The Tower And The Bridge

Author : David P. Billington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691236933

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The Tower and the Bridge by David P. Billington Pdf

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by stunning photographs, David Billington discusses the technical concerns and artistic principles underpinning the well-known projects of leading structural engineer-artists, including Othmar Ammann, Félix Candela, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, Robert Maillart, John Roebling, and many others. A classic work, The Tower and the Bridge introduces readers to the fundamental aesthetics of engineering.

Author : Tee Dobinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 199960220X

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The Tower Bridge Cat by Tee Dobinson Pdf

Author : Ken Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 0500343497

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Tower Bridge by Ken Powell Pdf

Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30 June 1894, this combined suspension and bascule bridge was designed by architect Sir Horace Jones and engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry.This new book, published to mark the 125th anniversary of its opening, will explore the history of the bridge, set it into the context of the River Thames and its crossings, and will, above all, focus on its design and construction. Highly illustrated with old and new images, from material held in the London Metropolitan Archives to specially commissioned photographs, Tower Bridge: History * Engineering * Design is a major new illustrated study of a remarkable piece of architecture and engineering.

Author : David P. Billington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691236926

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The Tower and the Bridge by David P. Billington Pdf

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by stunning photographs, David Billington discusses the technical concerns and artistic principles underpinning the well-known projects of leading structural engineer-artists, including Othmar Ammann, Félix Candela, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, Robert Maillart, John Roebling, and many others. A classic work, The Tower and the Bridge introduces readers to the fundamental aesthetics of engineering.

Author : Harry Cory Wright
Publisher : Pocket Photo Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0500294674

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Tower Bridge, London by Harry Cory Wright Pdf

Tower Bridge is one of the most famous bridges in the world. Designed by Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) and engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry (1836-1918) over a period of eight years, it was the largest and most advanced bascule bridge ever completed when it opened in 1894, requiring 11,000 tons of steel and involving more than 400 construction workers. This impressive feat of engineering helped sustain the growing commercial activity at the docks and warehouses in East London, and the sudden influx of daily commuters brought in from the newly built London Bridge station. Still in full use today, the bridge is lifted an average of 850 times a year. This Victorian masterpiece remains a highly important crossing on the River Thames, as well as being one of London's defining landmarks. This compelling album of photographs by Harry Cory Wright allows us to experience the awe-inspiring structure of Tower Bridge in exquisite detail, from the intricate machinery and original mechanisms inside the control rooms and secret corridors, to the great cavernous space within the bascule chamber. It includes an interview with Senior Technical Officer Glen Ellis, who shares his own daily experience of lifting the bridge, evoking an incredibly vivid sense of 'being there'.

Author : Edward Dennison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9781782404545

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30-Second London by Edward Dennison Pdf

Discover underground London, secret London, suburban London, and much more, on a revealing whistlestop city tour.

Author : Stephen Croad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061157742

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Liquid History by Stephen Croad Pdf

The London Stone at Staines marks the ancient western boundary of the jurisdiction of the City of London. The Lord Mayor and Corporation’s conservancy of the Thames extended east from there as far as Yantlet in Kent. This is the stretch of the river documented in 'Liquid History'. Drawing on the resources of English Heritage’s unrivalled photographic archives, the book records a journey along the length of the tidal river and over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside towns, the civic and commercial development of the riverbanks, the working docks and warehouses, the development of the web of bridges that now links north and south, barges, sailing ships and warships, the great flood defences and a tiny beach that flourished briefly at the Tower of London. Featuring the work of pioneers of photography and some of the great topographical photographers of the 20th century, and with a fascinating commentary by Stephen Croad, 'Liquid History' chronicles the ebb and flow of the life of the river.

Author : Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262043922

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Tower to Tower by Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel Pdf

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture—the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures—from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the “tech giant.” Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of the gigantism that they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241302040

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Peppa Goes To London by Anonim Pdf

Peppa and George are going on a very special day out to London! Miss Rabbit's friend, the Queen, borrows a double decker bus and takes Peppa and all her friends on a fun tour of the city's sights in this picture book story based on the exciting new episode. Peppa Pig is shown daily on Five's Milkshake and Nick Jnr.

Author : Hazel Rihoy
Publisher : Fastprint Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780350651

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Tears Over Tower Bridge by Hazel Rihoy Pdf

When Helen arrived in a small African country with her husband to run the bar and restaurant they had recently purchased she found herself having accustom herself to a different culture and religion if she was to survive in her new homeland. Life became i

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593470954

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Pdf

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

Author : John M. Smith
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 178521649X

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Tower Bridge Operations Manual by John M. Smith Pdf

Tower Bridge is one of London’s most recognizable landmarks. Visited by some 830,000 sightseers every year, it is famous the world over as an icon of England’s capital city. In 2019 the bridge celebrates its 125th anniversary. John M. Smith describes its genesis and construction, the larger-than-life characters that drove the project forward, and the novel technologies employed in the bridge’s design and operation. Supported with a wealth of fascinating original drawings, historic and contemporary photographs, the Haynes Tower Bridge London Manual takes readers the behind the scenes to reveal the innermost workings of this major London landmark.

Author : Evan S. Connell
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582438498

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Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell Pdf

"Again and again. . . I find myself being a Mrs. Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. . . What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true." —Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. The novel is comprised of vignettes, images, fragments of conversations, events—all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal isolation. In this special fiftieth anniversary edition, we are reminded once again why Mrs. Bridge has been hailed by readers and critics alike as one of the greatest novels in American literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Campbell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1509851445

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Busy London by Anonim Pdf

A first novelty board book of London landmarks with push, pull and slide mechanisms.Push, pull and slide the London scenes to explore the sights of the busy city: turn the London Eye, open and close Tower Bridge, even raise the flag at Buckingham Palace!Busy London is a bright board book with easy-to-use mechanisms that are designed for toddlers. The colourful illustrations are packed with detail and things to spot, making it the perfect introduction to London, and a great way to share memories of a first visit.From Marion Billet, the illustrator of the popular Campbell London series.

Author : Jennie Maizels
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 0763657875

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Pop-up London by Jennie Maizels Pdf

Pop-up book full of facts and information about London, England.