抄録
Presented in this paper is an outline of a structural design of TOKYO SKYTREE which is a new core facility of digital broadcasting for Tokyo metropolitan area of Japan. It has a height of 634m, and the highest tower in the world for broadcasting today. The requirements for structural design in Japan are extremely severe, because several typhoons arrive every summer and big earthquakes occur with high probability, and consequently Tokyo Sky Tree was required to adopt high criteria, over the building regulations in Japan, because of its heavy public responsibility to send valuable information to the victims in a big disaster. Unique systems for a vibration control, The Core Column System that was invented for this tower to satisfy the requirements for the structural design.
