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“To have an affordable tall building, it has to be like a Swiss watch”

Bill Baker is an American structural engineer and consulting partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago, USA. He has been working on tall buildings since the early 1980s and is best known for the engineering of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest highrise structure.

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Poverty – topos 125

They are called slums, shanty towns or informal settlements. Clusters of buildings like these in India, seen from an impressive aerial perspective, represent poverty and precarious living conditions in this world like few other images. Photo: Aman Upadhyay

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HAVE A LOOK AT OUR MAP to discover new articles
Remember when printed maps were all the rage? Yeah, neither do we. But responsive maps are much cooler anyways: topos magazine presents ideas, projects and people from all over the world. If you are interested in a certain area, we are making research easy for you. Just navigate our map or do some old school typing and put your area of interest into the search bar.

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Elected as the most livable city for the second time

Metropolis Explained: Vienna

Friedrich Passler, architect at AllesWirdGut, writes in topos 109 about Vienna: a city worth living in and loving, which continues to grow, but in a healthy way.

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