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Design concepts and description of construction of new Toronto City Hall and Civic Square; two office towers are vertical cylindrical shells stiffened by vertical piers and horizontal diaphragms of floor construction; between towers, council chamber is prestressed conical shell supported on cylindrical shaft; roof of chamber is circular dome with prestressed perimeter ring beam; results of wind tunnel tests that were performed on models because of unusual shape of tower structures.
Design concepts and description of construction of new Toronto City Hall and Civic Square; two office towers are vertical cylindrical shells stiffened by vertical piers and horizontal diaphragms of floor construction; between towers, council chamber is prestressed conical shell supported on cylindrical shaft; roof of chamber is circular dome with prestressed perimeter ring beam; results of wind tunnel tests that were performed on models because of unusual shape of tower structures.
Toronto city hall and civic square
Am Concrete Inst -- J
Roy, H.E.H. (author)
1965
22 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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