Skyscraper: Volume 8

by Dan Cruickshank

Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism.

Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786691183
• ISBN13: 9781786691187
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.9"