(3 reviews)Author: Judith Dupre
ISBN : 1579129420
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Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith Dupré's best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and informative updates throughout.
Unique in scale and design, Skyscrapers explores in-depth more than 60 buildings, including One World Trade Center, Burj Dubai, the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Petronas Towers, the Tribune Tower, the Lipstick Building, and the Phare Tower. This completely revised and full-color edition presents 10 new buildings, among them The Shard in London (2012, Renzo Piano), the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong (2010, Kohn Pedersen Fox), the Shanghai Tower (2014, Gensler Architects), and the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah (2018, Adrian Smith), which will be the tallest building in the world when completed.
Arranged chronologically by date of building construction, each informative spread has photos of the featured building from various angles, building plans, diagrams, the building's historical background, and technological information.
Skyscrapers also offers additional information on such topics as the ancient roots of skyscrapers and visionary cities of the future, as well as a fascinating interview with Philip Johnson, together with other profiles. New topics include the era of the megatall building, the building of a skyscraper, and the explosive growth of skyscrapers in Dubai and China.
Also includes interview with Adrian Smith.
Praise for Skyscrapers:
"Drama. Treachery. Innovation. Massive buildings. Bigger egos. Skyscrapers has it all." -- Patrick J. Foye, Executive Director, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
"Dupré makes the most of a century of neck-craning architecture." -- The Washington Post
"Breathtaking. Magnificent, unique, very special. Exquisite. One-of-a-kind. Well researched. Beautifully designed." -- Robert J. Bruss, Tribune Media Services
Praise for Bridges:
"Dupré captivates the eye, mind and imagination." -- The New York Times
- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Rev Upd edition (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1579129420
- ISBN-13: 978-1579129422
- Product Dimensions: 18.1 x 9.4 x 0.8 inches
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This is a gorgeous book that is beautifully presented and written. I love that the publisher did this in a tall book format - so appropriate for the subject.By Talvi
The book is laid out chronologically: the earliest skyscrapers (arguably starting with Home Insurance in Chicago) and continuing on not only to those just finished in the last two years but also projected skyscrapers for which groundbreaking has begun. Each skyscraper is given a great bit of history write up and includes a full page image with facts about the building overlaid on top. The photographs chosen for each building are exquisite - beautifully done both photographically and architecturally. As a photographer myself, I was marveling at the images and sighing with pleasure. But as the daughter of an architect, I also greatly appreciated the layout and presentation of each building's history. Images of artists as well as pictures or paintings help complete the picture of the skyscraper - it's so much more than just an image and a bunch of text.
Interspersed between the 100+ skyscrapers are interviews with architects, discussions of cities known for their skyscrapers (e.g., Dubai), and more There is also a list of the 100 tallest buildings at the back of the book. Since the book is formatted by each skyscraper, it makes it easy to follow and digest - in short bursts or one great read.
This really is an incredibly well done and presented, informative and fascinating, history of Skyscrapers. Absolutely highly recommend this book.
Received as an ARC from the publisher
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Not only are the pictures fabulous, but the writing is excellent. Dupre makes observations that one would not necessarily make without her expert knowledge and intuitive understanding of buildings, communities, people, cultures...By DJW
it is fun to just browse the book and gasp at the amazing buildings, or choose one and read of its intricacies.
This is a PERFECT GIFT BOOK!
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