Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871404737
"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
Author : Audrey Petty
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1940450055
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.
Author : Jerry Adler
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Sweat and genius of the men and women who possessed them. How did it happen? High Rise is the unprecedented account of how money, art, passion, politics, and machinery come together to put a building in the ground, and in the skyline of the world's most fascinating, complex, and impossible city. Jerry Adler, a veteran journalist, saw it all happen, and through him we come to know the astonishing cast of characters who conceived and built it: the most famous architects,
Author : David M. McGrail
Publisher : PennWell Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1593700547
This book establishes a proper firefighting mindset and promotes maintaining preparedness for the extreme physical and mental demands of firefighting operations in high-rise and standpipe-equipped buildings ... Among the many valuable topics covered in this book are: standpipe system pressure regulating devices, pressure restricting devices and pressure reducing valves; cautious and disciplined elevator use during high-rise operations; elevator rescue operations; proper engine company suppression selection, including techniques to operate more powerful firefighting weapons with limited manpower; air support operations during high-rise emergencies, with or without an internal resource.
Author : Geoff Craighead
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0750674555
High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety servers as an essential took for building architects, building owners and property managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants, and contract security firms. * Provides the reader with complete coverage of high-rise security and safety issues * Includes comprehensive sample documentation, diagrams, photographs to aid in developing security and fire life safety programs * Serves as an essential tool for building owners and managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants and contract security firms.
Author : Johann Eisele
Publisher : Birkhaüser
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
What constitutes a high-rise building? A high-rise is, in fact, any building with more than 9 storeys and not just those striking skyscrapers which shape modern city skylines. In the past architects who designed such structures used to be the exception but in the last 10 years more and more architectural offices have begun to focus on this type of building. However, the sheer complexity of designing and planning the construction of a high-rise as opposed to other building types requires a wealth of specialized experience and expertise. The High-Rise Manual is the first comprehensive reference work on this subject. All relevant aspects of such an undertaking are examined in detail by some 24 specialist authors. Each step is extensively documented including the initial project planning, the building organisation, the laying of the foundations, the supporting structure, the building technology, the office design, and the Facility Management. Theoretical contributions present the basic principles of select
Author : Sharna Jackson
Publisher : High-Rise Mystery
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781913311032
Author : Peggy Tully
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616891091
Modern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments in the design and construction of new housing stock in re-urbanizing cities throughout the United States. New housing is grouped into three sections—housing towers, reused historical structures, and urban infill—and documented with photographs, pre-construction renderings, floor plans, and maps indicating location in urban settings. An accompanying essay and a discussion with urban planners, architects, and policymakers round out this fresh look at the past and future of the American house.
Author : Andres Janser
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9783775729932
Highrise: Idea and Reality offers a comprehensive examination of the highrise phenomenon and its surprisingly recent international ubiquity. A wide range of contemporary highrises are explored in their broadest cultural and civic contexts, contexts which can vary greatly from continent to continent, and from culture to culture, illuminating not only the effects of these imposing buildings upon their immediate landscapes, but also the everyday lives of their inhabitants.
Author : Stephen Bates
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2014
Category : High-rise apartment buildings
ISBN : 9781934510421
