Title & Author:

Wonders of world : masterpieces of architecture from 4000 B.C. to the present / edited by Alessandra Capodiferro.

Publication:

New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2004.

Description:

319 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
EUROPE: Stonehenge -- The Parthenon, Athens -- The Pantheon, Rome -- The Colosseum, Rome -- St. Mark's Basilica, Venice -- The Leaning Tower of Pisa -- The Kremlin, Moscow -- The Cathedral of Notre Dame -- The Duomo, Siena -- The Alhambra, Granada -- The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence -- St. Peter's Basilica -- La Rotonda, Vicenza -- St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow -- The Palace of Versailles -- Peterhof, St. Petersburg -- Esterhazy Palace, Fertod -- The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona -- The Eiffel Tower -- The Tower Bridge, London -- The Bauhaus, Dessau -- The Pompidou Center, Paris -- The Louvre Pyramid, Paris -- The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain -- The Reichstag, Berlin -- The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain -- The Jewish Museum, Berlin -- The Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome -- The Swiss-re Tower, London -- AFRICA: The Pyramids of Giza, Cairo -- Karnak Temple, Luxor -- The Temples of Abu Simbel -- The Theater of Sabratha -- The Library of Alexandria -- ASIA: Persepolis, Shiraz -- The Great Wall of China -- The Khazneh, Petra -- Haghia Sophia, Istanbul -- The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem -- Borobudur, Vava -- The Forbidden City, Beijing -- The Registan, Samarkand -- The Potala, Lhasa -- The Castle of Hime-Ji -- The Mosque of the Imam, Isfahan -- The Taj Mahal, Agra, India -- The Royal Pallace, Bangkok -- The Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong -- The Air Terminal Kansai, Osaka -- The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur -- The Jin Mao Tower, Shangai -- The Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai -- NORTH AMERICA: Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. -- The Statue of Liberty -- The Chrysler Building -- The Empire State Building -- Fallingwater -- The Golden Gate Bridge -- The Sears Tower -- The Louisiana Superdome -- The Guggenheim Museum -- Milwaukee Art Museum -- CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico -- Temple I, Tikal -- The Pyramid of the inscriptions, Palenque -- The Pyramid of the Magician, Uxmal -- El Catillo, Chichen Itza, Mexico -- The Palace of Congress, Brasilia -- AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: The Sydney Opera House -- The Tijibaou Cultural Center, Noumea.

ISBN:

0760757933
9780760757932

Subject:

Architecture.
Curiosities and wonders.
Curiosités et merveilles.
architecture (discipline)

Added entries:

Capodiferro, Alessandra.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 245979
Call No.: BIB 175589
Status: Available