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Skyscraper: Vertical Now (Universe Architecture Series)

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Beautiful Photography for Architecture/skyscraper Fans. This book is excellent for what I enjoy: The basic Stats, designer, and great photos of buildings. 5 stars.

64 projects in this small size survey at only 6.5 x 8.25 inches (16.5 x 21 cm) are depicted mainly by photos, but good ones. Many projects also include renderings, plans, models, sketches, site plans, details, sections, hard line presentation drawings, etc. Following the introductory part on 10 pages with many illustration, each of 64 projects is headed by a title page, half filled with text and half - with illustration(s), followed usually by a page (rarely more) of illustration(s). There is an assay at the end about WTC proposals followed by several pages with photos of WTC projects. This is an album-like book with a slight tech. edge. It is similar to the book "Skyscrapers: The New Millennium" (ISBN: 3791323431), but only a half of its size. Like all from the Universe Architecture series, it is compact and well published. Interestingly, the SEG Apartment Tower presented on pp. 192-5 has a design of its one side found latter in all four sides of the Freedom Tower by David Childs.
CONTENTS:
6 preface
8 vertical now: the skyscraper at the beginning of the 21st century
GLOBAL/LOCAL
20 TAIPEI FINANCIAL CENTER C. Y. Lee & Partners, Taipei, 2004
24 JIM MAO TOWER Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Shanghai, 1997
28 PETRONAS TOWERS Cesar Pelli & Associates, Kuala Lumpur, 1997
HIGH-TECH
36 HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANK HEADQUARTERS Foster and Partners, Hong Kong, 1985
40 CENTURY TOWER Foster and Partners, Tokyo, 1991
42 BANK OF CHINA I. M. Pei & Partners, Hong Kong, 1989
44 WAN XIANG INTERNATIONAL PLAZA lngenhoven, Overdiek und Partner, Shanghai, 1995 (designed)
46 HEARST TOWER Foster and Partners, New York, 2001 (designed)
48 DEBIS HEADQUARTERS Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Berlin, 1999
52 NEW YORK TIMES HEADQUARTERS Renzo Piano Building Workshop, New York, 2000 (designed)
MONOLITHIC
60 LONDON BRIDGE TOWER Penzo Piano Building Workshop, London, 2002 (designed)
62 MILLENNIUM TOWER Foster and Partners, Tokyo, 1989 (designed)
66 AL FAISALIAH COMPLEX Foster and Partners, Riyadh, 2000
68 30 ST. MARY AXE Foster and Partners, London, 2004
70 TORRE AGBAR Jean Nouvel, Barcelona, 2003
74 SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Shanghai, 2008
76 KOWLOON STATION TOWER Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Hong Kong, 2007
78 TOUR EDF Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, Paris, 2001
80 SONY CENTER Murphy/Jahn, Berlin, 2000
82 AURORA PLACE Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Sydney, 2000
84 DAEWOO TOWER 88 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Pusan, 1997 (designed)
88 NATIONAL BANK OF DUBAI Carlos Ott and Norr Limited, Dubai, 1998
90 ONE PEKING ROAD Rocco Design Limited, Hong Kong, 2003
92 KINGDOM CENTER Ellerbe Becket, Riyadh, 2003
94 ESPIRITO SANTO PLAZA Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Miami, 2003
96 TRUMP WORLD TOWER Costas Kondylis & Partners, New York, 2001
100 CREDIT LYONNAIS Christian be Portzamparc, Lille, 1995
102 MAX REINHARDT HAUS Eisenman Architects, Berlin, 1992 (designed)
104 CCTV HEADQUARTERS Office for Metropolitan Architecture Beiiinq, 2008
KINETIC
116 HOTEL HABITAT Dominique Perrault, Barcelona, 2004
118 TORQUED TOWER Santiago Calatrava, Malmo, 2003
120 PARKHAVEN TOWER Kobn Pedersen Fox International, Rotterdam, 2002 (designed)
122 MAAS TOWERS Archi-Tectonics, Rotterdam, 2003
124 DONG BU HEADQUARTERS Kohn Pedersen Fox, Associates Seoul, 2002
126 POSTEEL TOWER Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Seoul, 2003
128 ROPPONGI TOWER Kohri Pedersen Fox Associates. Tokyo, 2003
132 GASOMETER B TOWER Coop HimmelbC)au. Vienna, 2001
SCENOGRAPHIC
140 AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM Raimund Abraham, New York, 2002
142 1250 BOULEVARD REN' LEVESQUE Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Montreal, 1992
144 DG BANK Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Frankfurt, 1993
146 PLAZA 66 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Shanghai. 2001
148 SHUN HING SQUARE K.Y. Cheung Design Associates, Shenzhen, 1996
152 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTER 2 Cesar Pelli & Associates, Hong Kong, 2004
156 BURJ AL ARAB W.S Atkins, Dubai, 1999
MEDIATIC
162 TOUR SANS FINS Jean Nouvel, Paris, 1989 (designed)
164 5 TIMES SQUARE Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York, 2002
166 LVMH TOWER Christian de Portzamparc, New York, 1999
170 AlA TOWER OMA Asia, Hong Kong. 1998
172 THE CENTRE Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man, Hong Kong. 1997
174 CHEUNG KONG CENTRE Leo Daly with Cesar Pelli, Hong Kong, 1999
ECOLOGICAL
180 COMMERZBANK HEADQUARTERS Foster and Partners, Frankturt, 1997
182 MENARA UMNO TB Hamzah & Yeang, Georgetown, 1998
184 CONDE NAST BUILDING Fox & Fowle, New York, 1999
186 RWE HEADQUARTERS Ingenhoven Overdiek und Partner, Essen, 1996
190 DEUTSCHE POST AG Murphy/Jahn, Bonn, 2001
192 SEG APARTMENT TOWER Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, 1998
196 GSW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten, Berlin, 1999
198 ADIA HEADQUARTERS Kohn Pedersen Fox International, Abs Dhabi, 2004
200 110 BISHOPSGATE Kohn Pedersen Fox International, London, 2005
202 ELEPHANT & CASTLE, ECO-TOWER T.R. Hamzah & Yeang, London, 2010
204 WORLD TRADE CENTER PROPOSALS, LMDC COMPETITION 2003
FOSTER AND PARTNERS 214
SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL 218
RICHARD MEIER, PETER EISENMAN, CHARLES GWATHMEY, STEVEN HOLL 222 THINK 226
UNITED ARCHITECTS 230
STUDIO DANIEL LIBESKIND 234

Yet another work of fluff about skyscrapers. This is simply eye candy with no depth or discussion of how the genre' will survive after 9/11. yawn, more garbage from the city that never sleeps...