architecture - Tallest building possible by the Roman Empire ...
The building can be as wide as needed (even surpassing the Colosseum, if needed), circular on the base, and should be vaguely tower shaped (such as the later Tower of Pisa, as an …
Could a supertall building have been built in the 18th century?
2018年1月18日 · The first building to take the "tallest in the world" title from the Great Pyramid, it wouldn't have lost that title from 1311 until the Eiffel Tower if the spire hadn't fallen down in an …
Massive Medieval structures - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2020年4月9日 · It was the tallest building in the world for about 200 years. Definitely medieval, and definitely very much taller than the puny 60 meters required by the question. There are …
The 10,000 year skyscraper - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2016年11月1日 · The 1903 Flatiron building in New York went to 94m, and finally in 1908 the Singer tower went to 187m and beat the pyramids. Even today, the pyramids would be tall for …
Architectural feasibility of a tiered circular stone keep
2019年8月23日 · You're building The Colosseum (arches in a circle), using modular construction like Sears' tower, to a height of less than 200 feet just like the Monadnock building, otherwise …
What factors determine how tall the buildings in a city will be?
Consider an ideal city, which is a single building with all shops, manufacturing and residential areas inside. If you have N people, you will pack them into say N*M square meter building (M …
In modern world, what is the largest building that could be built ...
2017年2月18日 · If you construct the base of the building on a jig that has the same ground profile and contour of the target location, then you can just sit it right down and be done. 1450 ft (plus …
Could extremely tall towers be held up by balloons so that they …
2021年12月8日 · I note that the Burj Kalifa in Dubai is a building 829.8 meters or 2,722 feet tall. The Jeddah Tower, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is planned to be even taller, at least 1,000 meters, …
science based - What is the tallest mountain possible in any ...
Step 2: building a mountain. I'm going to run with the idea of a shield volcano, since that category includes the largest mountain in the Solar System and the largest base-to-height mountain on …
science based - Practical height of towers without elevators ...
2018年10月11日 · So with advanced enough building techniques, and sufficient reasons for building a building of a great height, and sufficiently intelligent methods of getting people and …