Skyscrapers

Spray, Sally

Ruffle, Mark

Series: Awesome engineering
Notes
31 pages : colour illustrations.
Contents includes: Build it tall -- Home Insurance Building -- Chrysler Building -- Empire State Building -- Willis Tower -- Petronas Twin Towers -- 30 St Mary Axe -- Taipei 101 -- Bahrain World Trade Center -- Burj Khalifa -- Bosco Verticale -- Shanghai Tower -- Fascinating facts.
Summary: Supertall skyscrapers shape city skylines all over the world, but how do we make them so tall? The books in this series are filled with impactful artwork, diagrams and explanations that make the awesome feats of engineering easy to understand. It presents a chronology of landmark engineering achievements from around the world with fascinating facts about each construction.
Awesome engineering.
Location edition Bar Code due date
Non Fiction K60675S
call #:720
ISBN:9781445155265
pub:2017
Subjects
Skyscrapers