Catalog Search Results
1) Skyscrapers
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Readers will have a blast learning about Skyscrapers. From apartment buildings to the Empire State Building, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon
3) Skyscrapers
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the world's most amazing skyscrapers while explaining the engineering behind their creation, covering the Empire State Building, Petronas Twin Towers, Burj Khalifa, and Shanghai Tower.
4) Skyscrapers
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about the world's most amazing skyscrapers - from the first, to the tallest, to how they're built, and everything in between - in this new National Geographic Kids Reader. The Level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for fluent readers"--
5) Skyscrapers
Author
Series
Blastoff! readers volume 2
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to skyscrapers. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As urban space shrinks, we build higher and faster than ever before, creating a new generation of skyscrapers. Super skyscrapers are pushing the limits of engineering, technology and design to become greener, stronger, smarter and more luxurious than their predecessors. This four-part series follows the creation of four extraordinary buildings, showcasing how they will revolutionize the way we live, work and protect ourselves from potential threats....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Upon completion, One57, on Manhattan's 57th Street, will rise more than 1,000 feet, making it the tallest residential tower in the western hemisphere and boasting spectacular views of Central Park. "One57" follows the teams tasked with creating New York's most luxurious residential skyscraper and their ambition to redefine luxury living the big city. Condominiums at One57 showcase state-of-the-art interiors - double-height ceilings, full-floor apartments,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Commonly known as "the cheese grater," the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London's avant-garde architecture. Designed as a tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton, it's the tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the most innovative. The teams behind the Leadenhall project had to radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. This program follows the monumental challenges that come with erecting this super skyscraper:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shanghai Tower isn't just a skyscraper - it's a vertical city, a collection of businesses, services and hotels all in one place, fitting a population the size of Monaco into a footprint the size of a football field. Within its walls, residents can literally work, rest, play and relax in public parks, looking up through 12 stories of clear space. Not just one, however, but eight of them, stacked on top of each other, all the way to the 120th floor....
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over centuries and across cultures people have defied gravity in a quest to build the tallest, grandest structures imaginable.
Skyscrapers: Investigate Feats of Engineering with 25 Projects invites children ages 9 and up to explore the innovation and physical science behind these towering structures. Trivia and fun facts illustrate engineering ingenuity and achievements from the ancient pyramids to the Empire State Building. Readers will
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the western hemisphere and a famous modern landmark, is engineered to be the safest and strongest skyscraper ever built. This episode follows the final year of exterior construction, culminating with the milestone of reaching the symbolic height of 1,776 feet. For head of construction Steve Plate, as well as scientists, engineers, ironworkers and curtain wall installers, this is a construction job suffused...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At a stunning 18 inches tall and celebrating all of today's most significant superstructures, this all-new edition of "Skyscrapers" features 15 exciting new buildings and an interview with Adrian Smith, the world's foremost architect of supertall buildings.
Author
Series
Orca timelines volume 1
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"People have been constructing tall buildings for thousands of years, for many different reasons. Castle walls kept people safe. Observatories give people a bird's-eye view. Beautiful buildings stand out in the crowd. With a growing global population, we need more space. But what does that mean for the health of the planet? Tall buildings may be part of the answer to building a sustainable future." -- Back cover.
"Part of the nonfiction Orca...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Chronology of Architecture' presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between structural innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Organized around a central timeline that charts the development of architecture from the earliest structures to the present-day skyscrapers and global cities, it features key buildings, together with commentaries and contextual...
Author
Publisher
Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires' Row-from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. To look south from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires dotting the skyline from Park Avenue to Broadway....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request