Skyscraper World Architecture (10 results)

Reprint 1st printing. The history of buildings in focusing on the architectural triumphs of past and present. Nice bright crisp HB copy. 8-3/4 x 12-1/4, 192 pp, index, glossary, b/w & color photos & illus, blue endpapers. Fine unmarked; in Fine unclipped jacket in Brodart. Hardcover in black boardsw gilt spine titling, in color-photos jacket.…

OLWd. mit OUmschlag, 192 Seiten, 2°, mit zahlr. farb. Text-Abb., nahezu unbeschädigt, sehr guter Zustand/Mint condition. Book Language/s: English.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Pub Date: 2013-9-1 Pages: 297 Publisher: South China University of Technology Press NULL.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small 4to, blue cloth, gold stamping on spine.inner hinge cracking, a bit of edge wear but very good.428pp.Khan contributes a 10pp article on skyscrapers, much on Japanese Arch.scarce.(Harchbox).

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The McMahonBuilding, better known as the world's littlest skyscraper, is a buildinglocated at 701 LaSalle Street (on the corner of Seventh and LaSalleStreets) in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. This late Neoclassical stylered brick and cast stone structure is 40 ft (12 m) tall, and itsexterior dimensions are 18 ft (5.5 m) deep and 10 ft (3.0 m) wide. Itsinterior dimensions are approximately 12 ft (3.7 m) by 9 ft (2.7 m) (108sq ft (10.0 m2)). Steep, narrow, internal stairways leading to the upperfloors occupy roughly 25 percent of the interior area. The result of afraudulent investment scheme by a confidence man, the McMahon Buildingwas a source of great embarrassment to the city and its residents afterits completion in 1919. During the 1920s, the McMahon Building wasfeatured in Robert Ripley's Ripley's Believe It or Not! syndicatedcolumn as 'the world's littlest skyscraper,' a sobriquet that has stuckwith the building ever since.…