Tall Stories
Beginning of paper
Picture in your mind the skyline of downtown Toronto. There's the CN Tower,
of course, and the 72-floor First Canadian Place, the city's tallest
skyscraper. Cascading from there are the assorted banks and hotels and
insurance towers.
Now, use your imagination to construct some new buildings, these ones
reaching three, four and five t ....
Middle of paper
.... Tall buildings require a large base to
support their load and keep them stable. In general, the height of a
building should be six times its base, so, for a skyscraper 900-m tall,
you'd need a base of 150 square m.
That much space is hard to come by in, say, downtown Toronto, forcing
you to look for an undeveloped area, perhaps the Don Valley ravine, next
to the Science Centre. Bear in mind though that the Don Valley is overlain
by loos ....
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Number of words: 2161
Number of pages: 8 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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