How to build a skyscraper out of wood (Vigte: I was skeptical, but I read through and they seem to have thought it through quite well... I'm impressed.)

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If I recall correctly...

When they sealed up the folks in the Biosphere 2 they had a problem. Unaccounted for CO2. Turns out it was leaching from the concrete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

"Architecture" is on my long list of subs to add. I was saving all my Earthships, alt-homes, TinyHomes, tensegrity, tensile structures, and hyperbolic paraboloid structures till then.

My most important project is a story with a huge tower of sorts, very complicated for reasons.