Space Needle, Seattle
- The Space Needle is a landmark in Seattle, Washington, United States. It has been designated as a Seattle landmark because it is regarded as a city icon.
- It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World’s Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, and is located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood.
- The Space Needle, at 605 feet, was once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River.
- It is designed to withstand winds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h) and earthquakes of up to 9.0 magnitude, which is equivalent to the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
Cybertecture Egg Office Building, India
- The Cybertecture Egg is a 13-story commercial building in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex, Maharashtra, India.
- The Cybertecture Egg was designed by architect James Law in collaboration with Ove Arup’s building systems and engineering firm.
- The building was designed with sustainability in mind, and it has 33,000 square meters of office space, an elevated garden, and three levels of basement parking with 400 spaces, all while taking up about 15% less space than a traditional office building
- The Cybertecture Egg’s structure is made up of diagrid exoskeletons, which form a rigid structural system and allow it to be built with less material than a traditional orthogonal building.