UnbuildingSuperb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of David Macaulay's books. Whether chronicling the monumental achievements of past civilizations or satirizing modern architecture, he is concerned above all in how constructions are made and what their effects are on people and their lives. |
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air compressor ashlar bottom section building's bulldozers carefully pried loose cast aluminum panel CAST ALUMINUM WING chrome-nickel steel trim CLIMBING COLUMN climbing cranes construction counter jib crated David Macaulay derricks DIRIGIBLE dismantled eighty-second floor Empire State Building erected exterior wall falling debris floor area floors and walls form of transatlantic four floors girder GRIP GRIP's hoisting horizontal steel beam House Wreckers Hudson River installed Iron Workers ironworkers Krunchit limestone load marble sheathing masonry wall mooring mast outer skin oxygen and propane OXYPROPANE TORCH pipes PNEUMATIC DEMOLITION HAMMER potentially important form Prince Prince Ali procedure was repeated PROPANE BOTTLE propane gas raised or lowered re-erection removed roof rubble and steel RUBBLE CHUTE scaffolding section of chute secured SIDEWALK SHED SKYSCRAPER steel frame steel framework steel was cut street level struc structural frame structural skeleton television tower transfer box tural turntable UNBUILDING various heights vertical wrecking bars York Yorkers