Skyscraper: The Making of a Building
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ISBN: 0670832294 / Publisher: Viking Adult, April 1990
A companion to a five-part PBS series takes a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of New York City skyscraper Worldwide Plaza--from the architects who designed it, to the construction workers who built it, to the community it transformed
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On the agonies of building a fast-track building in NYC. The book, also, looks fast-track: mixes metric and English measures, crude and ugly computer graphic illustrations frequently unclear, and several good color photos lack captions. Deals with people, negotiations and finances more than with engineering. Sarbach created the TV series of the same title. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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