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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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 a brand-new interview with Adrian Smith, the world's foremost architect of supertall buildings.
Retaining all of the qualities that made it a major bestseller—informative commentary, historic facts and architectural information, and glorious photography— this groundbreaking, shelf-scraping international bestseller is a Skyscrapers for the new millennium.
Unique in scale and design, the book has been expanded to 160 pages and features more than 60 buildings by such well-known architects as Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Morphosis, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Cesar Pelli, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Arranged chronologically, it includes features on such topics as the ancient roots of skyscrapers and visionary cities of the future-as well as a fascinating interview with Adrian Smith, designer of the Burj Dubai, the tallest structure in the world. Each informative spread includes photos, plans, diagrams, background, technological information, and more, all in an elegant design. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Judith Dupre | | Hardcover: | 160 pages | | Publisher: | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1579127878 | | Product Length: | 7.88 inches | | Product Width: | 0.77 inches | | Product Height: | 18.25 inches | | Product Weight: | 3.19 pounds | | Package Length: | 18.25 inches | | Package Width: | 7.88 inches | | Package Height: | 0.77 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Best of the Lot Nov 12, 2008
By M. Gerometta
This is an updated version of Judith Dupre's masterpiece published in 1996. In the last 15 years the world has seen a skyscraper boom like nothing before in history. There have been dozens of "coffee table" books about tall buildings published during this period, but none have captured the passion for architecture and engineering like this series. I am happy to see this latest edition which features about 15 new buildings along with updated photos and information on the buildings featured in the first edition.
The book features a great mixture of some of the most famous skyscrapers, current projects and a few proposals presented in the same "tall" format. With current technology and structural materials, we are able to design unusually shaped buildings and go higher than ever, along with keeping in tune with nature. The highlight of the new edition is Burj Dubai, the tallest structure ever built by man, which is still under construction. When completed, it will be approximately the height of 2 Empire State Buildings!
Also check out "Bridges", "Churches" and "Monuments" by this author, all presented in an innovative format just as "Skyscrapers" has achieved.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
always a step higher Dec 18, 2008
By Vagnini Marco
This new edition of "Skyscrapers" is even more astonishing than the first one! New pictures, new buildings (and some additional classic ones too). This is a "must have" for the bookshelf of people interested in architecture, design, engineering, and graphic design (the lay-out is well tuned to the book's content). Don't forget to see Bridges by the same author, obviously, it is a very lonnnnnnng book.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Reach for the sky Mar 27, 2011
By Fiona Lowther
"book lover"
This is a fascinating volume that will be of interest to architecture fans, travelers, engineers,future historians, and stay-at-homes who like to see pictures of far-away places.
The volume is tall and skinny, like the buildings it pictures. A great gift, a great coffee table book, a book to return to again and again.
Love this book Jan 06, 2012
By Willett
I purchased this book as a Christmas gift for a friend who is an architect. They love the book. It is coffee table quality, and full of great pictures as well as the story and history of each building. I highly recommend this book . It also arrived early and packaged well.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Benchmark of the genre Jul 17, 2010
By Frank D
Judith Dupre's books (Skyscrapers, Bridges; Churches) are a benchmarks of the genre, and since their unique and beautiful designs span different publishers, it suggests her personal input on this level as well.
The page layouts are in a class of their own, visually enticing and combining art and information seamlessly. The sidebars are joy of balance and usefulness.
Dupre comes across as a well tuned mind, completely familiar with and sensitive to the pertinent technical aspects of the structures. That she can now mix this with a highly developed sense of aesthetics and convey this in a text which is without a hint of pretension or ponderousness, makes these books an absolute delight.
The overall choice of pictures is excellent, bar a few, but one senses the enormous difficulty in sourcing suitable images that will fill the format and capture the essence of the subjects.
It is near impossible to over-recommend her books, and one can only hope that she turns her amazing talents to bringing out a book on perhaps great generic civil engineering feats such as roads, viaducts, overpasses, dams, tunnels, airports etc.
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