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"Whatever goes up must come down" does not, fortunately, apply to most of the structures in today's world. In fact, whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses nowadays, it is front page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as fascinating as any detective story. In this book, two of the world's premier structural engineers take us on a journey through the history of architectural and structural catastrophes, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to more recent disasters such as the Ronan Point Tower in London, the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a book that delights as it instructs, an easily digested feast of architectural flops and flummoxes, whether caused by natural disaster or human error, or both.

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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture Architectural structure & design

• Full title: Why Buildings Fall Down
• Author: Matthys Levy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780393311525
• ISBN: 039331152X
• ID: 04067507
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 156 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 1994

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