The Leporello Book: Skyscrapers – a whole Town inside a House

The five-foot wide poster accompanying the book shows an eighty-storey skyscraper. From its base to its slender tip, it rises to a height of almost 1200 foot. The book explains how a high-rise building is erected, and how such a skyscraper functions in everyday life.

This skyscraper is by no means the world’s highest building, far from it, but it’s still a classic skyscraper of the 20th century. Enlarged details show its interior – the offices, the lift, and the countless pipes and cables running through the walls. And we can see ths steel skeleton supporting the whole structure. Men built towers even in the distant past. Skyscrapers just try to exploit the horrendously expensive real estate in modern city centres to maximum capacity. Still they are not monuments to thrift, but demonstrations of wealth, power and architectural know-how.

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