Skyscrapers: The New Millennium (Architecture) [Hardcover]

John Zukowsky (Editor), Martha Thorne (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Architecture | Publication Date: May 2000

A global survey demonstrating the continued importance of the skyscraper, reaching well beyond the bounds of Asia, North America and Europe, to incorporate less familiar sites as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Uruguay and Mexico. The introduction offers an overview of the architectural and economic trends that have affected the skyscraper at the close of the 20th century and the epilogue discusses the race for the world's tallest building in the first years of the 21st Century.

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This global survey demonstrates the continued importance of the skyscraper, reaching well beyond the bounds of Asia, North America, and Europe, to incorporate perhaps less familiar sites as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Uruguay and Mexico. The introduction offers an overview of the architectural and economic trends that have affected the skyscraper at the close of the twentieth century, and the epilogue discusses the race for the world's tallest building during the first years of the 21st century.

About the Author

John Zukowsky is Curator of the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has written several books on architecture, including "Chicago Architecture and Design" and "Building for Air Travel", also published by Prestel.

Martha Thorne is Associate Curator of architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Prestel (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3791323431
• ISBN-13: 978-3791323435
• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,054,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Conversation Piece, June 20, 2000

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This review is from: Skyscrapers: The New Millennium (Architecture) (Hardcover)

This is a perfect book for the coffee table. It has a nice mix of Architecture from around the world with quite a mix of building sizes and shapes. It is more global than expected and that is a plus. Anyone looking for significant design details may be disappointed. Skyscaper afficinados will wish for more depth. A good reference guide.

4.0 out of 5 stars 68 tall buildings in photos and tech. drawings on glossy paper, September 5, 2005

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Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skyscrapers: The New Millennium (Architecture) (Hardcover)

68 mostly built projects are depicted in this sizable survey mostly by excellent, large photos, but also by renderings, plans, models, sketches, site plans, details, sections, hard line presentation drawings, etc., but not more tech. drawings than one or two small ones per project. Interestingly, the SEG Apartment Tower presented on pp. 88-89 has a design of its one side found latter in all four sides of the Freedom Tower by David Childs.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but a coffee table book at best, August 20, 2000

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Robert J. Salm (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skyscrapers: The New Millennium (Architecture) (Hardcover)

After seeing the exhibit by the same name at the Art Institute of Chicago, I found the book to have some disappointments: many of the exhibits from the museum were not mentioned in the book, some of the book's pictures were poorly reproduced (probably photographed from the exhibit's panels or enlarged from 35-mm slides), and some of the projects weren't discussed as in-depth as the museum exhibit. I got the feeling that this book was written not as an exhibit guide (even though the Art Institute of Chicago advertised it is the companion book to the exhibit by the same name), but as a stand-alone book about a few noteworthy projects.