Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings - Revised and Updated - Hardcover

Dupré Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579129420 ISBN 13: 9781579129422

Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2013

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Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith?Dupr?'s best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and informative updates throughout.Unique in scale and design, Skyscrapers explores in-depth more than 60 buildings, including One World Trade Center, Burj Dubai, the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Petronas Towers, the Tribune Tower, the Lipstick Building, and the Phare Tower. This completely revised and full-color edition presents 10 new buildings, among them The Shard in London (2012, Renzo Piano), the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong (2010, Kohn Pedersen Fox), the Shanghai Tower (2014, Gensler Architects), and the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah (2018, Adrian Smith), which will be the tallest building in the world when completed.Arranged chronologically by date of building construction, each informative spread has photos of the featured building from various angles, building plans, diagrams, the building's historical background, and technological information.Skyscrapers also offers additional information on such topics as the ancient roots of skyscrapers and visionary cities of the future, as well as a fascinating interview with Philip Johnson, together with other profiles., New topics include the era of the megatall building, the building of a skyscraper, and the explosive growth of skyscrapers in Dubai and China.Also includes interview with Adrian Smith.Praise for?Skyscrapers:'Drama. Treachery. Innovation., Massive buildings. Bigger egos. Skyscrapers has it all.' -- Patrick J., Foye, Executive Director, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey'Dupr? makes the most of a century of neck-craning architecture.' --?The Washington Post'Breathtaking. Magnificent, unique, very special. Exquisite., One-of-a-kind. Well researched. Beautifully designed.' --?Robert J., Bruss, Tribune Media ServicesPraise for?Bridges:'Dupr? ca

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"Dupre makes the most of a century of neck-craning architecture."--The Washington Post "Dupre captivates the eye, mind and imagination."--The New York Times "Breathtaking. Magnificent, unique, very special. Exquisite. One-of-a-kind. Well researched. Beautifully designed."--Robert J. Bruss, Tribune Media Services "Drama. Treachery. Innovation. Massive buildings. Bigger egos. Skyscrapers has it all."--Patrick J. Foye, Executive Director, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

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Breathtaking. Magnificent. Unique. Very Special. Exquisite. One-of-a-kind. Well researched. Beautifully designed. (Robert J. Bruss, Tribune Media Services)

"An eye-popping shelf-scraper...an elevating experience." (Gene Shalit, "Today")

"You may get vertigo looking at Skyscrapers..." (The New York Times)

Like towering divas, skyscrapers command the urban stage. They hold us enthralled, leaving us anticipating and half-fearing their next majestic manifestation. The roles played by the skyscraper and many: they are icons of cities, stars of movies, symbols of corporate power, and the place where many of us report to work every morning. Deemed both avatars and annihilators of civilized life, they have been praised as efficient space-savers and denounced as rapacious consumers of light and air. In short, the skyscraper's bold visual gestalt, one layered with multiple meanings, has become a complex metaphor for all that is good and bad about the twentieth century. (Judith Dupre, from the Foreword)

I think the interesting question is why does man want to build to the sky? What is there about the desire for domination, or to reach God, or for private pride - the Pyramids are an example of that, but the tall building is certainly another. Every civilization is touched by that desire... They all reached for a dominant height. The impulse may have been different, but that's a common feeling of must culture. (Philip Johnson, from the Introductory Interview)

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• Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1579129420
• ISBN 13: 9781579129422
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176