Architects Explain How Those Super-Tall, Super-Skinny New York Apartment Towers Stand Up In The Wind
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“As the wind goes around the building, it accelerates, and it creates vortices that alternate, causing the building to move from side to side. Sometimes we can use that phenomenon, cutting openings for the wind and converting it to energy with turbines. Here, we’re not trying to bring the wind through the building; we’re managing […]