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"From Ada Louise Huxtable - America's most acclaimed architecture critic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur Prize Fellow - here is an energetic defense of cities and a brilliant consideration of the skyscraper as art, as business, as the product of politics and speculation. Despite the fact that the skyscraper has existed for a century, the question of how to design the tall building has never been resolved. In a vivid account of the search...
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Featuring the tallest buildings and skyscrapers from China, the global economic powerhouse?spectacular designs from the world?s most populous nation. Stunning full-color photography throughout. This breathtaking new compilation showcases the latest tall buildings in China, including the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and emerging super-cities in the provinces. Georges Binder examines the best in contemporary design, the technology that makes them possible,...
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"Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time." "Architects (and architectural historians) are interested only in a building's original intentions. Most are dismayed by what happens later, when a building develops its own life, responsive to the life within. To get the rest of the story - to explore the years between the dazzle of a new building and its eventual corpse - Stewart Brand went...
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In 2003, Moscow's Triumph Palace became Europe's tallest building. What is striking about this luxury residential block is not so much it's height but the fact that it resurrects an architectural style closely linked with the city's turbulent political past. In the 1940s Josef Stalin commissioned a series of seven tall towers that would compete with the skyscrapers of New York. Known as the Seven Sisters, the towers were created to inspire Russian...
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"In this illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building, but also the crucial role it played in Chicago's social history. Covering the Auditorium from the early design to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller Building and the Chicago Stock Exchange Building), The Chicago Auditorium...
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"The Common Sense Guides are easy reading training booklets for those with little or no health and safety expertise; if you are responsible for the safety of yourself or others within your organisation, this guide will be invaluable. This guide is for everyone with no prior knowledge who needs to know more about fire safety management from a health and safety perspective. Without being overly legal, it is written in a friendly, interesting and humorous...
17) The see-through years: creation and destruction in Texas architecture and real estate, 1981-1991
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The ritual of real estate dominated the spiritual life of Texas for a decade, a ritual based on the mythic premise that developers function as divinely ordained princes who bring prosperity to the whole of society. In the early years of the '80s Texas cities sprouted new skylines that showed off the stylistic explorations of some of the country's leading designers. By the end of the decade scores of new projects stood vacant. They were see-through...
19) And then the roof caved in: how Wall Street's greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees
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Explains the events of the previous seven years that planted the seeds for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression beginning in 2001, when the Federal Reserve embarked on an unprecedented effort to help the economy recover from the attacks of 9/11 by sending interest rates to all time lows.
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