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Petronas Twin Towers

Author : Cesar Pelli
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Petronas Twin Towers written by Cesar Pelli and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2001-03-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world with Jumbo jets, microchips and artifical hearts, architecture had appeared to have lost its wonder, but with the building of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, now the tallest buildings on earth, this has changed and their construction has rightly restored architecture as a world wonder. It is not just because the towers are the tallest that they can make this claim. Their design by Cesar Pelli also reflects a melding of East and West. The towers embody the great spirit born of the American mid-West and now found all over the world. They also reflect the latest technology in making tall buildings, with modern materials such as stainless steel cladding which makes their spires glisten on the horizon. The design of the Petronas Towers began with an international design competition. In June 1991, eight firms were invited to participate. The architects were asked to providee a general plan for the Kuala Lumpur City Centre and a more detailed design for two towers to be occupied by Petronas, the national petroleum company of Malaysia. The Petronas Towers were expected to define a gateway, "a place that people can identify as unique to Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia." It was never discussed that the towers should become the tallest buildings in the world, only that they be beautiful.

Petronas Twin Towers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Petronas Twin Towers written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Petronas Twin Towers

Author : Mark Thomas
Publisher : Powerkids Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823959891
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book The Petronas Twin Towers written by Mark Thomas and published by Powerkids Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on the tallest buildings in the world, including their size and how they were built.

The Petronas Towers

Author : Catherine M. Petrini
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567113464
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book The Petronas Towers written by Catherine M. Petrini and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the social and economic forces resulting in the decision to build the Petronas Towers and the construction itself.

Torres Gemelas Petronas

Author : Mark Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781282224308
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Torres Gemelas Petronas written by Mark Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building the Skyline

Author : Jason M. Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199344388
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Building the Skyline written by Jason M. Barr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.

Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur

Author : Dr Yat Ming Loo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140947299X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur written by Dr Yat Ming Loo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-27 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia’s decolonisation projects, has marginalised the Chinese urban spaces which were once at the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Engaging with complex colonial and postcolonial aspects of the city, from the British colonial era in the 1880s to the modernisation period in the 1990s, this book demonstrates how Kuala Lumpur’s urban landscape is overwritten by a racial agenda through the promotion of Malaysian Architecture, including the world-famous mega-projects of the Petronas Twin Towers and the new administrative capital of Putrajaya. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese community archives, interviews and resources, the book illustrates how Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese spaces have been subjugated. This includes original case studies showing how the Chinese re-appropriated the Kuala Lumpur old city centre of Chinatown and Chinese cemeteries as a way of contesting state’s hegemonic national identity and ideology. This book is arguably the first academic book to examine the relationship of Malaysia’s large Chinese minority with the politics of architecture and urbanism in Kuala Lumpur. It is also one of the few academic books to situate the Chinese diaspora spaces at the centre of the construction of city and nation. By including the spatial contestation of those from the margins and their resistance against the state ideology, this book proposes a recuperative urban and architectural history, seeking to revalidate the marginalised spaces of minority community and re-script them into the narrative of the postcolonial nation-state.

Design and Analysis of Tall and Complex Structures

Author : Feng Fu
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0081011210
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Design and Analysis of Tall and Complex Structures written by Feng Fu and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design of tall buildings and complex structures involves challenging activities, including: scheme design, modelling, structural analysis and detailed design. This book provides structural designers with a systematic approach to anticipate and solve issues for tall buildings and complex structures. This book begins with a clear and rigorous exposition of theories behind designing tall buildings. After this is an explanation of basic issues encountered in the design process. This is followed by chapters concerning the design and analysis of tall building with different lateral stability systems, such as MRF, shear wall, core, outrigger, bracing, tube system, diagrid system and mega frame. The final three chapters explain the design principles and analysis methods for complex and special structures. With this book, researchers and designers will find a valuable reference on topics such as tall building systems, structure with complex geometry, Tensegrity structures, membrane structures and offshore structures. Numerous worked-through examples of existing prestigious projects around the world (such as Jeddah Tower, Shanghai Tower, and Petronas Tower etc.) are provided to assist the reader’s understanding of the topic Provides the latest modelling methods in design such as BIM and Parametric Modelling technique Detailed explanations of widely used programs in current design practice, such as SAP2000, ETABS, ANSYS, and Rhino Modelling case studies for all types of tall buildings and complex structures, such as: Buttressed Core system, diagrid system, Tube system, Tensile structures and offshore structures etc.

Sculpting the Sky

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (678 download)

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The Petronas Twin Towers

Author : RIGBY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780757810701
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Petronas Twin Towers written by RIGBY and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sculpting the Sky

Author : Karen Grikitis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Sculpting the Sky written by Karen Grikitis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

Author : Shamini Flint
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429904232
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by : Shamini Flint

Download or read book Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder written by Shamini Flint and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Inspector Singh: a fat, slightly bumbling, but truly lovable detective sure to charm readers of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew—the famous Singaporean model—is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it, he thinks she didn't do it, but no matter how hard he tries to get to the bottom of things, he still arrives back at the same place—that Chelsea's husband was shot at point blank range, and that Chelsea had the best motivation to pull the trigger: he was taking her kids away from her. Now Inspector Singh must pull out all the stops to crack a crime that could potentially free a beautiful and innocent woman and reunite a mother with her children. There's just one problem—the Malaysian police refuse to play ball.

The Backpacking Housewife (The Backpacking Housewife, Book 1)

Author : Janice Horton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008302685
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Backpacking Housewife (The Backpacking Housewife, Book 1) written by Janice Horton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A feelgood read that reminds us it’s never too late to live the life you want’ 4* SUN One mum is leaving it all behind for the adventure of a lifetime...

Sculpting the Sky

Author : Karen Grikitis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Sculpting the Sky written by Karen Grikitis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Skyscrapers

Author : Antonino Terranova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760747322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Skyscrapers written by Antonino Terranova and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soaring high into the sky, giants of glass, metal, steel, and mortar revolutionized urban architecture in the twentieth century. From classics (the Empire State Building) to more recent constructions such as the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, nearly fifty world-class skyscrapers--including the World Trade Center--are celebrated in a vertical volume that emulates its subject matter. Led by an expert on architecture and urban development, travel around the world from Hong Kong to Moscow, and dozens of destinations in between to pay tribute to such imposing structures as San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid, Riyadh's Kingdom Center, Tokyo's Town Hall, Paris's Tour de Montparnasse, and Frankfurt's Messe Turm. Photographed in crisp color, these architectural icons are captured from every angle: distant shots establish stature within a skyline; breathtaking views from the ground skyward emphasize the awesome height; and artistic close-up shots reveal an elegant, abstract, geometric beauty. Take your place on the observation deck of the Sears Tower. Marvel at the Rialto Towers in Melbourne. Watch as death-defying workers navigate beams high above the city to construct these modern wonders. Imagine what skyscrapers of the future might be like. From the comfort of your armchair, you'll enjoy an unsupassed view.

Ho Chi Minh

Author : Sophie Quinn-Judge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520235335
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Ho Chi Minh written by Sophie Quinn-Judge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thoroughly researched and elegantly written account of what is arguably the most important topic in modern Vietnamese political history. [Quinn-Judge's] sources allow her to sketch a vivid, nuanced portrait of Ho Chi Minh and to unravel the complex interplay of domestic and international forces that shaped the historical emergence and development of Vietnamese Communism."--Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley

What Were the Twin Towers?

Author : Jim O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451532775
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book What Were the Twin Towers? written by Jim O'Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers—also known as the World Trade Center—and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers—from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.