Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's lead structural designer for the $1.1-billion Burj Dubai-already a 668-meter concrete-and-steel giant-is blase about the complexity of construction, even at the upper reaches of the desert "cloudbuster." But for most others on the unprecedented vertical expedi- William F. Baker, SOM's structural partner for the job, does not underplay the amount of effort poured into the design of the 479,830-sq-m vertical cantilever to keep it as simple and repetitive as possible. "You wouldn't believe the amount of time it took [just] to get the core right," he says. But Baker is somewhat understated about the sophisticated design's realization: "Construction is uneventful because the structure is not complicated."
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机译：Skiingmore，Owings＆Merrill负责11亿美元的迪拜塔（Burj Dubai）的首席结构设计师，已经是一个668米的混凝土和钢铁巨人，即使在沙漠的“毁云片”上游也对建筑的复杂性感到不满。但是对于大多数采用前所未有的垂直解决方案的人来说，SOM的结构合作伙伴William F. Baker并没有低估倾注于479,830平方米垂直悬臂设计中的工作量，以保持其简单性和重复性。可能。他说：“您不会相信（仅仅）获得核心权利所花费的时间。”但是Baker对于复杂设计的实现有些轻描淡写：“构造很平整，因为结构并不复杂。”
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