Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Announces Libeskind WTC Design to Be World's Tallest Building.Business Editors/Real Estate Writers BETHLEHEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2003 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat The Council on Tall buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) was founded at Lehigh University in 1969. Its office remained at Lehigh until October 2003, when it moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. , an international organization sponsored by all professions concerned with the design, construction and operation of tall buildings and the urban environment announces that the design by Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum for the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North will be the world's tallest building should it be built to the proposed height of 1,776 feet eclipsing the Petronas Towers Petronas Towers, twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that are the world's tallest twin towers. Standing 1,483 ft (452 m) high, they were designed by the Argentinean-American architect Cesar Pelli. in Malaysia that are 1,483 feet. Under the Council's definitions, a "building" is considered to be a structure that is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing purposes. An essential characteristic of a building is that it has floors. A "tall building" is not strictly defined by the number of stories or its height. The important criterion is whether or not the design, use, or operation of the building is influenced by some aspect of "tallness." Although there may be "structures" such as television transmitting towers that are taller than both the Petronas Towers and the new WTC WTC World Trade Center, see there design, they are not considered "buildings" under the Council's definitions. Ron Klemencic, Chairman of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat said, "In defining the future safety and security of the built environment, the voices of building occupants must play a key role. The choice ahead of us is fundamentally about how we expend ex·pend tr.v. ex·pend·ed, ex·pend·ing, ex·pends 1. To lay out; spend: expending tax revenues on government operations. See Synonyms at spend. 2. our limited resources, while creating safer buildings." Educating the "end-users" of buildings regarding what is possible and practical is a fundamental obligation of the architecture and engineering communities. CTBUH CTBUH Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is providing leadership toward this end with two recently published guidebooks. Added Klemencic: "These guidebooks are to buildings, what Consumer Reports magazine is to products. An educated consumer will help drive what safety enhancements are provided in the future." To order these guidebooks or for more information, please call CTBUH at 610/758-3521 or visit their Web site at www.ctbuh.org. The Council's mission is to disseminate information on healthy urban environments and tall building technology, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved in creating the build environment, and to make the latest knowledge available to professionals worldwide in a useful form. |
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