skyscraper summary
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International Style Summary
International Style, architectural style that developed in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s and became the dominant tendency in Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. The most common characteristics of International Style buildings are rectilinear
Willis Tower Summary
Willis Tower, skyscraper in Chicago, located at 233 South Wacker Drive, that was the world’s tallest building until 1996. That year it was surpassed by the Petronas Twin Towers (1,483 feet [452 meters] tall), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sears Tower, as the building was originally called, opened to
Empire State Building Summary
Empire State Building, steel-framed skyscraper rising 102 stories that was completed in New York City in 1931 and was the tallest building in the world until 1971. The Empire State Building is located in Midtown Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. It remains one of the most distinctive and
Pier Luigi Nervi Summary
Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect, internationally renowned for his technical ingenuity and dramatic sense of design, especially as applied to large-span structures built of reinforced concrete. His important works include a prefabricated 309-foot-span arch for the Turin