Skyscrapers

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Discover the amazing stories beliind tiie world's greatest skyscrapers, tlie buildings that reach up to explore the frontier in the sky.
More than 120 iconic skyscraper buildings are described in detail. Each is lavishly illustrated with a rich mix of stunning color photography, artist's renderings, and schematic drawings.
A comparative height chart profiles every building so that the world's tallest skyscrapers can be compared at a glance.
While the Petronas Towers reflect the aspirations of an entire nation, skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building remain the most powerful style
icons of their day.
Significant skyscrapers like the World Trade Center Twin Towers have defined the course of history itself, and others such as the Pearl River Tower signpost sustainable solutions that could help to save the planet
for the future.
From the lost pioneering skyscrapers of the 19th century to the tallest man-made structure in the vior\A Skyscrapers is a breathtaking journey toward... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Discover the amazing stories beliind tiie world's greatest skyscrapers, tlie buildings that reach up to explore the frontier in the sky.
More than 120 iconic skyscraper buildings are described in detail. Each is lavishly illustrated with a rich mix of stunning color photography, artist's renderings, and schematic drawings.
A comparative height chart profiles every building so that the world's tallest skyscrapers can be compared at a glance.
While the Petronas Towers reflect the aspirations of an entire nation, skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building remain the most powerful style
icons of their day.
Significant skyscrapers like the World Trade Center Twin Towers have defined the course of history itself, and others such as the Pearl River Tower signpost sustainable solutions that could help to save the planet
for the future.
From the lost pioneering skyscrapers of the 19th century to the tallest man-made structure in the vior\A Skyscrapers is a breathtaking journey toward the peaks of architectural aspiration.
Skyscrapers are the most exciting and controversial elements of today's built environment. These are buildings that strive to break free from the earthbound world of everyday life; they stretch heavenviiard challenging the force of gravity itself. The influential Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas invoked this pioneering spirit when he described the drive toward taller and taller buildings in New York in this way: 'Ivlanhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.'
In this wonderfully illustrated book, Herbert Wright provides a spectacular history of the world's greatest skyscrapers from the completion of New York's 15 Park Row in 1899 to today's mighty Taipei 101 in Taiwan which stands nearly a third of a mile high and is currently the world's tallest building. He then looks forward into the 21st century and reveals how the application of advanced computing to design has produced an extraordinary new generation of skyscrapers that blossom in a variety of bizarre and sublime shapes. These buildings seem almost to be organic entities that grow and evolve like living forms in a landscape.
He also previews the new generation of supertall towers that are under construction and which are set to push the height record beyond an amazing 2625ft (800m) in the near future. Shanghai, Dubai, and Hong Kong now challenge New York and Chicago as skyscraper capitals of the world, and The Burj Dubai tower will dwarf any 20th century skyscraper.
Skyscrapers, then, are both a visible record of the past and a signpost to the future. Old or new, they exhilarate. This is their story. Vissza