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Packed into an innovative towering format, this informative and entertaining architectural history showcases the world's most stunning high rise buildings in striking photographs, and reveals the inside story of how and why each structure was built.Amongst the 60 buildings showcased, are: Washington Monument, DC; Eiffel Tower, Paris; Ulm Cathedral, Germany; Fuller Flatiron Building, NY; Woolworth Building, NY; Chrysler Building, NY; Empire State Building, NY; Seagram Building, NY; Pirelli Tower, Milan; Pan Am Building, NY; Lake Point Tower, Chicago; John Hancock Tower, Boston; World Trade Centre, NY; Sears Tower, Chicago; Messeturm, Frankfurt; Canary Wharf Tower, London; Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur; Landmark Tower, Yokohama; OUB Centre, Singapore; Bank of China, Hong Kong; DG Bank Headquarters, Frankfurt; and, Kuningan Persada Tower, Jakarta.

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Unique in scale and design, and packed with eye-popping photographs --Richard Helm The Edmonton Journal

Unique in scale and design, and packed with eye-popping photographs... <br> <br> -- Richard Helm The Edmonton Journal

Judith Dupre skillfully couples a narrative with stunning photographs and factoids that distinguish this skyscraper-shaped book from so many others. --Bill Thompson, The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) Skyscrapers is ingeniously shaped?this tall and skinny volume?is the perfect canvas for full-page black-and-white photographs and illustrations of well-known classics?.But this isn't just a celebratory picture book. Ms Dupre is a scholar interested in the aesthetic and environmental issues raised by supertall architecture. Skyscrapers is chock-full of historical context as it projects the implications and future prospects of metal and glass that reach for the sky. --Richard Helm, The Edmonton Journal Talk about an ideal match of subject and form?.the stunning array of black-and-white photographs that accompany Dupre's incisive, fact-filled text capture both the mass and soaring aspirations of the structures? --Sam Roberts, The New York Times Unique in scale and design, and packed with eye-popping photographs? ?[A] handsome compendium, which is as witty in its lanky format as it is fascinating within. --Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News [A] handsome compendium, which is as witty in its lanky format as it is fascinating within. --Manuel Mendoza Dallas Morning News Judith Dupre skillfully couples a narrative with stunning photographs and factoids that distinguish this skyscraper-shaped book from so many others. --Bill Thompson The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) Skyscrapers is ingeniously shaped this tall and skinny volume is the perfect canvas for full-page black-and-white photographs and illustrations of well-known classics .But this isn t just a celebratory picture book. Ms Dupre is a scholar interested in the aesthetic and environmental issues raised by supertall architecture. Skyscrapers is chock-full of historical context as it projects the implications and future prospects of metal and glass that reach for the sky. --Richard Helm The Edmonton Journal Talk about an ideal match of subject and form .the stunning array of black-and-white photographs that accompany Dupre s incisive, fact-filled text capture both the mass and soaring aspirations of the structures --Sam Roberts The New York Times Judith Dupr skillfully couples a narrative with stunning photographs and factoids that distinguish this skyscraper-shaped book from so many others. --Sam Roberts The New York Times . ..[A] handsome compendium, which is as witty in its lanky format as it is fascinating within. -- Bill Thompson The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) Skyscrapers is ingeniously shaped...this tall and skinny volume...is the perfect canvas for full-page black-and-white photographs and illustrations of well-known classics....But this isn't just a celebratory picture book. Ms Dupre is a scholar interested in the aesthetic and environmental issues raised by supertall architecture. Skyscrapers is chock-full of historical context as it projects the implications and future prospects of metal and glass that reach for the sky. -- Manuel Mendoza Dallas Morning News .,. [A] handsome compendium, which is as witty in its lanky format as it is fascinating within. -- Bill Thompson The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) Talk about an ideal match of subject and form....the stunning array of black-and-white photographs that accompany Dupre's incisive, fact-filled text capture both the mass and soaring aspirations of the structures... -- Hedy Weiss Chicago Sun-Times

Author Information

Judith DuprÃ(c)b> is the author of numerous books, including Skyscrapers and Bridges, both published by Black Dog & Leventhal, and the New York Times bestselling Churches. She lectures and teaches on art and architecture. She lives in New York. Adrian Smith is considered the foremost architect of supertall skyscrapers in the world. Formerly with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, his buildings include Burj Dubai, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and the Trump International Tower in Chicago, where he lives and works.

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