A groundscraper is a large building that has relatively few stories but which greatly extends horizontally.
Definition
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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
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5 Broadgate, a groundscaper owned by Swiss bank
UBS, was once the largest office building in
the City of London.
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Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center in
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...
is as large as the
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its n ...
, but is laid out horizontally and five stories above ground level.
A park occupies the space below.
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The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As ...
the
world's second largest office building
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Apple Park
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Bharat Mandapam
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The Squaire
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Colossus of Prora, originally 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in length.
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Estonian National Museum
*SAS Frösundavik Office Building
[van Meel, Jurian. ''The European Office: Office Design and National Context''. '' 010 Publishers, 2000]
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Retrieved from ''Google Books
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'' on 12 February 2010. , .
* The
klystron gallery at the
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, Menlo Park, Ca ...
is 3 kilometers long and 1 story high.
* Each arm of the
LIGO gravitational wave detectors is 4 kilometers long and housed in an above-ground concrete structure.
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Boeing Everett Factory main assembly building,
world's largest building by volume but only 114 feet (35 m) tall.
See also
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Earthscraper
An earthscraper is a building that provides multiple stories of permanent space below ground where people may live: the inverse of very tall high-rise buildings. Though humans have been building structures underground for centuries, such dwellin ...
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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...
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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 continuous human occupancy. There are, however, some Nonbuilding structure#Exceptions, exception ...
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