Author : Tracy Campbell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300169493
DIVThe surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious plan/div
Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512465267
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The Gateway Arch is the tallest monument in the United States. At 630 feet, it is more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. The Gateway Arch honors all the settlers who passed through St. Louis, Missouri, on their way out west. But how was it made? Who designed it? Read this book to find out! Learn about many remarkable sites in the Famous Places series - part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life.
Author : Robert Sharoff
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864704292
St. Louis is one of the most architecturally impressive cities in the United States, with a heritage of innovative design stretching back to the early 1800s. This is reflected in the architecture of the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods. More than just about any city in America, St. Louis embraced the imposing forms and lush ornamentation of the Beaux Arts tradition. Indeed, one can make the argument that only Washington, D.C. in the United States has a more impressive collection of classically inspired structures. American City: St. Louis Architecture is the first large-format book on the city's architecture since the 1920s, and includes over 100 new color photographs and text for 50 of the city's most important structures. These range from such 19th Century masterpieces as Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, Alfred Mullet's Old Post Office and Theodore Link's Union Station, to Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch, Tadao Andao's Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Building and Maya Lin's recently completed Ellen Clark Hope Plaza.
Author : Amanda E. Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Gateway Arch (Saint Louis, Mo.)
ISBN : 9781935806325
Take the children in your life on their own journey of discovery: tag along with Ella, her impatient little brother Jake, and their Grandpa as they explore the outside, inside, and very, very top of the Gateway Arch, on the Mississippi riverfront in St. Louis, Missouri. While Jake just wants to get to the top as fast as possible, Ella is intent on impressing Grandpa with everything she has learned about the landmark and its history. Together, the family discovers fascinating artifacts—a bison, a great grizzly bear, a tall statue of Thomas Jefferson—while Grandpa spins tales of his own memories, as a young man, of watching the Arch being built. More than just an architectural feat, the Arch embodies the history, culture, and spirit of westward expansion, exploration, and individual dignity. Don’t worry, they finally make it to the top . . . and what Jake wants then will resonate with your own young explorers!
Author : Jim Merkel
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 193580684X
In the South Side, there lived a tactless TV guy who had a way of getting tossed out of everything on camera, from the old VP Fair to Bill Clinton’s 1996 local re-election victory party. On the South Side, there dwelt a collector of ancient vacuum cleaners, none of which worked when he demonstrated them before millions of guffawing viewers watching on national television. And on the South Side, a beer baron tried to fight off Prohibition with a high-class, three-sided beer hall. It’s all in the second edition of Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis’s South Side. The first edition captured the essence of the South St. Louis, with its tales of women scrubbing steps ever Saturday, the yummy brain sandwich, and a nationally known gospel performer who ran a furniture store in the Cherokee neighborhood. These stories, along with the new ones that fill the second edition, convey what gives a truly unique place its rough but charming personality. The result—Holy Hoosiers!—is an edition that’s even better than the first!
Author : Thomas C. Grady
Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Central business districts
ISBN : 9780980200287
Author : Laura L. Sullivan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502629747
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States. Making and delivering such a large present required special planning and execution. Readers will discover how this iconic structure was built, presented, taken apart, shipped, and then reassembled by mostly immigrant workers who had come to the United States to experience what the statue represented.
Author : Wiley Blevins
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1634406710
In Structures Up Close, young readers view a portion of a well-known structure or building. Readers learn what makes the structure unique and interesting.
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1541646061
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
Author : Stan Allen
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9783037782231
Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.
