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The future of architecture and urban design unveiled by 150 innovative projects submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition. The third book in the Skyscraper Competition series showcases visionary designs that utilize the latest technological advances, offer sustainable architectural solutions, explore new territories, propose social change, and examine radical urban(...)
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February 2017
eVolo skyscrapers 3: visionary architecture and urban design
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The future of architecture and urban design unveiled by 150 innovative projects submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition. The third book in the Skyscraper Competition series showcases visionary designs that utilize the latest technological advances, offer sustainable architectural solutions, explore new territories, propose social change, and examine radical urban strategies. Since 2006 the annual Skyscraper Competition receives thousands of entries from more than 80 different countries. The projects presented in this edition represent the top entries selected by an expert international jury.
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Best tall buildings 2009
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An international overview of the best tall buildings in 2009 as recognised by the awards of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). From the Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnepeg and the Broadgate Tower in London to the QIPCO Tower in Doha and the Linked Hybrid Building in Beijing, this official guide features winning projects alongside finalists and the other(...)
Best tall buildings 2009
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An international overview of the best tall buildings in 2009 as recognised by the awards of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). From the Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnepeg and the Broadgate Tower in London to the QIPCO Tower in Doha and the Linked Hybrid Building in Beijing, this official guide features winning projects alongside finalists and the other nominees from around the world.
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Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center. He(...)
Skyscraper: the politics and power of building New York City in the twentieth century
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Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center. He demonstrates how architects and their clients employed a diverse range of modernist styles to engage with and influence broader cultural themes in American society: immigration, the Cold War, and the rise of American global capitalism.
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An authoritative guide to the key technical aspects to consider in generating, understanding and evaluating tall building proposals. Written by highly respected practitioners with specialist knowledge, the book is aimed at clients, statutory authorities, architects and other agencies seeking to understand tall buildings from a strategic standpoint. The distinct issues(...)
Tall buildings: a strategic design guide
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An authoritative guide to the key technical aspects to consider in generating, understanding and evaluating tall building proposals. Written by highly respected practitioners with specialist knowledge, the book is aimed at clients, statutory authorities, architects and other agencies seeking to understand tall buildings from a strategic standpoint. The distinct issues under consideration include urban design, architecture, engineering, life safety, construction economics, market economics and building occupancy.
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October 2005
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The future of the skyscraper
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Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. We may ask of them artistic questions: what do we make of these things we make? What do these forms mean? In this volume, Bruce Sterling describes four possible futures that might shape future towers, presenting a choose-your-own-adventure of(...)
The future of the skyscraper
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Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. We may ask of them artistic questions: what do we make of these things we make? What do these forms mean? In this volume, Bruce Sterling describes four possible futures that might shape future towers, presenting a choose-your-own-adventure of potential futures for architecture, some of them terrifying in their nearness.
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Celui qui emporta secrètement l'admiration de Loos et de Le Corbusier fut aussi un prosateur, depuis la page blanche qui appelle l'écrit jusqu'à la surface de l'immeuble qui appelle l'ornement. La valorisation de la fonction et de la structure, qui a rendu cet architecte mondialement célèbre, a éclipsé son pendant : la part de l'imaginaire dans l'érection inouïe de ces(...)
Louis Henri Sullivan : pour un art du gratte-ciel
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Celui qui emporta secrètement l'admiration de Loos et de Le Corbusier fut aussi un prosateur, depuis la page blanche qui appelle l'écrit jusqu'à la surface de l'immeuble qui appelle l'ornement. La valorisation de la fonction et de la structure, qui a rendu cet architecte mondialement célèbre, a éclipsé son pendant : la part de l'imaginaire dans l'érection inouïe de ces édifices enracinés dans la culture américaine. Voici, sous la forme d'un recueil rassemblant les essais, articles, conférences, interviews et écrits brefs, au nombre de cinquante, que Louis Henri Sullivan a publiés de 1885 à 1924, le récit de la modernité telle qu'elle a été rêvée en même temps qu’elle s’édifiait.
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In this fast-paced book, Mitchell Pacelle tells the story of the ten-year struggle for control of America’s most famous skyscraper–a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed, some of the real estate world’s most controversial tycoons.
Empire : a tale of obsession, betrayal, and the battle for an American icon
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In this fast-paced book, Mitchell Pacelle tells the story of the ten-year struggle for control of America’s most famous skyscraper–a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed, some of the real estate world’s most controversial tycoons.
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The never-before-seen collection of images in this book documents the construction of the Chrysler Building from street to spire.
The Chrysler Building : creating a New York icon, day by day
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The never-before-seen collection of images in this book documents the construction of the Chrysler Building from street to spire.
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From the Tower of Babel to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from European cathedrals to the Twin Towers and the currently scandalous Freedom Tower, highrises have always been a symbol of mankind's cultural aspirations and technological achievements. The biennial International Highrise Award specifies that an ideal contemporary tower should make exceptional use of aesthetics,(...)
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April 2007, Frankfurt / Main
High Society: Contemporary highrise architecture and the international highrise Award 2006 / Aktuelle hochhausarchitektur und der nternationale hochhaus preis 2006
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From the Tower of Babel to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from European cathedrals to the Twin Towers and the currently scandalous Freedom Tower, highrises have always been a symbol of mankind's cultural aspirations and technological achievements. The biennial International Highrise Award specifies that an ideal contemporary tower should make exceptional use of aesthetics, design and technology, and show cost-effectiveness, sustainability and integration into town planning. This album of the 2006 contenders honors foremost the winners, Jean Nouvel and Fermin Vasquez, who designed the Torre Agbar building in Barcelona. The Agbar Tower's distinctive rounded crown had already earned it a nominee spot in Cabinet Magazine's Most Phallic Building in the World Contest. Here, the Highrise Award's more serious honor cites the building's "expressive shape," "pulsating dynamism" and "a multi-layer outer skin that generates its varied and exciting appearance." Runners-up include Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden.
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The book leads through the facts surrounding the skyscraper’s conception and construction, then enters into a theoretical discussion of its function as an icon, its representation in pictures, literature, and film, and the implications of its iconic status as New York’s most important architectural monument to ambition and optimism.
Nearest thing to heaven : the Empire State Building and American dreams
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The book leads through the facts surrounding the skyscraper’s conception and construction, then enters into a theoretical discussion of its function as an icon, its representation in pictures, literature, and film, and the implications of its iconic status as New York’s most important architectural monument to ambition and optimism.
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