Resumen:
The Great Skyscrapers of the World (Special Gatefold Edition). Made possible by a series of radical advances in engineering and created to meet pressing economic and psychological needs, skyscrapers came into being in the second half of the nineteenth century and immediately symbolized the modern city. From the Flatiron in New York to Tomorrow Square in Shanghai, these pages tell the story of the glass and steel giants and their continual technological, conceptual, and stylistic evolution. These extraordinary laboratories of modern life are being raised all around the world to ever-increasing heights. Superb photographs and text written by a renowned architectural expert examine even the most recent experiments and show the reader the variety of skyscraper forms that exist in the third millennium. |
