Liftbuild nears completion on remarkable “top-down” skyscraper
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Image caption: Liftbuild has nearly completed its first top-down skyscraper build in Detroit. Image courtesy of Liftbuild / Barton Marlow. Article by Loz Blain. New Atlas – February 6, 2023.
The Exchange tower in Detroit is nearly finished, a 207-ft (63-m)-tall proof-of-concept for an advanced modular construction technique. Its floors were each pre-built on the ground, then hoisted up on central spines and installed from the top down.
An awkward, triangular site near the Greektown neighborhood was chosen for the project, since according to the developers, it wouldn’t have been possible to build a tower of this height using traditional construction methods – the elevated […]
