SkyscrapersIn this suitably tall, slender, and vividly illustrated album, the world's major skyscrapers are described and celebrated, from the 1902 Flatiron Building in Manhattan to the sleek, arch-topped Kingdom Center in Saudi Arabia, built a century later. These 44 buildings are hailed not simply as the tallest but also, in many cases, as highly innovative feats of engineering. One of these is the 1977 Citigroup Center in Manhattan, counterbalanced against wind vibrations with a 440-ton concrete mass in the roof, and seemingly jacked up on a few pillars to create an open public space beneath it, occupied in part by a Lutheran chapel. ISBN: 8854000892 Authors: Antonino Terranova. Pages/Length: 312 Publisher: White Star Publishers Publication Date: 2003 Format: Paperback Primary Subject: architecture ONE VERY TALL NEW BOOK in STOCK Requires Larger Priority Mail BOX for shippng $10.00 Media Mail cost remains the same. |