High-Rise Living

by Andrew Weaving

High-rise architecture has provided some of the most technically innovative and aesthetically interesting buildings of recent years, despite its checkered-and often controversial-history. It has also... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586854100
• ISBN13: 9781586854102
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

An elegant and inviting spectacle

Full-color, full-page photographs illustrate High-Rise Living, a tour of high-rise architecture, guiding the reader through twenty-five different apartments with a spectacular view in Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia, and the United States. Text descriptions of each residence summarize the building's history, general design, unusual features, and more. An elegant and inviting spectacle, and highly enjoyable browsing material for architecture and interior design enthusiasts - the skillful arrangements that personalize high-rise living spaces are also appealing to behold.