Groundscraper
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A groundscraper is a large building that has relatively few stories but which greatly extends horizontally.
Definition
Encarta defines groundscraper as "a large low or medium-rise building, typically containing offices, that spreads horizontally and occupies a large amount of land".{{cite web |url=http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_701706384/groundscraper.html |title=Groundscraper definition |website=MSN Encarta |access-date=January 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091117091751/http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_701706384/groundscraper.html |archive-date=November 17, 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{better source needed|date=September 2023}}
Examples
- 5 Broadgate, a groundscaper owned by Swiss bank UBS, was once the largest office building in the City of London.{{cite web
| url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2e1d95e-03ae-11e0-8c3f-00144feabdc0.html
| title=City 'groundscraper' unveiled
| website=FT.com
| date=May 16, 2006
| access-date=January 17, 2011}}
- Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center in Shenzhen is as large as the Empire State Building, but is laid out horizontally and five stories above ground level.{{Cite news|last=Ouroussoff|first=Nicolai|date=2011-06-27|title=Turning Design on Its Side|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/arts/design/steven-holls-design-for-the-vanke-center-in-china-review.html|access-date=2021-06-29|issn=0362-4331}} A park occupies the space below.{{cite news
| last=Cheek
| first=Lawrence W.
| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/business/16build.html
| title=Architects Find Their Dream Client, in China
| newspaper=The New York Times
| date=January 15, 2011
| url = http://www.stevenholl.com/projects/vanke-center?
| title = Horizontal Skyscraper - Vanke Center
| website = Steven Holl Architects
| access-date = September 16, 2014}}
- The Pentagon{{snd}} the world's second largest office building
- Apple Park
- Bharat Mandapam
- The Squaire
- Colossus of Prora, originally 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in length.
- Estonian National Museum
- SAS Frösundavik Office Buildingvan Meel, Jurian. The European Office: Office Design and National Context. 010 Publishers, 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uChnN-SJDNMC&pg=PA97 97]. Retrieved from Google Books'' on 12 February 2010. {{ISBN|90-6450-382-6}}, {{ISBN|978-90-6450-382-5}}.
- The klystron gallery at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is 3 kilometers long and 1 story high.
- Each arm of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors is 4 kilometers long and housed in an above-ground concrete structure.
- Boeing Everett Factory main assembly building, world's largest building by volume but only 114 feet (35 m) tall.