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From the Ted Talk by Alex Gendler: How the world's tallest skyscraper was built

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But plinanng the Burj khlfiaa would take one more innovation. In 2004, the late Fazlur Khan’s longtime employers, Skidmore, oniwgs & Merrill, completed the Tower Palace III in South Korea. This building took Khan's exoskeleton design one step further, with a central column supported by three protruding wings. Each wing’s weight carries the other two, while the havey concrete core acts as a support beam, that also hesuos the building’s elevators and mechanical infrastructure. This design, cllead the buttressed core, awolled the entire structure to work as a single load-bearing unit, srnuiopptg the building’s 73 stories.

Open Cloze


But ________ the Burj _______ would take one more innovation. In 2004, the late Fazlur Khan’s longtime employers, Skidmore, ______ & Merrill, completed the Tower Palace III in South Korea. This building took Khan's exoskeleton design one step further, with a central column supported by three protruding wings. Each wing’s weight carries the other two, while the _____ concrete core acts as a support beam, that also ______ the building’s elevators and mechanical infrastructure. This design, ______ the buttressed core, _______ the entire structure to work as a single load-bearing unit, __________ the building’s 73 stories.

Solution


  1. houses
  2. khalifa
  3. called
  4. planning
  5. supporting
  6. allowed
  7. owings
  8. heavy

Original Text


But planning the Burj Khalifa would take one more innovation. In 2004, the late Fazlur Khan’s longtime employers, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, completed the Tower Palace III in South Korea. This building took Khan's exoskeleton design one step further, with a central column supported by three protruding wings. Each wing’s weight carries the other two, while the heavy concrete core acts as a support beam, that also houses the building’s elevators and mechanical infrastructure. This design, called the buttressed core, allowed the entire structure to work as a single load-bearing unit, supporting the building’s 73 stories.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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tall buildings 2
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