The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
Roger Frechette & Russell Gilchrist, SOM
Zero-Energy Tower, Guangzhou
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Environmental Concerns
Part 3: Buildings & the Environment
Part 4: Global Warming, Emissions, and Practices
Part 5: Guiding Principles
Part 6: Sponge Philosophy
Part 7: Four Steps
Part 8: China & Urbanization
Part 9: The Air We Breathe
Part 10: Pearl River
Part 11: Guangzhou
Part 12: Pearl River Tower
Part 13: The Tower's Design
Part 14: Strategies
Part 15: Tools
Part 16: Solar Radiation
Part 17: Radiant Cooling
Part 18: Radiant Panel System
Part 19: Air Flow
Part 20: Economics
Part 21: Return on Investment
Part 22: Promotional Film
Part 23: Q & A