York City, the United States, 350 Fifth Avenue, West 33rd Street and West 34th Street between a skyscraper, the name comes from the nickname of New York State ── Empire State, so its English name originally for the New York State Building or Empire State Building, but the translation of the Empire State Building has been agreed worldly, and still in use. The Empire State Building is one of the most important landmarks and tourist attractions in New York City and even the United States. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the United States and America, and the 25th tallest skyscraper in the world. It is also the skyscraper that has maintained the status of higher building in the world for the longest time (1931-1972). The building is 381 meters high and has 103 floors. The antenna added in 1951 is 62 meters high, raising its total height to 443 meters. Designed by Shreeve, Lamb, and Harmon Architecture company, it is an Art Deco style building. The building was started in 1930 and completed in 1931. It's a speed record rarely seen in the world.
The Empire State Building uses a reinforced concrete barrel-within-barrel structure, which increases the lateral stiffness of the building, so that even in winds of 130 kilometers per hour, the greater displacement of the top of the building is only 25.65 centimeters.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge is one of the Bridges in the world and also a miracle of modern bridge engineering. The bridge, designed by bridge engineer Joseph Strauss, is more than 1,900 meters long over the Golden Gate Strait in California. It took four years and more than 100,000 tons of steel to build at a cost of $35.5 million. Because of its historical value, it was co-produced by the United Kingdom and the United States into a documentary of the same name in 2007. Golden Gate Bridge is one of the steel structure Bridges in the world, and also a miracle of modern bridge engineering. It has the reputation of classic orange steel structure bridge.
No.7 Tokyo TV Tower
Tokyo TV Tower was completed in December 1958. It opened to visitors in July 1968. The tower is 333 meters high and covers an area of 2,118 square meters. The World's Tallest Television Tower will be built in Tokyo on September 27, 1998. The tall, free-standing tower in Japan, which is 13 meters taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, shocked the world at the time, using half the material and less than a third of the time it took to build. It is reinforced concrete structure, with strong, durable, good fire performance, compared with pure steel structure to save steel and low cost advantages.
No.6 Sears Tower in Chicago
Sears Tower, also translated as Willis Tower, is a skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was once the tallest building in North America. It was broken by One World Trade Center on November 12, 2013. Opened as the Sears Tower, in 2009 Willis Group, a London-based insurance broker, agreed to lease a large portion of the building as office space and acquired naming rights as part of the contract. At 10:00 on July 16, 2009, the official name of the building was officially changed to Willis Group Building. At 110 stories, the Sears Tower was once the tallest office building in the world. About 16,500 people come to work here every day. On the 103rd floor there is an observation deck for tourists to overlook the whole city. It is 412 meters above the ground, and on a clear day you can see four American states.
The building consists of a steel frame structure. The whole building is regarded as a cantilevered beam structure. The farther the structure is from the ground, the smaller the shear force will be, and the vibration caused by wind pressure on the top of the building will be significantly reduced. This greatly enhances the building's stiffness and resistance to lateral forces.
No.5 Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers
The Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers were once the world's tallest skyscrapers, but remain the world's tallest twin towers and the fifth tallest building in the world. Located in the northwest corner of downtown Kuala Lumpur. The 452-meter, 88-story Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by American architect Cesar Pelli, are clad in stainless steel and glass. The Twin Towers and the nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower are both well-known landmarks and symbols of Kuala Lumpur. The reinforced concrete frame (core tube) extension structure system of the Twin towers is a hybrid structure with reinforced concrete as the main structure, and 7,500 tons of steel is used. The auxiliary circular frame structure next to each main structure is connected with the main body, which can increase the lateral resistance of the main structure.
No.4 Millennium Dome, London
The Millennium Dome has been described as a misshapen structure in the past, but it is also a representative building of London. Britain's £750 million Millennium Dome, built to celebrate the turn of the millennium, has been voted the "ugliest thing in the world" in a poll of architects by financial magazine Forbes. The Millennium Dome is an exhibition and science center building on 300 acres of land on the Greenwich Peninsula by the River Thames. It cost 80 million pounds ($1.25 billion) and was one of the commemorative buildings built in Britain to celebrate the millennium at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.
No.3 World Trade Center
The World Trade Center (1973 -- September 11, 2001) is one of the landmarks of New York City. It is located at the southwest end of Manhattan Island, facing the Hudson River in the west. The World Trade Center consists of two side-by-side tower skyscrapers, four seven-story office buildings and a 22-story hotel built between 1962 and 1976. The owner is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The World Trade Center was once the world's tallest twin towers, the iconic building of New York City, and was once one of the tallest buildings in the world. On September 11, 2001, two of the World Trade Center's main towers collapsed in an attack that shocked the world, killing 2,753 people in the deadliest terrorist accident in history.
The twin towers of the World Trade Center are designed with an innovative steel frame-sleeve system that connects the peripheral support structure to the central core through horizontal floor trusses. This design gives the building extraordinary stability. In addition to bearing the weight of the building, the outer steel columns are subjected to the force of the wind acting on the tower. That is to say, the internal support structure only needs to bear its own vertical load.
No.2 Sydney Grand Theatre
The Sydney Opera House, located in the northern part of the city, is a city landmark designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon. Beneath a shell-shaped roof is an aquatic complex that combines a theatre and a hall. The interior of the opera House is modeled after Mayan culture and Aztec temples. The construction of the building began in March 1959 and was officially completed and put into use on October 20, 1973. It took 14 years. The Sydney Opera House, an Australian landmark and one of the more distinctive buildings of the 20th century, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
The Sydney Opera House uses converted reinforced concrete structural walls to support the roof with a multi-storey structure that supports the load without breaking the curvature of the original design.
No.1 Beijing Bird's Nest
The Bird's Nest is the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. By 2001 Pritzker Prize winner Herzog and de Meuron and Chinese architect Li Xinggang, the design of the giant stadium is like a "nest" of life, it is more like a cradle, where human hopes for the future are placed. The designers didn't do anything extra with the stadium, but frankly left the structure exposed, thus forming the appearance of the building naturally. In July 2007, The Times ranked the Bird's Nest at the top of a list of the 10 most important building projects under construction around the world. In the latest issue of Time magazine published on December 24 of the same year, the Bird's Nest was selected as the top ten architectural wonders of the world in 2007.
