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Groundscraper
A groundscraper is a large building that has relatively few stories but which greatly extends horizontally. Definition MSN Encarta defines ''groundscraper'' as "a large low or medium-rise building, typically containing offices, that spreads horizontally and occupies a large amount of land". Examples * 5 Broadgate, a groundscaper owned by Swiss bank UBS, is the largest office building in the City of London. * Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center in Shenzhen is as large as the Empire State Building, but is laid out horizontally and 5 stories above ground level. A park occupies the space below. *The Pentagon - the world's largest office building *Apple Park *The Squaire *Domino's Farms Office Park * Colossus of Prora, originally 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in length. *Estonian National Museum See also *Skyscraper *List of largest buildings Buildings around the world listed by usable space (volume), footprint (area), and floor space (area) comprise single structures that are suitable for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 Broadgate
5 Broadgate is a groundscraper in the City of London. It was designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects for Swiss bank UBS, the world's largest private bank. It is notable for the horizontal, diagonal and vertical strips of windows on its steel exterior. Design 5 Broadgate contains of office space over 13 storeys adjacent to Liverpool Street station. Its façade is made of stainless steel. The building is high at its corners, as tall as the other buildings on the Broadgate estate. Only about 35 per cent of the façade contains glazing for heat insulation. The exterior contains horizontal, diagonal and vertical strips of windows. The horizontal windows generally overlook the offices, the vertical windows are near the lift shafts, and the diagonal windows are adjacent to the exit stairs. 5 Broadgate features open terraces on higher stories, and it has a large 5 carved into its exterior on the ground floor. The two lowest storeys contain a 200-seat auditorium, restaurant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Squaire
The Squaire is an office building in Frankfurt, Germany. It was built between 2006 and 2011 on top of an existing train station (Frankfurt Airport long-distance station) near Frankfurt Airport. The building is 660 m long, 65 m wide, 45 m high, and has nine floors. With a total floor area of it is the largest office building in Germany.''DB Schenker entscheidet sich gegen IVG''. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nr. 46, 24 February 2011, p.15. Its dimensions and design make it a groundscraper. The Squaire is directly connected to Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport through a pedestrian connecting corridor. Name The term ''Squaire'' is a portmanteau of the words ''square'' and ''air''. The name was announced in June 2010. The project's original name was ''Airrail Center Frankfurt''. The term ''Airrail'' is a compound of the words ''air'' and ''rail''. Location and connections The Squaire is located between two motorways, the Bundesautobahn 3 and the Bundesstraße 43, close to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Park
Apple Park is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States. It was opened to employees in April 2017, while construction was still underway, and superseded the original headquarters at Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, which opened in 1993. The main building's scale and circular groundscraper design, by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Norman Foster, have earned the structure the media nickname "the spaceship." Located on a suburban site totaling , it houses more than 12,000 employees in one central four-story circular building of approximately . Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted the campus to look less like a business park and more like a Nature park, nature refuge; 80 percent of the site consists of green space planted with drought-resistant trees and plants indigenous to the Cupertino area, and the center courtyard of the main building features an artificial pond. History In April 2006, Apple's then CEO Steve Jobs annou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Largest Office Buildings
This is a list of largest office buildings in the world by floor area. See also *List of tallest hotels in the world *List of tallest residential buildings in the world References {{Reflist Office buildings An office is a space where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific dut ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-rise buildings. Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscrapers' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterised by large surface ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prora
The Colossus of Prora, commonly known as simply "Prora", is a building complex in the municipality of Binz on the island of Rügen, Germany. It was built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939 as part of the Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude or KdF) project. It consisted of eight identical buildings and was in length parallel to the beach, with the surviving structures stretching . Although the buildings were planned as a holiday resort, construction was not completed and they were not used for this purpose. After World War II, the complex found various military uses, first by the Soviet Army, then by the East German Volksarmee, and then by the German Bundeswehr. Today it houses a large youth hostel, a hotel and vacation apartments. The complex has a formal heritage listing as a particularly striking example of Nazi architecture. Location Prora lies on an extensive bay between the Sassnitz and Binz regions, known as the Prorer Wiek, on the narrow heath (the ''Prora'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino's Farms Office Park
Domino's Pizza, Inc., trading as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960 and led by CEO Russell Weiner. The corporation is Delaware domiciled and headquartered at the Domino's Farms Office Park in Ann Arbor Township, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. As of 2018, Domino's had approximately 15,000 stores, with 5,649 in the United States, 1,500 in India, and 1,249 in the United Kingdom. Domino's has stores in over 83 countries and 5,701 cities worldwide. In 2018 Domino's Pizza was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame. History 1960s–2010s In 1960, Tom Monaghan and his brother, James, took over the operation of DomiNick's, an existing location of a small pizza restaurant chain that had been owned by Dominick DeVarti, at 507 Cross Street (now 301 West Cross Street)James Leonard, ''Living the Faith: A Life of Tom Monaghan'' (University of Michigan Press, 2012) pp41-55 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, near Eastern Michigan University. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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