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2020 Skyscraper Competition
Shulong Ren, Hongrui Lai, Chang Liu

China

With the rapid development of the global economy and the increase of urban population in the recent 100 years, especially in recent decades, many high-density areas with skyscrapers have appeared in most cities around the world. Hong Kong is one of the typical. But with the continuous development of the city and with the problems of aging and disrepair of structures or backward functions., many high-rise buildings are facing the reality of being demolished and reconstructed. However, there are many difficulties in the demolition of skyscrapers in dense urban areas nowadays. The first is technological, the cost is a high and heavy degree of difficulty. Besides, the impact on the urban environment is large, the waste of resources is serious and it has a great impact on the lives of the surrounding population and the surrounding economy. In addition, with the continuous expansion of the city and the transfer of the urban central area, these iconic high-density high-rise building urban areas gradually decline with the problems like the aging of buildings, outdated infrastructure, and other issues. These areas lost their vitality and gradually become the backward side of the city. This project discusses how to solve this dilemma of urban skyscrapers at present from the perspective of the future, search out the new extent to the demolition of high-rise buildings in a small and narrow ...