Product Description: Ideal for students living in an urban area, colorful illustrations and humorous characters outline the steps needed to build towering homes. Building big and building up, students learn about problems and solutions encountered by engineers and architects.

Product Description: As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today’s urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image for the new global city...read more

Product Description: This report provides guidance on the most effective height and location for wind turbine installations on the roofs of tall buildings. It describes research to characterise the wind conditions over a range of building heights from 15m to 80 m and to provide advice on the height and location of wind turbine installations to maximise their potential for wind power generation...read more

Introduces some of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Sears Tower, the Empire State Buildings, the Petronas Towers, and the Taipei 101.

Product Description: The Detail in Building series is an essential source of contemporary data covering the key elements of building design that form the vocabulary of current architecture. Previous titles include Staircases, Soft Canopies, Glass Canopies, Columns, Cable Nets and Wind Towers, and a publication on Balconies is currently in preparation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the Tower of Babel to the Sears Tower of Chicago, towers of all types are examined in this international survey. Written and compiled by engineers Erwin Heinle and Fritz Leonhardt, who have collaborated together on the design of a number of television and radio telecommunications towers...read more

Product Description: The tall building has long served as a laboratory for the advancement of modern architectural design. This book examines the effects of architectural needs on the forms and functions of tall buildings and vice versa. It also takes the reader along the typical process of how a tall building is designed, from initial planning and programming with the owner/client on through the actual working design and construction phase, showing the interactions of architects, engineers, construction managers, financiers and owners and developers...read more

An introduction to some of the largest buildings on earth, including the Pentagon, Sears Tower, and the Moscow University

Product Description: tenant is looming in importance. The owner is having more influence on the building. As Gerald D. Hines has said, there are indications that the desire for more discretionary time will lead to more residential high-rises dose to or in the midst of downtown office buildings...read more