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• Skyscrapers [www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/skyscraper.html]

• New high-rise keeps tenants in a down market Seattle PI, Thursday, April 4, 2002; By MARNI LEFF "Seattle needed new, high-rise growth space," he said. "The product our tenants are moving out of is at a minimum 12 years older, and the buildings themselves are tired; the improvements are tired."

• Baruch College Opens a Huge 'Vertical Campus' New York Times, August 28, 2001 By KAREN W. ARENSON Probably the biggest single topic of conversation yesterday was the elevators. William Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, the architects for the building, said the main challenge had been how to move as many as 3,000 students between classes at a time.

  Most office buildings are not built for such huge, unceasing traffic flows. In some of Baruch's old buildings, the line for the elevators sometimes flooded out of the buildings and snaked around the block, as students waited 15 or 20 minutes.

  The new building has six roomy elevators side by side -- nicknamed the six-pack -- elevators open on both ends and stop only at every third floor. (Riders are expected to take escalators or use the stairs to get to the floors in between or take the slower, smaller elevators farther away from the classrooms that stop at each floor.) Yesterday, riders rarely had to wait more than a few minutes.

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