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"In this volume, join a pair of superheroes as they uncover the secrets of skyscrapers, from the great Egyptians pyramids to the world's tallest building. Read along and learn how skyscrapers are a bold combination of applied physics, ingenuity, and a lot of hard work!"--Provided by publisher.
2) Skyscrapers
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Explores the history of skyscrapers around the world, discussing and showcasing some of the tallest and most technologically innovative skyscrapers standing today, like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or the Shanghai World Financial Center.
3) Skyscraper
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Helps children understand what it takes to build a skyscraper, describing the materials that are used and the people involved in the construction process.
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"The global boom in skyscrapers-why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and people. We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the 'supertall': megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al-himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world-reveals the advancements in...
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"In Skyscrapers, early fluent readers will learn about the engineering that goes into building sky-high structures. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they explore the built world around them. An infographic illustrates how steel frames make skyscrapers safer, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about skyscrapers using our safe search engine that provides...
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"The 21st Century Junior Library Extraordinary Engineering series explains how important feats of engineering are accomplished. Skyscrapers examines the engineering concepts that make these awe inspiring structures possible. Sidebars encourage readers to engage in the material by asking deeper questions or conducting individual research. An activity, full color photos, a glossary, and a listing of additional resources all enhance the learning experience"--...
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In the late 1980s, the Malaysian government built a skyscraper so ambitious and unprecedented in size that it sought to overtake Chicago's Sears Tower as the tallest building in the world. The elaborately curved Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur achieved both goals. However, for Cesar Pelli, it would be an enormous design challenge on a rocky and unchartered road. Getting the towers built in Malaysia would prove almost impossible for this Western architect...
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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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Behind the glistening façade of Boston's John Hancock Tower lies one of the most embarrassing moments in architectural history. The insurance company wanted to express their corporate might by building a modernist skyscraper in the heart of Boston's historic core, threatening to pull their financial weight out of the city if they faced opposition. Little did they know that this act of arrogance would haunt them forever. Their dream tower turned into...
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With the highest roof on earth, the sleek Shanghai World Finance Center stands in the city that has overtaken New York and Chicago as skyscraper capital of the world. Setting the standard for a new generation of super tall skyscrapers, this Japanese-developed tower, built on Chinese land, also symbolizes a new era in relations between the two previously hostile countries after Japan's violent invasion of China in the 1930s. This troubled history meant...
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As the tallest residential skyscraper in the UK, Manchester's distinctive Beetham Tower is turning heads-and dividing opinion. Heading up a new generation of skyscrapers that are regenerating Britain's post-industrial cities, Beetham is at the heart of a battle between traditionalists and modernists-because despite producing some of the world's leading high-rise architects like Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, Britain isn't exactly enamored with...
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1180 Peachtree is a striking icon on the Atlanta skyline, its huge fins making it distinct from other skyscrapers in the city. But it's not all about good looks - 1180 is creating a new era for the city's towers. Back in the 1980s, when crime and racial tension were rife in the city, architects designed skyscrapers that existed independently of street life, connecting to parking and shopping malls with sky bridges that made sidewalks completely redundant....
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Taiwan, China's renegade province, wanted to make the world sit up and notice it-so it built the planet's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in its capital city. An architectural meeting of East meets West, Taiwan's biggest global advertising board and symbol of achievement was a defiant gesture towards its neighboring superpower, and a calculated quest for Taiwanese commercial attention proving that in modern times, the super-tall building is more than...
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Moscow has become Europe's skyscraper capital, with the Naberezhnaya Tower holding the title of the continent's tallest building. It represents a new era for the city, one in which Moscow can finally compete with the other major financial centers of the world. Further skyscrapers, such as Norman Foster's 500 meter tall Russia Tower, are currently being built-pushing the parameters of both height and skyscraper design in Europe. These extraordinary...
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The John Hancock Center in Chicago is one of the most influential skyscrapers of the twentieth century. When completed in 1969 this was the tallest tower in the world outside New York City and is still the most famous structural expressionist style building in high rise architecture. By using new technologies like the computer and developments in steel, the tower's designers revolutionised the way skyscrapers were built and created a true masterpiece...
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Commonly known as "the cheese grater," the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London's avant-garde architecture. Designed as a tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton, it is the tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the most innovative. The teams behind the Leadenhall project radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. This program follows the monumental challenges that come with erecting this super skyscraper: it will...
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Stunning skylines are fuelled by money-and Hong Kong has one of the most stunning in the world. With a lack of land on the island, the only way is up. The most prized-and expensive-plot is the financial district of Central where one skyscraper towers above the rest, star of Batman movies and gleaming white pillar of capitalism, 2 International Finance Center. To ensure the developers made a healthy return on their investment, 2IFC's architects had...