{"id":1171,"date":"2023-01-05T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T22:35:14","slug":"architectural-feats-tallest-structures-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/architectural-feats-tallest-structures-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectural feats: tallest structures (past and present)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, our engineers tried to create the tallest structure using only masking tape, spaghetti noodles, and plasticine. Many of us found this challenging, but our record-breaking structures were almost 1 METER in height!<\/p>\n<p>We know that humans have continued building bigger, taller, and more expansive structures throughout history. We discussed how most monuments in history not only have a financial cost (money), but a human cost as well (enslaved peoples or workers being paid unfair wages\/working in unsafe conditions).<\/p>\n<p>We also discussed plans for the next &#8216;biggest&#8217; structure (which, if built, would cost around $1 trillion and could house over 1 million people). Check out the video below for some size comparisons [please note: the last 2 structures are not yet built but are just proposed blueprints]:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future tallest building size comparison 3D animation | Future building project | #trending #building\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pb38oQnRJUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, our engineers tried to create the tallest structure using only masking tape, spaghetti noodles, and plasticine. Many of us found this challenging, but our record-breaking structures were almost 1 METER in height! We know that humans have continued building bigger, taller, and more expansive structures throughout history. We discussed how most monuments in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/architectural-feats-tallest-structures-past-and-present\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Architectural feats: tallest structures (past and present)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}