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Skyscrapers: A History of the World’s Most Extraordinary Buildings — Revised and Updated

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A landmark bestseller that “captivates the attention, thoughts, and creativeness,” (The New York Occasions), Skyscrapers is a novel and large party of the arena’s so much vital and putting tremendous-systems.


Uniquely designed to exhibit the entire colour pictures of the arena’s tallest homes, Skyscrapers explores the structure, engineering, and cultural affect of greater than 60 skyline defining homes together with:

  • One Global Business Center
  • Burj Khalifa
  • The Empire State Building
  • The Shanghai Global Monetary Center
  • The Petronas Towers
  • Tribune Tower
  • The Shard
  • Shanghai Tower

Arranged chronologically via date of establishing building, each and every informative profile contains shocking footage of the development’s defining options in conjunction with development plans, diagrams, historic history, and technological knowledge.

Beginning with an interesting interview with Adrian Smith, the grasp architect accountable for Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the reigning tallest development on this planet at 2,717 toes (828 meters), Skyscrapers additionally contains in-intensity appears at compelling subjects in skyscraper layout, together with subsequent steps in growing visionary towns of the long run, and data on state of the art sustainable fabrics that help in making those systems environmentally pleasant.

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