How to Build a Skyscraper Hill John
An architectural expert tours 46 of the world's most significant skyscrapers "A useful ready-reference work and a treat for architecture buffs " -- Booklist "Handsome color photographs, fact-packed…
Specifikacia How to Build a Skyscraper Hill John
An architectural expert tours 46 of the world's most significant skyscrapers "A useful ready-reference work and a treat for architecture buffs " -- Booklist "Handsome color photographs, fact-packed summaries and crisp drawings (especially, a lucid cutaway look at each skyscraper) enhance his bite-sized blocks of text This book stays true to its title, probing beneath the skin of skyscrapers to reveal their structural bones and the other things that shape them It's a fine primer, especially for skyscraper geeks in search of a vicarious 'round-the-world tour " -- Chicago TribuneThis distinctive book is the most comprehensive collection of modern skyscrapers published in the last 20 years Skyscrapers have been piercing the clouds since the end of the nineteenth century but today's soaring land prices are driving developers to