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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.
4) Skyscraper
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What once was a vacant lot, watch as truck by truck, a towering skyscraper is built.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Created to support NGSS, the Be An Engineer! series explains how different structures are designed by engineers to solve problems. Each title takes readers through the steps of the engineering design process to explain how an everyday structure is designed to overcome physical obstacles to meet peoples' needs. Real-world examples, vibrant photographs, and fact boxes reinforce learning, and readers design and create their own model structures. A link...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"45 skyscrapers are examined for their pioneering technology, sustainability, and other characteristics that set them apart. Each building is presented with a large photograph with cross-section drawings plus fact boxes listing location, year of completion, height, stories, primary functions, owner/developer, architect, structural engineer, and construction firm. The buildings examined are distributed over the world's most developed regions of North...
7) 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.
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....
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....
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the multi-story dwellings of Ancient Rome to the soaring glass skyscrapers of today, for thousands of years humans have used highrises to house the poor, protect the rich and sometimes narrow the gap between the two. Highrise first examines the history of vertical living in a chapter on the origins, technological triumphs, social failures and future of the highrise. The book then invites young adult readers into homes around the world. Through...
13) 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
Author
Series
Thousandth floor volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amidst high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets... LEDA is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She'll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden-even if it means trusting her enemy. WATT just wants to put everything behind him...until Leda forces him to...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Atmosphæra Incognita is a beautifully detailed, high-tech rendering of a tale as old as the Biblical Tower of Babel. It is an account, scrupulously imagined, of the years-long construction of a twenty-kilometer-high tower that will bring the human enterprise, in all its complexity, to the threshold of outer space. It is a story of persistence, of visionary imaginings, of the ceaseless technological innovation needed to bring these imaginings to life....
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The global boom in skyscrapers-why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and people. We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al-himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world-reveals the advancements in...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A new blue-chip series that reveals the extraordinary feats of engineering hidden in the world's most spectacular manmade structures. Each episode uses cutting-edge CGI to strip down construction layer by layer. Each time a layer is removed, buildings are reduced to their skeletons, revealing game-changing innovation analyzed by world-class industry players.
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) was one of the most celebrated architects to come out of the Chicago School of architecture in the late 1800s. He is often called the "father of the skyscraper" and the "prophet of modern architecture." Sullivan also coined the most famous phrase ever to come out of his profession, "form ever follows function." This award-winning documentary is not simply the first film on Sullivan, but the first time a filmmaker has...
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