New York Skyscrapers /anglais - Hardcover

Stichweh, Dirk/machir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791340549 ISBN 13: 9783791340548

Verlag: Prestel, 2009

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Book by Stichweh Dirk

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New York City is home to more skyscrapers than any other city in the world. Iconic in stature, they tell the story of the city's commercial and architectural history. The buildings pictured here stretch from the sidewalks to the sky, from the East River to the Hudson, from Battery Park to the far reaches of Central Park. Along with structures that are familiar to readers such as the Empire State Building, the Chrysler and Woolworth buildings, there are other less recognizable but nonetheless important structures that have become a part of New Yorkers'daily lives. Each chapter focuses on an area of Manhattan, and opens with numbered maps showing the exact locations of the featured buildings. In a series of two to four page spreads, fullpage photographs of the skyscrapers are accompanied by additional illustrations, historical insights, architectural details, and interesting facts about their construction and evolution. An essay on the collective history of the city's skyscrapers rounds out this compilation of nearly 85 examples of New York City's most magnificent feature-its far-reaching, ever changing skyline.

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New York City is home to more skyscrapers than any other city in the world. Iconic in stature, they tell the story of the city's commercial and architectural history. The buildings pictured here stretch from the sidewalks to the sky, from the East River to the Hudson, from Battery Park to the far reaches of Central Park.

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• Verlag: Prestel
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 3791340549
• ISBN 13: 9783791340548
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192