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São Paulo building for the future freeze-frames Brazil's past.
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Civil Engineering; Nov2013, Vol. 166 Issue 6, p13-19, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- In the middle of São Paulo's vibrant new financial centre is a small eighteenth century house built by one of Brazil's pioneering '', one of the last historical buildings left in the country's largest city. A prestigious new 21-storey office building - national headquarters for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China as well as Google and many others investing in Brazil's future - was recently completed directly in front of the house, but city planners insisted the historic property should remain publicly visible and accessible. This required a 41 m wide, 30 m high opening through the new building to provide a permanent reminder of the country's pioneering past, which in turn called for a 6 m deep post-tensioned transfer structure. This paper describes the design and construction of this concrete-framed building with a difference, focusing on its massive transfer structure - the concrete for which was mixed with ice instead of water to minimise thermal cracking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FINANCIAL institutions
THERMAL stress cracking
URBAN planners
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0965089X
- Volume :
- 166
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Civil Engineering
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 91278712
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.13.00027